NetObjects Fusion site templates: Researched and designed first set of eady-to-use site architectures for use in an end-user visual web development application.

NetObjects Fusion site styles: Designed the first set of ready-made Web page buttons and banners for use in an end-user visual web development application.

OmniPage Pro 6.0: Finalized product definition and shipped market-leader in optical character recognition software. Developed positioning, packagining, direct-mail, and advertising campaigns.

Apple QuickDraw GX: Finalized product definition and shipped Mac OS printing, graphics, and type API. Developed positioning and represented graphics and printing technologies on Macintosh System 7 product management team.

Experience

I’ve been a product manager for both an operating system API (Apple QuickDraw GX), as well as end-user shrink-wrap productivity applications (Caere OmniPage Pro 6.0 and NetObjects Fusion).

I’ve written product requirement docs; worked through innumerable bug crawls; calculated P&L; pitched to press, analysts, and trade show attendees; managed advertising, direct mail, and marcom; and actually shipped products.

The skills and processes I’ve learned as a product manager have proven invaluable in my subsequent work, whether I was leading an online product launch, defining a marketing campaign, or wrestling with a difficult human interface problem.