Altus van Heerden

(ENTJ) Personality

Design Thinker I Creator I Strategist I Executor

Medical Device I Product Manager

Coba Biomedical · Full-time

Sep 2022 - Present

Product Management

• Act as a bridge between R&D, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance & Sales.
• Stakeholder management
• Managing product road maps and product releases.
• Advance scheduling, forecasting, time and resource management
• ISO 13485 implementation and maintenance
• ERP/inventory management
• Supervising & leading logistics, shipping/receiving & supply chains
• Revising and publishing work instructions & supplier agreements;
• Provide product training to production team;

Company / Product - Value Proposition

• Develop & Grow Company Brand & Identity
• Implement Product Identity, Capitalize Value Propositions
• Establish Product Sales Support Material
• Ensuring Brand & Sales tasks are executed

Founder I Product Manager

NDOGO™ · Part-time (Freelance)

Mar 2021 - Aug 2022

Product Management

• Act as a bridge between R&D, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance & Sales.
• Stakeholder management
• Managing product road maps and product releases.
• Advance scheduling, forecasting, time and resource management
• ISO 13485 implementation and maintenance
• ERP/inventory management
• Supervising & leading logistics, shipping/receiving & supply chains
• Revising and publishing work instructions & supplier agreements;
• Provide product training to production team;

Company / Product - Value Proposition

• Develop & Grow Company Brand & Identity
• Implement Product Identity, Capitalize Value Propositions
• Establish Product Sales Support Material
• Ensuring Brand & Sales tasks are executed

Product Manager

TRIGA DISPLAYS · Full-time

May 2018 - May 2020

TRIGA GO - EUROPEAN DESIGN WINNER *2020

-Product Support

-Systems Thinking

-Systems mapping

-Creating Systems Manuals

-Google-Drive Support platforms

-Google scripts for systems automation

Industrial Designer

Technimark SA · Full-time

May 2018 - Apr 2020

Product Design & Concept Development

-Project Management

-Solidworks ( CAD modelling )

-Keyshot ( Product Rendering )

-Design for Manufacturing

Postgraduate Degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations

Stellenbosch Business School

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024

Term 1: Understanding the World

Term 2: Responsible Leadership

Term 3: Business Analytics

Term 4: Managing Risk and Uncertainty

Term 1: Business Finance

Term 2: Marketing Management

Term 3: Business Process Management

Term 4: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

AP® Microeconomics

MITx Courses

Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

Basic Economic Concepts

Supply and Demand

Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model

Imperfect Competition

Factor Markets

Market Failures and the Role of Government

Bachelor of Technology Degree (BTech), Industrial Design

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Jan 2013 - Nov 2017

Design Entrepreneurship

Design Theory and Critique

Emerging Technologies for Design

Product Design

Research for Report Writing