Product Management · UX · Operations Research
I find user pain and inefficient processes, then communicate the product vision that fixes them.
I'm Jack Callinan, an engineer and product thinker who turns messy operations, data, and user research into clear, buildable product direction.
Most recently
Analytics Product Management Intern
IDeaS, a SAS company · Summer 2026
Studying
Industrial & Systems Engineering (B.S.) and Data Science in Operations Research (M.S.)
University of Minnesota
Looking for
Product management, digital transformation, and AI roles starting summer 2027
Open to relocation
Experience
Companies and organizations I've worked with
Toolkit
Skills, and where I've used them
Product management, discovery and human factors, analytics, and AI, from my resume and the projects on this site.
- Product management
- Discovery & human factors
- Analytics & optimization
- AI
Project directory
Selected work
A mix of internships, professional consulting, founding a startup, and academic projects, spanning product discovery, optimization, UX design, and hardware.
AI Chatbot Product Discovery
IDeaS, a SAS Company
Built an AI product roadmap and business requirements for a revenue-management chatbot, aligning SAS analytics and IDeaS AI engineering on a RAG and multi-agent architecture.
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Value-Based Priority System
Daikin Applied Americas
A value-based priority system for daily line issues ($900k projected savings), plus 10 self-driven efficiency projects totaling $230k in potential savings.
View projectAirline Network Optimization & Pricing
University of Minnesota
Solved a 10-airport hub-and-spoke routing and ticket pricing problem in AMPL and Gurobi: $1.56M optimal daily profit, 6.9% above our hand-built plan.
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Cargill Constraints Analysis Tool
Senior Design Project
A constraints analysis tool that predicts future bottlenecks and guides capital expenditure decisions for Cargill's animal feed plants. Highest score in the class.
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GembaSight LLC
AI Startup Founder
Founded and led a team building a computer-vision + LLM pipeline to automate time-study data collection, now pivoting toward manufacturing analytics with a working MVP.
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UMN Parking Website Redesign
UX Design Project
Redesigned the UMN parking and transportation website in Figma after user research revealed unclear rates and confusing rules, cutting clicks by 50%.
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IoT Data Collection Buttons
Project Management Class
Designed and built 8 cheap, battery-powered, programmable IoT buttons that push recycling-line data to a database via API calls.
View projectHeart Disease Prediction Model
Analytics for Healthcare
Compared seven classification methods on the Cleveland heart data (up to 86.7% accuracy). Try the live logistic model's risk estimator.
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Bus Bike Rack Human Factors
Metro Transit
Human factors analysis of bus bike rack usability and liability, producing an FMEA, Hierarchical Task Analysis, and heuristic evaluation.
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Deckhand / Engineer
Allen Marine, Alaska
Learned marine maintenance from scratch to keep aging vessels running, earning the trust to help pilot a compromised boat to the Sitka boat yard.
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MinneMUDAC Data Science Competition
Minnesota Twins Baseball
Placed 2nd in the finals with an ML forecasting model and a promotional strategy recommendation projected to increase sales by up to $10 million.
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Supplier Make/Buy Analysis Tool
Boston Scientific
Master's capstone building a supplier make/buy analysis tool for Boston Scientific to guide sourcing decisions across components. Work in progress.
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