Hi, I'm JJ Cohoon. I'm a hands-on technical product leader based in Charlottesville, VA, with 10+ years designing and delivering integrations, workflow automation, and AI-assisted tools that cut manual work, improve reliability, and accelerate value. I have deep experience with Workato, Zapier, OpenAI APIs, REST integrations, and SQL or Python pipelines. I'm known for translating complex requirements into production-ready solutions, clear runbooks, and measurable outcomes across enterprise SaaS and education systems.

JJ Cohoon

Hi, I'm JJ Cohoon. I'm a hands-on technical product leader based in Charlottesville, VA, with 10+ years designing and delivering integrations, workflow automation, and AI-assisted tools that cut manual work, improve reliability, and accelerate value. I have deep experience with Workato, Zapier, OpenAI APIs, REST integrations, and SQL or Python pipelines. I'm known for translating complex requirements into production-ready solutions, clear runbooks, and measurable outcomes across enterprise SaaS and education systems.

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Hi, I’m JJ Cohoon. I’m a hands-on technical product leader based in Charlottesville, VA, with 10+ years designing and delivering integrations, workflow automation, and AI-assisted tools that cut manual work, improve reliability, and accelerate value.

I have deep experience with Workato, Zapier, OpenAI APIs, REST integrations, and SQL or Python pipelines. I’m known for translating complex requirements into production-ready solutions, clear runbooks, and measurable outcomes across enterprise SaaS and education systems.

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Language

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Work Experience

Product Manager at Teachstone
May 1, 2020 - February 1, 2025
Remote-based product leadership focusing on automation and integration. Designed and deployed Workato and Zapier automations across onboarding, certification, support, and analytics, reducing manual workload by up to 95 percent, with monitoring and alerting in place for reliability. Built GPT-based assistants for SLA knowledge retrieval, survey insight generation, and real-time coaching using OpenAI APIs, Whisper, and retrieval techniques, paired with human-in-the-loop review. Implemented cross-system data flows and ETL using Python, SQL, Workato, and Singer taps to unify Salesforce, HubSpot, LMS and SIS platforms, with schema drift detection, Slack alerts, and runbooks. Led technical discovery and architecture for LMS and SIS adjacent capabilities, including canonical data models, enrollment/progress events, RBAC admin tools, and compliance workflows. Acted as technical liaison for enterprise and state customers, scoping integrations, configuring SSO, validating identity attributes, a
Associate Product Manager at Teachstone
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Coordinated and managed enterprise customers, overseeing mobile app and LMS integrations, coordinating analytics and reporting requests, and leading UAT for fixes.
Video Product Specialist at Teachstone
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Multimedia development and video production for the LMS platform, contributing to product features and analytics.
Multimedia Developer at Teachstone
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2018
Built SCORM and xAPI learning modules, telemetry, and analytics powering automated reporting and personalization across LMS platforms.

Education

PM-CIII Certified Product Manager at Pragmatic Institute
January 1, 2020 - December 8, 2025
Prompt Engineering, Speech & Vision APIs at Google Cloud
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals at IBM
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025
Automation Pro I, II, III; Applied Gen AI; Agent AI Basics at Workato
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025
Undergraduate coursework at University of Virginia & Virginia Tech
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025

Qualifications

PM-CIII Certified Product Manager
January 1, 2020 - December 8, 2025
Google Cloud – Prompt Engineering, Speech & Vision APIs
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025
IBM – Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025
Workato – Automation Pro I, II, III; Applied Gen AI; Agent AI Basics
January 1, 2025 - December 8, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Other