LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/philoking/

Deeply technical product leader with 15+ years’ experience driving product strategy, shaping user experiences, and delivering complex data and cloud solutions. Skilled at interpreting the story in the data to guide cross-functional teams, expand product capabilities, and deliver customer-driven experiences for industry-leading organizations.

Elastic, Remote

Principal Product Manager, Kibana Platform (March 2020 – December 2023)

  • Defined and executed the roadmap for a shared platform covering navigation, schema/content management, search, usage metrics, reporting, notifications, and personalization across Kibana
  • Led cross-functional teams, in collaboration with design, engineering, and product stakeholders, to standardize navigation, terminology, and UX components
  • Scaled the reporting service architecture to meet enterprise demands, enabling advanced capabilities and boosting performance for large customer use cases
  • Introduced and refined Asynchronous Search, ad-hoc data views, and runtime fields to handle long-running queries and dynamic schema evolution
  • Championed a culture of reusable services and streamlined UX components, ensuring alignment across teams, and accelerating feature delivery

Tableau, Seattle, WA

Staff Product Manager, Data Connectivity (March 2014 – January 2020)

  • Defined and executed the product strategy for Tableau’s data connectivity platform, leading three teams (~25 engineers) to expand the connector portfolio by 150%, introduce modular architecture, and reduce development cycles by 50%
  • Designed and launched the Tableau Connector SDK, enabling 3rd party integrations and increasing adoption with 20+ 3rd party connectors built in the first year
  • Led the efforts to collect product telemetry, embed popular drivers in the Tableau installer, and managed driver vendor relationships and licensing
  • Established a test suite and certification program, to create high-quality, reliable integrations for third-party connectors and ensure customer trust
  • Standardized authentication across on-premises and cloud platforms, including Kerberos, SAML, OAuth, 3rd party SSO provider support, increasing enterprise adoption, and reducing support overhead
  • Launched strategic Tableau/SAP partnership to optimize HANA performance and improve the query experience for key enterprise clients

Blue Rooster, Inc., Seattle, WA

Technical Project Manager (Jan 2013 – Feb 2014)

  • Directed large-scale SharePoint deployments and migrations for enterprise clients (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, MGM Macau), improving content governance, managed workflows, and multilingual experiences
  • Managed cross-functional teams, aligning developers, stakeholders, and QA resources to deliver customer-centric portals that enhanced collaboration and operational efficiency

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Senior Program Manager, Office/SharePoint (Dec 2007 – Dec 2012)

  • Designed and implemented Excel PivotTable animations and led SharePoint service pack rollup efforts to stabilize BI features
  • Partnered with SQL team to integrate RSS feed support for Excel Services and led iPhone app design and execution for Office Insights pilot program
  • Created the calculated KPI language and UI, enabling richer analytics and flexible data modeling
  • Owned the PerformancePoint SDK, empowering partners and developers to extend reporting and filtering functionality
  • Implemented the Ribbon, registry, image support and clipboard emulation for Office for iPad

Education & Certifications 

  • Boise State University, B.S. in Computer Science (2003 – 2007)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Technical Skills & Tools

  • Programming Languages: Python, C, JavaScript, Swift
  • Data & AI: SQL, MDX, DAX, KQL, BigQuery, ML, NLP, LLM, TensorFlow, PyTorch
  • Platforms & Tools: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch
  • Product & Analytics Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Kibana, Figma, Fullstory, LaunchDarkly, Agile, OKRs

Personal Projects & Interests

Maker, carpenter, coder, home automation enthusiast, and musician; equally comfortable wielding a laser cutter or a tractor, though thankfully not at the same time.