Outdoor

Snow

Tech

Triathlon

Health & Fitness

All outdoor activities

Wilderness first response (wfr/+cpr/aed)

Avalanche risk mitigation (aiare level 1 & 2)

Woodworking and tinkering

Experienced Product Manager (BS/MBA) seeking Product role at a values-driven, customer-focused outdoor company in the Front Range. Engineer turned Product Guy with passion for product development, environmentalism, and the outdoors.

• Managed the product lifecycle and line plan for all climbing products including TRUBLUE line, the #1 selling rock climbing auto belay in the world
• Implemented ethnography, surveys, and data-driven VOC approaches to build a product road map and briefs for two new commercially viable and customer-validated product concepts for the innovation pipeline 
• Led weekly Product Team meetings to create new collateral, train sales, and achieve category objectives
• Orchestrated product launches through preparation of launch kits and drove commercialization material
• Planned, executed, presented at, and attended industry tradeshows
• Initiated and led partnership & sponsorships
• Led content production for educational, informational, and promotional videos, whitepapers, and blog posts
• Owned competitive research and positioning and presented strategic opportunity for superior servicing 


 Climbing Product Line Manager 

•   Managed service products, staff, interns, and educators to expand offerings and grow education sales by 60%
•   Curated and led entrepreneurial skills workshops including customer validation and email communication

Program Lead and Managing Director

January 2012-June 2014
•   External Operations Planning (Supply Chain and Operations Co-op)
o   Automated routine reports and developed templates to reduce 15 man hours per week
o   Designed and implemented system of deriving KPIs for sales and operation planning
•   Mitek Sport Medicine (R&D Engineering Co-op, New Product Development)
o   Co-invented Directional Surgical Suture to ease soft tissue surgeries (U.S. Pat. No. 9314244B2)
o   Orchestrated DFMEA tests to identify prototype failure modes and advance concepts to launch
•   Codman Neuro (Neurosurgical Device Manufacturing Engineering Coop)
o   Developed program to automatically transfer inspection data saving $100,000 annually
o   Designed 3D assembly on surgical pad production line to mitigate risk and operator error

Engineering/Operations (Three Leadership Rotations)

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Danny Walsh

Northeastern University

Northeastern University