77.6° S · Taylor Valley→41.9° N · Chicago

Kyle Cronin

Product manager — AI workflows — data products.

Ten years turning data into product decisions, from Antarctic field science to AI-aided product development.

Experience

Experience

Product owner and developer with 10+ years of end-to-end product management and development, built on a physical science background that included three field seasons leading research in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Interprets analytics for diagnostics, engagement optimization, and strategic planning, with a record of improving brand communication, online product revenue, and active user counts. Develops membership-based business models, partnerships, and data products; designs and implements AI prototypes and workflows as a Claude Code super user; convenes key opinion leaders to align on priority pain points. Experienced in cross-functional teams and stakeholder relationships, and an effective presenter of complex topics to senior leaders and boards.

American Dental Association

Manager Product Development 03/2025 – Present

Product strategy, member engagement, innovation, non-dues revenue development, and AI prototype and workflow development. Portfolio spanning membership models, partnerships, convening, and data products; board-, council-, and executive-facing analysis and presentation.

  • Designed and built a multi-agent business-case pipeline with deterministic validation gates and LLM-as-judge classifiers, producing board-ready documents and financial models from a concept in a single run
  • Built an evaluation harness for market research with five source-validation gates and a regression-replay library, transforming captured failures into permanent automated tests
  • Introduced a blind two-sided adversarial screening method for scope decisions, with information isolation enforced by tooling rather than instruction
  • Reduced drafting cost 40%+ through patch-based revision, scoped context delegation, and cache-aware orchestration
  • Developed membership-based business and financial models for forecasting; culminating in a board presentation for the ADA's first nationwide group practice membership option
  • Discovered the opportunity for a dental site selection and demographic analysis tool; developed prototype using Claude 3.5 Sonnet; built financial model and business case; delivered to senior leaders
  • Convened KOLs across medicine, dentistry, payors, academia, manufacturing, and innovators for the ADA Summit Series, spanning 150+ stakeholder organizations
  • Co-developed the innovation group's product development process: stage-gate protocols, portfolio matrix, and a business-model flywheel that linked multiple revenue streams
  • Participated in technology and benefit-plan partnership development

Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics

Senior Manager, Online Product Development 08/2019 – 04/2024
  • Spearheaded development of a relational database for Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT), enhancing integration capabilities of web products
  • Mentored direct reports and established team structure aligned with product goals
  • Collaborated with sales and marketing to drive successful product campaigns
  • Led key projects including digital rights management implementation, USDA food database integrations, and AI research assistant tool development
NCM and PREP Suite Project Manager 10/2017 – 08/2019
  • Managed improvements for four online products serving professional nutritionists, overseeing $2M in annual revenue and 10k daily active users
  • Developed and maintained Google Analytics measurement plans using Google Tag Manager and R programming
  • Delivered data-driven reports to inform strategic decision-making
  • Proposed and implemented new product integration initiatives
Development Editor 08/2015 – 10/2017
  • Managed development timelines for multiple publications simultaneously
  • Guided authors on scientific writing, ensuring high-quality content delivery

University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Assistant 09/2012 – 03/2015
  • Led field research teams in Antarctica, managing logistical preparations and team leadership
  • Developed a steady-state diffusion transport model for gas analysis in lakes
  • Managed and analyzed a 22-year environmental data set, presenting insights to inform decision-making

Competencies and certifications

Competencies: Product Development & Management · Business Model & Partnership Development · AI Prototype & Workflow Development · User Experience (UX) Optimization · Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making (Google Analytics, GTM, R) · Agile/Scrum Methodologies · Team Leadership · AI Evangelism· Stakeholder Communication & Executive Presentation

Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) · Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Education

Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Science

University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015

Thesis: “Noble gas radioisotope constraints on water residence time in Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica.”

Module · Pipeline

How a business case gets built in one run.

The multi-agent pipeline I built to turn a concept into a board-ready document and financial model. Tap a stage.

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Module · Site selection

Where would you open the next dental practice?

An illustrative rebuild of a site-selection concept I prototyped at the ADA — using public data only. Toggle a layer, tap a county.

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This index is illustrative.