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Andrew Nolan

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About

A bit about me.

I've spent the last 5 years in product management, mostly in B2B SaaS — working on platforms, integrations, and security products at companies like Cisco, Ford, and Volkswagen. Before that, I spent nearly a decade building web products as a full-stack developer and running a small digital agency. That technical background shapes how I approach product work: I like to get close to the problem and understand how things actually work.

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Experience

Where I've worked.

Dispel

Senior Product Manager

Remote · Feb 2025 – Present

Working on FedRAMP High compliance and platform architecture for a zero-trust networking startup. Involves translating federal security frameworks into actionable engineering work and contributing to hands-on platform delivery.

  • Translated NIST 800-53 controls into 500+ contextualized stories with acceptance criteria, creating a clear execution path for the engineering team.
  • Ran technical discovery workshops and helped shape the platform rebuild architecture; contributed hands-on development alongside the engineering team.
  • Working on infrastructure consolidation to AWS GovCloud, with audit preparation underway for FedRAMP "In Process" designation.

Cisco

Product Manager — Edge Intelligence & Industrial IoT SD-WAN

Remote · Aug 2022 – Feb 2025

Managed edge compute and industrial IoT products across the SD-WAN portfolio. Focused on customer discovery, partner integrations, and shipping data pipeline features for industrial use cases.

  • Ran customer discovery to identify high-value use cases and shaped the roadmap around partner integration opportunities.
  • Owned the edge compute data pipeline product serving industrial telemetry, dashboarding, and ML use cases; shipped 6+ releases and wrote 10+ PRDs.
  • Defined adoption and reliability KPIs using SQL and Tableau to help guide investment decisions across the product portfolio.
  • Developed 2 external partnerships with joint requirements and go-to-market efforts.
  • Presented customer use cases at Cisco Live 2024 and ITS Americas 2024.

Ford Motor Company

Product Manager — Autonomous Vehicles & Fleet Operations

Dearborn, MI · Apr 2021 – Aug 2022

Worked on fleet operations tooling for Ford's autonomous and commercial vehicle programs. Focused on improving vehicle visibility, maintenance workflows, and analytics-driven prioritization.

  • Conducted operations team interviews to understand pain points around fleet vehicle visibility and maintenance reliability.
  • Piloted Quantum Metric analytics and built dashboards that helped the team prioritize based on actual feature usage.
  • Coordinated an AWS-to-GCP platform migration across 4 teams during a business unit reorganization.

Volkswagen Group of America

Connected Services Analyst (Graduate Program)

Auburn Hills, MI · Jun 2019 – Apr 2021

Worked across cybersecurity and IT portfolio management for Volkswagen's connected vehicle platform and US/Canada operations.

  • Coordinated 20+ cybersecurity projects to bring the connected vehicle platform toward security maturity, working with NIST 800-53 across AWS infrastructure.
  • Helped manage the IT project portfolio for US/Canada operations and presented progress to senior leadership.

Earlier Career

Full-Stack Development & Digital Product Consulting

2011 – 2019

Built web products for clients as a freelance developer and co-founder of a small digital agency. Worked across WordPress, React, Vue, and Laravel.

  • Co-founded Deevy Creative and delivered 30+ client-facing web products across a range of frameworks and CMS platforms.
  • Handled the full client lifecycle: scoping, pricing, building, and ongoing delivery.
Capabilities

What I work with.

Product

  • Strategy & Discovery
  • User Research & Interviews
  • Roadmaps & PRDs
  • OKRs / KPIs
  • Data-Driven Prioritization
  • Scrum / Agile
  • Stakeholder Management
  • GTM Readiness
  • 0-to-1 & Scale

Technical

  • APIs (REST / GraphQL)
  • Integrations
  • SQL & Tableau
  • Python
  • React
  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • Hands-on Prototyping

Security & Compliance

  • FedRAMP High
  • NIST 800-53
  • Audit Preparation
  • Control Mapping

Tools

  • Jira & Confluence
  • Figma
  • Quantum Metric
  • Claude Code
Projects

Side projects.

Karl.gg

Community-driven loadout optimizer and build planner for Deep Rock Galactic.

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Avisory.io

Advisory platform connecting founders with experienced product and technical mentors.

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nofrills.news

Minimalist news aggregator focused on signal over noise — no ads, no fluff.

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selfdriving101.com

Educational resource breaking down autonomous vehicle technology for a general audience.

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