Shane Quinlan is the Director of Product Ownership at Hypergiant - leading a team-of-teams supporting the JERIC2O interface for Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2), the first joint all-service command and control solution fielded by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and developed for the USAF Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).
Prior to Hypergiant, Shane was the VP of Product at Kion, Product Portfolio Director at Rise8, Chief Product Officer at Certilytics, Inc., and Product Manager at Ntrepid. Shane has 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.
His proudest moments have been defining product strategy - especially strategic pivots. At Kion, that meant defining the first product strategy and carving a self-hosted CloudOps-niche in a crowded cloud management field. At Rise8, that meant realigning disparate app dev teams around an integrated portfolio strategy and roadmap. At Certilytics, Shane built a predictive analytics SaaS platform strategy from scratch while navigating the COVID-19 crisis. At Ntrepid LLC, Shane led a focus on up-selling government customers instead of attempting to sell a multi-market cybersecurity solution.
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 loves to break 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.
Shane’s idols are innovators and aviators - he grew up memorizing aircraft encyclopedias and building LEGO spacecraft while reading about the exploits of the Wright brothers, Jimmy Doolittle, and the Apollo astronauts. Now he spends his free time hiking, reading naval history and SciFi, and looking for the next great cup of coffee.