Stephen Fry

Current

• Product Manager - Enterprise IP portfolio at Nortel
• Product Management Consultant at Ideas2Profits

Past

• Technical Services Manager at CareConnect/Ontario Telemedicine Network
• Business Development at Voice Synergies
• Product Mgmt, Marketing, Account Management at Nortel Networks

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Education

• Queen's University at Kingston

Recommended

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Connections

98 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Stephen Fry’s Summary

A Product Management professional with a passion for customer advocacy applied to product definition, commercialization, marketing and business development experience in a variety of established and new venture organizations. Significant accomplishment in customer and internal/external partner relationship management, market needs analysis, product specification and sales support of communications and IT products and services. Track record of team success through strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills applied through diligent project management processes.

I welcome opportunities to share market information that may be mutually beneficial. Thank you.

Stephen Fry’s Specialties:

- Diverse communications, information technology, applications knowledge
- Needs analysis, solution synthesis, proposal development, preparation and delivery of customer solutions
- Business case development based on effective application of technology, market/financial values
- Healthcare videoconferencing, imaging systems, services (PACS)
- Excellent communication skills in client engagement, management of direct reports and virtual teams
- ITIL Foundations v3 completed, PMP in progress

Stephen Fry’s Experience

• Product Manager - Enterprise IP portfolio

  Nortel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Product Manager - Software release management for Business Communications Manager IP-PBX portfolio. Priority is software sustaining and feature enhancement with multi-national development, customer support and in-market (NA, CALA, EMEA) teams.

• Product Management Consultant

  Ideas2Profits

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  Provide commercialization and marketing consulting services to companies (market research and implementation of results) focused on communications and IT in healthcare, energy management and information management.
  
  www.alceatech.com
  Development of marketing communications material for ITIL - issue management software/service.
  
  www.cirilab.com
  Commercialize information management product for broad market application.
  
  www.icitdatasystems.com
  Business development for innovative IT product enabling effective data sharing, reporting between disparate data sources.
  
  www.theottawanetwork.com
  Venture Creations Group, educating and enabling early stage ventures. Organize business plan review sessions - new ventures are successfully prepared for formal financing.
  
  www.oce-ontario.org
  Industry Investment Consultant Proposal Reviewer for Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) and Healthcare Technology Exchange (HTX) Research Partnership Programs.

Additional Information

Stephen Fry’s Interests:

market research, opportunity identification and delivery of new technology applications soccer, cycling

Stephen Fry’s Groups:

IEEE
OCE-CITO Ontario Government innovation investment organization - Industry Expert for Investment Reviews
The Ottawa Network - new venture business plan reviews
Osgoode-Rideau Minor Hockey Association board Secretary

•    HAPPEN member
•    Nortel Connection member
•    eBusiness Cluster member

Stephen Fry’s Honors:

Circle of Excellence Sales Support Award, Pride Awards 2000, 2001
- Nortel AT&T Sales team award for outstanding assistance with customer education, customer relationship development, demonstrated technical competence and opportunity closure. Nortel Account executive: “Steve's unique background in (data and optical products) was just what was needed to position our portfolio. We have just received our first $1 Million of … orders from AT&T Broadband Solutions!”
- AT&T Engineer proposal seminar feedback: "Steve accomplished in 4 hours what other vendors have attempted to do over a month with several teams of technical experts"

Stephen Fry’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch