Customer Success · Product · Fintech

Nicholas Vertucci

Product Owner at GOGov · Founder, Nova Ventures · Sayville, NY

Customer-facing product leader who runs real-money trading systems for fun. Eleven years translating between customers, engineers, and executives, most recently at a B2B SaaS platform serving 500+ agency partners. I close the gap between what customers say and what the metrics actually show, ship feedback loops that reduce rework, and stay curious enough to never mistake the process for the point.

Experience

Product Owner, GOGov

Jul 2022 – Present

Patchogue, NY · Multi-tenant SaaS · 500+ government agency partners

  • Own the full post-signature lifecycle across four products (Permits, CRM, Notify, Code Enforcement): onboarding, activation, expansion, and renewal. Partner with executive stakeholders to align the quarterly roadmap to customer outcomes.
  • Designed and shipped an internal AI Spec Kit that turns raw stakeholder conversations into structured PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, compressing discovery-to-spec from days to hours.
  • Lead a company-wide AI implementation initiative integrating Claude across internal operations and customer-facing products. Prototyped a JIRA ticket evaluation system in TypeScript that engineering scaled into a fully autonomous evaluator, cutting mid-sprint clarification loops and measurably reducing rework caused by misunderstood asks.
  • Provide on-demand analytics to Marketing and Customer Success on partner health, campaign targeting, and account prioritization.
  • Serve as the bridge between Support, Engineering, and Sales. Manage escalations with customer empathy and prevent “garbage in, garbage out” at the engineering handoff.

Technology Teacher, Shoreham-Wading River HS

Aug 2017 – Jul 2022

Shoreham, NY

  • Taught high school engineering, architecture, CAD, and 3D printing. Founded and advised the SWR Robotics Club. Five years of explaining hard technical concepts to people who did not ask to learn them, which turns out to be most of customer success.

Product Manager, Accela

Jun 2014 – Aug 2017

Ronkonkoma, NY · Legislative Management Suite · 7 products · Promoted from Product Consultant

  • Directly managed agile delivery across seven enterprise SaaS products (Agenda & Minutes, Civic Streaming, Digital Boardroom, Boards & Commissions, eSignature, WeGovern iPad App, Civic Voice), coordinating core and two off-shore engineering teams.
  • Owned customer-facing release communication via Salesforce Community and MailChimp, translating engineering output into partner-readable value.
  • Ran company-wide demos to executives and key stakeholders on fixes, features, and enhancements. Collaborated daily with Sales, Support, CARE, and Cloud Delivery.
  • Atlassian system administrator for JIRA and Confluence across Accela Engineering and Legislative Management.

Product Analyst & Support Specialist, IQM2, Inc.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2014

Acquired by Accela in 2014

  • Front-line customer touchpoint: ran nationwide webinars and virtual implementation training across the IQM2 Software Suite, configuring each deployment to the agency’s workflow.
  • Owned QA regression testing on the platform’s release pipeline and maintained the internal and external knowledge base.

Selected Projects

Nova Ventures

Founder · AI-native investment firm

An agentic investment firm where specialized AI agents and personas autonomously operate three books: day-trading, swing, and long-term. FastAPI backend, a custom MCP server, GARCH volatility modeling, and real-money execution.

AI Spec Kit

Internal tool · Shipped at GOGov

Stakeholder transcript to structured PRD/SRS, user stories, and Gherkin-format acceptance criteria. Standardized spec quality and became the daily working tool for product and engineering.

FIRM GG Investment Club

Founder · Treasurer

A 13-member real-money investment club using CANSLIM analysis, a Fibonacci tier allocation system, and a 200-day SMA rebalancing multiplier. Built the process, run the meetings, write the treasury reports.

Skills

Customer & product

Lifecycle ownershipQBRs & executive reporting NPS & voice-of-customerEscalation management Roadmap influenceAgile & waterfall PRINCE2 Agile®

Technical fluency

REST APIsSaaS multi-tenancy TypeScriptPython (FastAPI, pandas, arch) PlaywrightAppleScript HerokuCloudflare

Platforms

JIRAConfluenceProductboard SlackLinearSalesforce MailChimpMCPClaude Code

Markets

EquitiesOptions (straddles, spreads, iron condors) Algorithmic executionVolatility modeling Portfolio construction

Education & Certification

M.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction (STEAM minor) · Concordia University, Portland
2018 – 2019
B.S., Technology Education · SUNY Oswego
2006 – 2011
PRINCE2 Agile® · Project management certification