• Managed a cross-functional team of 6 Product Managers to design and develop the company’s flagship unmanned aerial system

• Prioritized customer use cases and directed development efforts to align with mission-critical needs, resulting in improved operational capabilities

• Developed and launched 4 user-facing software applications, including a flight station, ground testing simulator, and flight analysis tool. Integrated real-time data processing and UI/UX enhancements, improving GUI efficiency by 35%

• Drove adoption & retention by engaging users through continuous feedback loops, refining key software features based on customer workshops and field testing, increasing feature adoption rates by 20% and user satisfaction by 25%

• Developed an AI-driven image-based monitoring system, utilizing real-time sensor data to detect anomalies, automate diagnostics, and enhance predictive maintenance, reducing scheduled maintenance by 80% and ensuring seamless user experience

• Accelerated product development timelines bringing the product to market faster than comparable programs

• Drove user-centric design improvements, enhancing usability and operational efficiency across multiple systems

• Ensured high-quality outcomes by fostering close collaboration between engineering, design, and product teams

• Guided an expedited product development initiative, bringing the product to market 66% faster than similar products

• Redesigned flight station software, streamlining workflows and reducing misclicking by 100%, resulting in increased adoption across product lines

• Defined functional and design roadmaps for complex aerial systems through detailed specifications, regulatory compliance, and algorithm development

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and external partners, ensuring seamless API and system integrations for clients

• Led new feature and defect tracking strategy, reducing user-impacting issues by 50% and minimizing urgent patches through validation of customer needs

• Prioritized new features, bug fixes, and integrations via a comprehensive analysis and validation of customer needs, increasing time between minor SW versions by 50%

• Created tools via Python to analyze telemetry and identify faults, reducing flight analyzing time by 60%

• Led development of SW for multidisciplinary products from concept to launch

• Optimized UX for user-facing products, enhancing user accuracy and control, reducing preflight time by 20%, and driving customer requests for similar upgrades across product lines

• Proactively developed Python tools to analyze telemetry data, reducing flight analysis time by 60%, delivering faster insights for customers and accelerating data-driven decision

• Developed functional and design roadmaps for complex aerial systems through detailed specifications, algorithm development and hands-on collaboration with SW engineers

• Worked closely with customers in B2C settings, providing solutions and directly shaping the strategic direction of the product design and future features

• Enhanced UX increasing user accuracy and control, reducing preflight time by 20%, resulting in requests from customers for similar upgrades in other systems

• Managed a team of 10 flight crew members and oversaw flight crew qualifications, briefing and debriefing flights, creating a uniform format for all activities

• Designed and carried out test flights, leading and instructing flight teams for all experiment flights, increasing flight data collection by 25% per flight

• Designed and implemented a flight data collection system which supported cross-referencing analysis reducing the number of reoccurring test flights by 30%