Product Management

The attached document is not theoretical — it represents real product analysis done in a complex domain with multiple stakeholders. It reflects my ability to drive clarity early in the product lifecycle and support decision-making with disciplined structure. I frequently work at the boundary between technical feasibility and customer needs, helping define what a product should accomplish, who it serves, and why it matters.

The featured artifact, the IM Marketing Requirements Document (MRD), demonstrates a method for:

  • identifying and characterizing user groups and personas

  • assessing market dynamics and competitive factors

  • defining high-level product capabilities and constraints

  • evaluating tradeoffs across operational, technical, and business dimensions

  • documenting measurable success criteria

  • providing engineering teams with a clear problem framing

  • Product management spans the space between marketing, sales, and development, informing leadership of resource requirements and establishing benchmark goals for features, performance, and expected outcomes. A significant part of this work involves life-cycle considerations and support requirements that shape overall product effectiveness, whether measured in profit and loss or mission impact.

    In many government and defense organizations, comparable responsibilities are carried out by a systems engineer working as an adjunct to a Project Manager. This role focuses on interpreting operational needs, managing requirements, coordinating with user communities, and ensuring alignment among engineering, programmatic, and contractual objectives.

    I have worked as a software Product Manager in a commercial product company — a position that reported to Marketing Management and operated within a true product structure. My responsibilities included competitive analysis, feature definition, customer-facing product framing, and coordinating assigned or matrixed engineering resources to execute the product roadmap. Commercial product management demanded rapid iteration, responsiveness to customer choice, and a strong understanding of the market forces shaping the product’s viability.

  • Hardware product management introduces additional considerations beyond those found in software, including recurring costs, inventory management, warranty exposure, and supply-chain constraints. The role still focuses on understanding the channels between customers, engineering, manufacturing, and support, but with greater emphasis on packaging, physical integration, and long-term maintainability.

    Hardware organizations also face unique capitalization constraints that shape product portfolios, investment decisions, and research pathways.

    I have worked as both a Department Manager within a hardware product company—managing a team of engineers responsible for an active product portfolio—and as a Technical Director overseeing four Department Managers. In these roles, I supported domestic and international sales teams and coordinated intellectual property investment and strategic product direction.