Philip Heede
Product Management Director, Foundational Products
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Heede is a product management director at Esri with 13 years of experience steering flagship GIS products including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, and ArcGIS Online. He leads a large PM organization, shapes company strategy, and translates complex technical feedback into product vision and priorities across cloud-native, on‑prem, and enterprise integrations. His background as a hands-on developer and technical designer—working across C#, Java, Python and large-scale deployments for clients like GM and UPS—gives him rare depth in both architecture and field-facing solutions. He has led ArcGIS Enterprise product management since 2015, focusing on cloud capabilities, security, and advanced editing workflows such as Parcel Fabric and Utility Network. Based in Redlands, CA, he combines deep GIS domain expertise with practical experience building and teaching systems internationally, often bridging the gap between engineering teams and enterprise customers.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Computer Engineering Informatics, MSc in Computer Engineering Informatics at Technical University of Denmark
English, Danish
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Github Skills (47)
proxy10
palm10
dotnet9
arcgis9
java9
server-administration9
esri9
api9
web-development9
php8
arcgis-server8
administration8
arcgis-runtime-sdk8
csharp8
portal7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pheede/ArcGIS-Enterprise-Stuff
Apr 2014 - Apr 2021
Sample scripts and code for ArcGIS Enterprise things.
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 years
arcgis-enterprisearcgisarcgis-runtime-sdkenterprise
pheede/agsadmin-devsummit
Mar 2013 - May 2022
Code and samples from "ArcGIS for Server Administration API for C# Developers" presentation given at 2013 and 2014 Esri International Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA.
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 3 months
administration-apiapidotnetarcgispresentation
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