John Rader

About John Rader

I am a product lead who has earned awards and contributed to $billions in revenue generation for B2C/B2B retail and wholesale e-commerce, SaaS, and multi-sided marketplaces. Clients include Boehringer Ingelheim, Swimwear Anywhere/TYR, T-Mobile, Tumi, Performance Bike, Office Depot, Vail Resorts, NBA, Quicksilver, Timberland, NY DEP, and Sun Microsystems. How do I do it? I drive ROI on technology initiatives for merchants by- Defining problems and opportunities that lead to positive outcomes and digital experiences- Guiding stakeholders to make informed strategic decisions and balance trade-offs- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and launch products that generate business value.My strengths include: Product vision: Drove $1B+ revenue strategic product initiatives for B2C/B2B e-commerce. Leadership: Led cross-functional teams as large as 50 stakeholders. Growth: 100% customer retention + account growth of 100%+ net new accounts. Customer satisfaction: 10/10 NPS; reduced time to market from months to days.My experience spans AI/ML, B2C/B2B e-commerce, payments, shipping, supply chain, digital marketing, CMS, CRM, POS, OMS, ERP, IAM, API, guest experience, fundraising, reservations, knowledge management, and business intelligence products. Email: j•••@johnerader.com- Specialties:Product Management | Artificial Intelligence | Business Analysis | Market Research | Product Strategy | Project Management | Lean, Agile, Waterfall Methodology | Product Backlog | Pre-Sales | UML | Information Architecture | Quality Assurance | Stakeholder Alignment | VoC Interviews | Customer Segmentation | Competitive Analysis | Go-to-market Strategies | Team Leadership | Product Development | Delivery | P & Ls Technologies and Platforms: Software, Hardware SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, LLMs, ML Lovable, Balsamiq, Figma, Axure Adobe Commerce (Magento), SAP Hybris, WooCommerce, IBM WebSphere Commerce (HCL), Intershop User Engagement: Listrak, Yotpo, Silverpop Narvar Ship and Track Google Analytics (GA4) Salesforce.com Postman API AWS Identity Access Management, Cognito ERP Integrations: MS Dynamics, Oracle, SAP WordPress, Wix, E-commerce CMS, Web Portals MS SharePoint, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, Power BI Telecom Product Ordering Lucidchart, Visio, Miro Jira, Trello, Confluence, Notion, Canva, Gamma MS Office, Slack, Discord, G-Suite

Experience

1. Ai Product Fellow

   Product Manager Accelerator

   Jan 2024 — Present

   AI Product Manager Certification Program and Community Project, Artificial Intelligence, Product Management. Lead a 10+ person cross-functional team of AI engineers, data scientists, and designers to create a ML/Python and AI Assistant product from 0-1 which predicts sales demand for retailers. Run experiments to optimize AI prediction accuracy using wholesale purchase orders, sample retail sales, and unstructured data sets. Perform data mapping of AI model inputs and outputs. Validate ROI with cost savings estimates. Develop AI hypothesis, perform market research, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, customer segmentation, and competitive analysis. Conduct voice of customer interviews, create JIRA product backlog, Confluence wiki, MVP, roadmap, and data pipeline. Incorporate AI tools within product workflow for feature definitions, prototypes, multimodal image-to-text translations, and product positioning. Define implementation plan for AWS hosted environment and user access control. Set up and configure AWS credentials, IAM, Identity Center, Cognito, and Amplify services.Coursework-AI Product Lifecycle -AI Community Project-Product Roadmaps-Customer Interviews-Product Requirement Documentation-Go-to-market Strategies-Agile Development Process-Customer Segmentation-A/B Testing-Product Success Metrics-System Design

Education

• Marquette University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting

• University of Colorado Denver

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management Information Systems, General

• Product Manager Accelerator

  AI Product Management Certification Program

Skills

• Competitive Analysis
• Databases
• Kano Analysis
• Erp
• Requirements Gathering
• Scope Management
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Saas
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• E-Commerce
• Business Requirements
• Technology Pre-Sales
• Software Project Management
• Sharepoint
• Business Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Paired Feature Comparisons
• Project Management
• Product Demonstration
• Project Delivery
• Uml
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Requirements Management
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Ooad
• Program Management
• Software Development
• Scrum