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Andy Maier Mobile 303-***-****

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Product manager and collaboration expert with proven success managing products, leading teams, and

Summary

defining technical strategy for the Fortune 500 in ERP/CRM, high technology, and architecture.

Management – team building and strategic leadership, partnership and business development, conception

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Areas of through launch product management & marketing, project management including Agile & Scrum

Expertise Knowledge Management – social networking, portals, document management, traditional collaboration, real

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time collaboration, search, and information architecture, SOX compliance, and semantic technology

Enterprise computing – application architecture, technical strategy, design, virtualization, competitive

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intelligence, product evaluation, performance & capacity planning, BPEL, UDDI, and JAVA EE

Business Domains – ERP, HCM, CRM, PLM, ITIL, GIS, commercial and residential real estate, identity

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management, business intelligence, high technology, mobile, supply chain, and medicine

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Omniverse Software

Experience June 2008 – Present

Owner – Product Management & Strategy Consulting

Independent Consulting

Business & Technical Strategy, Marketing, product management consultation GIS & GPS applications,

information management, and open source middleware.

Trail Mix.com June 2008 – Present

Founder – Product Management & Business Development

Product Management and Business Development

A cloud based web services solution facilitating collaboration across corporate boundaries and ever changing

team structures.

Nimsoft October 2008 – April 2009

Senior Manager – Product Management & Marketing, Partnerships

Product management and marketing for application performance and business services management (APM,

ECA, BSM) products. Managed products and strategy for multi platform virtualization, user experience, and

cloud computing; primary customers are hosting providers, SaaS and corporate IT. Managed business

development and partnerships including channel promotions and OEM negotiations. Managed numerous

software selection initiatives and product roadmap.

Accomplishments

1. Developed and delivered numerous webinars to drive leads and revenue, as well as, train the sales

force. Wrote press releases and white papers

2. Managed numerous product selections including requirements definition and technical evaluation for

internal development and OEM product selection

3. Business Development established valuable partnerships with Cisco and VMware

January 2008 – June 2008

BEA Systems acquired by Oracle

Senior Manager – Product Marketing

Developed marketing objectives, go to market strategy, pricing, positioning, competitive analysis, and strategy

for products with over $150m in annual revenue. Managed sales pipeline through marketing, sales product

training, F2F representation at major account engagements, presented analyst briefings, project management,

collateral production, and release planning.

Accomplishments

4. Created and delivered release campaigns including webinars, collateral, presentations, and demand

generation plans for 3 product launches in 3 months

5. Created business value message involving a technical product which enabled better targeting towards

line of business owners

6. Organized and delivered sales training to a global field, including sales representatives, sales

consultants, and professional services

7. P&L management of products – delivered largest quarter in product history

Oracle August 2004 – January 2008

Principal Product Strategy Manager

Technical and ERP application strategist responsible for new business software products in web 2.0,

social networking, collaboration, knowledge management, BPEL, business intelligence, and

collaboration. Managed various new product development projects from conception to launch. This

management included several product managers, user interface designers, and web developers on

numerous projects. Managed marketing, pricing, and packaging of multiple products. Provided

guidance at executive meetings, analyst briefings, sales enablement, and conference presentations.

Managed business and technical requirements, project management, work estimates, and oversight of

development designs and quality assurance plan.

Accomplishments

Market positioning, analysis, and strategic roadmaps for business solutions technology for eBusiness Suite

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11i/12i/13i and Fusion middleware collaboration lead to promotion

Managed numerous cross department initiatives including ~20 social networking and ~50 traditional

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collaboration projects across multiple business domains. I lead the strategy for the integration of

collaboration (traditional, real time, and social networking), document management, and portal

technologies for eBusiness Suite

Helped envision numerous products including desktop integration, browser extensions, tagging, enhanced

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blogging, corporate Facebook, and more

Designed numerous business process designs with collaboration integration to demonstrate and test user

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experiences – Collaboratively Enabled Business Transactions

Contributed to significant portions of the WebCenter portal capabilities and was the primary product

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manager for modern collaboration and information delivery strategy

Wrote numerous strategic direction papers for existing products and new product concepts spanning

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business and technology.

Wrote the Knowledge Worker strategy paper for Fusion which evolved to 12+ browser, desktop, and social

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networking solution sets in applications and middleware

Semantic technology strategy for knowledge workers in document management utilizing Oracle DBMS

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GIS & OWL/RDF capabilities

Established customer response processes, customer success initiatives, and improved quality assurance to

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double customer success rate in 6 months

Improved product quality resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction and consecutive quarter

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over quarter sales increases

Capital One August 1999 – August 2004

Development Manager, Architect, & Technical Lead

Manager and Technical lead for numerous enterprise implementations including PeopleSoft Enterprise ERP,

portals (PSFT, BEA), business intelligence, single sign on (SSO), identity management, and time management.

Managed teams up to 20 FTEs including direct reports and matrixed resources consisting of developers, quality

engineers, business analysts, DBAs, UNIX admins, and consultants. Included responsibility for budget &

project management, work estimates, vendor relationship management, and consultant services management.

Program management experience includes business case to support enterprise solutions.

Accomplishments

Development management of several portal applications and infrastructure using Agile methodology

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including corporate Facebook application and integration design

ERP development manager and architect – global implementation of PeopleSoft. Transactions exceeded

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20 million records and over 20,000 web service calls daily. Saved over $3 million by redesigning hardware

architecture. Triaged and managed technical issues with PeopleSoft, Oracle, HP, EMC, JumpStart,

VeriSign, and others

Corporate Real Estate – reporting distribution, asset deployment and tracking, on boarding processes,

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document management,

Enterprise Time Management – architect & technical lead – salvaged project delivery by technical issue

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resolution, saved over $250k in first month of employment, resolved logistical issues, and helped vendor

improve scalability by identifying bottlenecks

Portals – technical lead and development manager – managed development, integration process, UI

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design, and performance tuning. Developed integration design patterns, created numerous technical

workarounds, and designed service provider integrations for document management, phonebook, network

security, LDAP, and applications

Supply Chain designed core Procurement transactional and e commerce SOA architecture, managed

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employee self service deployment, catalog SaaS integration, and B2B web services integration I increased

my knowledge about procurement, supple chain, and payables while a product strategy manager at

PeopleSoft & Oracle. I have significant knowledge of req to check processes, contract management, score

carding, payables, and more.

Designed and implemented service oriented architectures (SOA) for ERP, procurement B2B SaaS

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integration, user provisioning, and optimized throughput and redundancy for web services integration.

Implemented business intelligence solution for HR/HCM.

Performed numerous product evaluations and RFIs for ERP, EAI, single sign on (SSO), identity

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management, provisioning, content management, and OLAP

Broughton Systems November 1996–August 1999

Technical Project Manager & Developer

Department of Criminal Justice Managed system analysis, project requirements, and vendor assessments across

six criminal justice agencies for the Commonwealth of Virginia's Integrated Criminal Justice Information

System. Managed team of up to 6 people focused on design and development. Bureau of Insurance Delivered

new subsystem and enhancements for core BOI applications

Accomplishments

Developed an RFP, evaluated responses, and lead technical evaluation of proposals

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Designed data dictionary, DB design, metadata management processes, and conceptual architecture for

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system integration.

Managed a team of consulting developers

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Analysis, Design, and Development of BOI applications

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EDUCATION

Virginia 1995 MS Clinical Psychology

Commonwealth

University

University of 1992 BS Psychology High Honors, Magna

Cincinnati Cum Laude

Skills

Business Team management, product strategy, marketing, & management, memorable group presentations,

product selection, market segment analysis, business requirements analysis, portfolio management,

project & program management, vendor management, contract negotiation, and applied statistics

including multivariate and regression analysis

Architecture – application design, SOA, high availability, performance, and capacity

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planning for numerous implementations spanning multiple domains

Strategy – product and vendor evaluations, technology roadmaps, investment prioritization,

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hosted environment integration, disaster recovery

Implementations – product analysis, integration design, performance design & testing,

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Technical

rollout planning, application layer security, Management – project management, program

management, vendor relationship management, and change management processes

Software design – UML, User interfaces and experience, full SDLC experience including

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traditional waterfall, RAD, and Agile

Statistics – business intelligence, regression, cluster, and survival analysis

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Enterprise portals (WebSphere, BEA, and PeopleSoft portal), Java EE servers (Oracle, BEA,

Middleware

IBM),, IIS

Databases Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, EnterpriseDB, Adabas

Microsoft desktops and servers, Red Hat & SUSE Linux, HP UX, Windows, Apple OS X, Xen,

Operating Systems

VMware

Languages Java, C, C++, VB, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, COBOL, Natural

PeopleSoft ERP 8.x & 9.x, Oracle eBusiness Suite ERP 11i & 12i Fusion (13i), VMware,

Various Stellent/Oracle ECM, FatWire, Mercury Test Suite OLAP/ROLAP, cube construction, data

warehousing, business intelligence, LDAP, MS Project, MS Project Server, Visio

Other Accomplishments

Presented PeopleSoft Connect and Oracle World (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)

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including Enterprise SOA solutions with PeopleSoft (2003), Knowledge Workers

Solutions (2006), and built Oracle’s keynote presentation on Enterprise 2.0 (2007)

Endurance Athlete – Triathlon, Marathon, Backcountry skiing

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