OPENSESAME • PRODUCT STRATEGY & GROWTH
Product Strategy & Growth
Find the opportunity, make the tradeoffs explicit, test the risky assumptions, and learn before scaling.
Founder-led discovery and strategy work paired with documented innovation, capability-building, research synthesis, and cross-functional implementation.
Analog → architecture
external models translated into service design
$510K
funded innovation initiative
40% / 33%
separate time-to-capability reductions
CASE 01
Analog research → service architecture
Studied external operating models and translated their mechanics into visiting-master, work-study, class-duration, craft-income, adaptive-reuse, accessibility, and service concepts rather than copying surface features.
CASE 02
Portfolio governance → deciding what not to build
Built a repeatable filter using mission fit, system integration, safety, partner expertise, operating character, evidence, and capacity to decide what should advance, change, wait, or stop.
CASE 03
Easement-holder discovery → constraint-led design
Presented proposed use categories to a conservation easement holder, invited correction, and incorporated bounded external feedback into design decisions.
CASE 04
Prototype → segmented opportunity
Developed an interactive physical/electronic proof of concept and expanded it into reusable/custom variants, segmented use cases, delivery formats, and pricing concepts.
CASE 05
Learning products and measurable capability
Built the first-ever 80-hour predeployment program for 200 Airmen; separate qualification redesigns later produced documented 40% and 33% cycle reductions.
Supporting evidence
- Separate $510K innovation initiative and $270K / three-project portfolio.
- 64 reports → 57 realistic training devices → 24 operations / 34 personnel.
- Partner-platform operating model and scenario analysis.
- Audience-specific positioning from a common evidence base.
- AI-assisted research and synthesis with human authority.
Scope & boundaries
I have not held a conventional SaaS growth-product title. The evidence here is opportunity discovery, market/analog learning, prioritization, prototyping, positioning, capability-building, and resource-allocation work.
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