馃 Technical Project Manager 路 Bushel

June 01, 2019

By Ted Steinmann

Company: Bushel Dates: June 2019 - December 2019 Location: Fargo, North Dakota

Summary

Served as a domain and platform expert, helping internal teams and external partners understand system capabilities and translate them into usable solutions.

What I Was Responsible For

  • Supporting product positioning and partner success
  • Translating platform capabilities into real-world use cases
  • Aligning product, engineering, and partner expectations

Key Contributions

  • Improved partner adoption by clarifying platform capabilities and constraints
  • Helped shape integration approaches and solution patterns
  • Reduced ambiguity in how the product could be used in real workflows
  • Built partner and data-exchange context that later informed Addressing Variety and Veracity of Data in Ag

Systems & Thinking

  • Product-market translation
  • Use-case modeling
  • Reducing ambiguity in complex systems

Related Work

Highlights

  • Led onboarding engagements from kickoff through implementation with enterprise customers including Bayer and Anheuser-Busch
  • Developed structured project plans with defined deliverables and coordinated recurring working sessions between engineering and external partner teams
  • Translated business and integration requirements into clear technical specifications
  • Built repeatable integration processes for users with varied data sources
  • Managed strategic partnerships and data exchange activities across producers and merchants
  • Clarified data workflows and API expectations to ensure accurate and reliable data exchange in financially sensitive environment
  • Coordinated delivery dependencies between engineering, customer teams, and enterprise partners

Tools & Technology

Platform APIs, internal documentation systems

Categories: experience

Tags: product-management, data, platforms