Ryan Schnackenberg

About Ryan Schnackenberg

Principal Product Manager with 20 years experience implementing information technology solutions for Fortune 50 and large private companies in Industrial Equipment, Automotive, Furniture, and Software industry sectors. Architecting software development roadmaps with budgets of to $3.5 million for teams up to 250, resulting in tens of millions of units produced, billions secured, millions saved, ensuring market growth.Core competencies: Business Product Management, Portfolio & Program Management, Product Design, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Experience Management (PXM), Strategic Planning & Innovation, Change Management, Business Process Transformation, Vendor Management, Agile DevOps Delivery, Risk Management Career Highlights: • $4.5M estimated ROI from Lighthouse implementation of GE Power’s 3D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Intelligence Virtualization solution EXALEAD; aggregating, indexing, and unifying 7M+ parts across disparate data lakes, resulting in reduced risk, increased data integrity, & global part reuse for BOMs.• $500k cost avoidance, 100-man days saved annually by implementing Engineering Change Management (ECM), New Product Development/Introduction (NPD/NPI), PLM process automation, executed by 12+ globally disparate developers. • With only $25k, architected virtual prototype solution for UX designers, enabling Cadillac User Experience (CUE) V1.0, resulting 4 generations of General Motors global branded UI, UX cross-platform transformation.

Experience

1. Sr Product Manager Creative Content Operations

   Ashley Furniture Industries

   Aug 2023 — Present · Tampa, FL, US

   A leader in business product management, roadmap & delivery team orchestration of 6 solution tech stacks, 30+ applications, 80+ processes, 20+ projects achieving process efficiency and cost reduction for 18 global product and content units, across 3 business entities, serving a total team of 210 people.Architecting tactical and strategic PXM solutions for enterprise creative content creation and content management delivery teams. Improving productivity through the deployment of digital solutions and process definition so that 100s of annual go-to-market campaigns deliver successful outcomes ensuring that Ashley maintains its branding & market dominance as the nation\'s #1 home furnishings retailer and world\'s #1 furniture manufacturer.Ryan is one of many PM\'s in Ashley\'s Product Operations unit, which achieves success through strategic innovation or process efficiency for their business teams, by harmonious adoption of advanced digital tools and processes, culminating in millions of units produced and billions of revenue dollars generated annually for Ashley Furniture globally.

Education

• College for Creative Studies

  BFA, Industrial and Product Design

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Product Development
• Illustrator
• Cad
• 3d Modeling
• Rtt Deltagen
• Business Process
• Documentum
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Engineering
• 3d
• Enovia
• Adobe Photoshop
• Design Thinking
• Rfp Generation
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Digital Marketing
• User Experience
• Sharepoint
• Plm Tools
• Product Management
• Search Analysis
• Rally
• Software Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Sketching
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Business Analysis
• Automotive Design
• Project Management
• Request for Quotation (Rfq)
• Operations Management
• Concept Art
• Rendering
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Software Development
• Microsoft Office
• Statements of Work (Sow)