Stephen Hess

About Stephen Hess

Data-driven Product Strategy | Product-team Leadership | Portfolio ManagementI am a creative and strategic Product leader with an insatiable drive to solve problems and unite teams around a common vision and agile models of execution. In my career I’ve taken on a broad scope of strategic, technical, and operational responsibilities in fast-growing innovative companies, covering business functions from product management to general management, engineering management, information technology, and strategic planning — but through it all, I have stayed to true to my roots with a focus on my client, my users, and the rich and interesting problems that animate development in the first place.

Experience

1. Vice President of Products

   Medrhythms, Inc

   May 2022 — Present · Portland, ME, US

   MedRhythms develops innovative, evidence-based, digital therapeutics (DTx) that help patients suffering from neurological injury and disease. Our products leverage auditory-motor entrainment, the subconscious synchronization of auditory and motor systems in the presence of a rhythmic stimuli, to foster functional improvements. We literally use music to help patients retrain their brains. I am responsible for Product Management, Design, Data Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Engineering.

Education

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  B.A., Cognitive Psychology/Economics

  1987 — 1991

• Penn State University

  Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology

  1991 — 1996

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Certificate, Business Administration

  2006 — 2006

• Penn State University

  M.S., Cognitive Psychology

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• Product Planning
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Middleware
• Paas
• Content Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Distributed Systems
• Open Source
• Agile
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Integration
• Market Requirements
• User Experience
• Demand Generation
• Soa
• Solution Selling
• Business Management
• Strategy Development
• Strategy
• Messaging
• Software Product Management
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Scalability
• Saas
• User-Centered Design
• Product Development
• Product Requirements
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Enterprise Software
• Business Alliances
• Product Strategy
• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Design
• Product Launch
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization