{"id":15,"date":"2022-01-28T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:38:12","slug":"skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strategic thinking to establish long term vision and strategy that aligns with business goals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Product vision and roadmapping to clearly communicate direction and priorities for a product<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leadership and team management to motivate, guide, and grow product teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market and customer insights to provide a deep understanding of market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to drive product innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data driven decision making to make informed product decisions and measure success<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical acumen to effectively communicate with engineering teams and understand technical challenges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stakeholder management to manage expectations and build strong relationships across an organization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agile and SCRUM methodologies to adapt quickly to changing product needs and timelines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customer-centric mindset to focus on creating value for customers through user experience and solving real problems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Financial acumen to understand budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation to ensure product profitability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empathy and mediation to better understand customers and stakeholders and their diverse perspectives and needs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extensive public speaking experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User experience, including user research and design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accessiblity compliance expertise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advanced proficiency in building and styling high quality web experiences using HTML and CSS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"certifications-professional-affiliations\">Certifications &amp; Professional Affiliations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/ux-certification\/verify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">User Experience Certificate<\/a> (2017); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/ux-certification\/verify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">User Experience Master Certificate <\/a>(2020) from the Nielsen Norman Group\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interaction Design Specialization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User Experience Management Specialization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Specialization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessibilityassociation.org\/s\/certified-professional#About%20CPACC\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.accessibilityassociation.org\/s\/certified-professional#About%20CPACC\">Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies<\/a> from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessibilityassociation.org\/s\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.accessibilityassociation.org\/s\/\">International Association of Accessibility Professionals<\/a> Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certifications &amp; Professional Affiliations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisscholtens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}