Antonio Marraffa - Sr. Digital Product Manager (NLP/ML/AI) & Agile Coach

Munich, Germany

Experience

Jan 2021 - Present

3 years 6 months

Italy

Digital Consultant (PO/PM/SCRUM Master)

Freelancer

PO/PM for digital products as Search, Recommendations & AI ML related projects, with special focus on relevancy and UX
Agile facilitator helping teams working agile with OKRs/Goals

Feb 2015 - Dec 2021

6 years 11 months

Munich, Germany

PM/PO Search & Recommendation

StepStone GmbH

Responsible for product vision/roadmap of Search & Recommendations related products as push notifications, evaluation of conversational commerce (UX and relevancy)
Continuous opportunity discovering, improvement of the Search & ML related products, new search dimensions, improving search relevancy/ranking and search UX

Mar 2010 - Jan 2015

4 years 11 months

Munich, Germany

Search & E-Commerce Consultant

Freelancer

Intranet Search projects (Knowledge Management)
E-Commerce search related projects (relevancy, autosuggest, Query analysis, relevance/ranking improvement, using NLP for SEO/SEA)

Jun 2007 - Mar 2010

2 years 10 months

Munich, Germany

Product/Project Manager Search

Scout24 Holding GmbH

Internal consultant for local and vertical search (Immobilienscout24, Autoscout24, Jobscout24, FriendScout24, Local24)
Improving search relevancy/ranking and search UX
Implemented the 1st index search, introduced agile dev process

Feb 2005 - Dec 2006

1 year 11 months

Munich, Germany

Computational Linguist

Fast Search & Transfer

Designed and implemented finite-state transducers for recognizing named entities (people, measures, currencies, companies, locations) for Italian, Spanish, English, German, Portuguese for FAST ESP

Sep 2004 - May 2007

2 years 9 months

Munich, Germany

Computational Linguist

Pangora/Lycos Europe

Wrote my thesis on 'Automatic Classification of Computer Products' with finite state transducers, with a precision of 96.50 %
Supporting the search team, improving the search relevancy with linguistic dictionaries

Summary

My way is a holistic agile approach! The right answer comes from the right question. Start to formulate questions, this will enable you to learn and develop the right thing in the shortest time. Leading by empowering & inspiring teams.