Dan Waltman
Redmond,WA
Summary
Successful product and program manager with proven accomplishments in driving growth, creating user-centric products, and increasing revenue. Articulate and driven leader with high energy and engaging personality. Hardworking collaborative individual who is motivated by maximizing team performance and surpassing business and engineering objectives.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft – Casual Games
09.2022 - Current
- Recruited to be the lead Product Manager responsible for driving developer relations, game supply metric health, and monetization features for MS Start Casual Games team
- Grew ARR to over $17M with a line-of-sight to $100M by successfully leading a team of developers in collaboration with external game studios in building out a robust monetization portfolio
- Exceeded org-wide KPIs: CPM: +49%, Viewability: +166%, STR: +50%, SDK Adoption: >96%
- Crafted and implemented business critical initiatives, leading to significantly stronger ads metrics, higher revenue, and durable user engagement.
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft – Sports
04.2020 - 09.2022
- Own ideation-to-shipping of features across all sports entry points and AI/ML personalization experiences (Windows, Edge, Bing, MSN, and mobile apps)
- Obsess daily over metrics, analytics, impact analyses, and customer feedback to craft strategic and data driven roadmaps with high impact features
- Lead cross-functional teams and cultivate strong partnerships in managing planning and executing of strategic initiatives
- Champion OKRs for our team, leading to a stronger focus on impact to both business and customer obsession metrics.
Program Manager
Microsoft - News
07.2017 - 04.2020
- Release Manager for redesign of Edge DHP/NTP, which increased end user engagement, grew revenue, and surfaced news content from thousands of partners
- Project managed the complex overhaul of our tech stack to a React code base
- Managed updates to Microsoft News Apps (News, Sports, Money, Weather) across multiple platforms (Win8.x, Win10, WinPhone, iOS, Android, Xbox)
- Defined requirements, process, and rollout of multiple productivity tools which have reduced manual work by an estimated 30 hours a month
- Scrum Master on multiple engineering teams; facilitating weekly planning, troubleshooting and retrospective meetings.
Business Program Manager
Microsoft - Worldwide Licensing and Pricing
02.2015 - 07.2017
- Led the Volume Licensing Contracts Team (VLCT); responsible for managing all VL contracts, which touch $50 Billion of Microsoft's revenue
- Managed relationship with internal and external partners, ensuring their feedback was captured, reviewed, and turned into requirements as appropriate
- Drove efficiencies in VL contract update process, increasing scope capacity by over 400% while reducing cycle time by 20%
- Project Managed custom Content Management tool, resulting in 72% increase in partner team productivity and 40% reduction in support requests
- Optimized vendor resources across team, resulting in 315k budget savings
- Creation of intake process; ensuring proper resource alignment across several projects
Senior Program Manager
AT&T Inc.
01.2010 - 01.2015
Education
Advanced Project Management -
Stanford University
01.2017
Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, English, Pre-Law -
University of Washington
01.2008
Skills
- Product Launches
- Product Roadmapping
- Stakeholder Management
- Design thinking
- Product Metrics
- Cross Functional Leadership
- Strategic Planning
Certification
- Stanford Advanced Project Manager (SAPM)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft – Casual Games
09.2022 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft – Sports
04.2020 - 09.2022
Program Manager
Microsoft - News
07.2017 - 04.2020
Business Program Manager
Microsoft - Worldwide Licensing and Pricing
02.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Program Manager
AT&T Inc.
01.2010 - 01.2015
Advanced Project Management -
Stanford University
Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, English, Pre-Law -
University of Washington