Articles by Ted Steinmann

• 💬 AI-Powered Portfolio Search

  Added conversational AI search to my portfolio site, allowing visitors to ask questions instead of navigating pages—demonstrating how practical AI reduces friction and accelerates understanding.

  Category: blog
  Tags: product-management, technology, platforms
  Published on February 16, 2026

• 🤖 AI-Assisted Product Development, in Practice

  What I learned using AI throughout the product development lifecycle—from requirements discovery to deployment—while building a production expense reporting app as applied R&D.

  Category: blog
  Tags: technology, product-management, systems
  Published on February 06, 2026

• 💰 Expense Reports App

  An applied software R&D project exploring AI-assisted development practices through a production expense reporting application with zero infrastructure costs and continuous deployment.

  Category: projects
  Tags: technology, product-management, systems
  Published on February 06, 2026

• 🛠️ Building a Canonical Data Model Using AI

  Extracting consolidated fragmented knowledge into a canonical data model by combining AI-assisted consolidation with human validation and domain expertise.

  Category: blog
  Tags: product-management, systems
  Published on January 20, 2026

• 🆔 Increasing Utility of the National EMS ID

  Led a strategic initiative to establish EMS ID as a foundational key for personnel tracking across licensing systems, improving data consistency and enabling inter-agency analytics and compliance reporting.

  Category: projects
  Tags: systems, data, government
  Published on December 31, 2025

• 🧰 Project Based Budgeting

  A simple, transparent budgeting system built in Google Sheets—linking financial planning directly to projects and organizational priorities.

  Category: projects
  Tags: leadership, service, systems
  Published on October 14, 2025

• 🚑 NASEMSO EMS Workforce Reports

  Standardized EMS workforce reporting aligned to NASEMSO’s Core Ten—designed and led at ImageTrend—to deliver comparable, actionable metrics across states. New datasets enable point-in-time and longitudinal analysis of supply, retention, and education outcomes, with solutions validated in collaboration with state EMS offices and NASEMSO.

  Category: projects
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  Published on July 08, 2025

• ✍️ Virtual Signatures for Inspections

  Designed and led Virtual Inspections capability, modernizing inspection workflows with electronic signatures, automated status tracking, and compliance monitoring for remote and in-person processes.

  Category: projects
  Tags: product-management, government
  Published on April 09, 2025

• 🎯 Optimizing effort for impact in product management

  Presentation to the Fargo Full Stack Development User Group

  Category: presentations
  Tags: product-management, leadership, technology
  Published on December 19, 2024

• 🐞 Analytics-Driven Continuous Improvement: Bug Resolution Project

  Data-driven approach to improving bug fix responsiveness and backlog health in a regulated SaaS environment.

  Category: projects
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  Published on April 03, 2024

• 💼 Product Manager · ImageTrend

  Managing a highly configurable end-to-end license and certification management platform serving statewide EMS application and approval workflows.

  Category: experience
  Tags: product-management, leadership, systems
  Published on May 01, 2021

• ImageTrend LLC

  U.S. provider of public safety and healthcare data platforms—ePCR, fire and trauma registries, HIE, and licensing—that improve interoperability, compliance, and data-driven decisions for agencies and hospitals.

  Category: organization
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  Published on April 16, 2021

• 📚 Technical Writer · Bushel

  Coordinated patent portfolio activities and produced technical IP and documentation, including a blockchain proof of concept.

  Category: experience
  Tags: technology, systems
  Published on September 01, 2020

• 🌾 Addressing Variety and Veracity of data in Ag

  Presentation at FASTCON 2019 in Saint Paul on how Bushel tackles challenges of variety and veracity in agricultural data through partnerships and digital infrastructure modernization.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, integration, partnerships, systems
  Published on December 09, 2019

• 🎯 Product Expert · Bushel

  Developed API-based business models and helped land strategic customers through incentive-driven network effects.

  Category: experience
  Tags: product-management, platforms
  Published on December 01, 2019

• 🤝 Technical Project Manager · Bushel

  Managed strategic partnerships and data exchange integrations supporting over 20% of the US wheat market.

  Category: experience
  Tags: product-management, data, platforms
  Published on June 01, 2019

• 🏗️ Datalake technology as a platform for Research Driven Product Development

  Capstone presentation for the Master of Science in Management of Technology program at the University of Minnesota, exploring how data lakes can serve as a foundation for incremental innovation and research-aligned product development.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, platforms, technology
  Published on April 24, 2018

• 📊 Dashboards and Datalakes with Tableau

  Presentation at the University of Minnesota Tableau User Group (October 2017) on building a data lake and embedding dashboards in web applications.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, platforms, cloud
  Published on December 29, 2017

• 💼 Owner · Steinmann Consulting

  Technology-focused development of products, customers and software.

  Category: experience
  Tags: leadership, consulting
  Published on December 01, 2017

• 🛡️ Food Protection and Defense Institute project portfolio updates

  Updates from UMN’s Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI) supporting FoodSHIELD, a transitionable, research-funded software platform with custom apps and collaboration portals for food defense.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, partnerships, government
  Published on June 18, 2017

• 💼 IT Manager · The Food Protection and Defense Institute (University of Minnesota)

  Managed an IT business unit and executed IT strategy for a research institution, overseeing enterprise applications and research-driven startup projects.

  Category: experience
  Tags: leadership, systems, product-management
  Published on January 01, 2014

• 🧠 Lead Developer · ImageTrend

  Led development teams and acted in a product-manager capacity for a web-based patient registry, responsible for multiple products and developers.

  Category: experience
  Tags: leadership, product-management, development
  Published on January 01, 2010

• ⚙️ Deployment Manager · ImageTrend

  Managed deployments and operations for web-based solutions across hosted environments, focusing on standardization, automation and scalability.

  Category: experience
  Tags: systems, technology, leadership
  Published on January 01, 2009

• 🛠️ Software Developer · ImageTrend

  Agile development on EMS service/state bridge solutions for large-scale EMS data collection, reporting and exchange.

  Category: experience
  Tags: development, systems, agile
  Published on January 01, 2007

• 🛠️ Development Intern · ImageTrend

  Supported web development and NEMSIS XML data submission vendor compliance work.

  Category: experience
  Tags: development, technology
  Published on May 01, 2006