Gregory Burd

Current

Senior Product Manager at Oracle Corporation

Past

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

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Education

New Mexico State University
Whittier College
Albuquerque Academy

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Gregory Burd’s Summary

biography:
Gregory Burd is currently a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Berkeley DB database products. He has held this post since 2003, through the acquisition of Sleepycat Software by Oracle Corporation in February of 2006, and continues working on Berkeley DB products within Oracle's Embeddable Databases Group. Mr Burd has a diverse background including software engineering, product management, enterprise software consulting, software alliances and sales, and has contributed to open source and free software projects.

philosophy:
I am passionate about the delivery of software product. I care deeply about the people I work with and the teams I contribute to. I am interdisciplinary, unconventional, and ardent. I enjoy project requiring creative problem solving, prudent risk taking, and careful orchestration. I take the initiative, and I accept the responsibility. I learn from my mistakes. I am a consummate communicator.

Gregory Burd’s Specialties:

Technical Writing, Technical Presentation, Technical Leadership, Market Analysis, Product Positioning, Project Management, Networking, Databases, Languages, UNIX administration, ANSI C, Java, NoSQL

Gregory Burd’s Experience

Senior Product Manager

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 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.
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.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
Albuquerque Academy