Michael Nuschke

Oversaw product lifecycles for world's largest drone racing league, guiding team through biggest season with 15,000 fans at events in stadiums around the world.

• Communicated product strategy, incorporating market research to identify opportunities and competitive landscapes.
• Drove product planning by creating roadmaps, outlining feature releases and collaborating with cross-functional teams to prioritize features.
• Led end-to-end product development, ensuring timely and quality delivery, collaborating with engineering, design, and QA teams.
• Implemented key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge success of product initiatives, making data-driven improvements based on performance and user feedback.
• Facilitated stakeholder communication by relaying product milestones to internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborated with UX/UI team to craft user experience.
• Managed 7 technicians to launch 650 new drone builds on time for season.
• Maintained positive vendor relations to build strong partnerships.

Key Achievements:

• Led Agile engineering teams, creating fastest DRL racing drone and pioneering first drone race flown over 5G.
• Launched sensor software to reduce technical delays at live events by 84%.
• Cut drone costs by 28% through quality assurance, contract manufacturing, and supply chain efficiency improvements.

Led cross-functional resources and 4 direct report PMs through new product introductions (NPI), spanning small changes to global initiatives.

• Executed go-to-market plans for product launches, encompassing marketing, sales and customer support strategies, while providing training and support to internal teams for successful product adoption.

Key Achievements:

• Launched highest performing Cascade product to drive over $1bn in revenue.
• Implemented machine acceptance process, improving start-up reliability by 12%.
• Created project maintenance process to save $40K per year.
• Launched Hispanic Network to connect Hispanic team to volunteer and network opportunities.

Led throughput and quality improvement projects for fastest growing product line.

• Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.

Key Achievements:

• Installed $2.1M production line for Cascade, increasing throughput 16%.
• Executed compliance remediation initiative saving $2.6M in scrap.
• Created virtual machine to validate software without $550k in business disruption losses.

Designed, implemented and optimized software, equipment and processes.

• Analyzed line data to make recommendations for improvement.
• Created process simulations to test operational outcomes without service disruptions.

Key Achievements:

• Improved machine performance 23% by developing operating standards and performing iterative improvement cycles - Rated top 5%.