Ryan Kennel
Director Of Product Management at Ford Motor Company
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Kennel is a Director of Product Management at Ford with nine years in product and software leadership and a two-decade-plus career at the company spanning engineering, program management, and innovation roles. He builds teams and practices that enable experimental entrepreneurship—rapidly exploring new software-driven business opportunities while improving high-value products under uncertainty. He has led award-winning digital consumer experiences at Ford Credit (JD Power winner 2019, 2021) and directed cross-functional groups in Ford Pro Tech and FordLabs to marry engineering rigor with product discovery. Comfortable both as a former systems architect and hands-on coder at home, he combines technical depth with an MBA-backed business perspective to translate strategy into measurable outcomes. Based in Detroit, he’s known for empowering skilled teams through clear outcome-oriented goals and a bias toward learning by building.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Mechanical Engineering, BSE Mechanical Engineering at University of MichiganMBA, MBA at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Github Skills (43)
jsdom9
docusaurus8
react8
javascript8
nodejs8
testing8
testing-library7
tsconfig6
react-testing-library6
jwt6
typescript6
webex6
sdk5
react-native5
stream4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rkennel/retroquest
Feb 2021 - May 2023
RetroQuest is a website that enables teams to run retrospectives online.
Contributions:132 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactjavascriptretrospectivesnodejsreactjs
rkennel/skipbo
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 73 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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