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Bryan Hicks

Bryan Hicks

Executive Leadership | Product Management | Strategic Execution

Denver, Colorado, United StatesFinancial Services
Company
Arvest Bank
Title
Head of Product
Seniority
Head
Department
Product Management
Location
Denver, Colorado, United States
Industry
Financial Services

About

I’m an accomplished Product Management executive with a decade of leadership experience in overseeing the development and deployment of strategies for effective product development and sales. Throughout my career, I have a proven track record in driving business growth through the clear defining of products and objectives. Working as a Senior Product Manager at AT&T, I contributed a $3M annual pipeline through the launch of two products, and one of the communications services I spearheaded was named one of the top five AT&T Labs technologies by CIO magazine. As Director of IoT Solutions Management or SAP, my targeted sales motions drove $10M in new business within six months. I have since worked as Head of Product for self-driving vehicles at Ford and currently serve as VP of Product and Design for Derive Systems. In my present role, I oversee comprehensive product management and design operations for Enterprise business; I have vastly diminished the timeline for release cycles, improv…

Experience

Head of Product

Arvest Bank · Denver, Colorado, United States

Present

We're reinventing what it means to be a community bank. It's not just about going digital it's redefining what relationships and community mean in the digital age and for upcoming generations. A lot of this means breaking down the concept of traditional banking products. It's about solving problems for consumers and businesses where and when they need them.

Vice President of Product Management

Derive Systems · Denver, Colorado, United States

Define and execute product vision and strategy across Enterprise business, including firmware and mobile and cloud technologies to support holistic solutions. • Manage all product managers and UX designers for Enterprise business (two PMs, one UX, one data scientist); developed curriculum for training of five product managers company-wide • Preserved business of our largest client, or 40% of Enterprise business revenue, by increasing KPIs, managing outage communication, and driving development of new mobile releases • Reduced release cycles from six months to six weeks • Defined and improved core Product KPIs by 10-20% within first six months • Decreased customer support call volume by 288% within first six months

Product Line Manager - Av Platforms and Applications

Ford Motor Company · Greater Denver Area

Managed up to six product managers across mobile and cloud-based applications: Defined and motivated cross-functional teams around strategic product visions and roadmaps. • Prioritized development for $1B Self-Driving Vehicle business, learning from risky aspects of the business model and migrating customer experience issues stemming from technical limitations • Defined and executed a week-long press event featuring a self-driving, ride-hail platform and mobile application for over 24 reporters • Mentored and trained six product managers over a three-year period

Director, Iot Solution Management

SAP · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Led partner and internal enablement for IoT Global Go-to-market team, supporting dozens of IoT deals globally and across industries. • Drove over $10M in new pipeline within six months via targeted sales motions and execution for IoT Predictive Maintenance for a solar manufacturing client • Conceptualized and completed an interactive demo of our IoT Predictive Maintenance plan, resulting in double the number of attendees from previous year

Sr. Product Manager - Apis and Cloud

AT&T · Dallas, TX

In charge of prioritization, rationalization and monetization strategy and execution for AT&T's API portfolio. These APIs are exposed publicly and privately and mainly focused on B2B and B2B2C applications. • Launched Enterprise API product with annualized revenue of over $1M • Product focuses on simplifying eCommerce and reducing fraud by leveraging the mobile identity for large online merchants, enterprises and financial institutions • Supported customer meetings resulting in 3 signed customers within 3 months of launch • Overcame process and development issues through creative problem solving to shorten time-to-market by 50%

Consultant

Innovation Interface · Ithaca, NY

• Interface between market and technology research teams exploring product opportunities in Solid State lighting • Presented initial findings to CTO of fortune 500 technology company

Consultant

Cornell University · Ithaca, NY

• Managed 3 person team in 10-year scenario planning project • Moderated strategy discussions involving 12 cross-functional executives • Analyzed and synthesized discussion output to recommend feasible, high-impact strategies

Summer Associate

Big Red Ventures

• Evaluated early-stage startup company for potential investment. • Assessed the company's technology, business model, competition, market potential and management team

Research Assistant

Cornell University

• Facilitated collaboration involving research teams from Chemistry and Electrical Engineering at Cornell and Marquette to develop atom-by-atom manufacturing capabilities • Secured $1.5M in funding from DARPA by fabricating 100s of atomic scale structures using a novel technique involving nanotips • Published results in peer-reviewed journal Nanotechnology which focuses on the basic science of nanoscale objects • Presented research to DARPA senior leadership as well as industrial and academic audiences at SPIE Defense conference attended by over 6000 • Developed expertise in laser-related design and construction

Research Assistant

Brigham Young University

• Explored single-photon entanglement with applications in quantum computing and cryptography • Presented at American Physical Society (>7000 presenters), and International Materials Science Research conferences

Education

Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), High Tech and General Management

Cornell University

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brigham Young University

BS, Applied Physics

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