Passionate about building products / services with PhD CS has built wireless networks for 1st responders and IoT smart city platform.
Candidate Title
VP / Sr. Director Product Management
Industry
Wireless IoT
Overview
Has 6+ years of product leadership launching and scaling IoT products and services. Integral part of product teams that led to successful acquisition of last three companies combining 150 million. Defined product strategy to achieve 3X year over year revenue growth for SaaS offerings. Has mentored product managers about frameworks to achieve sustainable scale and growth for end 2 end IoT solutions.
Accomplishments and Career Highlights
Currently part of 7 member consulting firm developing product strategies for systems integrators and manufacturers of gateway hardware, industrial IoT, and SaaS for IoT. Previously led both engineering and product management teams. Increased market share by 10% and revenues by 25%. Has had up to 10 reporting to him. Prior as core part of product team, led commercial project to $100M. Last 3 companies he has worked for have been acquired.
Budgets / P&L / Numbers Relevance
Has analyzed P&L up to $5m, but has not developed P&L.
Depth of Industry Contacts & Relationships
C-level decision makers and VPs in engineering with industrial / building automation and smart cities, as well as with VC principals.
Relevant Skills and How Used
Product Management: has developed product portfolio strategies, channel development, revenue roadmaps; PM tools used include Aha, Rally, Balsamiq, Azure. For IoT strong in using GE Predix. Solid experience as product manager and systems engineer in AWS, Zigbee, Bluetooth, wireless sensors & Gateway solution architecture. Business tools include NetSuite, JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce.
Education and Certifications
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering emphasis on Wireless & Sensor Networks; M.E, Electrical Engineering, emphasis on Wireless Communication & Signal Processing
Type of Opportunity Open to:
Lead product management for IoT vendor building end-to-end solutions using cloud and SaaS architectures. His interest lies in working for well-funded startup with customers and revenues or a mid-cap company looking to scale up.
Current Location and Preferences
DFW area - can telecommute, moved from northern California
Compensation Desired
$180k as base salary minimum plus bonus / options
