GM! ☀️

I'm Van Nguyen

.. a "swiss army" product manager with focus on technology. My background is in software engineering, service design, and project management.

I worked with founders and large orgs like Equinox, Simon and Schuster, and Lockheed Martin.

I bring perspectives from ⚙️tech, 📈 financial markets, 💎 crypto, 📡 IOT, 🏋🏻‍♂️fitness, 🏒 sports, 👾 games, 🧱 physical experiences, and 📽️ film making.


I can help you with 👇


  • leading cross functional teams in 0 to 1 product launches

  • turning vision into products

  • product strategy

  • user research

  • mobile / web wireframes and designs

  • service design

  • improving product flows to increase top line metrics

  • coding prototypes

  • managing engineering teams

  • improving product operations

  • video producing, directing, editing

  • crypto consulting


I bring perspectives from ⚙️tech, 📈 financial markets, 💎 crypto, 📡 IOT, 🏋🏻‍♂️fitness, 🏒 sports, 👾 games, 🧱 physical experiences, and 📽️ film making.


I can help you with 👇


  • leading cross functional teams in 0 to 1 product launches

  • turning vision into products

  • product strategy

  • user research

  • mobile / web wireframes and designs

  • service design

  • improving product flows to increase top line metrics

  • coding prototypes

  • managing engineering teams

  • improving product operations

  • video producing, directing, editing

  • crypto consulting


🧙🏻‍♂️ A few of my fav creations

🧙🏻‍♂️ A few of my fav creations

Front Desk Experience

Redesign the front desk of a luxury retail business

Product Mgmt, Internal tools

Product Manager

The front desk at over 80 luxury locations in NYC, LA, Europe had over 200 tasks that created friction to access the location. A suite of proprietary apps for staff and members were rolled, while upgrading hardware at the front desk.

Front Desk Experience

Product Manager

The front desk at over 80 luxury locations in NYC, LA, Europe had over 200 tasks that created friction to access the location. A suite of proprietary apps for staff and members were rolled, while upgrading hardware at the front desk.

Redesign the front desk of a luxury retail business

Pursuit

Cycling group fitness game

Product Mgmt, Patent Holder, Consumer + Internal Tools

I launched, rolled out, and supported a fitness cycling experience (budget of $80m), that won a SXSW Cannes award, and runs in over 80 locations, everyday.

Dojo

Go from 0 to 100 pushups a day.

Product, Design, Engineer

A web3 enabled fitness app to increase your strength where you're accountable to the community by raising a virtual pet together.

Kumite

Designer, Engineer

A web3 enabled fitness app to increase your strength where you're accountable to the community by raising a virtual pet together.


Go from 0 to 100 pushups a day.

Adventurrr

Multiplayer Chat with AI (LLM) RPG

Product, Design, Engineer

Reconnect with friends by pulling off a heist anywhere on the planet like F1 Monaco, or Buckingham palace, or the NBA Finals. Full agency over your actions with usage of overly complex LLM prompting.

Mixtape

Social planning chat app

Product, Design, Engineer

Planning to go out with your friends is a chore. Let's solve that with your tight small social groups with curated experiences.

Mixtape

Product, Engineer

Planning to go out with your friends is a chore. Let's solve that with your tight small social groups with curated experiences.


Social planning chat app

Hospitality Experience

Enable staff to manage customers of a $1B retail business

User Research, Service Design

The challenge was to solve how we can enable managers and staff to proactively help customers before they make requests, and spend more one on one time to increase sales and hospitality service.

Contactless Check-in

Frictionless access to a luxury club

Product Manager, Service Design, Consumer + Internal Tools

Access any location without fiddling with key fobs, cards, or scanners. Leveraged mobile apps, blue tooth signals, and security protocols to create a frictionless and safe experience.

Contactless Check-in

Product Manager, Service Design

Access any location without fiddling with key fobs, cards, or scanners. Leveraged mobile apps, blue tooth signals, and security protocols to create a frictionless and safe experience.

Frictionless access to a luxury club

Short Films

Fictional narratives

Director, Producer, Editor

In my spare time, I create short silly non-fiction films and submit to film festivals. I won a few awards (Florida International, Woodstock film festival), and occasionally make humorous videos with coworkers to help morale around the office.

Force

A cycling game

Product Mgmt, Service Design, Consumer + Internal tools

Professional cycling training (via functional threshold power) as a game. Compete against yourself, work through power zones, and build different levels of strength.

Force

Product Mgmt, Service Design

Professional cycling training (via functional threshold power) as a game. Compete against yourself, work through power zones, and build different levels of strength.

A cycling game

Legends Vol3

NYC Adventure experience

Creator

During the pandemic, NYC became desolate and I wanted to fall back in love with the barren city. I created an experience that takes you across three iconic NYC locations to smoke, eat, and chill.

Personal Training Tools

Help trainers run their business

Product Mgmt, Internal tools

Product Manager

Equinox training business is a $300M+ business. I lead the team to define and go to market with a suite of applications for trainers, managers, and corporate to help run the business. We improved booking by 30%, reduced outstanding balance collection, and decreased trainer cancelled appointments (lost revenue).

Personal Training

Product Manager, Internal Tools

Equinox training business is a 300M+ business. I helped lead the team to define and go to market with a suite of applications for trainers, managers, and corporate to help run the business. We improved booking by 30%, reduced outstanding balance collection, and decreased trainer cancelled appointments (lost revenue).

Help trainers run their business

More of me

More of me

Let's build