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Product & strategy · Fintech · AI

Hi, I’m Milica,
and here’s how I can bring value to your company.

I turn complexity into growth by connecting product thinking, commercial strategy, and data.

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What I can do for you

01

Tell a compelling story

People buy what they understand. I explain complex products and data so everyone is speaking the same language.

02

Get people onboard

Build alignment among product, go-to-market, and engineering leaders, with the client’s voice at the center. I learned early to stay open-minded, adapt fast, and make the whole system work.

03

Do more with less

Smaller markets have to earn investment. That built my productivity mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and instinct to overdeliver.

Technical foundation

  • GPA 3.96
  • STEM degree
  • Dean’s Scholarship Recipient

I can understand the product beneath the pitch.

My education at Fordham gives me the analytical and technical foundation to understand your SaaS product deeply, from its customer behavior and data to the systems and AI behind it. I’ve applied that foundation in fintech product work and AI consulting.

01Machine Learning

What I learned: How to turn a business decision into a classification problem, prepare real-world data, compare models, and evaluate the cost of different errors.

02System Design

What I learned: How components, data flows, constraints, and technical trade-offs shape reliable digital products.

03Natural Language Processing

What I learned: How to combine sentiment, emotion, topic, entity, and moral-language analysis to make differences in news framing visible.

04Agentic AI

What I learned: How AI agents use context, tools, and workflows, and why evaluation, safety, and clear product requirements matter.

05Web Analytics

What I learned: How to translate digital behavior into hypotheses, product decisions, experiments, and measurable outcomes.

06Mobile Apps

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Selected work

Work across markets, products, and systems.

01

Agentic trading at TradeUP

Product management · Fintech · AI

Researched an AI agentic trading feature, translated findings into product requirements, and partnered with engineering on roadmaps and testing. Benchmarked 15+ fintech platforms and automated a DTCC-compliant position-transfer workflow.

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02

Built an AI matchmaker for the UN’s internal use

AI product · Retrieval · Adoption

Built an AI matchmaking agent connecting related projects and experts across the UN’s global network. Reached 82% retrieval accuracy and 60% pilot adoption, leading the UN engineering team to continue development.

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03

Growing Gillette across a 20M+ market

Portfolio strategy · Go-to-market · Regional leadership

Owned product and pricing strategy, go-to-market execution, and cross-functional planning. Delivered a profitability index of 108, +1.5 points of market value share, and a launch contributing 6% of category growth.

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04

AI web app: Resume Polisher

Product design · Prompt workflow

Designed and built an AI product that compares résumés with job requirements, generates targeted rewrites, and provides follow-up support for interviews and applications.

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05

Mortgage Loan Approval Prediction

Machine learning · Python · Classification

Built and compared logistic regression and tree-based models using 200,000 historical mortgage records. Cleaned the data, engineered features, and tuned the models over a month. The final model reached about 75% accuracy and revealed the factors driving approvals and false rejections.

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06

Interactive NLP tool: How news outlets frame the same story

Natural language processing · Interactive tool

Analyzed 2,334 articles from five outlets using sentiment, emotion, topic, entity, and moral-language methods. Built a tool that helps readers compare how news sources present the same topics.

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Latest thinking

Notes on products, sales and growth.

About

I started my career operating across 3 to 12 countries and learned to think like a founder and adapt quickly. Today, I bring together entrepreneurial ownership, productivity mindset and diverse-market fluency.

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