Richard Pacini C: 941-***-**** email: ******@*****.***
Software Product Manager
Summary: Highly skilled and experienced Technical Product Manager with a proven track record of successful product launches and revenue growth. A strategic thinker with excellent communication and leadership skills, able to manage cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and within budget. Recognized ability for training personnel, adapting quickly to volatile marketplaces, and solving problems. Passionate about understanding customer needs and creating innovative solutions to meet their requirements. A passion for Neural Networks and Generative AI, always seeking to understand the latest innovations, and thinking about ways to implement and improve upon what we’ve built.
Professional Experience:
Software Product Manager Canon BDS 2014 – curr
Defined product specifications and features. Managed and accelerated cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable product requirements. Canon Solutions America SaaS.
Delivered Neural Networks that are adaptable to multifaceted business needs. Led the development and launch of multiple software products, resulting in revenue growth of over 34%.
Developed product roadmaps, prioritized features, and managed product backlogs.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including development, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure successful product delivery.
Drove core team meetings and design reviews with relevant groups, creating an effective environment for technical exchanges and decisions on both near and long-term strategies.
Created and maintained the Roadmap/feature lists for the teams, along with the respective Tech and Product leaders.
Working knowledge of engineering, product strategy and business management.
Sales Engineer Fry's Electronics, Sunnyvale 2001 – 2014
Sales of HDTV, Motherboards, memory modules, digital cameras, and software. Consulting to staff.
Technical Project Manager Broadbase Software 2000 - 2001
Deployed SaaS CRM systems. Gathered information from customers, prospects, partners, sales organization to define and document the objectives and feature sets for large scale JAVA based SaaS CRM package. Systems analysis. Trained, evaluated and managed engineering team members. Created collateral sales documents to evangelize the product and brand.
Produced technically oriented white papers as needed.
Managed small teams for installation and customization of CRM packages, Oracle and MSSQL
database.
Acted as liaison to OEM partners, enterprise customers and service provider customers including
BEA, Oracle, Microsoft, Technical Support, Sales, Professional Services, and Engineering.
Comfortable with all phases of the product or software development lifecycle including idea
generation, concept development and testing, design, implementation, validation, and transfer.
Worked closely with development teams to ensure product requirements were met and development
milestones were achieved.
Education: Bachelor of Science Electronics Engineering, Chicago, Il.
Skills:
Project Management, Planning Proficient in Hybrid Agile and Waterfall Project Management processes
Team Building, Leadership, Collaboration Able to work independently with minimum supervision
B to B, B to C Strategic Planning Needs Assessment, Systems Analysis
Strategic Business Planning Perspectives Critical, creative and strategic thinking
Public Speaking, Teaching, Training Cross-Functional Process Analysis / Team Support
Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Project.