Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

VP at PostRank

Kitchener, Canada Area

Current
Past
  • VP Product Management at Mindreef, Inc.
  • President at Ironring Software
  • Director of Software Developement at WWWhoosh
  • Director and Software Architect at Pencom New Technologies
  • Software Engineer at Aspen Technology
  • Software Engineer at Hyprotech
Education
  • University of Waterloo
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Jim Murphy’s Summary

Wearer of many hats in early stage/startups

LeanStartup, Customer Development,
Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Development
Software Architecture, Product Development
Business Models and Go-To-Market planning 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 Media, Web 2, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services,
Enterprise Software, Software as a Service, and Consumer Internet

Hands-On, Highly Technical and Motivated

Jim Murphy’s Specialties:

LeanStartup, Customer Development,

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

    PostRank

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    July 2008Present (1 year 9 months)

    Assisted early stage Web 2.0 style startup

    Hired and managed development team, evolving agile development culture and practices

    Hands on development of a cloud based, distributed system in Ruby, MySQL and Java

    Defined and implement product strategy identifying business development opportunities, building direct sales channel, negotiated data licensing agreements

    Plan and execute marketing initiatives, business development, empty dishwasher, slightly improved my foosball game

  • VP Product Management

    Mindreef, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    June 2002June 2008 (6 years 1 month)

    Founded enterprise software company building test,diagnostic and governance infrastructure for XML Web services and Service Oriented Architectures

    Lead teams to help with software development, market development, evangelism and product management

    Served as product line architect and eventually as product manager

    Supported sales, strategic partnerships, road mapping feedback with key accounts: Salesforce.com, IBM, WellsFargo, Schwab, AT&T, Liberty Mutual, Fidelity

    Acquired by Progress Software, June 2007

  • President

    Ironring Software

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 1998October 2002 (4 years 10 months)

    Consulting - Angel and Institutional/Venture services, Architecture, Project management, Product management, Marketing

    Worked with several web companies building large scale, high performance distributed systems doing due diligence, design, implementation and debugging from Wall Street to Silicon Valley

    Acted on behalf of institutional venture and high net worth investors helping startups with technical and market challenges, cleaning up post-bubble companies.

    Assisted with project planning and execution of globally scaled automated financial trading application

    Worked with an early stage family business building an "eTrade in a Box" application marketed to smaller regional banks

    Assisted in the consolidation of several electronic medical record companies

  • Director of Software Developement

    WWWhoosh

    (Computer Software industry)

    19992001 (2 years )

    My bubble company :)

    Raised $4M series A in late March 2000! Felt very, very alone.

    Founded and 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 Internet architecture, TCP/HTTP and the ability to develop an innovative product in a changing market environment

    Learned how not to grow a European office

  • Director and Software Architect

    Pencom New Technologies

    (Computer Software industry)

    19981999 (1 year )

    Founded a fixed price, custom software development shop in Boston and 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 young, highly skilled software developers in a dynamic environment

  • Software Engineer

    Aspen Technology

    (Public Company; AZPN.PK; Industrial Automation industry)

    19961998 (2 years )

    Learned first-hand the power of highly disruptive products in an underserved market

    Assisted in the integration of many large, complex modeling systems built in different languages and platforms into a cohesive architecture

    Built complex thermodynamic and transport models for refinery and petrochemical processes used in model predictive control and closed loop, real time optimization

  • Software Engineer

    Hyprotech

    (Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    19921996 (4 years )

    Opened remote development office in Houston, Texas

    Migrated widely deployed, petrochemical process simulator, HYSIM, from DOS based implementation in C to object oriented Windows GUI application

    Developed advanced thermodynamic models for multiphase fluid flow to model pipeline characteristics

    Applied large scale, numerical solution methods to non-linear, partial differential models for energy and mass transfer simulation


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, aviation, kung fu, carpentry, motorcycles

Jim Murphy’s Groups:

Communitech, NAO, StartupCamp

  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    Pragmatic Marketing Alumni
  •    280 Group: Product Management & Product Marketing
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Waterloo Alumni
  •    Web Analytics Association
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    Toronto Entrepreneur Alliance
  •    Agilistas
  •    .Net Professionals
  •    Salesforce.com Professional Network
  •    AspenTech Alumni
  •    Scrum Practitioners
  •    Cloud Computing
  •    Net Promoter Score (NPS) Forum
  •    Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
  •    Kitchener-Waterloo Entrepreneurs
  •    Conversational Marketing Group
  •    Hyprotech Alumni
  •    Kitchener-Waterloo Executives
  •    Solr
  •    CM Summit NY 2009 - Attendees Only
  •    The Social Blogger
  •    Tech Capital Partners
  •    Third Tuesday
  •    Lean Startup
  •    Canadian Digital Media Network
  •    Lean Startup Circle

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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