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Product Manager
Location
Thorndale, PA, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 13, 2019
Denny has over 20 years of experience leading growth in organizations. He led the market-facing side of Frontline Education when they grew from two customers to more than 4,000, gaining valuable market insights along the way. For the past ten years, Denny has spearheaded new product development and managed suites of products for startups and large established organizations in markets such as edtech and consumer electronics.
Project Highlights
Project Prisma
Led product development from idea to beta release in 13 months reaching the target market of over 3.2 million users.
ABS Product Leadership
Installed new product methodology and led the product team, including building a roadmap for a suite of 11 digital products.
Calm | Coaching
Worked with the senior leadership to track and report on the overall effectiveness of mental health coaching engagement with client benefit packages.
Expertise
Work Experience
Product Manager
2023 - 2023
American Bible Society
- Performed market research and discovery on a product idea to determine the market fit and viability.
- Created initial product roadmap and feature backlog.
- Completed Lean business case with costs, discovery, research results, and go/no-go recommendations.
Founding Product Manager
2021 - 2022
Renteez
- Met with owners and guided an idea to a viable version one software product.
- Hired six contractors to fill out the development and design team. Led the team toward the product roadmap vision.
- Created and managed the product roadmap and managed and prioritized the product backlog.
- Researched and managed all relationships with four vendors and partners as we developed the product.
Product Manager
2021 - 2022
Purple, Rock, Scissors, LLC
- Worked with senior management to evaluate and improve existing processes.
- Led the product team to deliver updates and enhancements to a custom eCommerce site, improving brand management.
- Introduced Agile principles and Scrum methodologies into the organization and coached the product development team in its usage on an initial project.
Product Manager
2021 - 2021
Thoughtbot (Contract)
- Led a team of six developers and designers to identify client needs, document requirements, design prototypes, and build solutions.
- Managed relationships and regularly met with internal and external team members as the main point of contact between the client and the team.
- Wrote the statement of work and managed the budget every six months, ensuring the project was on time and within budget.
Scrum Master
2021 - 2021
Arizona State University (Contract)
- Worked with Senior Leadership to build and maintain product roadmap.
- Introduced Scrum agile methodology to the organization and trained the team members.
- Led sprint planning, backlog refinement, end of sprint demo, and retrospective sessions with team and leadership.
Product/Project Manager (Contract)
2021 - 2021
Calm.com
- Gathered data from disparate sources and created one data repository to house them.
- Collaborated with developers, design, and internal product team to build KPIs and deliver on a scheduled basis.
- Created and managed backlog items; owned moving items between backlog and sprints.
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach (Contract)
2020 - 2021
Anthem AI
- Introduced agile processes first with a small group and expanded to the larger team.
- Coached, introduced, and led agile ceremonies with experienced and inexperienced agile teammates.
- Presented new software and physical tools and coached team members on using them as we progressed in our agile transformation.
- Supervised a small team of scrum masters as part of my role.
Agile Project Manager (Contract)
2019 - 2020
Syndigo
- Introduced agile processes to the product team and streamlined the process for integrating newly acquired companies and systems.
- Managed multiple projects from introduction to successful completion increasing the company bottom line.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully review software and decide where there were overlaps with existing systems and created plans to sunset and import functions as needed.
Product Manager
2018 - 2019
Penske Truck Rental (Contract)
- Led discovery sessions with internal stakeholders and external targeted users for new product development.
- Wrote user stories, managed backlog, and led sprint planning and showcase sessions for the Agile team.
- Led and mentored team members in an Agile process.
- Managed the relationship with an external vendor to lead the user research effort on an enterprise software product for a user market of over 30,000.
- Led the effort to introduce analytics and update reporting on the core enterprise software for the entire user base.
Senior Manager of Product Management
2017 - 2018
American Bible Society
- Managed a suite of nine digital and several print products.
- Led the product management team in our division, mentored young product managers, and led daily stand-up meetings.
- Set the overall direction and strategy for our suite of software products.
- Introduced the Pragmatic Institute product framework to the organization.
- Supported all domestic efforts by managing the full life-cycle of existing products, and the introduction of new products.
- Managed engagement with users via phone calls, surveys, and tools such as UserVoice.
Director of Business Systems
2014 - 2016
Source4Teachers
- Led project to completely redesign the primary operations system to ensure greater efficiency and positive impact on the company bottom line.
- Identified and interviewed key personas and subject matter experts to gather requirements and produce user stories.
- Maintained primary ownership of, and responsibility for all production and back-office systems. This ensured 99.99% up-time, maximum efficiency, and effectiveness for all business units.
- Acted as liaison between the IT group and operational business units needing access to business systems.
- Maintained ownership of all on-prem and SaaS solutions for an over 10,000 employee user base.
Senior Business Consultant
2014 - 2014
Hyland Software
- Led the discovery process with new customers ensuring that all requirements were captured as use cases, or added to the solution design document.
- Drafted the solution design document or user stories verifying that they met the customer requirements.
- Worked with resources both internal and external to implement the solution as composed in the solution design document or user stories.
- Gathered requirements and led the custom development effort to deliver the enterprise system (OnBase) for Higher Education clients in the US.
- Presented to C-level executives.
Senior Business Analyst
2013 - 2014
iPipeline
- Identified functional requirements and created viable specs for the development team.
- Collaborated with product mangers, project managers, and team members to ensure a consistent customer experience.
- Worked with resources both internal and external to implement the solution as composed in the solution design document or user stories.
- Led the discovery process with new customers ensuring that all requirements were captured as use cases, or added to the solution design document.
- Worked closely with the UI/UX designer to deliver product solutions which met or exceeded market expectations.
Business Analyst
2012 - 2013
Neat Company
- Discovered use cases and wrote user stories across interrelated projects with a focus on Cloud and mobile development in a fast-paced, Agile environment.
- Collaborated with product owners to confirm user stories, demonstrated development output, managed JIRA backlog, and completed the feedback loop to the development team.
- Worked closely with the UI/UX designer to deliver product solutions which met or exceeded market expectations.
- Researched the market and competition.
- Acted as Scrum master and led two separate co-located development teams.
Business Analyst and Product Owner
2007 - 2012
Frontline Education
- Led a 12-member team in a new product development effort from requirements gathering to product beta launch.
- Met with users and potential users to understand the problems with teacher evaluations and craft solutions that would solve them.
- Selected a group of beta users from among all applicants and met with them bi-weekly for evaluation, and product discussions.
- Used ETL tools such as Pervasive and the Dell Boomi Platform to design new data import processes, significantly reducing lead time for implementing new customers.
- Led the implementation project for large and high-profile customers like Nova Scotia, delivering on-budget and on-time.
- Recognized for "outside the box" thinking; designing unique custom solutions for high-profile customers.
- Traveled across North America meeting directly with users for training, user group meetings, and discovery sessions.
Project History
Project Prisma
Led product development from idea to beta release in 13 months reaching the target market of over 3.2 million users.
Prisma sought to solve the teacher evaluation problem in K12 education. Most school districts were still using pen and paper to complete teacher evaluations. As a result, they were inefficient, slow, and unorganized. Prisma was a responsive web solution that worked both on and offline and allowed administrators to view the progress of all evaluations, easily switch between subjects, and give all personas the visibility they needed in the process.
The rapid development of Prisma in a very competitive market led to the acquisition of more than one competitor.
The rapid development of Prisma in a very competitive market led to the acquisition of more than one competitor.
ABS Product Leadership
Installed new product methodology and led the product team, including building a roadmap for a suite of 11 digital products.
As the newly created product team leader, I installed a product framework where none previously existed. This included new tools for road mapping, project management, customer support, and integration points, among all. The development effort was split among a small group of internal developers and several vendors with little or no oversight. I took over relationship management with vendors and the internal team to align development work with the roadmap. In addition, mentoring product managers was a large part of this effort as the organization had no product presence previously. One key product was JourneyMaker, which was built several years prior but had not been maintained or enhanced. I worked with one of our junior project managers to interview the market, gather requirements, and build the roadmap for the future development of this product. After a gap analysis, we had a second product, which I determined was 85% identical with a lower number of users. The roadmap included moving those features from the gap analysis to JournMaker and sunsetting the second product.
Calm | Coaching
Worked with the senior leadership to track and report on the overall effectiveness of mental health coaching engagement with client benefit packages.
Calm is a well-known app in the mental health space, and I worked with an internal group to offer our services along with real-life coaches as part of the benefit packages that clients offered to their employees.
Education
2009 - 2010
Certificate in Project Management
Pennsylvania State University - Great Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
1989 - 1993
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and Economics
West Chester University of Pennsylvania - West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2021 - PRESENT
Customer Experience Certificate Program
George Washington University School of Business
APRIL 2020 - APRIL 2022
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
APRIL 2012 - PRESENT
PMC III
Pragmatic Institute
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