Tom Sherman

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Principal Software Product Owner @ Medtronic
Minneapolis, MN
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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, United States, United States
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About Tom Sherman

Energetic, effective, and positive Product Owner / Product Manager with more than fifteen years of success in multiple industries. A diverse background in technologies and markets, ranging from consumer products to supercomputers enables rapid mastery of unique business models and architectures. Relentlessly driven to seek out new and effective ways to characterize market changes, define winning product roadmaps, and drive cross-functional teams to success.My value as a Product Manager is greatly augmented due to my successes in IT, consumer products, and leading-edge computing, creating successful product families from multiple perspectives:• Customized, state-of-the-art, leading-edge hi-tech systems from $100K to $100M• Differentiated, and price-competitive mid-market storage hardware and software from $1K to $1M• High-volume consumer music technology products with simplified design from $100 to $10K My heterogeneous background gives me a unique perspective into markets, product definition, along with the ability to rapidly adapt my skills with changing markets and new industries. My consolidated career experience as Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Partnership Manager, and Field Support Engineer, I bring a rich and unified suite of skills to the job including:• My deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to define winning product requirements• My management skills which align and engage my staff, creating efficient and focused processes• My understanding of the customer perspective and the real impact of product robustness and fit• My creation and expansion of third-party relationships as positive and constructive collaborationsThese skills, combined with my multi-industry experience, and comprehensive product line track record, have so far defined my success, and position me well for on-going winning solutions for your company:

Tom Sherman's Current Company Details
Medtronic

Medtronic

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Principal Software Product Owner
Minneapolis, MN
Website:
medtronic.com
Employees:
10
Tom Sherman Work Experience Details
  • Medtronic
    Principal Software Product Owner
    Medtronic Oct 2021 - Present
    Minneapolis, Mn, Us
    Principal Software Product Owner with Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm & Heart
  • Best Buy
    Senior Product Owner
    Best Buy Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
    • Agile: Successfully and collaboratively transformed the existing waterfall teams into ten agile pods, increasing development efficiency and improving the ability to meet customer and stakeholder requirements.• Big Company Effectiveness: Part of the company-wide company-wide migration from legacy systems to Google Cloud Platform.• Communicator: Selected presenter for HR transformation pod as part of the all-developer quarterly updates.
  • Lifetouch National School Studios
    Product Engineering Manager, Product Development
    Lifetouch National School Studios Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    Eden Prairie, Mn, Us
    • Digital: Successfully produced a complex, integrated suite of applications via a worldwide development team.• Agile: Accelerated efficiency, understanding, and transparency by simplifying and accelerating the Agile process. Leveraged Epics, Stories, JIRAs, BDDs, scrums to establish a tight collaboration with Project Management. • Lifecycle: Delivered the capstone of a four-year project, replacing an enormous and complex decades-old system.• Leadership: Continuous improvement of development processes and best practices.• Management: Led & mentored developers and support professionals, aligning to both long & short-term goals.
  • Sgi/Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Product Strategy And Product Management Hpc Data Management And Storage
    Sgi/Hewlett Packard Enterprise Oct 2015 - May 2018
    • Roadmap: I retargeted all storage product lines by developing user stories across all markets and price points.• Lifecycle: Repositioned, revitalized, and launched a replacement for a 20-year-old product to meet new market requirements, including 10x performance and 100x capacity scaling, along with cloud integration.• Partnerships: Strategically integrated disparate and proprietary product lines from HPE and SGI, including HW and SW OEM partners, repositioned and relaunched into a larger market, netting 60% year-over-year growth.
  • Cray Inc.
    Director, Product Management For High Performance Enterprise Storage Products
    Cray Inc. Oct 2011 - Sep 2015
    Houston, Texas, Us
    • Lifecycle Launch: Profitably launched Cray’s fastest-growing storage product with a new OEM partnership, leading 80% growth, netting $200M over three years with higher margins and a 100% increase in attach rate.• Partnership: I forged a trusted, successful, and dynamic multi-national OEM partnership with Xyratex / Seagate, developing efficient and effective processes for addressing customer issues in a rapid, collaborative manner.• Team Collaboration: I established alignment with executives, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain through strategic, tactical, and financial presentations, accelerating identification and repair of issues, scheduling, and finances.
  • Quantum Corporation
    Product Manager For Stornext
    Quantum Corporation Dec 2010 - Sep 2011
    San Jose, California, Us
    • Lifecycle: Defined positioning, pricing, & launch for our first integrated appliance platform for StorNext.• Strategy: Grew revenue 60% and market share 40% while improving margins by converting from a software-only approach to an appliance model. Shrunk dev cycle, reduced support costs, and improved customer satisfaction.• Forecast, P&L: Wrote and presented strategic business plans and portfolio concepts to executive management and cross-functional teams to support new product line concepts, portfolio, investment, and ROI.• Collaboration: Tight focus with engineering to bring clarity to requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs.
  • Compellent Technologies
    Senior Technical Product Manager
    Compellent Technologies Aug 2008 - Sep 2010
    Eden Prairie, Mn, Us
    • Lifecycle: Defined positioning, pricing, & launch for our first integrated appliance platform for StorNext.• Strategy: Grew revenue 60% and market share 40% while improving margins by converting from a software-only approach to an appliance model. Shrunk dev cycle, reduced support costs, and improved customer satisfaction.• Forecast, P&L: Wrote and presented strategic business plans and portfolio concepts to executive management and cross-functional teams to support new product line concepts, portfolio, investment, and ROI.• Collaboration: Tight focus with engineering to bring clarity to requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs.
  • Rimage Corporation
    Product Management
    Rimage Corporation Aug 2004 - Apr 2008
    Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us
    • Strategy: Grew revenues by creating a modular product platform to increase margins and enable new target markets, including medical imaging (PACS), Video on demand, audio/video copy protection markets.• Roadmap: Reduced time-to-market via a close partnership with Engineering and Manufacturing based on reusable and re-deployable components. This collaboration enabled the company’s most profitable product lines.• Strategy: I worked with BCG to reposition strategy from physical to cloud-based delivery.• Partnerships: To meet $10M Big Box sale, led a new cloud-based video product strategy line for $10M sale.
  • Cray Inc.
    Market Development, Software Partnerships
    Cray Inc. Aug 2001 - Apr 2003
    Houston, Texas, Us
    • Grew annual product line 250% by extending existing product lines to enable new target markets, including medical imaging (PACS), Video on demand, audio/video copy protection markets.• Reduced time-to-market by 50% by creating a scalable, integrated suite of products. Close partnership with Engineering and Manufacturing yielded effective MRD/PRD docs yielding most successful product line to date.• With Boston Consulting Group, repositioned company from physical media to cloud-based delivery.• Owner of objectives & issues, ROI, and led the world-wide internal and external field and support presentations.
  • Gibson Guitar
    Product Management And Product Development
    Gibson Guitar Dec 1997 - Nov 2000
    Nashville, Tn, Us
    • Managed and drove product management, product marketing and development in a high tech division of Gibson Guitar.• Rescued Gibson CEO-initiated corporate project that had failed under three different teams by tightening product definition focus, narrowing risk, and creating effective, high energy cross-functional culture between Nashville-based guitar maker and Silicon Valley high tech company – launched on-time, received Patent for innovation.• Expanded TAM 10X with innovative first-generation USB for musicians, eliminating end user technical barriers while improving sound quality.

Tom Sherman Skills

Product Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Competitive Analysis Storage Strategy Product Marketing Go To Market Strategy Start Ups Product Launch Strategic Partnerships Marketing Business Alliances Voice Of The Customer Storage Virtualization Product Lifecycle Management Team Leadership Network Attached Storage Nas Pricing Business Planning Sales Leadership Training Market Research Product Development Product Owner Big Data Business Analysis Manager Consultant

Tom Sherman Education Details

  • Penn State University
    Penn State University
    Electrical Engineering
  • Penn State University
    Penn State University
    Electrical Engineering

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Tom Sherman's current role is Principal Software Product Owner.

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Tom Sherman attended Penn State University, Penn State University.

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Tom Sherman has skills like Product Management, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Competitive Analysis, Storage, Strategy, Product Marketing, Go To Market Strategy, Start Ups, Product Launch, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing, Business Alliances.

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