Derek Britton

Current

Senior Director, Product Management at Micro Focus

Past

Product Director at Micro Focus
Product Manager at MERANT
Software Engineering Manager at Micro Focus

Programmer / Coordinator at Micro Focus

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Education

De Montfort University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Derek Britton’s Summary

IT industry experience since 1989. Proven success in leading product management teams, helping shape corporate strategy and vision, and implementing and managing associated roadmap and products; all backed by relevant industry-leading professional training and strong natural interpersonal skills.

Strong track record of meeting time-to-market, functional, lead-generation and 8-figure revenue targets. Key personal contribution on notable seven-figure transactions working with Global 2000 accounts.

My process passion is the bedrock for a highly pragmatic approach. Best-practice, process, governance, functional definition and service delivery are key components of my experience. Recent immersion in Agile development methodology and Scrum Product Owner experience including the famous Kenny Rubin's Scrum Training course.

Derek Britton’s Specialties:

Software product life-cycle management, customer and partner relationship management, product marketing and launch processes. Software domain expertise includes enterprise management, portfolio and analysis tools, IDE's and modernization products, across several platforms.

Marketing skills include excellent written communications, experience with direct customer program execution, user stories, white papers, articles, web sites, press/analyst relations.

Derek Britton’s Experience

Senior Director, Product Management

Micro Focus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCRO.L; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Director of Product Management for the Micro Focus Application Portfolio Management line of business.

Directorship responsibilities include: Line of Business Management incorporating Business Planning and Strategic Vision support. Ownership of strategic Roadmap, associated product deliverable and collateral planning and execution. Field support, post-acquisition integration work, customer liaison and internal training.

The Product Management team acts as the operational 'glue' between the go-to-market and product development organizations.
Product Director

Micro Focus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 1 month)

Global Product Management remit for the (IBM) Mainframe modernization solutions from Micro Focus, including the highly regarded APS and Mainframe Express lines. Significant product release efforts, culminating in major new update of the Mainframe Express range in 2004 directly resulted in notable 7 figure Global 2000 wins.
Product Manager

MERANT

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Overall Product Ownership and technical marketing for Micro Focus' analysis and asessment tools culminating in a major new release.
Software Engineering Manager

Micro Focus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1995 — June 2000 (5 years 2 months)

Technical (Software Engineering) and Team Management role; the major achievements for us included the then brand-new market leading unix release, Server Express. Also hitting constant 80% plus project delivery milestones.
Programmer / Coordinator

Micro Focus

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1991 — May 1995 (3 years 11 months)

Initial role was COBOL and 8086 MASM systems programming, which then morphed into a dual technical and coordination role, helping plan system updates and customer deliveries.

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The usual social network stuff... (plaxo, facebook etc.)

Contributor to:
www.linkedin.com
www.pragmaticmarketing.com
ask.goodproductmanager.com
www.xing.com (APM group)