David Hilbert, Ph.D.
I'm a product leader with experience spanning product management, lean innovation, industrial research, and software engineering at Samsung, Fuji Xerox, NASA, and Microsoft.
- Product Manager of multiple mobile and SaaS products
- Lean Innovator and co-founding member of Fuji Xerox's Silicon Valley Business Innovation Group
- Research Manager of multiple industrial R&D efforts with 30+ patents, 30 publications, and invited talks at Google, PARC, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
- Product Manager of Instrumented Version of Microsoft Word as summer intern while completing Ph.D.
- Software Engineer of US military and NASA deep space network applications
- Ph.D. in Computer Science; B.A. in Philosophy
- Musician who enjoys writing, recording, and performing Pop, Rock, & Covers in my spare time
Experience
Director, Product Management, Samsung Research America
Mobile Platform Solutions (Jan 2021 - Present)
- Next generation enterprise mobility solutions for Samsung mobile products.
Senior Product Manager, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Business Innovation Group (Apr 2008 - Jun 2020)
- Co-founding member of Fuji Xerox's Silicon Valley Business Innovation Group responsible for concept generation, market analysis, customer discovery, partner and M&A scouting, MVP definition, product road mapping, and go-to-market proposal development.
- Product manager of Fuji Xerox’s IoT for Healthcare pilot solution, which achieved 20% patient throughput increase and 56% wait time reduction at the largest managed care organization in the US.
- Product manager of Zoho Motivator, an analytics-driven employee motivation platform, which achieved over 90K paid users at 18K companies, before being rolled into Zoho’s CRM product.
- Product manager of Fuji Xerox's SkyDesk business suite, enabling Fuji Xerox to enter the SaaS market with a global SaaS platform.
- Product manager of Fuji Xerox's SkyDesk Australia and FXPAL's websites.
- Licensed technologies to Cinemacraft to enable their Videogram video summarization service.
Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Research Group (Aug 2000 - Mar 2008)
- Responsible for the vision, planning, supervision, IP development, UI design, prototyping, market validation pilots, business case development, and evangelism for several R&D efforts (details).
- 30+ patents (all and issued), 30 publications (details), and invited talks at Google, PARC, Stanford, and UC Berkeley (details).
- Received numerous special achievement awards and selected to co-lead Fuji Xerox strategic initiatives.
Post-Doc & Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine
Software Research Group (Sep 1994 - Sep 1999)
- Created a system for collecting usage data and user feedback over the Internet, and published and presented research papers at academic conferences (details).
Summer Intern Product Manager, Microsoft
Word Product Planning Group (Jun 1998 - Aug 1998)
- Product manager of an Instrumented Version of Microsoft Word used to collect usage data from 500-1000 volunteer users (details).
Experience (cont'd)
Software Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Deep Space Network Automation Research Group (Jun 1995 - Sep 1995)
- Conceived, designed, and developed a visual programming environment for deep space network automation procedures (details).
Galileo Telemetry Subsystem Team (Mar 1993 - Sep 1994)
- Designed and developed user interface applications for telemetry monitor and control (details).
EUCOM Decision Support System Team (May 1991 - Mar 1993)
- Designed and developed user interface applications for decision support (details).
Education
- Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Dissertation: Large-Scale Collection of Application Usage Data and User Feedback to Inform Interactive Software Development (details) - M.S. in Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Concentrations: Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction - B.A. in Philosophy, Tufts University
Graduated Magna cum Laude. Dean's List 7 out of 8 semesters.
Affiliations, Certifications, Awards
- Member of ACM, IEEE, SIGCHI, SIGSOFT, Phi Beta Kappa
- Berkeley Haas Product Management Certificate Program (Oct 2013)
- AMA’s 5-Day "MBA" Certificate Program (Apr 2011)
- UCI Regents' Dissertation Fellowship
- GAANN Graduate Fellowship
- MICRO Graduate Fellowship
- Tufts Philosophy Department Prize