20+ years across logistics, operations and product
Experience connecting operational realities, commercial priorities and software delivery.
Product · Systems · Decision-Support
Product Leader for Transport Systems and Operational Software
Most operational problems are systems problems disguised as software problems.
I am a Product Manager leading roadmaps and product governance across TMS and transport optimisation, connecting customer problems, commercial priorities and engineering delivery.
Product leadership and scope
TMS and optimisation portfolio
Portfolio ownership across transport management and the optimisation solutions, with team management responsibilities.
Selected enterprise work
Explore enterprise work →Transport management
I led discovery, specifications, pilots and platform rollouts, shaping reusable workflows across complex transport operations.
Explore the platform work →Creating a standard API interface for transport data
I led development of a standardised API product for retrieving changes and creating, reading, updating and deleting transport data.
Explore the integration work →Interactive CV
My career, in magazine form
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Explore my interactive CVFaint Helping complex operations move forward. Inside the magazine Five sections.
One career. 01 Profile 02 Career journey 03 Product portfolio 04 Operating model 05 Education & contact
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Systems Thinking in Product Management
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30 January 2026
Richard Faint on systems thinking in product management, and why smart product managers keep solving the wrong problem instead of the underlying system.
Product Thinking
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Probabilistic Forecasting for Product Management
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15 January 2026
Richard Faint on probabilistic forecasting for product management: why fixed deadlines mislead and how to forecast delivery with ranges and confidence.
Modelling
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Selected tools and experiments
View all projects →AI Specification Assistant
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Work tool Product manager
A Copilot Studio-based AI assistant designed to support product specification, value analysis, and controlled use of internal knowledge sources.
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Personal project Product designer, architect, and developer
A simulation-first planning platform using Monte Carlo forecasting and scenario analysis to expose bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and delivery confidence.
JavaSpring BootPostgreSQLAI/ML
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