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I am a lover of great creative and technical solutions that understand people’s needs and in turn create amazing experiences. I am truly passionate about user/customer experience and building interactions and products people love. We all create experiences everyday for ourselves and others, let’s make sure they are the best they can be, and make sure we are building the right things and building them right. Stay tuned as the site evolves and feel free to contact me any time.
I will be updating this site and blog from time to time, if you want to stay tuned to info from me take a look at my twitter feed @mikemarasch
I am a senior level management professional with my most recent experience focused on setting strategic and operational direction for technology, creative, and product development and delivery needs. Working as part of a management team to help set company and product strategy as well as growth goals from startup to current and future states. My focus and my passion has been on understanding the customer needs, business needs, and market opportunities, then implementing the key organization structures, culture, skills, processes, and the technical and creative solutions for our products to be successfully delivered to customers and/or for internal business use.
I have extensive hands on experience in strategic planning, team leadership, agile product and project management, technology evaluation and selection, creative direction, visual design, user interface and user experience design, information architecture, taxonomies, usability testing, digital publishing, content management, and software development for web/cloud-based systems that are used in screen/device responsive browser based environments. I am truly passionate about helping grow and lead successful teams and individuals that deliver products, experiences, and solutions that customers love.
Specialties: Strategic Thinking/Planning. Leadership. Building, Managing, Directing Departments/Teams and Individuals. Goals/KPIs/Metrics. Business Process. Business Analyst. Agile/Scrum. Certified Product Owner. Project and Product Management. Application/Software, Web/Print, Design & Development. Digital Publishing. SAAS. APIs. Social Media. Customer/User Experience. New: Technology, Media, Markets, Trends, and Channels. IA/IX/UX/UI. Content Management & Strategy. Creative/Art Direction. Branding, Identity, & MarCom.
You can also take a look at more of my professional background on LinkedIn, or download my resume (PDF).
I may split this site up into my many interests both personal and professional:
Technology, Art, Design, Product Management, Family, Friends, Music, DJing, BMX, Snowboarding, Golf, Travel, Food, Home Repairs, etc, we shall see as the site evolves.
For a good laugh, comparison, and for historical sake, here is the link to a very old flash based portfolio site I built around 2001:
v1.0 site .
Where playing music and developing software mashup. I seem to find connections everywhere I look. I’m sure you do too. Having been a DJ and a Designer/Developer and Product Owner I have noticed a big connection to music and software development, specifically Agile vs Waterfall and Set-lists vs Impromptu sessions. I see a big connection […]
Continue readingJack of all Master of one – by knowing all the parts you can make a better whole. The Generalist/Specialist. I have been talking about this one for a long time. I don’t think a person should only know one task or skill set related to their job or area of work, even on an […]
Continue reading“Content + Context = Contact” the 3 Cs of web publishing. I wanted to repost my thoughts on this topic that was originally posted to my old blog in April of 2009. I still feel this is very relevant today and comes up quite often in conversations and will spark debate. Here is the an […]
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