Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

VP Development at AideRSS

Kitchener, Canada Area

Current
  • VP Development at AideRSS
Past
  • VP Product Management at Mindreef, Inc.
  • Consultant - Architecture, Projects, Products at Ironring Software (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Director of Software Developement at WWWhoosh
  • Software Architect at TransactionWorks
  • Software Architect/Project Manager at Pencom New Technologies
  • Software Engineer at Aspen Technology
  • Software Engineer at Hyprotech
Education
  • University of Waterloo
Connections
198 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Jim Murphy’s Summary

Jobs:
Product Management, Business Development
Software Architecture, Product Development
Business Models and Go-To-Market Strategy Evolution and Execution
Managing Software Development Teams
Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Project Management
Bridging Agile and Market-Oriented Product Management

Context:
Early Stage Companies, Developing New Markets

Examples:
Social computing, Web 2, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services,
Enterprise Software and Software as a Service Delivery Models

Hands-On, Technical and Motivated

Jim Murphy’s Specialties:

Agile Product Management
Certified Product Owner (CPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), http://www.scrumalliance.org

Pragmatic Marketing Certified
http://www.pragamticmarketing.com/


Jim Murphy’s Experience

  • VP Development

    AideRSS

    (Computer Software industry)

    July 2008Present (1 month)

    Manage development team, define strategy, business development, product management

  • VP Product Management

    Mindreef, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 2002June 2008 (6 years 1 month)

    Joined founding team to help with software development, market development, evalgelism and product management.
    Served as product line architect and eventually as product manager.

    http://www.mindreef.com/

  • Consultant - Architecture, Projects, Products

    Ironring Software (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    January 1998October 2002 (4 years 10 months)

    Worked with companies building distributed systems especially focus on DCOM, and high performance XML based messaging systems. Worked with Excelergy Corporation on their eXact product, a high performance XML service bus.

  • Director of Software Developement

    WWWhoosh

    (Computer Software industry)

    20002001 (1 year)

    Lead a team of engineers building Internet content acceleration technology. High performance appliance grade software for lower bandwidth costs for high traffic sites. Required a deep understanding of TCP/HTTP and the ability to develop an innovative product in a changing market environment.

  • Software Architect

    TransactionWorks

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    19992001 (2 years)

    Worked on web based, high perfornace distributed financial trading system - "eTrade in a Box" for smaller banks that want to offer online banking capabilities.

    Performed technial and management due dilligence for investors on related interests.

  • Software Architect/Project Manager

    Pencom New Technologies

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    19981999 (1 year)

    Opened first remote office in Boston area for newly formed fixed-price, custom software development consulting group based in New York City.
    Developed advanced analytical software for the American Red Cross Organ Transplant Lab in Baltimore, MD for matching bone marrow donors with potential recipients
    Managed team of highly skilled software developers in a dynamic environment

  • Software Engineer

    Aspen Technology

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    19961998 (2 years)

    Built complex thermodynamic and transport models for refinery and petrochemical processes used in model predictive control and closed loop, real time optimization.
    Integrated large, complex modeling systems in different languages into a cohesive architecture.

  • Software Engineer

    Hyprotech

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    19921996 (4 years)

    Helped start a new development office in Houston, Texas to develop petrochemical specialty group.
    Migrated successful commercial process simulator HYSIM from DOS based implementation to Windows UI environment
    Developed advanced thermodynamic models for multiphase fluid flow to model pipeline characteristics.


Jim Murphy’s Education

  • University of Waterloo

    BASc, Engineering, 19901995

    Option in Management Science, Operations Research


Additional Information

Jim Murphy’s Websites:

Jim Murphy’s Interests:

family and kids, kung fu, carpentry, motorcycles

Jim Murphy’s Groups:

Communitech, NAO, StartupCamp

  •    International Association of Software Architects member
  • Pragmatic Marketing Alumni member
  •    280 Group member
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs member
  •    Agilistas member
  •    .Net Professionals member
  •    Salesforce.com Professional Network member
  •    Scrum Practitioners member
  •    Cloud Computing member

Jim Murphy’s Honors:

2007 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, both SOA and Test & QA
2007 Jolt Productivity Award, Testing, Mindreef SOAPscope
2006 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, SOA and Integration
2005 Infoworld Technology of the Year, Best Web Services Dev Tool
2003 Jolt Productivity Award, Web Services Tool, Mindreef SOAPscope


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