I started out publishing and building web pages for Samsung Electronics across more than 50 markets in Adobe Experience Manager. Hands on the components, tickets in Jira, a global brand standard to hold. That job taught me something I still work from: most things that go wrong in delivery aren't hard engineering problems - they're unclear requirements, unowned decisions and risks nobody said out loud.
From there I moved into team leadership, coordinating publishing teams across North and Latin America, then into project management at SiGMA World, running web delivery for six global event brands at once. Then Condor Gaming, where I learned what it means to ship in a licensed market and how much of a release is compliance work wearing a delivery hat.
Today I'm a Product Owner at ClickOut Media, holding the backlog for affiliate products and working across SEO, development and QA to prioritise what actually moves OKRs. Each step took me closer to the decision about what gets built and why - which is the decision that determines whether the rest of it was worth doing.
The technical background hasn't gone away, and I use it daily. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, AEM and manual QA mean I can hold a technical conversation without a translator, and write acceptance criteria engineers don't have to rewrite. I'm equally comfortable in a licensing conversation with compliance and a funnel conversation with performance marketing - and being able to sit in both rooms is most of the job.
