Heather Whilden
Product Manager at Rockin' City Junior Roller Derby
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHeather Whilden is a product manager with 8 years of focused experience leading Foundation Fieldbus, HART, and FDI industrial automation products at FieldComm Group. She combines deep technical roots in automated test software, C/C++, and instrumentation technology with hands-on product and QA leadership—from maintaining interoperability test systems to running customer support portals. Based in Austin, Heather is comfortable bridging standards development, engineering, and customer-facing operations, having administered working groups and trained staff on CRM and support platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and FreshDesk. Her background as a test technician through product manager gives her a rare end-to-end perspective on device registration, compliance, and real-world interoperability challenges. Outside industry work she applies her leadership and community skills as a long-time youth sports coach and former non-profit president, demonstrating a practical mix of technical rigor and people-first management.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of AlbertaIIT Instrumentation Technology, IIT Instrumentation Technology at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
English
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
FieldCommGroup/HART-IP-Developer-Kit
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Accelerate your HART-IP development project with this kit.
Contributions:16 commits in 20 days
accelerate
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