Reece Challinor
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Plano, TX, United States
Toptal member since September 6, 2022
Reece is an accomplished product manager with over 15 years of experience leading high-performing teams and delivering innovative solutions. He has a proven track record of delivering multiple zero-to-one AI-driven products. As a certified AI product manager, Reece has integrated AI technologies into core products at Walmart, enhancing experiences for over 2 million associates. At 7-Eleven, he led the development of the 1st autonomous retail store using computer vision and machine learning.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Digital Product Development
- Market Research
- Product Management
- Product Roadmaps
- Product Strategy
- Project Planning
- UX Design
Work Experience
Product Manager
Stealth
- Built systems around pose estimation, NVIDIA Deepstream, and edge-deployed ML.
- Owned end-to-end product strategy for a stealth, data-intensive platform that fuses real-time analytics with edge intelligence.
- Drove rapid ML experimentation and governed production release using modern MLOps practices.
- Leveraged synthetic data, multimodal AI, and automation to streamline complex ML workflows.
- Defined OKRs and dashboards that connect technical output to commercial impact.
- Championed security, compliance, and IP protection while accelerating feature velocity.
Technical Writer
Nominal, Inc.
- Led an end-to-end documentation strategy for a complex hardware testing platform, managing Git-based documentation workflow and implementing an MDX/Fern component system for enterprise-grade technical content.
- Architected and delivered comprehensive documentation covering data ingestion pipelines, real-time visualization systems, and automated validation frameworks, driving a 40% increase in user understanding of advanced platform features.
- Developed and maintained technical content strategy across multiple knowledge domains, including time-series analytics, computer vision integration, and automated test validation, resulting in 30% faster onboarding for new enterprise clients.
- Established standardized documentation processes for complex technical workflows, including multi-modal data analysis, automated test validation, and enterprise-grade collaboration features.
Technical Product Manager
Elite Prep, LLC
- Architected an AI-driven mental wellness platform targeting a $37.5 billion TAM in the global youth sports market, including a scalable AI architecture using advanced NLP models.
- Developed a comprehensive financial model aligned with market trends and growth projections, achieving an estimated EBITDA valuation of $22 million over five years.
- Created detailed user personas across core segments (serious athletes and dedicated performers) to guide AI feature personalization.
- Designed a scalable AI architecture utilizing advanced NLP models (e.g., Anthropic Claude 3.5 and Sonnet) for 24/7 AI sports psychology support.
- Developed AI-powered chat interfaces simulating empathetic interactions with a virtual sports psychologist, enhancing user engagement by addressing mental health needs.
- Defined the MVP with core AI functionalities, including AI-driven mental health support chat, performance dashboards, and daily health assessments.
AI Product Manager
Sean S Hilton
- Led the development of an AI-powered expert analysis platform, leveraging CRISP-DM methodology to define and validate the product-market fit of a $580 million TAM, resulting in a comprehensive MVP strategy targeting an initial $11.6 million SAM.
- Architected AI-assisted content transformation system incorporating advanced NLP capabilities, reducing analysis time by 60% while maintaining high-integrity information standards across eight distinct professional user segments.
- Led end-to-end product development for an AI-driven synthesis platform, including user persona development, feature prioritization, and technical architecture design, resulting in scalable MVP supporting projected growth from 2 million to 5.8 million users.
- Crafted detailed MVP specifications incorporating AI capabilities across four core modules: content creation, structuring, labeling, and discovery.
- Designed innovative AI product features, including automated content structuring, insight extraction, and personalized recommendations, while implementing transparent AI processes with user-controlled components to maximize trust and adoption.
- Created a comprehensive AI product roadmap and governance framework, incorporating MLOps best practices, privacy-preserving workflows, and data-driven optimization protocols, ensuring scalable and compliant platform growth.
Strategic Product Manager
Imagination Station, Inc.
- Developed an MVP roadmap, including market research, customer personas, technical requirements, and user design layouts.
- Worked with UI/UX teams to build wireframes and deliver a working, clickable prototype for market validation.
- Outlined the Sprint backlog for the production product. Defined epics and authored hundreds of user stories based on requirements gathering and customer interviews.
- Wrote architectural documentation outlining the long-term strategic development plan for the product.
- Created product requirements documents outlining the market problem, customer overview, technical needs, and project profit loss estimates.
- Developed a comprehensive pitch deck and invention proposal for capital investment rounds.
Group Product Manager (AI & CV)
7-Eleven
- Worked as head of product for 7-Eleven's AI and ML team. Led the growth of the fully cashier-less store. Developed solutions to problems across various domains, including computer vision, distributed computing, sensor fusion, and machine learning.
- Developed 7-Eleven's patent portfolio by engineering novel solutions to complex retail problems. Collaborated directly with the C-suite to deliver customer-obsessed solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology.
- Led interdisciplinary teams to deliver prototypes across multiple technology domains, including IoT LoRaWAN and Azure Sphere, automated food robotics, edge computing architectures, and custom PCB design and manufacturing.
- Managed the strategy, market research, road mapping, funding, and delivery of our in-house LoRaWAN IoT technology. Oversaw the integration with Microsoft Azure, IoT hub, and Azure Sphere.
- Headed technology research, vendor evaluation, and delivery of MVP for a proprietary automated food robotics platform.
Senior Product Manager
Homecare Homebase
- Led the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative products that addressed complex Medicare regulatory requirements.
- Released high-impact interfaces using the appropriate protocols, such as HL7, CCD, FTP, HTTP, FHIR, web services, and REST APIs.
- Engaged with executives, product managers, and key stakeholders to execute the company’s SAFe product vision and roadmap.
- Authored hundreds of user stories, technical and functional design documents, and release documentation.
- Prioritized and expertly refined an extensive product backlog.
Mobile Product Manager
Homecare Homebase
- Acted as a Scrum product owner and delivered new experiences to 200,000 active daily nurses in the home care field. Optimized workflows, regulatory compliance, and scheduling efficiency.
- Refined and built an extensive product backlog, personally authoring hundreds of user stories. Ran daily Scrum activities and oversaw a complex mobile product roadmap.
- Developed a custom computer vision feature that measured the progress of patient wounds. Improved patient healing times and enhanced regulatory compliance.
- Designed and delivered user flows, wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for various devices and interfaces.
- Led human-centered design research to understand the client’s product needs. Conceived, sketched, prototyped, and mocked up user experiences for digital products.
- Led yearly OASIS compliance audits and used human design research to deliver unique, delightful experiences in compliance with Medicare regulations.
Information Specialist
Alcon
- Designed, implemented, tested, and maintained technology solutions directly supporting business objectives.
- Led a team of multiple technical consultants for large-scale, high-impact Genesys improvement projects. I was the technical lead during North and South America crisis events, significantly reducing call center downtime.
- Validated and qualified aspects of system analysis, including creating V/Q plans, IQ, OQ, and PORQUE reports, and validation assessments.
- Developed training curricula for new hires, improving overall customer resolution times.
- Implemented in-house designed fax routing software, resulting in $55,000 yearly savings.
Project History
7Go | Fully Autonomous Retail Store | AI, ML, and Computer Vision
https://tcrn.ch/2OzG8UvHeaded product for 7-Eleven's AI and ML team that oversaw the growth of the fully cashier-less store. Created market solutions to problems across multiple domains, including computer vision, hardware design, sensor fusion, and machine learning.
Developed roadmaps and led user experience sessions to understand an emerging market and its problem space. Created go-to-market strategies for the next generation of stores and authored the playbook for autonomous operations.
7Next | IoT Retail MVP | Internet of Things | Azure
Developed the first MVP for fully IoT-enabled retail stores.
Learned about IoT LoRaWan and designed a solution with SMEs that delivered on unique retail requirements. Oversaw the collaboration with vendors to facilitate a new Azure Sphere architecture for IoT data integration
Ridebox | A Ridesharing Integrated Retail Experience
Delivered the MVP for a net new retail experience during a rideshare trip.
Worked with industrial design firms to prototype and build the first wave of real-world prototypes. Led the Lean Scrum team in developing hypothesis-driven experiences for new customers.
Healthcare | Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Inbound Faxes
Achieved $50,000 yearly savings using optical character recognition to read and input 1,200 surgical cards.
Homecare Software | Wound Images | AWS HIPPA/HITECH Compliant Services
Used computer vision, measurement, and documentation of wound healing for patients receiving home health care.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science and Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Systems
Texas Christian University - Fort Worth, TX, USA
Certifications
GitHub Foundations
GitHub
IBM AI Product Manager
IBM | via Coursera
AI Product Management
Duke University | via Coursera
Responsive Web Design
freeCodeCamp
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Institute
Skills
Tools
Atlassian, Slack, Jira, Figma, Asana, Zoom, Sketch, Git, GitHub
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Mobile App Design, User Testing, Pragmatic Marketing, Azure DevOps, HL7 FHIR Standard, Rapid Prototyping
Platforms
Zeppelin, Azure Sphere, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure
Industry Expertise
Marketplaces, Telecommunications, Education Technology (Edtech), Sports
Other
Aha!, Product Management, Product Owner, User Stories, IT Operations Management (ITOM), SaaS, IT Business Analysis, Scrum Product Owner, Digital Product Management, Product Vision, Product Strategy, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Product Development, Digital Product Development, Project Planning, Project Timelines, Stakeholder Analysis, Web & Mobile Applications, Stakeholder Management, New Product Development, Mentorship & Coaching, Project Consultancy, Feature Prioritization, Requirements, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Software, Feature Analysis, Product Ownership, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Sprint Planning, Agile Project Management, Confluence, SaaS Product Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Strategy, Project Management, Team Leadership, User Experience (UX), Business Analysis, Roadmaps, Market Research & Analysis, Product Roadmaps, User Personas, User Requirements, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Healthcare IT, Business Processes, Documentation, Lean IT, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), UX Research, UX Wireframes, Product Launch, Product Growth, Market Research, Use Cases, Business Strategy, Product Design, Business Models, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Product Delivery, Agile Product Delivery, Conceptualization, Ideation, Mobile Applications, B2B, Discovery Workshops, Customer Experience, Mobile UX, Consumer Applications, Lean Product Manager, Startups, Qualitative Research, Business Cases, Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Market Fit, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Feature Roadmaps, Hardware, System Requirements, User Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Mobile Apps, Product Consultant, User Flows, User Needs, Jira, Project Management, Agile Coaching, Program Management, iOS, Product Discovery, Prototyping, Pitch Decks, Go-to-market Plans, Data Analysis, Technical Documentation, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Microsoft Teams, Development, IT Project Management, Software Development, SQL, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, Leadership, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Algorithms, Python, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Linear Algebra, Statistics, Probability Theory, Internet of Things (IoT), Marketing Strategy, User Roles, UI Design, Competitive Analysis, Pricing, Sales, Revenue Strategy, Genesys, Telephony, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web UI, Responsive Web Apps, UX Design, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS IoT Core, LoRa, 3D Printing, Industrial Design, Websites, Website Redesign, Web Development, Web Applications, IT Projects, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Mobile Design, Mobile Development, Mobile App Development, User Research, Backlog Grooming, Backlog Management, IoT Protocols, Sensor Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), MVP Design, Technical Product Management, Wireframing, Agile Leadership, Edtech Design, User Interface (UI), UX Strategy, React Native, Vendor Management, Business Plan Consulting, Business Consulting, Product Strategy Consultant, User Journeys, Procurement, API Integration, AI Product Management, Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Deep Learning, Version Control, IT Administration, Administration, Microsoft Copilot, AIOps, Android, Technical Writing, Markdown, Technical Design, MDX, Fern, Loom, Tutorials, Subscriptions, NVIDIA CUDA, Deepstream, MCMT, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Edge Computing, GitOps, Networks, Deployment, Apache Kafka, Operations, Operating Models, Systems, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
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