Director of Product Management at Data Kinetics
Ottawa, Canada Area
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- Director of Product Management at Data Kinetics
- Direct of Product Manager / Product Development at TireStamp Inc.
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- Director, Ottawa Engineering at NetManage Inc.
- V.P. of Engineering at ShowBase Inc.
- Supervisor Of Technical Support at Dy4 Systems
- Developer/Manager at Multiprocessor Toolsmiths
- Education
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- Carleton University
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Kevin Watson’s Summary
Kevin Watson B.Eng.(Systems and Computer Engineering) has 23 years of experience in Real-Time and IT-related product architecture and development. Mr. Watson has both developed on and led numerous projects the private sector. His extensive development and architecture includes 9 years as a lead architect, 8 years as a Team Lead, and 6 years as a Developer in a wide variety of technologies. Many of his former clients include Fortune 500 companies, US military, Canadian government departments, and non-profit organizations.
For the last 13 years, Kevin Watson has worked in Web Technologies. He started working on web based technologies as early as 1996 with a company called ShowBase. ShowBase specialized in publishing databases to the web. After that, he started to work at Simware/NetManage on the Salvo/OnWeb project. This product line specialized in retrieving data from an IBM mainframe or database and exposing it as a web service, HTML pages, Java bean, or J2EE component. NetManage became known as an E-Commerce company allowing their customers to purchase everything from Airfares & Hotels to paperclips across the internet.
Kevin Watson was able to get access to early releases of WebSphere due to Simware’s close working relationship with IBM. Kevin Watson did the first technical competitive analysis for Simware; comparing WebSphere against Simware’s Salvo product line.
Kevin Watson has been a contributing co-author for the second edition of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0 published by John Wiley and Sons scheduled to be released in 2009.
Kevin Watson presently has a valid Secret Security clearance with the following 95-54-4466,
Kevin Watson’s Specialties:
23 years experience has honed the following commercialization competencies:
• Responsible for technical architecture, design, new feature enhancements & product management.
• Monitored day-to-day activities of team.
• Budgeted the expenses for a $3 million dollar development site
• Managed & Leaded teams ranging from 8-45 people (located in Canada, USA, Israel)
• Built teams by recruiting top notch developers (hired & fired)
Kevin Watson’s Experience
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Director of Product Management
Data Kinetics
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
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Direct of Product Manager / Product Development
TireStamp Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
TireStamp is an innovative tire data analytics company, which collects and analyzes relevant tire data to reduce operational costs for commercial and passenger fleets. In current role, I am responsible for all issues relating to product management, product development, and manufacturing.
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Director, Ottawa Engineering
NetManage Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NETM; Computer Software industry)
October 1997 — May 2008 (10 years 8 months)
Responsible for the development of OnWeb. A Middlewear product designed to "re-skin" access legacy & contemporary data into more usable components or interfaces.
Was Site Manager for 30+ people (Tech Support, QA, Engineers, etc.) -
V.P. of Engineering
ShowBase Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 2 months)
Developed web based publishing products
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Supervisor Of Technical Support
Dy4 Systems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years )
Implemented customer-tracking system to better track bugs, issues, technical notes, etc. System resulted in an increase customer care satisfaction.
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Developer/Manager
Multiprocessor Toolsmiths
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1989 — 1994 (5 years )
Commercialized real-time operating System & tools researched at NRC & Carleton University.
Kevin Watson’s Education
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Carleton University
BEng , Computer System Engineerng , 1981 — 1985
