Summary
Andre Dickson is an operations-focused product manager and systems engineer with 12 years of experience delivering e-government SaaS and startup products across Trinidad and Tobago. He combines hands-on technical chops in Ruby and Android with a strong design sensibility—leading launches that cut Work Permit approval times by up to 75% and grew SaaS adoption to more than half of routine customers. As a founder and consultant he invented algorithmic approaches to traffic forecasting and cooperative journey scheduling, ran customer research and prototyping, and took products from concept to implementation. Excellent at stakeholder communication, training, and documentation, he pairs MS-level systems engineering thinking with practical individual-contributor coding and UX work. Notably, he has driven cross-agency business process re-engineering and introduced new channels (like SMS) to scale citizen-facing services.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Second Class Honours (Upper Division)., Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Second Class Honours (Upper Division). at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering at Colorado State University