The Ohio State University

Director of Product Management at D2iQ

Advising startups on product strategy, launch, marketing, and customer success (zero-to-one focus).

Independent Consultant

Product and Marketing Consultant

- Led roadmap development for Cloud Computing and AI/ML Stack (Kubernetes).
- Instituted product management practices, scaling the team and dividing workstreams to improve product coverage.
- Improved cross-organizational communication through user story/requirement creation, feature prioritization, and launch processes.

D2iQ

Director of Product Management

- Led the transition of traditional Big Data customers to a new SaaS offering built on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Secured marquee clients in Healthcare, Financial Services, and Retail by focusing on a roadmap of compliance, audit, RBAC, CLI, and API features.
- Achieved compliance certifications (HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR) for successful customer adoption.

Cloudera

Principal Product Manager

- Led the transition of on-premises customers to running Big Data workloads on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) via a roadmap of deployment orchestration and auto-scaling features.

Hortonworks

- Launched a zero-to-one mobile CRM product with paid customers as the first non-engineering hire.
- Built and managed product, support, customer success, and sales engineering teams.
- Achieved industry-leading support metrics (response time, resolution time, backlog) and customer success metrics (weekly active users, renewal rate).

Tact.ai

Director of Product, Customer Success & Support

- Led product integration post-acquisition (VMware -> Telligent), focusing on Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for Email and Collaboration.
- Managed the Product, UX, and Technical Writing teams to develop a new CSP focused roadmap.
- Grew Open Source developer community by 300% through GPLv2 relicensing.
- Public speaker at industry events (Zimbra Big Social, Open Source conferences, user groups).

Zimbra

Vice President of Product Management

- Led product acquisition strategy for Zimbra Email and Collaboration Suite, focusing on TCO benefits for enterprise IT.
- Expanded Zimbra's market to Government, Healthcare, and Financial Services with security and compliance features.
- Public speaker at industry events (VMworld, Partner Exchange, and user groups).

VMware

Director of Product Management (Cloud Service Provider and Enterprise Email and Collaboration)

- Increased virtualization adoption for Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and SAP by 1000%+ via customer engagement and roadmap focused on performance, scaling, and BCDR.
- Collaborated with Microsoft to develop the SVVP program, reducing adoption barriers and improving customer support.
- Public speaker at industry events (VMworld, Partner Exchange, and user groups).

Technical Product Manager (Virtualization of Enterprise Applications)

- Launched 9 Microsoft platform services, growing a new consulting practice to 12 Solutions Architects (87% utilization).
- Implemented training programs to elevate team skill sets.

Advizex Technologies

Chief Microsoft Architect

- Led client engagements for Microsoft and Novell networking systems, achieving a 98% customer satisfaction rating.

Jon Dybik