corey@grone:~$ Pittsburgh, PA · corey@coreygrone.com · 412-352-5140
Senior Product Manager — Cloud & Infrastructure

Corey
Grone

18+
Years in Product
$10M+
Pipeline Generated
16+
Product Launches
500+
SKUs Managed (CPQ)
$ experience --list --verbose
01.
AI Developer — Independent
CMU Agentic AI Program · Self-Directed
2026
  • Built Smoke Shoppe AI — a production multi-agent system using Claude API, FastMCP, and Tree of Thought reasoning; deployed via GitHub CI pipeline to a Docker container.
  • Implemented agentic design patterns: ReAct loops, parallel tool execution, long-term decision memory, and dispatcher routing across five specialist agents.
  • Completed CMU coursework in agentic AI, applying course concepts directly to a live, real-world application.
02.
Senior Product Manager
Pure Storage
2020.10–2024.07
  • Designed and launched Evergreen//One add-on service — $10M+ sales pipeline, $1M+ bookings across 5+ deals.
  • Led pricing and packaging for three Pure-wide technology launches including all go-to-market activities.
  • Joint IaaS offering with Cisco: $5M+ bookings in 12 months.
  • Joint bare metal as a service with Equinix: $1M+ bookings.
  • First storage company to list STaaS product on ArrowSphere digital distributor marketplace.
  • Delivered 10+ product SLA enhancements for internal and customer-facing tools.
03.
Senior Product Manager
iland Cloud
2019.01–2020.10
  • Led customer discovery, concept, and engineering for Office 365 Backup as a Service.
  • Managed Salesforce CPQ across 500+ SKUs across three product lines.
  • Implemented Confluence knowledge base and public website product catalog.
  • SME on cloud backup and storage — supported sales, marketing, and customers.
04.
Product Manager
Expedient
2016.11–2018.12
  • Led 16+ product and feature releases through go-to-market process and launch.
  • Rebuilt indirect sales program with Avant and Telarus.
  • Originated formal product management tools and processes for the organization.
  • Market research and financial modeling for new products and services.
05.
Product Manager
Management Science Associates
2012.01–2016.11
  • Designed and launched SAN replication service on Nimble Storage.
  • Team lead: SharePoint next-gen intranet, MSA.com AWS migration, MapR big data products.
  • Team lead: Commvault backup platform migration, SevOne monitoring migration.
06.
MIS Advisor
Voluntary Service Overseas
2009.11–2011.10
  • Managed participatory impact measurement and SMS e-governance projects.
  • Set up Linux server, Google Apps; developed databases in Django, Access, Excel.
$ projects --pinned
01.
Smoke Shoppe AI
CMU Agentic AI Program · 2026

Multi-agent AI analyst for a local cigar shop. Ask questions about sales, inventory, and social reputation in plain English — a dispatcher routes each query to specialized agents and responds with specific insights.

Multi-Agent ReAct Tree of Thought Claude API FastMCP Python Chainlit DuckDB Docker
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