Senior Product Manager, Data Integration and Data Quality at Oracle Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Product Manager, Data Integration and Data Quality at Oracle Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
(Computer Software industry)
Currently holds this position
(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Senior product manager with outbound PM responsibility for data integration products, including Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and accompanying data quality offerings. Working on product strategy, positioning, and messaging, enabling sales activity, presenting at conferences, and cultivating reference customers. Working with marketing to determine product roadmap and messaging for middleware and database data quality products.
(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Product manager on Oracle Warehouse Builder, the leading ETL/data quality/data integration tool. for the Oracle database. Input on feature set, engineering functional specifications, doc, collateral and whitepapers.
Refining product messaging/positioning for 11.2.
Creating and delivering product demonstrations (including VM demo environments and demo scripts).
Presenting OWB to customers and at conferences (OpenWorld 2008 on DQ and MDM; ODTUG New Orleans on SOAP/WS Integration from OWB; Collaborate08 on data quality and scope and execution risk); BIWA SIG 2008 on Data Rules in OWB.
Backstopping support for particularly difficult technical issues; working to improve communications and raise product profile through blogging and discussion groups, and introduce other means of collaborating with current and future customers.
Working on long term ideas on product messaging.
(Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2008 (10 years )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — April 2007 (4 years 7 months)
Developed and maintained documentation for database backup tool for Recovery Manager. Developed documentation on Oracle Secure Backup tape backup utility. Worked closely with devleopers and product management for direction and review.
Developed new Web interface to upcoming database documentation library portal release, and automated documentation production processes based on Adobe Framemaker and Acrobat, to where >50K pages of documentation are rebuilt from source daily or weekly, improving management visibility into the state of the documentation and reducing the risk due to manuals that are out of date with the current state of the product. Redesigned the documentation library to take more advantage of Javascript, Dynamic HTML, and AJAX. Managed vendor evaluation for content management system, refining real techincal requirements and conferring with vendor representatives and internal decision makers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — October 2002 (3 years 6 months)
Provided Web site design and Web and database programming for varied clients including the Packard Foundation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Sites included online communities, group blogging sites, remote Unix web cache appliance administration, and assistance for other projects.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1994 — August 1996 (1 year 11 months)
Wrote developer's guides, installation guides, application developer's cookbooks, and whitepapers on Telescript application server/intelligent agent programming language. Worked closely with development and product management staff on fast-evolving technologies.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
October 1989 — July 1992 (2 years 10 months)
Developer on CUSP/GV Agents cross-application scripting language/framework. Evaluated workflow technology from acquired company and planned incorporation of workflow engine into existing Viewpoint/GlobalView office automation suite.
(Computer Software industry)
May 1988 — October 1989 (1 year 6 months)
Research assistant/programmer working on intelligent tutoring systems, rule-based systems, and databases. Built search and indexing tools and browsing GUI for Wordnet lexical database (http://wordnet.princeton.edu).
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 1987 — August 1988 (1 year )
Developer on personal finance and news and information access software. Developed portable code in C for DOS, Macintosh and Apple II. Created build and QA tools using AWK, sed and MKS Shell.
M. Phil. , Comparative Literature , 1992 — 1998
Coursework included literature in French, English, German and Latin. Primary research areas included African literature in French and English. Taught for one year in English department.
BSE , Electrical Engineering, Computer Science , 1983 — 1987
Course work included compilers, independent project in AI/intelligent tutoring systems, algorithm theory, robotics. Member of Princeton Charter Club, Princeton Inn/Forbes College
high school diploma , 1971 — 1983
microfinance, arts, popular culture, food