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Executive product leadership for software that has to work in the real world

Jason Whittenburg

I turn complex product opportunities into focused software outcomes, combining executive product leadership with hands-on AI work across tools, agents, automation, and emerging technology.

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What I Bring

Executive skill with builder instincts.

Product Direction

Clarifying the market, customer problem, roadmap, and decision logic so teams can move with confidence.

Software Delivery

Translating strategy into shipped experiences across mobile apps, platforms, integrations, and operational workflows.

Technical Credibility

Bridging product, engineering, business, and users with enough technical depth to ask sharper questions.

Selected Work

Products and platforms with a practical edge.

Mobility Product

GA Express Lanes App

A focused Georgia driver utility for quick access to express lane direction and status information, designed for fast checks before the commute.

App Page Privacy Policy

Government Logistics

USTRANSCOM / Suddath PCS Moves

Worked on a U.S. TRANSCOM project with Suddath supporting Permanent Change of Station household-goods moves for military families relocating between duty stations.

Public Context

Learning Platform Discovery

American Safety Council

Led a focused product discovery effort to define needs for a next-generation training and certification platform spanning regulated online courses, renewals, certificates, and learner support.

Public Context

Enterprise Transformation

Deloitte Project Delphi

Product leadership on Deloitte Project Delphi, an enterprise transformation platform within the Intela ecosystem focused on large-scale data synchronization, knowledge migration, and integration.

Public Context

Enterprise Tax Technology

EY ReitSuite

Product lead for EY ReitSuite, software created for REIT-focused tax and finance workflows, bringing product direction to a specialized real estate investment trust domain.

EY REIT Practice

Legal Technology

Kirkland & Ellis Funded

Consultant and product partner for Funded, a SaaS platform that helped automate private equity fund subscription workflows while meeting legal, KYC, and investor compliance requirements.

Public Reference

IBM Managed Security

IBM Security Services

Oversaw portfolio integration work in IBM Managed Security, including the ISS transition and consulting capabilities, then led the application security services product line.

IBM / ISS Context

Managed Security

Netrex SafeSuite

Early-career work on the SafeSuite managed security service platform, part of the first wave of MSS/SOC tooling that connected vulnerability assessment, monitoring, and security operations.

Public Context

Open Source

Geeklog / NewsGeeks

Original author of Geeklog, a PHP/MySQL CMS created for SecurityGeeks and NewsGeeks and later released as open-source software.

A new generation of software now powers the AI-focused NewsGeeks site at newsgeeks.com.

Geeklog

Professional Profile

Product and Software Leadership

Seasoned product management experience across software organizations, with cloud literacy, stakeholder leadership, and a record of mentoring future builders.

Profile

Core Strengths

The work behind the work.

Executive Product Management

Vision, roadmap strategy, prioritization, portfolio framing, stakeholder alignment, and outcome-driven execution.

Software Strategy

Platform thinking, mobile experience design, cloud-aware planning, system modernization, and technical tradeoff fluency.

Delivery Leadership

Cross-functional operating rhythms, risk management, release planning, discovery-to-delivery loops, and team clarity.

Mentorship

STEM and coding mentorship, including Hour of Code work with Swift Playgrounds and classroom STEM support.

Story

From building web platforms to leading product outcomes.

2000

Started Geeklog

Created an early CMS for security and news communities, establishing a builder foundation in web publishing and open source.

Product Era

Led software product work

Moved across product management, software delivery, and client-facing strategy for organizations building real digital products.

Now

Executive product leadership

Focused on aligning business ambition, user needs, and engineering reality into products people can trust.

Connect

Let's talk product, software, and what needs to happen next.

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