James Conlin

Product Manager
Sharper Shape


James Conlin is a product manager for Sharper Shape. He joined the company in 2019, participating in some of the world’s largest UAV operations, and quickly progressed to become a valued member of the project management team, where he oversaw the planning of operations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Popular and Contemporary Music and possesses a unique combination of technical expertise, creative problem solving and an ability to understand and anticipate consumer needs.

He is committed to using technology to empower individuals and is passionate about software development and customer feedback. Under his leadership, he has achieved several notable accomplishments, such as:

  • Developing advanced tracking and management tools for quality assurance, which have been used to manage petabytes of data across multiple projects.
  • Meeting exact utility functional business requirements across leading edge geo-content cloud platforms within a lean software development team.
  • Coordinating the day-to-day logistical operations of many UAV field teams.
  • Working with large quantities of proprietary data across many projects to create predictive models to assess and evaluate global market trends and growth opportunities.
  • Creating guidelines and tools for monitoring safety, leveraging data from the field to measure and control risks to facilitate safe operations.