Experienced in leadership, design, and delivery of software systems
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Senior Product Manager at Oracle Corporation
- Past
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- Product Manager at Sleepycat Software, Inc.
- Technical Alliances Manager at KnowNow, Inc.
- Managing Consultant at Primix Solutions, Inc.
- MTS-4 Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Managing Associate Consultant at Marble Associates, Inc.
- Developer Support Team at NeXT Computer
- Education
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- New Mexico State University
- Whittier College
- Albuquerque Academy
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Gregory Burd’s Summary
I am passionate about the products I build, the results I help generate, and the people I work with. I seek out and work on projects requiring thoughtful problem solving and careful orchestration. What makes me unique is my mixture of art, science, math, and business. I am equally comfortable in each. I can translate between a sales representative, a marketing VP, and a software architect while engaged in an active debate toward a mutually agreeable solution. I enable those around me by contributing enough to let them take ownership.
Gregory Burd’s Specialties:
daily:
Technical Writing, Technical Presentation, Technical Leadership, Market Analysis, Product Positioning, Project Management, Design Stewardship
ingrained:
Networking, Databases, Languages
exercised regularily:
UNIX administration, ANSI C, Java, SQL
depth in:
Java, Web/HTTP/HTML techniques (SOA, Ajax, etc), User Interface Design, consulting, sales
Gregory Burd’s Experience
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Senior Product Manager
Oracle Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Sleepycat Software was acquired in Feb of 2006 and I transitioned into the Embedded Databases Group within Oracle and continued my work just as before managing the three products created at Sleepycat - Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB XML, and Berkeley DB Java Edition.
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Product Manager
Sleepycat Software, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — February 2006 (3 years 8 months)
Since the beginning of 2004 I've been working for the office of the CTO as the Product Manager for our three products. In this role I interact with all parts of the organization and I am directly responsible for the success of our products in their respective markets.
My first year with Sleepycat I wrote code for our core product, Berkeley DB. I interacted with our customers via our support system to resolve bugs/questions/issues. I was tasked with improving the Java API support. -
Technical Alliances Manager
KnowNow, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — June 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Working on the sales side for the first time to better understand the other half I've been responsible for supporting all indirect channel sales. As such I've written more powerpoint than code. To keep my software skills sharp I've been the most active programmer of examples and demo code.
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Managing Consultant
Primix Solutions, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; PMIX; Internet industry)
July 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 5 months)
My focus was the professional development of key members of the technical team. Helping them to grow into leaders into their own right and be able to deliver reliable systems on time/budget.
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MTS-4 Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
September 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 10 months)
I worked in a number of areas withing Sun:
Market Development Engineering - Database & ERP Systems
JavaSoft - Java Applications Group
Desktop Technologies - OpenStep for Solaris -
Managing Associate Consultant
Marble Associates, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1993 — August 1996 (3 years 1 month)
Before the Internet years there was Reengineering, Client-Server and Object-Oriented systems (built with Smalltalk, C++ or Objective-C). Marble was an onsite consulting company partnered with management consulting companies (such as CSC Index) to deliver on those new concepts. My roles within Marble varied greatly depending on the customer and their needs. I worked on site, as well as off site. I managed teams and I was a team member. Generally I was involved with the design and implementation of the systems.
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Developer Support Team
NeXT Computer
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
May 1992 — September 1992 (5 months)
Responsibilities included custom development and technical support for strategic clients, sales support, and speaking and presenting. The Developer Support Team was buffered by front line and second line support services. We worked to help the first tier customers of NeXT Computer design, develop and deploy best of breed applications. I was asked to support the following NeXT software components.
Gregory Burd’s Education
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New Mexico State University
BS/CS , Computer Science , September 1991 — June 1992
At the conclusion of this year of education I was hired by NeXT Computer.
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Whittier College
BA/MA , Photojournalism, Philosophy , September 1990 — June 1991
In a 3/2 program with UCLA for a masters of photojournalism in five years.
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Albuquerque Academy
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Gregory Burd’s Interests:
sailing, scuba, investing, photography, horology, guitar, piano, ham radio
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