Career Switcher

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Yes, I'm a bit more seasoned than the typical APM candidate. I'm a career switcher, sort of like my uncle who managed a Walmart tire department after serving as an electronics technician in the Air Force.

As a career-switcher, I have to discuss why I'll be successful switching to product management in addition to why Walmart.

I first became aware of product management while at Yahoo. (Every week I had lunch with a different group at Yahoo's Sunnyvale campus.) My group didn't have a PM but my side-project led to three UX patents with PMs. (I also have a UX patent for a video surveillance product at a previous company, where I built the back-end.)

I will be successful as a PM because I'm already successful at the intersection of business, technology, and users. I've been working with investors and startups to help the latter succeed. I help startups tell the best story that they have and if that story isn't good enough, I help them change so they have a better story. I have also taken classes in product management and venture capital and want to continue learning, albeit in a hands-on situation. …show more content…

I haven't worked as much with designers but .... (I've built enough UIs to prove that I'm not a designer.) Yes, I realize that PMs aren't engineers.

I will be successful at Walmart because I've already worked at very large scale. I like relevant data but will do without when appropriate and adjust as it comes in and the KPIs dictate. (I've written the first line of code at two funded startups.)

In most cover letters, the applicant writes about relevant accomplishments but I'm going to quote one of my LinkedIn references, Rick Lazansky, https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-lazansky-442b1/, discussing some of my PM-relevant

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