"Hello World", For Real
Hi, I am
Tom McCollough
Product and Technology Leadership for Developer Solutions
I am a technology leader with considerable experience building and running product management and engineering teams. With a computer science background, I focus on serving developers with cloud-native managed services, and particularly on helping developers write globally distributed (i.e. locally performant and compliant) software just as easily as they wrote their first "Hello World".
Able to serve in product roles at the principal or director level, or as director-level leadership overseeing both product+engineering.
I'm able to contribute in either the pre-product market fit phase or the growth phase. Small to medium, dynamic companies preferred. Early stage and established startups are great.
Open to mentorship opportunities. DM me if you'd like to explore.
Problems Solved
Clarifying the problems facing your customers, generating alignment across your org, and realizing the outcomes your customers need.
- Vision and Strategy
- Likely you already have a vision and a strategy. Do you need help refining it, testing it, or communicating it to your teams?
- High-Performance Execution
- Making sure that teams are solving the right problems, that hypotheses are tested, and interventions are delivered early and often, are key to high-performance.
- Alignment Across the Org
- Getting everyone rowing in the same direction is challenging but critical. Effective and frequent presentation of problems being tackled and solutions being worked are one piece of the alignment puzzle.
- Employee Engagement > Customer Engagement
- Product management, when done well, is inclusive, which keeps employees engaged. And when employees are engaged, customer engagement follows.
Professional Experience
Recent relevant experience is listed below.
Dec 2021
Section
Distributed application delivery optimizing edge proximity-performance against cost.
Senior Product Manager
PaaS product management, working with founders and other colleagues to define the market, clarify our value, and deliver our globally distributed virtual Kubernetes cluster.
2019
Motorola Solutions
Mission-critical communications software for public safety demanding 5 9's of availability.
Senior Product Manager & Team Lead, SRE, Platform Engineering
Product Management for the Cloud Infrastructure Platform for Motorola
Lead a team of engineers to facilitate better reliability and coordination amongst 75 application partner teams at Motorola.
2016
Autodesk
Industry leader in design and manufacturing software.
Director of Product Management, Digital Manufacturing
Portfolio Management | Product Vision and Strategy
Lead 4 product managers to define requirements, priorities, & roadmaps for ~100 developers of cloud and desktop solutions for manufacturing on CNC equipment.
2015
Autodesk
Industry leader in design and manufacturing software.
Product Manager
Product Management | Vision and Strategy
Product management for Delcam for SolidWorks, FeatureCAM, and PartMaker, 3 world-class CAM systems for mechanical part manufacturing.
2014
Autodesk
Industry leader in design and manufacturing software.
Head of Engineering
Engineering Lead | Product Management Lead | Full Lifecycle Development
Head of both engineering management and customer-facing product management for 3 manufacturing products, leading 40 engineers.