Paul Wanless Head of Product @ TireTutor – Product Strategy & UX Leader in

Head of Product

TireTutor

Jun 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)

Head of Product

Kebotix

Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 (11 months)

First product hire at Kebotix to help shape Kebotix into a product-led growth company. Launched a B2B innovative AI-powered software product suite for R&D molecular discovery teams. The technology utilized generative AI (NLP, GNN) approach for discovering novel molecules. Led high-level product strategic-related alignment of the product portfolio, such as creating the product's mission and vision, creating the product portfolio roadmap, and building out the company communication channels to accelerate the software product development release process. Conducted user studies to align portfolio strategy and marketing to drive product-market fit for a pipeline of new AI technologies. Worked on ISO:27001 certification.

Product Manager

SwoopMe Inc

Jun 2019 - Jun 2021 (2 years 1 month)

Focused on new enterprise client onboarding to the Swoop platform, such as Ford, Volkswagen, USAA, State Farm, and Enterprise. Identified product gaps for onboarding clients and prioritized with stakeholders to align on the best scalable SaaS solution that solved high-impact business and customer problems. Work with cross-functional teams to scale the platform to streamline the client onboarding process, manage client customer data, optimize client referral/coupon locations for the intake process, and scale the cost management system for managing client roadside program services.

Product Manager

Agero Inc

Aug 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for launching the company's new client portal. Worked with clients directly, such as USAA, to identify solutions to improve the client's customer experience with transparent reporting of past and active services. Responsible for product features, migrating clients from the legacy application, and identifying new integration that increased client satisfaction. Assisted in sales calls and maintained client relationships with the Sales team. Presented software capabilities and roadmap to clients. Worked with Data Scientists and Engineering to process the real-time data streams and static data for client consumption. Investigated and analyzed legacy data structures not designed for real-time client consumption to define reporting r

Product Manager

Henry Schein

Jun 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Commercialized a digital manufacturing integration and software automation SaaS tool for dental laboratories. Integrated with our eCommerce platform to increase consumable sales and customer retention. Defined features use cases and owned product roadmap for the software. Worked with software and hardware vendors to integrate our software to automate the digital workflows for our customers. Lead project for improving customer support call experience. Implemented new processes along with introducing software automation and updating the knowledge base website design and content. Reduced agent stress and reported response times decreased by 50% after implementing software automation and new triage workflows in Zendesk. Worked with CAM sof

Product Manager & R&D

Zahn Dental

Apr 2014 - Jul 2018 (4 years 4 months)

Product manager of an award-winning dental software platform that focused on automates digital workflows with dental manufacturing software and integrating with our e-commerce service focused on customer retention, generating additional revenue streams, and reducing support operating costs. Developed and optimized CNC milling strategies for dental milling. Managed partnerships with CNC software vendors. Consulted and advised dental laboratories on how to improve their business operations and increase sales.

Senior Process Engineer

Dentsply Sirona

Nov 2012 - Apr 2014 (1 year 6 months)

Lead engineer in driving and promoting LEAN principles with an established production team. Key activities include leading change management activities to elevate the usage of LEAN tools throughout the plant. Other activities include helping create a global Dentsply Implants LEAN program and provide resources for the worldwide organization. Defined and implemented a baseline framework for an organizational project management structure for operations to enable the business to manage projects more efficiently and transparent to the organization. Responsible for managing COGS model and prioritizing projects that can maximize the impact in improving COGS for the Atlantis product. Introduced and integrated data/BI analysis visualization

Senior Engineer

Brontes Technologies

Apr 2007 - Nov 2012 (5 years 8 months)

Developed SLA technology, scaled manufacturing of SLA 3D printing for global production, and integrated new digital dentistry workflows for the LAVA COS/TrueDef system. Lead manufacturing engineer responsible for scaling and launching the True Definition Scanner System with a contract manufacturer. Primary responsibilities included setting up the supply chain for parts/assemblies, supplier management, sourcing new vendors, and to work with R&D team to design components for manufacturing. Set up production with a contract manufacturer and in 3M commercialize the new medical device. Included getting first-run production units created to be tested to get UL/CE certifications. Supervised a production team responsible of the creation of di

Process Engineer

M Digital Oral Care

Apr 2007 - Oct 2010 (3 years 7 months)

Part of the team to pioneer the commercialization of mass custom manufacturing using 3D printing technology for the dental market. Lead architect of the digital production workflow to enable a distributed digital processing and 3D printing production workflow with manufacturing partners. This production system included digital model creation, automated file processing for 3D printing, CMM automation, 3D printer calibration automation, and a product quality system to track batches and auto process rejects.

Optimized Operations Engineer

M Digital Oral Care

Apr 2007 - Dec 2007 (9 months)

• Selected to participate in a leadership development program within 3M that trained LEAN Six Sigma and leadership principles. Applied skills and learnings as a lead in department projects and various other applications in business. • Identified and worked on processes to streamline for scale-up and to reduce manufacturing costs for dental market.

Manufacturing Engineer

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Jul 2006 - Apr 2007 (10 months)

• Responsible for daily production and multiple chemical processing lines including; copper, nickel, gold, and tin plating, OSP, oxide, and chemical etches. • Project lead in expanding plant capacity and improve yield. • Utilize LEAN tools to streamline documentation, reduce changeovers, participate in kaizen events, 5S responsible areas, and increase efficiency by reducing redundancies. • Project managed a capital equipment project of the conversion of a process line. • Researched and developed new process methods/controls.

Production Engineer

Cardinal Glass Industries

Aug 2005 - Jul 2006 (1 year)

• Responsible for the production of glass and solving glass production problems. • Help scope, prepare and completed the plants first complete shut-down and furnace rebuild since 1993. • Responsible for analyzing batch and product samples for relevant plant data and defects. • Worked to develop solutions with vendors and other engineers on various plant issues. • Aided sister plants by supervising tasks and helping replace critical capital equipment. • Assisted in emergency equipment failure and production recovery.

Tech Aide

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Jul 2004 - Aug 2005 (1 year 2 months)

OLED coating process development

Community Advisor \ RA

University of Minnesota

Aug 2002 - May 2004 (1 year 10 months)

Building and resident management

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