Honeywell Connected Home
Honeywell Connected Home, a globally connected home platform, delivering comfort, peace of mind and convenience. Honeywell, a global leader in home comfort for more than a century, set the standard and continues to challenges it’s own norms.
Recruited to lead the digital product offering for the Lyric Brand of connected home solutions. Led product for the Lyric mobile app - a centralized experience for all things connected home. Seamlessly integrated 3 hardware offerings, as well as being a strategic partner with Apple during the early days of Apple HomeKit. Lyric and Honeywell re-established itself as the industry leader in home comfort, by once again understanding the consumer needs.
Key outcomes:
First to introduce geofencing for thermostat controls - comfort while you’re home, savings while you’re away.
Launched v1 Apple Watch app
Successful integration of Lyric Round Thermostat / Lyric T5 Thermostat / Lyric Water Leak Detector / Lyric Awareness Camera / Apple HomeKit
Launched Lyric T5 Thermostat globally - NA / EMEA
Introduction of “T” series thermostats forecasted to be $3B business in 4 years with $750M in incremental growth
Role: Sr Manager, Global Product Management
Owned the 12 month roadmap - features / hardware integration
Led scrum efforts with iOS and AOS engineers
Creative reviews - UX/UI
Maintained detailed backlog - features / enhancements / strategic integrations
Approach and Process:
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Transforming a legacy waterfall approach and use of Six Sigma to develop software and consumer experiences
Implementation of scrum and associated ceremonies
Co-located teams
Program increments - scaled agile to support all elements of a hardware and software solution
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Developed a universal and democratized platform for IOT
Co-located working sessions with industry players to define a common set of business rules
Awards:
Editor’s Choice Award CES 2016, Reviewed.com and USA Today - "Best new product” - Winner: Lyric Water Leak and Freeze Detector