Erick Dean

VP of Product Management

Horizonai

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)

Sr Director of Product Management, AIOps

PagerDuty

Aug 2020 - Apr 2024 (3 years 9 months)

Director of Product Management

Samsara Inc

Mar 2019 - May 2020 (1 year 3 months)

* Built portfolio of industrial automation cloud SaaS solutions. Ramping bookings from zero to $8M and 130 customers in year 1. * Collaborated cross-functionally with design, marketing, sales, & operations team to launch 5 major products. * Recruited and mentored Industry 4.0 product team including Product Managers and QA Engineers. * Instituted agile development methodology to improve development velocity across product, engineering, QA. * Evangelized product vision via regular customer visits and speaking opportunities at industrial conferences

Director of Product Management, IoT & Business Analytics

Splunk

Nov 2015 - Mar 2019 (3 years 5 months)

* Developed strategy, business plan, roadmap, PRDs, & pricing model for IoT & Business Analytics BU * Launched 4 analytics and ML-based solutions designed to monitor, optimize, and secure industrial assets * Authored 6 patents ranging from asset discovery UI to processing ML models on IoT edge devices * Interim Head of IoT business unit - managed 24 person engineering, product, marketing, and sales org

Director of Product Management

C

Dec 2013 - Oct 2015 (1 year 11 months)

* Led five-member engineering team to launch oil & gas division within C3 IoT. * Directed successful development of SaaS application, C3 Predictive Maintenance, which predicts failure of oilfield equipment using machine learning techniques, resulting in $60M/yr in savings for an oil company

Management Consultant

McKinsey Company

Jul 2011 - Dec 2013 (2 years 6 months)

* Focused on strategy, pricing, and operations engagements for high-tech, manufacturing, and utility clients * Directed R&D organization of large PC OEM through $80M of component & manufacturing cost initiatives * Crafted data-driven negotiation strategy for large aerospace corporation, reducing spend by $200M per year

Product Manager Intern - Smart Grid Business Unit

Cisco Systems

May 2010 - Aug 2010 (4 months)

* Developed long-term wireless product strategy for Cisco’s Smart Grid Business Unit. Presented management with actionable recommendations based on deep quantitative and qualitative analysis * Created a product requirements document defining revenue projections, competitive analysis, product features, and go-to-market strategy for Cisco’s first wireless communication hardware for smart grid market

Product Line Manager

ON Semiconductor

Sep 2008 - Aug 2009 (1 year)

* Managed the launch of a new product line aimed to penetrate the notebook computing market * Implemented a long-term business plan with projected three year revenue of $21 million and 86% CAGR * Drove customer interaction to determine key product features. Collaborated on a cross-functional product development team (marketing, design, manufacturing, sales) to commercialize four new products * Created a marketing strategy and visited multinational computer corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Lenovo to increase ON’s brand identity within computing market

System Applications Engineer

ON Semiconductor

Sep 2006 - Sep 2008 (2 years 1 month)

* Technical lead of four member team responsible for developing long-term product strategy for $187 million per year mobile device division * Analyzed cell phone market, visited mobile device customers, and developed plan for integrated chip product. Projected sales of product is $10M in 2010 * Created wireless architecture training manual. Presented to company employees throughout Asia and U.S.

RF Product Support Engineer

National Instruments

Oct 2005 - Sep 2006 (1 year)

* Interacted daily with customers and developed 13 product demos for wireless standards such as Zigbee, Bluetooth, DVB-H, and WiMAX. Demonstrations resulted in $1.7 million increase in product sales * Organized a three member team to develop a training course to educate customers about wireless test standards. Course has driven additional product revenue of over $3 million since 2006. * Planned and executed $210,000 product recall across three departments (mfg, sales, engineering)

Engineering Leadership Program - Team Lead

National Instruments

Sep 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 2 months)

* Managed 10-member customer support team. Delivered performance reviews, mentored in career development, recruited new members, created weekly support schedule, and set team objectives * Reorganized team to improve turnaround time on customer support requests. Increased the percentage of support requests answered on-time from 47% to 83% in 2 months

Engineering Leadership Program - Engineer

National Instruments

Aug 2003 - Oct 2004 (1 year 3 months)

* Consulted with customers to resolve technically complex product issues via phone, email and web

Circuit Design Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Jun 2000 - Mar 2002 (1 year 10 months)

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