Rich Manalang

Current

• Product Strategy Director at Oracle AppsLab

Past

• Creator and Lead Developer at Monkeygrease Open Source Project
• Director of Technology Applications Consulting at Oracle
• Principal Sales Engineer at Oracle | PeopleSoft

• Manager, Employee Productivity Systems at PeopleSoft
• Technical Lead/Application Developer at PeopleSoft
• Professional Services Consultant at PeopleSoft
• Systems Consultant at Hewitt Associates

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Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Rich Manalang’s Summary

Rich's experience spans over 12+ years of web application development and design. Throughout those years, Rich balanced roles as an engineer, architect, designer, and manager. He's played critical roles in consulting, product development and strategy, IT, and sales.

Rich Manalang’s Specialties:

* Deep knowledge of complex web applications spans all aspects from client-side to server-side technologies
* Well versed in user interface design/interaction and development
* Open source and web standards evangelist. Actively participating in several open-source software development projects
* Firm believer and practitioner of Agile methodologies.

Rich Manalang’s Experience

• Product Strategy Director

  Oracle AppsLab

  (Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Oracle AppsLab is a think-tank developed to drive adoption and innovation of new web patterns and technologies across Oracle’s business and products. We’re a small group dedicated to living and breathing Web 2.0.
  
  My role has primarily been an architect and lead developer. In this role, I've adopted the use of Ruby on Rails, JRuby, jQuery, and numerous other technologies and frameworks.

• Creator and Lead Developer

  Monkeygrease Open Source Project

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 2 months)

  Creator and lead developer of the Monkeygrease (http://monkeygrease.org) open source project — a simple solution that allows easy customization of packaged Java based web applications by means of JavaScript/CSS injection. This project was recently featured on the popular Ajaxian weblog, O'Reilly Radar, and several recent podcast regarding Web 2.0 and AJAX.

• Director of Technology Applications Consulting

  Oracle

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

  June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)

• Principal Sales Engineer

  Oracle | PeopleSoft

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

  September 2001 — May 2006 (4 years 9 months)

  Design, build, and maintain PeopleSoft application demonstration environments to support the sales organization worldwide. These environments bring together all PeopleSoft Enterprise applications on latest releases and are coupled with third-party software. The management and use of these environments are governed by web applications I designed and developed allowing sales consultants to easily brand and prepare demonstration servers according to the prospect's RFP. Recognized as an outstanding contributor to PeopleSoft in 2002 for work in this area.

• Manager, Employee Productivity Systems

  PeopleSoft

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

  December 1999 — September 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Managed eight engineers who developed and maintained PeopleSoft's internal enterprise portal implementation, content management systems, and knowledge repositories. Implemented PeopleSoft's Enterprise Portal internally in six weeks being the very first PeopleSoft 8 implementation. Key player in developing PeopleSoft's Enterprise Portal product strategy — helped in developing technology architecture as well as steered direction by providing real-world requirements to engineering teams. Co-developed portal applications with product development teams. Designed PeopleSoft's overall user interface for the intranet.

• Technical Lead/Application Developer

  PeopleSoft

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

  January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years )

  Designed and developed Workforce Analytics/Compensation Planning and Simulation Engine for PeopleSoft's first release of Enterprise Performance Management suite. Lead team of 4 developers from the functional/technical design phase to delivery.

• Professional Services Consultant

  PeopleSoft

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

  January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  Successfully implemented PeopleSoft solutions at several large, multinational organizations — worked on implementations in Australia, Canada, and in the United States. Participated in many technical "fire-fighting"/troubleshooting engagements to effectively solve customer problems in limited amounts of time. Contributed code to PeopleSoft developers to build new functionality for PeopleSoft's Payroll product.

• Systems Consultant

  Hewitt Associates

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; HEW; Management Consulting industry)

  June 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 7 months)

  Designed and implemented Client Profitability and Growth reporting software for regional manager, managing consultants, and firm owners using corporate data warehouse. Provided financial data warehousing support to all West Region managers.

Rich Manalang’s Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  Bachelors of Science , Mathematics , 1991 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Resident Advisor, WOW (Week of Welcome) Counselor, Circle K (service organization)

Additional Information

Rich Manalang’s Interests:

Technology, Open Source, Photography, Running

Rich Manalang’s Groups:

JRuby

•    Ruby on Rails
•    PeopleSoft Community (+8000 Members)
•    JRuby Users Group

Rich Manalang’s Honors:

* PeopleSoft Outstanding Contributor in 2002
* Consistently exceeded expectations in employee reviews at PeopleSoft

Rich Manalang’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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