John Bernd Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

I am responsible for identifying, defining, prioritizing and launching features and products to further serve customers and contractors. I work cross-functionally with leaders from Engineering, Sales, and Operations to drive strategy and ensure features solve customer problems while positioning internal stakeholders for success.This includes:* Participating in and facilitating cross-functional discussions to identify solutions to complex business problems, then design and drive implementation of those solutions * Leading key projects from concept through planning to development, launch, and post-launch support * Acting as the product owner for an Agile scrum team, partnering closely with engineering to ensure delivery of new features and accountability

Greater Milwaukee

As a Global Software Product Manager:- Functions as a product owner for Dematic iQ Optimize: Dematic's logistics automation software- Serves as the external and internal evangelist for the product offering - Develops and drives the software Product Roadmap into a set of clear and actionable requirements- Guides Agile software development teams to create and bring industry-leading products to market- Ensures success of the product offering post-launch, by monitoring results and gathering feedback

Greater Milwaukee Area

Acted as the single point of contact and product champion for a set of products across the entire product lifecycle. I own the business plan and act as the entrepreneurial business manager with the goal of long term customer satisfaction, competitive advantage, market share and profitability.

As the overall program manager for the Metasys Building Automation System (BAS), I managed multiple projects, with the intention of improving our performance.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Software Development Manager, 1998-2004- Directed management and development staff in product development of Warehouse Management systemProject Manager, 1996-1998- Account and project management for customer solutions.Software Developer - 1993 - 1996- Worked closely with in-house customers to define and implement solutions.