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    Eric Appesland

    Senior Product Manager, Amazon

    Seattle

    Eric is currently a Senior Product Manager with the Amazon Global Store Team where he works with a cross-functional set of stakeholders to enable Amazon marketplaces in countries outside of the United States. He was previously with Hitachi Consulting where he spent 4.5 years as a product manager with a team building custom enterprise applications, and 2 years before that as a management consultant.

    Eric has significant experience in business strategy and planning, stakeholder alignment, project management, requirements gathering, designing the user experience and creating the UI, working tightly with engineering resources during Development, testing, release planning, feature and bug prioritization, and user interviews. He has successfully launched and managed numerous large-scale enterprise web-based products through multiple iterations of the entire product lifecycle. He also recently completed Product Management education course through General Assembly.

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