Custom Made
Technology Podcasts
Hi! This is Doug Platts, VP Marketing at Dialexa, and welcome to Custom Made - the podcast that explores the many traits of successful product development. This is a weekly podcast where I will be digging into the impact that custom development has in fueling digital transformation and exploring what we can learn from industry disruptors who have custom made their path, products, and companies. We’ve got some amazing guests coming up and in future episodes, I will be speaking to experts from Dialexa, technology innovators and business leaders. Please tweet me (twitter.com/dougplatts) with feedback, questions and any topics you like discussed.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Technology Podcasts
Description:
Hi! This is Doug Platts, VP Marketing at Dialexa, and welcome to Custom Made - the podcast that explores the many traits of successful product development. This is a weekly podcast where I will be digging into the impact that custom development has in fueling digital transformation and exploring what we can learn from industry disruptors who have custom made their path, products, and companies. We’ve got some amazing guests coming up and in future episodes, I will be speaking to experts from Dialexa, technology innovators and business leaders. Please tweet me (twitter.com/dougplatts) with feedback, questions and any topics you like discussed.
Twitter:
@dialexa
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.dialexa.com/
Email:
hello@dialexa.com
Episodes
CM51: Scaling Hubspot's Products, and Building Successful Product Companies w/ Christopher O'Donnell
9/15/2019
This is episode #51 of Custom Made, and this week I’m excited to be sitting down with technologist, musician and public speaker - Christopher O’Donnell, Senior Vice President of Product at Hubspot. HubSpot offers a full platform of marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software - plus the methodology, resources, and support - to help businesses grow better. Christopher has built dozens of web and mobile products ranging from language learning for the US military to the most popular...
Duration:00:41:14
CM50: From Entrepreneur to Intrapreneur: Disrupting Industries w/ Jonah Staw
6/2/2019
This is episode #50 of Custom Made, and this week I’m excited to be sitting down with Jonah Staw, President of Ultimate Ears, a disruptive new business group at Logitech. Ultimate Ears is an organization that pushes the boundaries of what premium, custom-fit earphones can do. Jonah has had an amazing career from consulting to start-up entrepreneur to board member to intraprenuer. A globally recognized executive, innovator and entrepreneur, here are just a few of his career highlights. In...
Duration:00:41:11
CM49: Creating the Utility Company of the Future w/ Rachit Gupta
3/3/2019
This is episode #49 of Custom Made, and this week I’m sitting down with Rachit Gupta, vice president at integrated power company Vistra Energy. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra Energy combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation. Through its retail and generation businesses which include TXU Energy, Homefield Energy, Dynegy, and Luminant, Vistra operates in 12 states and six of the seven competitive markets in the...
Duration:00:45:46
CM48: How Rosy is Empowering Women Across the US w/ Dr Lyndsey Harper
2/24/2019
This is episode #48 of Custom Made, and this week I’m sitting down with Dr Lyndsey Harper, Founder and CEO of Rosy, the latest company to come out of Dialexa Labs. Dialexa Labs is the internal innovation and development engine here at Dialexa. Whilst the vast majority of our day-to-day work is focused on providing technology and product development services for our clients, Dialexa Labs provides a channel for creativity and ideas from within our organization. For those ideas that we see have...
Duration:00:17:35
CM47: Building Successful Product Teams Within Enterprise Organizations w/ Charlene Schwindt
1/27/2019
Welcome to our second year of Custom Made. If this is your first time listening, make sure you hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to get our latest episodes as they are released every Sunday. And be sure to check out our episodes from last year once you are finished with this one. This is episode #47 of Custom Made, and this week I’m sitting down with Charlene Schwindt, Global Product Owner Manager at Hilti. Charlene is a product management professional with strong marketing...
Duration:00:31:54
CM46: Unlocking opportunity with blockchain technology w/ Alex Jacoby
1/13/2019
We are into our second year of Custom Made, and a big THANK YOU to all of our regular listeners. This is episode #46. For our first episode of 2019, I’m sitting down with Alex Jacoby, Head of Operations at imbrex. Alex is an accomplished business operations driver, with an unusually broad base of experience developing and improving business processes. Currently, and for the foreseeable future, Alex is immersed in the world cryptoeconomics and democratizing data. At imbrex, Alex and the team...
Duration:00:30:16
CM45: How Pandora Designs with Data in Mind w/ Justin Marshall
12/16/2018
This is episode #45 of Custom Made and this week I’m sitting down with Justin Marshall, Sr. Product Designer at Pandora. Throughout his career Justin has driven effective product design at various tech companies; including Shutterstock, Thomson Reuters, and most recently Pandora. At Pandora Justin has helped to create high performing, cross-functional product teams that are highly collaborative, empathetic, and agile. Justin is a pragmatic designer, employing various user-centric and...
Duration:00:37:56
CM44: Building Successful Products Whilst Managing Existing Infrastructure w/ Adam Paulisick
12/9/2018
This is episode #44 of Custom Made and this week I’m sitting down with Adam Paulisick, Chief Product Officer at MAYA - A Boston Consulting Group company. Adam brings more than a decade of digital transformation, product design, and data-driven marketing and sales experience. His experience includes senior leadership positions at Nielsen Catalina Solutions, U.S. and European based roles at The Nielsen Company, and Commerce Signals where he worked with hundreds of global manufacturers,...
Duration:00:36:14
CM43: Drive Enterprise Change Through Business Impact Innovation w/ Scott Harper
11/18/2018
This is episode #43 of Custom Made and this week I’m sitting down with Dialexa founder and CEO, Scott Harper. Earlier this week we hosted a panel event at our Dialexa offices on the topic of Business Impact Innovation. Right after the event, I grabbed Scott and we recorded some of the key themes that were discussed by the panelists and the attendees. Real quick, when we talk about Business Impact Innovation we mean bringing innovative thinking to solve real business problems and needs, that...
Duration:00:15:30
CM42: How to Become a Product Management Hero w/ Jordan Bergtraum
11/11/2018
This is episode #42 of Custom Made and this week is the second part of my conversation with Jordan Bergtraum, a Product Management Executive and Enterprise SaaS Expert. Jordan joined me last week where we discussed the role of Product Manager. For many organizations, the Product Manager role is being defined and redefined as companies and their products mature. With that in mind, Jordan and I wanted to bring clarity to this role, and have a very honest discussion about what parts of Product...
Duration:00:32:23
CM41: Defining the Product Manager Role - What to Stop Doing w/ Jordan Bergtraum
11/4/2018
This is episode #41 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined by Jordan Bergtraum, a Product Management Executive and Enterprise SaaS Expert. For over a decade Jordan has been growing B2B Enterprise SaaS product revenue while mastering retention via needle moving roadmaps, value-based product messaging, and high functioning PM teams. He has expertise in two-sided marketplaces, wildly complex business logic & configuration, and business intelligence products. As the head of product management...
Duration:00:44:58
CM40: How PwC New Ventures is Taking an Enterprise View to Productizing Ideas w/ Chris Curran
10/28/2018
This is episode #40 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined by Chris Curran, Chief Technologist and CTO New Ventures, PwC. At PwC Chris is responsible for technology strategy and innovation. In his role at PwC Chris works closely with senior client management on their most complex and strategic technology issues, helping to evaluate emerging technologies, define the business and technology transformation agenda, and organize the work to get it done. Chris also serves as the CTO for the...
Duration:00:35:44
CM39: The Business Implications of 5G w/ Swamy Vasudevan and Russell Villemez
10/21/2018
This is episode #39 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined again by Swamy Vasudevan, Vice President of Strategy at Ericsson and Russell Villemez, Sr Partner and Head of Technology Strategy here at Dialexa. For our regular listeners, you will remember that Swamy joined me previously on episode #35 of Custom Made where he did a deep dive into the telecom, discussing the perfect storm that is hitting that industry. And Russell who has a background in telecommunications, is a former CTO at HP,...
Duration:00:48:40
CM38: The Top Themes and Insights From Service Design Days w/ James Utley
10/14/2018
This is episode #38 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined again by James Utley, Senior Manager and Product Designer here at Dialexa. James is an experienced designer skilled in Information Design, Logo Design, User Experience, Branding & Identity, and Typography with a history of working in the information technology and services industry. James has joined me on previous episodes of Custom Made where he was discussing how to scale design across hundreds of products with Design Systems, how...
Duration:00:34:41
CM37: The Major Data Engineering Themes From The Strata Data Conference w/ Rowdy Howell
10/7/2018
Hey, everybody, this is Doug Platts and welcome to Custom Made. If you this is your first time listening be sure to hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and everywhere else you listen to Custom Made to get our latest episodes every Sunday. This is episode #37 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined again by Rowdy Howell, Senior Data Engineer here at Dialexa. Rowdy has joined me previously on Custom Made where he was discussing the various challenges enterprise organizations have when...
Duration:00:51:14
CM36: The Industry Insiders Leading Enterprise Transformation and Disruption w/ Doug Platts
9/23/2018
Hey, everybody, this is Doug Platts and you are listening to the Custom Made podcast. Each week I talk with digital transformation leaders within enterprise organizations, and thought-leaders within the custom technology space. My goal is to shine a spotlight on the work that is happening in enterprise organizations who are changing, and the leaders who are driving that change. We are on to episode #36 and for this weeks episode I wanted to highlight some of the amazing industry insiders we...
Duration:00:41:44
CM35: How Ericsson is Weathering the Perfect Telecom Industry Storm w/ Swamy Vasudevan
9/9/2018
This is episode #35 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined by Swamy Vasudevan, Vice President of Strategy at Ericsson. With a career driving product innovation, business growth, market share, and organizational refinement for global markets. Swamy is an award-winning thought leader in network communications and a recognized speaker on topics including Cloud Management, Smart Grid Communications, and GIS. During his time at Ericsson, Swamy has held positions as Head of Cloud Solutions and...
Duration:00:47:06
CM34: Draining The Data Swamp w/ Rowdy Howell and Greg Corley
9/2/2018
This is episode #34 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined by Snr Data Engineer, Rowdy Howell, and Greg Corley, a Partner within the Engineering practice here at Dialexa. Rowdy graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BS in Computer Science where he studied algorithms and machine learning techniques. There he worked on a thesis project that trained various models to detect hand gestures on mobile devices using high-frequency doppler signatures. At Dialexa, Rowdy has helped solve...
Duration:00:40:05
CM33: Building The Platform Organization at Scotiabank w/ Justin Arbuckle
8/26/2018
Each week I talk with digital transformation leaders within enterprise organizations, and thought-leaders within the custom technology space. My goal is to shine a spotlight on the work that is happening in enterprise organizations who are changing, and the leaders who are driving that change. This is episode #33 of Custom Made and I’ve got a great guest for you. This week I’m joined by Justin Arbuckle, SVP of The Platform Organization at Scotiabank Justin is on a mission to make Canada's...
Duration:00:39:20
CM32: The current consulting firm model is dead - Relationships need to change w/ Scott Harper
8/19/2018
This is episode #32 of Custom Made and this week I’m joined again by Dialexa co-founder and CEO, Scott Harper. As Dialexa’s CEO, Scott’s role here as evolved as the company has grown. From working in the business to working on the business. Scott is a serial entrepreneur who has launched multiple technology product companies over the past decade, is the winner of the Ernst & Young Emerging Technology Entrepreneurs Of The Year and the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under 40, and has steered...
Duration:00:38:32