Shane Quinlan is the Director of Product Delivery at Hypergiant, an Accelint Company. He leads all defense programs for the Mission & Tactical Software segment, working with warfighters and mission partners to deliver AI-enabled command and control capabilities for the US military and our allies. Shane leads the JERIC2O contract for NORAD/USNORTHCOM, the first joint all-service command and control solution fielded by the US Air Force.
Prior to Hypergiant, Shane was the VP of Product at Kion (cloud operations), Product Portfolio Director at Rise8 (defense PaaS), Chief Product Officer at Certilytics, Inc. (healthcare AI), and Product Manager at Ntrepid (cybersecurity). Shane has over a decade of experience in product management, digital transformation, and consulting, with a particular talent for communicating complex ideas.
In Product Management, Shane found a career that exercised his inherent creativity and nerdiness, but also pushed him to be a leader and a louder voice for company-wide change. He’s equally happy doing market research while jamming to Spotify, talking cloud infrastructure automation requirements with the dev team over tacos, writing help articles for a public API, interviewing customers, speaking in front of a crowd of 500 people, or demoing his products on the trade show exhibit floor. He’s grown multiple teams from scratch to 10+ direct hires across product, design, tech writing, QA, and more.
His proudest moments have been defining product strategy - especially strategic pivots. Like all graduates of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program (SSP), Shane is well versed in strategic theory and keeps a reference copy of Clausewitz’s On War on his desk. If he wasn’t a Product Manager, Shane would be a college professor; he excels at breaking down barriers to knowledge in technology, policy, history, management, and business. He’s been a guest lecturer and trainer for students and professionals in the national security field, building curriculum and digital assets for seminars on cybersecurity, software development, OSINT, career building, and more. In his spare time, he does mentoring and career coaching for tech workers
Shane’s idols are innovators and aviators - he grew up memorizing aircraft encyclopedias and building LEGO spacecraft while reading about the exploits of Jimmy Doolittle and the Apollo astronauts. Now he spends his free stargazing, reading history, marathon training, and looking for the next great cup of coffee.