Kitchener, Canada Area
- Current
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- Senior Vice President of Research & Development at Open Text Corporation
- Past
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- Vice President of Research & Development at Open Text Corporation
- Director of Solutions Development at Open Text Corporation
- Manager of Custom Development at Open Text Corporation
- Senior Technical Architect at Open Text Corporation
- Senior Technical Architect at b2bScene (a division of Open Text Corporation)
- Senior Integrator at Open Text Corporation
- Intermediate Integrator at Open Text Corporation
- Software Developer at Digital Extremes
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Nicholas Oddson’s Experience
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Senior Vice President of Research & Development
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
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Vice President of Research & Development
Open Text Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 1 month)
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Director of Solutions Development
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)
Managed several R&D teams focused on platform design, technology stack integration with SharePoint/Office 2007 and solutions for regulatory and compliance needs (CFR21-11, SOX404, SOX302/906).
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Manager of Custom Development
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Managed a consultant development team under the Global Services division of Open Text Corporation. Profts pushing $5-$8M with 65%-80% margin for team varying from 15-20 in size over 2.5 years.
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Senior Technical Architect
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — March 2003 (1 year)
Worked in Global Services division heading up most large scale technical customizations to Open Text's core product. This involved pre-sales support, requirement scoping, analysis and design, implementation, test plans and support and maintenance strategies. Supervised teams on services projects as the technical lead and architect for high value customers.
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Senior Technical Architect
b2bScene (a division of Open Text Corporation)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 3 months)
Was one of the two lead technical resources asked to start a new division of Open Text Corporation with the intention for spinoff. b2bScene was a software company working in a ASP / "software as a service" model for document management and services. The core Open Text technology was leveraged heavily but extended to support the needs of the service model. This division had some large scale customers (such as PwC for M&A portals) but unfortunately it was at the end of the dot-com era and was folded back into the larger corporate entity.
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Senior Integrator
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — December 1999 (9 months)
Senior professional services consultant, providing level of effort estimates, best practices, detailed design and advanced customization work.
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Intermediate Integrator
Open Text Corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OTEX; Computer Software industry)
April 1998 — March 1999 (1 year)
Professional services consultant. Focused on security, 3rd party software integration and Livelink customization.
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Software Developer
Digital Extremes
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1995 — April 1998 (3 years)
Part of the programming team for Extreme Pinball (implementing game logic), Unreal (network stack on DirectPlay) and Survivor "unpublished" (game server technology).
