Portland, OR · 12+ years

I build AI products that turn messy operations into scale.

Over 12 years across Fortune 100 companies and high-growth startups, I've turned complex operational problems into scalable products — from a GenAI analytics agent at Nike to the process-mining platform that helped Olive reach a multi-billion-dollar valuation. I'm most energized when something doesn't exist yet and needs to be created.

12+
Years building data & AI products
$7.5M+
Annual supply-chain savings unlocked at Nike
$300M
Openpath acquisition I helped differentiate
Multi-$B
Olive valuation, with data org built 1→10

02 Featured Work

Inbound Intelligence Agent
◆ Flagship · GenAI
Nike2023 — Present

Inbound Intelligence Agent

Business users needed answers from complex supply-chain data but were bottlenecked by dashboards and analyst queues. I built an AI agent that converts natural-language questions into SQL, runs automated analysis, and generates insights and visualizations — instantly. A user asks “Why are delays increasing in Vietnam?” and gets data, charts, and recommendations in seconds. It became a cornerstone of Nike's emerging AI-driven business-intelligence strategy.

GenAIText-to-SQLLLM AgentsSupply Chain
Pupil process mining platform
◆ Flagship · 0→1
Olive2017 — 2019

Pupil — Process Mining Platform

Healthcare organizations struggled to understand their processes before automating them — driving high discovery costs and poor automation ROI. I built Pupil: a process-mining and discovery platform with process visualization, workflow analysis, bottleneck detection, and opportunity identification. It dramatically reduced pre-automation analysis time and became the scalable entry point for all of Olive's automation engagements.

Process MiningHealthcareAI Automation0→1 Product
Nike2022 — 2023

Supply Chain Diagnostics Platform

Built end-to-end visibility across inbound logistics, measuring transportation performance and surfacing operational issues that were invisible in static dashboards. Identified problems in 15% of inbound orders and generated $7.5M+ in annual savings — delivered through governed datasets, semantic data layers, and executive reporting used by transportation leadership.

Analytics EngineeringSupply ChainBI$7.5M Impact
Openpath2020 — 2021

Video Intercom & Facial Recognition

Led development of Openpath's Video Intercom Reader — competing directly with ButterflyMX — managing hardware/software integration, facial-recognition access control, smart call routing, and cross-vendor video integration. Also introduced conversational AI into the security platform, contributing to differentiation ahead of the company's $300M acquisition.

Computer VisionFacial RecognitionHardware/Software

03 Side Projects — things I ship for fun

golf.aaroncolesmith.com
Golf Pool app

Golf Pool ↗

Weekly PGA pool with DraftKings-backed odds tiers, magic-link auth, a live leaderboard, and commissioner tools.

Next.jsSupabaseOdds API
nba.aaroncolesmith.com
NBA Aaronlytics

NBA Aaronlytics ↗

NBA analytics platform with PCA clustering, career-trajectory analysis, and player-similarity scoring.

ReactFastAPIPython
euchre.aaroncolesmith.com
Aaron's Euchre

Aaron's Euchre ↗

Multiplayer euchre with 6 AI bot personalities, a daily challenge mode, real-time sync, and deep per-player analytics.

ReactRealtimeGame AI
data-apps.aaroncolesmith.com
Data Apps

Data Apps ↗

An LLM sports-betting model, NBA/soccer clustering, odds visualizations, soccer match prediction, and more.

PythonStreamlitPlotly

04 Experience

Nov 2021 — Present

Nike

Lead Product Manager · Data Science & Analytics
  • Created the Inbound Intelligence Agent — a GenAI analytics product converting natural language to SQL and auto-generating insights across inbound transportation datasets.
  • Led Nike's transportation-analytics evolution from static dashboards to AI-assisted data exploration and decision support.
  • Built a supply-chain diagnostics platform identifying inefficiencies in 15% of inbound orders, generating $7.5M+ in annual savings.
  • Developed semantic data layers and analytics products that transformed raw ERP planning data into actionable insights for leadership.
Oct 2020 — Nov 2021

Openpath Acquired · $300M

Senior Product Manager · AI & Advanced Concepts
  • Led the Advanced Concepts team launching AI-powered security capabilities that opened new market opportunities before acquisition.
  • Developed and launched facial-recognition access control, introducing biometric authentication to the platform.
  • Built a conversational AI interface and cross-vendor video integration, creating a unified security-monitoring experience.
Jan 2020 — Aug 2020

SafeRide Health

Product Manager
  • Built a platform enabling end-to-end patient transportation across health plans, health networks, NEMT providers, and ridesharing.
  • Developed route-optimization algorithms that reduced daily vehicle-scheduling creation time by over 90%.
Oct 2015 — Jan 2020

Olive Multi-$B valuation

Director, Data & Analytics · Lead PM, AI Platform
  • Built the internal data organization from scratch — 1 to 10 analysts and engineers — owning BI, data engineering, forecasting, and executive reporting.
  • Partnered directly with the CEO on strategic analytics that guided major company decisions during rapid growth, including the analysis that shaped the focus on automation.
  • Designed and launched Olive's AI automation platform (RPA, computer vision, OCR, ML) and Pupil, the process-mining platform.
  • Implemented KPI frameworks adopted by 100% of departments; reduced automation deployment time by 50%.
Mar 2014 — Oct 2015

Cardinal Solutions Group

Senior Consultant · Agile Product Services
  • Served as Product Owner and Business Analyst for large-scale digital products using Agile/Scrum.
  • Pioneered data-driven instructional recommendations that increased product revenue by 15% and contributed to ~$1B in sales.
Nov 2013 — Mar 2014

Accenture

Management Consultant · Demand Planning Team Lead
  • Led ERP enhancements (SAP ECC 6.0, JDA/Manugistics) for the Defense Logistics Agency's supply-chain planning systems.
  • Served as JDA Demand Planning subject-matter expert, leading the planning team across resource allocation and data integration.

05 What I work with

AI & ML

LLM ApplicationsText-to-SQLAgentic WorkflowsMachine LearningComputer VisionRPAProcess Mining

Data & Analytics

Analytics EngineeringBI ArchitectureData ModelingDatabricksTableauPower BI

Technical

PythonSQLReactNext.jsFastAPI

Leadership

Product StrategyAI Product DevelopmentTeam BuildingCross-Functional ExecutionOrg Scaling

06 Education

The Ohio State University

B.S. Information Systems · Fisher College of Business
2006 — 2010