Sherman Dickman

Current

Co-Founder at Postbox, Inc.

Past

Director, Product Management at Mozilla Corporation
Strategic Marketing / Group Product Manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sr. Product Manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sr. Program Manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Project Manager at Apple Computer, Inc.
Associate Product Manager at Broderbund Software, Inc.

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Sherman Dickman’s Summary

Product management professional with over 15 years experience defining, developing, and promoting software products and technologies. Skilled at identifying unique market opportunities and distilling customer requirements into strategic business objectives and multi-release product roadmaps. A proven track record of managing very complex, large-scale initiatives across functional teams and business units.

Sherman Dickman’s Experience

Co-Founder

Postbox, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Director, Product Management

Mozilla Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Strategic Marketing / Group Product Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

Established the vision, strategy, and market opportunity for Sun's Web infrastructure software product line.
Product Line Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

Product management for the Java Enterprise System and Project JXTA, Sun's peer-to-peer communications technology.
Sr. Product Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Product management and marketing lead for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition v1.4 from design through product launch.
Sr. Program Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Supervised the software program for the first dynamically optimizing Java Virtual Machine from design through product launch.
Project Manager

Apple Computer, Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Responsible for driving the development of consumer software technologies for the MacOS operating system.
Associate Product Manager

Broderbund Software, Inc.

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years )

Managed the development of consumer shrink-wrap software products for two of Broderbund's premier brands, "Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego" and "Prince of Persia."