Hi, I’m Ryan.
I specialize in the creation of impactful products that unlock transformative fintech experiences, empowering individuals to fearlessly conquer life's financial decisions.
With nearly 4 years of experience as a senior product manager, I have successfully built user-facing products, taking them from project inception to successful launch. I utilize data analysis to derive actionable insights, driving informed decision-making and scaling them to serve thousands of users. My primary goal is to ensure true product-market fit by combining big-picture thinking with meticulous execution.
In addition to my product management expertise, I bring over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry, encompassing wealth management, lending, and marketing. This extensive background has allowed me to leverage my knowledge and insights to develop robust fintech products and services.
As a firm believer in the importance of financial inclusion, I am dedicated to being part of highly motivated and collaborative teams working towards uncovering the next groundbreaking fintech solution.
I hold an MBA in Strategic Management from Aston Business School in the U.K. and a B.A. in Economics from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
I currently reside in Miami, FL. Email me
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Product Manager → Red Ventures, Miami, USA, 2021–Present
Product Manager → Morgan Stanley, New York, USA, 2019–2020
Wealth & Digital Advisor Associate → Morgan Stanley, Atlanta, USA, 2017–2019
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Aston University ‘17, MBA Strategic Management → Birmingham, UK
Morehouse College ‘11, BA Economics → Atlanta, GA, USA
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Languages: English (Native), Spanish (A1)
Nationalities: USA, Jamaica
Projects
My projects have been centered around helping people navigate through life’s important decisions.
Bank account matching tool
Bankrate.com
Project: Creating a flow to recommend vetted high-yield savings accounts based on users’ preferences.
Business need: Tap into the 80% of users who do not transact in the standard marketplaces of bankrate.com.
My role throughout project:
Validate business product market fit through user research and testing
Align creative partners through numerous brainstorms and ideation sessions
Lead engineering decisions to establish certainty around meeting project deadlines
Secure senior stakeholder buy-in for approval to build MVP
Goals Planning System
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Business need: Increase adoption of platform by financial advisors. Given significant feedback from the platform’s MVP, this revamp needed to improve significantly on user experience as a client facing tool and the robustness of financial analysis behind the scenes.
Project: Comprehensive revamp of Morgan Stanley’s proprietary financial planning platform available to over 17,000 financial advisors.
My role throughout project:
Ensuring UX designers were guided on design across each element of the platform
Ran UX testing sessions to get critical user feedback on product build
Led writing financial content for the platform. Included the legal, risk and compliance partner approval to comply with financial regulations
Lead product owner on reporting the output of the platform for customers to analyze with their clients.
Defined financial logic used in platform’s projections and calculations
Success:
Positive feedback from financial advisors
Increased adoption across the firm
On time delivery
Uncovered minimal bugs during QA process
UX overhaul
Bankrate.com
Project: Reconfigure high traffic transactional pages on front and back-end to improve url core web vitals
My role throughout project:
Coordinated engineering build plan for high risk URLs
Set up creative versioning for MVP and post-launch a/b tests
Spearheaded persona development for revised experiences
Business need: Minimize SEO risk by strengthening key url performance.
Success:
On time delivery of project
Refreshed personas
Cryptocurrency Health check
Bankrate.com
Business need: In order to address the 2021 boom in cryptocurrency interest, the goal was to provide a solution to guide users on whether cryptocurrencies was right for their financial situation.
Project: Cryptocurrency question flow
My role throughout project:
Created logic for the question flow
Validated approach from user testing sessions
Maintained brand trust on a topic associated with high risk
Success:
On time delivery of project
