Dmitry Kalinchenko

Dmitry Kalinchenko

Innovation | Strategy | Storytelling

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I'm a product and market strategist who turns complex data into actionable insight—now focused on building and scaling generative‑AI solutions for the next wave of innovation.

About Me

I work at the intersection of strategy, research, and product—helping teams make sense of complexity and turn it into clear, actionable opportunities.

My background includes building innovation frameworks, conducting customer discovery, shaping early‑stage product direction, and translating insights into decision‑ready narratives. I've operated across B2B, enterprise, and emerging‑tech contexts—often in ambiguous environments where there's no playbook and a lot on the line.

Core skills: product strategy, qualitative & quantitative research, storytelling, opportunity framing, customer insights, systems thinking, and early‑stage concept development.

Off the clock: I live in Boulder, Colorado, where my high‑energy toddler, Micah, and our equally turbo‑charged Vizsla, Layla, keep my step count embarrassingly high. Weekends are usually a mash‑up of bike rides, ski outings, trail runs, and scouting the next must‑try craft brewery with my wife Agatha.

Projects

OptiMind - AI-Enabled Decision-Making

OptiMind is an intelligent web application that leverages AI to transform complex decision-making. The platform breaks down choices into structured components and applies AI analysis to help users reach more objective decisions, free from the cognitive biases that typically cloud human judgment.

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Key Features:

  • AI-generated criteria and alternatives based on your specific decision context
  • Intelligent weighting system to reflect real-world priorities
  • AI collaborator providing independent, unbiased scoring
  • Detailed explanations for all evaluations and recommendations
  • Collaborative decision matrices with both AI and human input
  • Visual results display showing objectively ranked options

Technical Architecture:

Built with modern technologies for performance and reliability:

  1. AI Core: Powered by DeepSeek's advanced language model to analyze decision contexts, generate criteria, evaluate alternatives, and provide reasoned explanations.
  2. Frontend: React application with Redux state management for an intuitive, responsive interface.
  3. Backend: Node.js/Express server with RESTful API and JWT authentication.
  4. Deployment: Hosted on Heroku with optimized architecture for AI processing.

The application demonstrates how AI can augment human decision-making capabilities without replacing human judgment—instead enhancing it with data-driven insights and eliminating subjective biases.

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Clusteroo - AI-Powered Data Classification

Clusteroo is an intelligent web application that leverages AI to transform unstructured data organization. The platform automatically sorts text documents and files into meaningful categories, saving hours of manual classification work while providing deeper insights into your information.

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Key Features:

  • AI-powered classification of text and file content
  • Custom taxonomy creation for personalized organization schemes
  • Interactive review and adjustment of AI classifications
  • Data export capabilities for further analysis
  • Intelligent pattern recognition across documents
  • Visual category mapping for better understanding of relationships

Technical Architecture:

Built with modern technologies for performance and reliability:

  1. AI Core: Utilizes natural language processing models to analyze document content and identify meaningful categories and relationships.
  2. Frontend: Modern web interface with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality for document management.
  3. Backend: Node.js application with PostgreSQL database for reliable data storage and retrieval.
  4. Deployment: Hosted on Heroku with scalable architecture to handle varying document loads.

Perfect for researchers, data analysts, or anyone facing information overload, Clusteroo brings order to chaos by revealing the natural organization within your data, making the invisible visible.

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Professional Experience

Senior Manager, Market Research & Strategy
Verizon Connect

Feb 2025 – Present

Own the voice‑of‑customer and competitive‑intel programs that feed directly into the telematics product roadmap, translating market signals into feature‑set priorities for fleet‑management SaaS at $B‑scale.

Senior Manager, Strategic Insights
Verizon

Feb 2023 – Feb 2025

Led a skunk‑works insights team that distilled thousands of data points into go‑to‑market bets for network‑enabled software, arming product leads and sales with business cases that unlocked new ARR lines of business.

Innovation Manager, New Business Incubation
Verizon

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023

Ran hypothesis‑driven discovery sprints for 5G automation plays—validating problem‑solution fit, shaping MVP scope, and defining the product theses behind Verizon's next‑gen software ventures.

Lead Product Owner
Lumen Technologies

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021

Owned the analytics backlog that powers exec KPI dashboards; introduced a value‑decomposition framework that slashed intake lead‑time and kept Agile ceremonies from spiral‑death.

Senior Associate
Strategyn

May 2019 – Nov 2019

Ran Outcome‑Driven Innovation sprints that surfaced unmet needs (pet food to surgical robotics) and translated them into product roadmaps

Consultant
The Inovo Group

Mar 2016 – Apr 2019

Built Excel‑based TAM models and future‑state scenarios that informed clients' new‑product portfolios; packaged findings into decision‑ready narratives for C‑suite gate reviews.

Business Analyst
The Inovo Group

Mar 2014 – Mar 2016

Translated frontier‑tech research into draft product concepts, prioritizing opportunities via ROI and feasibility filters.

Product Specialist
HookLogic

Jun 2013 – Dec 2013

Turned retailer feedback into feature specs for the closed‑loop ad‑tech platform; partnered with engineers to tighten iteration cycles and lift ad‑conversion metrics.

Consultant / Analyst
Enovio LLC

2010 – 2013

Designed cost‑cutting and process efficiency solutions for several companies in construction, utility and higher ed sectors

M.S. Information Science
University of Michigan School of Information

2012

Specialized in turning unstructured data into actionable insights through modern information systems.

B.A. Economics & Sociology
University of Michigan

2010

Graduated with dual majors, laying the foundation in economic analysis and human‑centric research.

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