Sr. Technical Product Manager
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- Sr. Product Mgr., New Product Innovation at Hoovers Inc.
- VP, Product & Technology at ActCentric
- Executive Director at The Cyc Foundation
- Past
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- Sr. Technical Product Manager at Hoover's, Inc., a Dun & Bradstreet company
- Principal Consultant at Objective Mastery
- Director, Customer Solutions at Cycorp, Inc.
- Executive Director, Information Technology at Fulcrum Direct, Inc.
- Education
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- Regis University
- The University of New Mexico
- Le Moyne College
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John De Oliveira’s Summary
Over twenty years of diverse management, development and marketing experience. A highly accomplished, multi-faceted senior manager possessing hands-on skills with next-generation information technologies. Valuable experience in conceiving, selling and launching successful strategic information initiatives. Effective and passionate leader able to build teamwork and inspire individuals to perform at their best. Solid reputation for doing more with less.
John De Oliveira’s Experience
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Sr. Product Mgr., New Product Innovation
Hoovers Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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VP, Product & Technology
ActCentric
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — Present (2 years)
ActionItem helps people get things done together. ActionItem.com is a web-based application, with a full-featured free version, that delivers a unique collaboration and agile productivity environment for small teams and large companies alike.
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Executive Director
The Cyc Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
This non-profit organization has assumed stewardship of the Cyc structural ontology and the open source portions of the Cyc knowledge base—the world’s largest repository of machine-readable, common-sense knowledge. The Foundation is working on a version of Wikipedia that enables browsing the encyclopedia by concepts.
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Sr. Technical Product Manager
Hoover's, Inc., a Dun & Bradstreet company
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DNB; Information Services industry)
February 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Product development for Internet-based business information products. Hoover's is the leading supplier of business information, including information about companies and industries.
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Principal Consultant
Objective Mastery
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)
Developing Web applications using Ruby on Rails, including e-commerce, social networking and knowledge management solutions.
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Director, Customer Solutions
Cycorp, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — May 2006 (7 years 10 months)
Project manager and artifical intelligence researcher also doing knowledge engineering at Cycorp, home of the Cyc Project. Also help with Business Development and Marketing. Managed the OpenCyc and ResearchCyc projects from birth to release.
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Executive Director, Information Technology
Fulcrum Direct, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — July 1998 (3 years 7 months)
Top information technology officer for Fulcrum Direct, a $100 million direct marketer of proprietary children's apparel brands (with a circulation of 40 million catalogs annually). Managed growth from $3M to $100M revenue in 3 years. Became an Equity Partner in the firm in 1996. On executive management team; participated in corporate strategic decision-making.
