Philip Chesney is a creative and entrepreneurial product manager seeking a role to leverage his background in education, marketing, and product management. He co-founded EnglishKey, an online English learning platform, where he led product development, marketing, and business operations. Key achievements include developing the minimum viable product, acquiring corporate customers, and achieving high student satisfaction rates. He is PMP and Agile certified with skills in online content creation, strategic planning, user experience design, and inbound marketing.

1. PHILIP CHESNEY
Skype: PhilipChesneyBiz - PhilipChesney@yahoo.com - LinkedIn URL - Product Portfolio
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Creative, result-oriented, and entrepreneurial product manager and PMP/Agile professional looking
to leverage background in education, marketing, and product management. Proven ability to combine
vision, creativity, and business acumen with well-developed project management and leadership
qualities to support product launches, open new markets, and position them for success.
CORE COMPETENCIES
✓ Course-ware development ✓ Teambuilding, Leadership ✓ EdTech
✓ Online Content Creation ✓ Startups ✓ Agile, Scrum
✓ Strategic Business Planning ✓ User Experience (UX) ✓ Inbound marketing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EnglishKey - NH, USA 2012 – Present
Co-founder, Product Manager & Product Marketing Manager
EnglishKey is an online English learning & teaching platform for teachers, students, and businesses.
EnglishKey provides innovative SaaS/cloud platform using speech recognition. English schools and
teachers use our ready-to-teach ESL lesson plans from our structured courses. Later students can review
the lessons online and practice their English using hundreds of exercises and games. The platform has
dashboards for HR managers, teachers, and students. It also has around 20 different kinds of interactive
activities, including a speech-recognition based Fluency Builder.
Key Achievements:
Identified an opportunity in the US $100 Billion+ English learning industry to target a niche
and highly profitable customer segment.
Envisioned two products, executed the vision, launched them successfully, and increased the
revenue by acquiring corporate customers like Amazon.
Built initial minimum viable product (MVP) through lean startup method which allowed
students to take business English courses on an online learning platform with live teachers.
Conducted 500+ hours of demo classes to determine approach and validate new offering.
Developed multiple online courses, including learning content and interactive assessments.
Currently leading a cross-functional remote team comprising of marketing, sales, developers,
designers, curriculum authors, ESL teachers, and customer support across many time zones.
Developed 2 learning platforms with a rich set of features and 9 courses in the last 5 years.
Developed Scrum / Agile processes, requirements gathering processes, standards for epics &
user stories, and remote daily scrums.
Collect requirements, create wireframes & working prototypes to decrease gulf of evaluation.
Introduced and launched new learning and teaching courses to international markets: Brazil,
Colombia, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia. Partnered with local players to ease market entry.
Actively involved in the P&L for the whole company as well as individual product-lines.
Built a Fluency Builder using Google speech SDK – Became USP when selling to schools.
Designed and led 3 user experience tests with more than 100 teachers, students, and admin.
Hire and train all teachers. Manage teacher performance and satisfaction with clients.
Achieved 97.2% student satisfaction at Amazon and other multinational companies, and re-
enrollment of 91%.
Inbound marketer – Product Marketing – Key Achievements
Conceptualized and launched EnglishKey. Created all marketing & branding for EK.

2. PHILIP CHESNEY
Skype: PhilipChesneyBiz - PhilipChesney@yahoo.com - LinkedIn URL - Product Portfolio
Spearheaded development of a more responsive, up-to-date website for new learning platform
resulting in 3x traffic to site, improved SEO, reduced bounce rate, and increased time on site.
Conceived social media (Facebook) group posting strategy that quadrupled weekly sign-ups.
Generated 2000+ teacher base on platform in 6 months.
Implemented inbound marketing strategy to push new sign ups through the buyer’s journey
and get them to convert. Oversee content strategy and creation in different medias: text &
video. Email marketing for group has reached: Open rate average is 39% and CTR is 16%.
The content strategy’s goal educates teachers and has made EK an authority in online English
teaching. EK receives 300+ resumes per month from teachers who want to teach at EK.
Actively do product evangelism at Edu & Tech fairs to create visibility and new business.
Self-Employed - São Paulo, Brazil 2009 – 2014
Executive Business English Trainer
Customized each individual class as per the needs of the executive.
Highly positive feedback from students due to fast English improvement. This helped build a
strong personal brand inside companies and increase client portfolio. Trained executives in
preparing for presentations and interviews.
Ran mock interviews with 26 executive students and helped them land new jobs.
Reached maximum capacity of students after 5 months of teaching. Worked with execs from
major companies such as: KPMG; PWC; Deloitte; Itaú; & Citi Bank.
Scouted all new students through word of mouth marketing, international fairs, and
networking events, thus having a minimal customer acquisition cost.
Maintained 31 active weekly students and kept turnover below 6.4% each year.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business School São Paulo BSP - São Paulo,
Brazil 2016
Dual Master’s International Management (MIM) - Business School São Paulo BSP, São Paulo
& Escuela Organización Industrial, Madrid, Spain. 2012
Bachelor’s in international Relations (BA) – FAD, MS - Brazil 2009
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION, EXTRACURRICULAR & AWARDS
HubSpot Academy – Inbound Certified – 2017; Content Marketing Certified 2018
Codecademy Courses - HTML; CSS. Launched AgiFall.com Blog to practice coding.
Project Management Institute PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP - 2017
Project Management Institute PMI - Project Management Professional PMP - 2016
UCLA - Anderson School of Management-Entrepreneurship & Innovation Course - 2015
UCLA - Anderson School of Management-New Product Management & Emerging Markets
Harvard Business School - International Management Course – 2011
Dinner with Bill Clinton – Special award from Laureate Universities for top academic
performers. Awarded to only 2 out of 281,000 students from Laureate Schools in Brazil.
LANGUAGES & TECHNICAL SKILLS
English – Native; Portuguese – Fluent; Spanish – Proficient. Camtasia; iSpring; Audacity; Live Person;
MailChimp; A/B testing; UX Testing; Google Analytics; Asana; Jira; Online Teaching; Online Training
& Webinars; Blended Learning; LMS; Content Development; XMind; Agile; SEO; Wordpress.