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