Principal Product Manager
2020 - PRESENTFreelance- Trained and mentored a team of market launchers to improve efficiencies, leverage metrics, and build a customer success practice. The methods increased launch speed while reducing operational expenses.
- Led team to refine in-vehicle camera hardware product roadmap and prepared go-to-market strategy. The accelerated timeline leveraged commodity hardware for early phases prior to custom development.
- Led business development and product marketing strategy with Fortune 500 companies while tailoring a customer facing roadmap to advance integration targets.
- Built new channel introductions for a US-based company in the APAC region. Identified first proof-of-concept sales strategies and led contract negotiations between product owners.
Director of Product Management/Operations
2017 - 2020Mapillary- Scaled the marketplace product for on-demand street-level imagery mapping from concept to over 40 international markets with complete operational responsibility.
- Built strategic workflows and tactics for high velocity candidate sourcing of hourly workers, onboarding, data quality, payments, safety, compliance, legal, and revenue goal setting.
- Drove efforts to develop new camera hardware and launched the Mapillary Dashcam, a 4K camera with end-to-end encryption. It captured over 20% of new images in the Mapillary platform within six months.
- Translated feedback loops with customer success, engineering, and research groups into product priorities. Managed the launch of strategic product features which sped up customer time to value and enhanced the customer experience.
Senior Product Manager
2012 - 2017WSP- Incubated and co-led new external product line for analytics, mapping, and location intelligence across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Managed technical products and external relationships while launching 24 mobile apps.
- Managed program team for regional freight and logistics transportation strategy. The novel approach applied truck telemetry, freight traffic profiles, trade data, and street-level imagery to enhance the region’s geospatial datasets and OpenStreetMap.
- Modernized the client’s customer engagement support suite and productized map-based mobile apps.
Urban Planner/Data Scientist
2008 - 2012Parsons Brinckerhoff- Led the mapping team for Dubai's first Emirate-wide transit-rail mobility study and grew team from zero to five full-time staff.
- Developed a big data store for asset management of roadway signage for Phoenix metro region, reduced the 12-month project to 90 days with three, nine seconds of accuracy.
- Prioritized a $100 million capital investment program towards 400+ bus transit stops to decrease site construct costs by 30%.
Ryan Cook
Product Manager in Chicago, IL, United States
Member since September 28, 2020
Ryan is an experienced product manager and product operations leader who excels at building MVPs and scaling products toward international market launches. Ryan’s experience combines leadership roles spanning verticals focusing on mobile applications, web, business development, and mobility planning. From his roots as a city planner, Ryan built impactful product experiences for complex urban systems and deployed new world-scale products leveraging AI, machine learning, and big data.
Ryan is now available for hire
Project Highlights
- Led the product management operations and launched a toolkit to quickly map neighborhoods using a distributed crowd-sourced network of individuals. The method speeds up mapping a city region from months down to days.
- Developed the Mapillary Dashcam, a high-resolution and high-performance dashcam explicitly optimized for effortless mapping. The 4K camera with end-to-end encryption captured over 20% of new images in the Mapillary platform within six months.
Expertise
- AWS
- Agile
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Business Development
- Machine Learning
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- OpenStreetMap
- Product Design
Employment
Project History
- Mapping Neighbohood Streets using Computer Vision and Cloud ComputingLed the product management operations and launched a toolkit to quickly map neighborhoods using a distributed crowd-sourced network of individuals. The method speeds up mapping a city region from months down to days.
Mapillary Driver and Mapillary Capture Projects help you get complete street-level imagery coverage of a location by dividing it into smaller capture tasks that a team of drivers can work on simultaneously. The toolset consists of two parts. One is an administrative dashboard on the web to manage the project and see the total progress. The other is a mobile app called Mapillary Driver, which drivers use to pick up their assignments and see where they need to map.
- Effortless Mapping with Customized Dashcamhttp://blog.mapillary.com/update/2019/06/04/customized-mapillary-dashcam-for-effortless-mapping.htmlDeveloped the Mapillary Dashcam, a high-resolution and high-performance dashcam explicitly optimized for effortless mapping. The 4K camera with end-to-end encryption captured over 20% of new images in the Mapillary platform within six months.
Dashcams are the perfect type of camera for hours of imagery capture without needing much interaction from the driver. The custom dashcam makes street level mapping more efficient, enabling both individual mappers and entire fleets to scale up fresh imagery collection for better maps everywhere.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning2004 - 2008Michigan State University - East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Certifications
- Geographic Information Systems ProfessionalJUNE 2010 - PRESENTGIS Certification Institute (GISCI)
