Kurt S. Antonini

Release Train Product Manager, Life Sciences @ Emerson

Austin, TX MBA Candidate 2027 · UIUC Quality & UX Champion

About

I'm a product manager at Emerson, where I lead a release train for our Life Sciences software. I care about shipping products that are both compliant and genuinely easy to use, which is why I'm known as a quality and UX champion on my team. I'm currently pursuing my MBA at the University of Illinois to sharpen the business side of building great products.

Experience

Emerson

Austin, TX · 2011 – Present

Release Train Product Manager, Life Sciences

2025 – Present
  • Lead product strategy, requirements definition, and cross-functional delivery for DeltaV MES, guiding complex manufacturing software initiatives from customer needs through release execution.
  • Partner with customers, services, support, engineering, and product leadership to define product capabilities, prioritize investments, resolve delivery risks, and drive adoption of manufacturing solutions for global pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations.

DeltaV Product Owner

Nov 2021 – 2025
  • Defined requirements and roadmaps for DeltaV Live HMI, Emerson's next-generation virtualized controller platform, and DeltaV licensing with subscription management.
  • Global coordinator of Emerson's largest-ever innovation event, a hackathon with 600+ participants across 12 sites on 4 continents, recognized by Emerson's executive leadership.
  • Led a scrum team to become the most efficient team on its release train, and was a primary contributor to reducing the DeltaV bug backlog.
  • Streamlined product-ownership practices to improve team efficiency and release readiness.

Senior Principal Product Engineer

Apr 2018 – Nov 2021
  • Globally recognized leader and subject-matter expert on the DeltaV Operator Interface team.
  • Trusted point of contact for major global life sciences and chemical customers, and primary liaison with Product Marketing.
  • Trained and mentored Emerson's Global Service Center team in Manila, Philippines.

Senior Test Engineer

Oct 2013 – Apr 2018
  • Planned the DeltaV Live test effort, from test strategy to test-case design.
  • Tested and validated DeltaV hotfixes across multiple versions for DeltaV Batch and DeltaV Operate.

Process Automation Engineer

Aug 2011 – Oct 2013
  • Designed and implemented DeltaV Batch configurations for life sciences customers.
  • Built and troubleshot DeltaV Operate graphics for batch systems.

Honeywell

Des Plaines, IL · 2010 – 2011

Development Engineer

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011

Education

MBA

Expected May 2027 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Gies College of Business)

B.S., Chemical Engineering

2010 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

Certified Scaled Agile

Contact

The best way to reach me is LinkedIn or email.