Michael Castor
Sr. Product Manager at Blue River Technology
Dayton Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Castor is a senior product manager with 11+ years of experience bringing hardware-software products to market across robotics, industrial automation, and single-board computing. He has led product roadmaps and VOC-driven development at companies from startups to Honeywell and Zebra/Fetch, consistently translating customer insights into prioritized engineering scope and profitable NPIs. Michael combines hands-on technical fluency in 3D CAD/CAM, microcontrollers, and additive/subtractive manufacturing with commercial skills in pricing, logistics, and channel strategy—once ranking #1 in revenue-producing categories and exceeding targets by over 200%. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and cloud-enabled features, managing global supplier relationships and remote teams to deliver on-time, on-budget products. Not obviously typical for product managers, he has a strong maker background—creating retail kits, demos, and trade-show assets—and has driven initiative-level tooling like issue-tracking systems to improve post-launch operations. Based in Dayton, Ohio, Michael excels at turning complex technical requirements into clear ROI-backed product decisions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Organizational Leadership, Bachelors Organizational Leadership at Wright State UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
makermichael/250mm_Y6
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
makermichael/PiPad
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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