Manager Quality Assurance

Resume for: Adrian M. PAUL

** ********* ******,

Campbell,

CA 95008

( Tel: 408-***-**** Email: **********@*****.*** )

Professional Summary:

Experienced and highly competent software Product Manager seeking

appropriate product related position in the general Silicon Valley area.

Excellent experience with enterprise and consumer applications especially:

● Web 2.0 Social Networking/Collaboration Applications

● Analytics/Business Intelligence/Reporting – Including Web

Analytics and Social Network Analytics

● General Enterprise Applications

● Experience with product releases across complete product life-cycle

● Skilled in both customer and engineering liaison

● Good software/technical background

● Excellent communication and documentation skills (PRDs, MRDs,

Roadmaps, White Papers etc.), including conference/event

presentations and participation in industry forums

● Good Product Marketing experience

● Team leadership experience – yet solid team player who enjoys hands-

on work

● Experience of working internationally and with globally disparate

teams

● Experience of working at large, medium and start-up sized companies

● Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 applications experience – including social

search/discovery, collaboration, Wikis, Blogs, RSS etc.

● Excellent experience with general Enterprise Applications (especially

Finance/Payment, Supply-Chain, CRM, HR/Payroll and application

security design). SAP applications.

● Consumer on-line billing and financial applications

● Traditional, Open Source and SaaS product experience

● Strong background in designing user-friendly and intuitive Web-based

products

Specific Software/Database/Applications Skills:

● All major databases – relational and OLAP (SQL or MDX based)

● Jive Clearspace Community software, Cisco WebEx Connect collaboration

software, Microsoft SharePoint, Connectbeam social search

● All major Business Intelligence tools (Brio/Hyperion, Business Objects,

MicroStrategy, Cognos etc.)

● SAP products (BW, R/3, Netweaver etc.)

● Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML, Advanced Microsoft Excel,

● Reasonable C, C++ and Java development skills

● Rational Tools and Methodology (Clear Quest, Requisite Pro etc.),

● Aprimo Campaign-Management software, Google Analytics

● Salesforce.com

● Camtasia video capture software

Hardware/OS Platform Experience:

PCs running all versions of Windows, UNIX Workstations, IBM S/390

Additional Personal Attributes:

Nationality: U.S.

Education: BS Honors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering

(Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London, England)

Foreign Languages: Good German, reasonable French.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

October 2008 – Present (Cisco Systems, San Jose, California)

Company: Large manufacturer of computer network hardware/software

Position: Consultant Project/Product Manager

Tasks/Achievements:

● Project and Product Management of new Web 2.0 Social/Collaboration

applications for Cisco worldwide Channel Sales force and Cisco Partner

companies (using Jive Clearspace and Cisco WebEx Connect)

● Feature definition

● Collaboration analytics/reporting

● Coordination of project across worldwide Development and user base

● Product Marketing collateral – Data Sheets, web page material etc.

● User Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance

October 2007 – October 2008 (Connectbeam Inc., Mountain View, California)

Company: Start-up (approx. 20 people) producing Web 2.0 social networking and

collaborative social search/discovery appliance for the enterprise

Position: Senior Product Manager

Tasks/Achievements:

● Design of new social networking analytics and reporting suite

● Microsoft Office product integration (Outlook and SharePoint)

● Product Marketing – Data Sheets, White Papers, Presentations

● Quality Assurance

● Competitive Analysis

October 2005 – October 2007 (Visa USA Inc., Foster City, California)

Company: Large provider of credit/debit card payments network

Position: Consultant Technical Product Manager – Emerging Products Group

Tasks/Achievements:

● Visa’s Rewards Program Management System – service based

Marketing/CRM application which analyzes Visa credit cardholder payment

spending patterns to automatically generate direct-marketing “reward” offer

mailings to cardholders.

● New Visa enterprise social networking/collaboration portal application

● In-house financial ad-hoc query and reporting system

● Beta Program management

● Quality Assurance supervision and documentation

2004 – 2005 (Viador Inc., Redwood City, California)

Company: Start-up (approx. 35 people) providing pure Web browser-based Business

Intelligence tools and applications for the Small/Medium Business market.

Position: Director of Product Management/Product Marketing

Tasks/Achievements:

Established formal Product Management practices and documentation – PRDs,

Product Roadmaps, Data Sheets, sales collateral etc.

Coordinated local and China-based Product Management/Marketing teams

Product strategy/vision such as Eclipse open-source standards initiative and

service-based BI tools offering.

Assistance to Sales team with presentations and product evangelizing

Supported Analyst briefings

Engineering and QA direction and liaison

Managed overall product user interface design and supervision

Application security design

2000 – 2004 (Hyperion Solutions, Santa Clara California - formerly Brio

Software)

Company: Mid-size (approx. 1500 people) providing enterprise-class Business

Intelligence tools and enterprise/consumer analytic applications.

Position: Senior Product Manager

Tasks/Achievements: Product Manager responsible for Hyperion/Brio Business

Intelligence tools and Web analytic applications. Specializing in relational/OLAP

database query tools and Dashboard-driven analytic applications. Managed several

products which received industry awards for ease-of-use.

Complete product life-cycle management of several product releases (consumer

and enterprise applications)

Managed team of three other Product Managers

Worked with senior management to drive product direction and strategy

Frequent liaison and support of Sales, Marketing and customers

Product Roadmaps, MRDs, PRDs and Product Marketing collateral

Leader of SAP integration effort for all Brio tools

DBA responsibility for various database servers

Competitive analysis

Numerous conference presentations and also represented Brio on “XML for

Analysis” industry open standards body

1998 – 2000 (SAP Labs, Palo Alto California)

Company: Large provider of enterprise applications

Position: Senior Developer and Product Management

Tasks:

● Development of Tax Reporting and Payroll reporting and analysis software for

use with Human Resources and Finance SAP modules.

● Conversion of legacy R/3 applications to Internet-based applications.

● SAP BW data warehousing application design/development.

1993 – 1998 Fujitsu Corporation, Sunnyvale California (formerly Amdahl

Corporation – including over one year spent at Amdahl UK and European

offices)

Company: Large manufacturer in High-Tech industry (computer mainframes, servers

and storage).

Position: Various roles including Developer, Product Manager and Project Leader

Tasks/Achievements:

Creation of numerous internal business applications such as:

Supply Chain Management Systems, HR Systems, Financial/Billing

Systems, CRM Sales, Electronic Forms Management

“SmartCard” debit processing system for use in banking, retail and electronic

commerce industries. Associated consumer billing and financial applications.

Details and references for above employment can be furnished upon request.

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