Product & Development Manager
iConcept
Led product and development across client engagements — priorities, delivery coordination, and alignment between business goals and engineering.
Senior product & delivery leadership
From first idea to shipped product.
Twenty-five years building and shipping software as a founder, product director and de-facto CTO. Whether you're getting something new off the ground or a project's not moving the way it should, I take it on and get it moving, steering delivery, aligning users, business and developers, using judgment more than horsepower — knowing which calls matter, and bringing calm and momentum where there's usually heat.
Available fractionally (part-time) or as an advisor
How I help
Product & delivery leadership
Priorities, roadmap and scope, and the calls that keep a product shipping, setting the team up to succeed: creating the framework, context and conditions in which capable people do their best work.
De-facto CTO, when it counts
Senior technical judgment for founders without a full-time executive — architecture sense, sound decisions, and a reliable translator between business and engineering.
The human side
Projects stall over people more often than code. As an accredited mediator, I resolve the disagreements that hold delivery back and get stakeholders aligned.
Now
Flywheel
A proprietary algorithmic trading engine with AI-assisted market analysis, that executes automatically with capital preservation as its first principle. Designed and built part-time over the past two years, in Python and Vue.js.
It's how I keep my technical judgment sharp and current — and it grounds the advisory, board and delivery work I do for others.
Selected work
Front-End Delivery Lead & UX Direction
ReadyTech Justice
Led a whole-system front-end modernisation of a court and tribunal platform — new design system and framework, WCAG accessibility uplift, and the delivery team behind it.
Technical Co-founder & Product Director
Guided Resolution
Online dispute-resolution platform used by courts, tribunals and universities across AU, NZ and the US, with government-system integrations. Distributed teams; winner of ‘Westpac Business of Tomorrow’.
Co-founder & CEO
Webko
Built a web agency and a proprietary CMS / e-commerce platform, led a team of nine, and raised close to $1M in private and government funding.
References
“Nitzan took real pressure off me. He turned a chaotic backlog into a clear roadmap the business could rally behind, took over running the dev team, and brought a calm transparency to how we worked — then went on to lead the design and delivery of an entirely new product. Remarkably, he did all of it part-time.”
“For fifteen years Nitzan has been my technical lead on our most demanding projects — from large, integrated campaigns spanning app, web and advertising, to complex custom tools like a visual product builder that generates instant quotes. Whether he does the work himself or steers a dev team, it lands on time and on budget — and he's my trusted sounding board for product and business strategy. I bring him in when it has to be right.”
About
My work lives in the space between people, business and technology. What I do best is reframe a seemingly binary ('either/or') problem into something a team can move on — a habit shaped as much by training as a mediator and Alexander Technique teacher as by decades in software.
It's the perspective I bring to advisory and non-executive board roles.
Credentials
- Master of IT Leadership, Deakin University
- Accredited Mediator, Resolution Institute
- Alexander Technique Teacher
- NLP training
- Guest lecturer, Victoria University Melbourne
Elsewhere
Paragliding and paramotoring, yoga, wildlife rescue, and my local repair café. Former oboist and instrument repairer.
Contact
Starting something — or stuck on something?
Send a note — I read everything myself.