Blair Layton

Current

• Senior Manager, Developer Program at Oracle Corporation

Past

• Senior Solutions Manager, Oracle Database at Oracle
• Senior Product Manager, Migration Technology Group at Oracle
• Consultant, Partner Technical Services at Oracle

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Education

• The University of Queensland

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Blair Layton’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Developer Program

  Oracle Corporation

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

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  I run a small business development team across Asia Pacific focusing on the growth and engagement of the Oracle community of software developers, DBAs, and architects.
  
  The position involves working with many lines of business, across all countries in Asia Pacific, including the HQ office to manage the overall delivery of the developer program.
  
  The main focus is on the engagement of the large strategic customers and SIs to deliver custom programs aimed at selling from the bottom up through the technical audience inside these organisations.
  
  Other activities include supporting major marketing events such as OTN Developer Days, Oracle Develop, 3rd-party sponsorships, user group engagement, online education seminars, and evangelist program management.

• Senior Solutions Manager, Oracle Database

  Oracle

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

  August 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 8 months)

  The primary responsibility for this role was to manage the sales/sales consulting enablement of Oracle database across the Asia Pacific region.
  
  Other responsibilities included providing critical customer support, key deal support, HQ product management engagement and product feedback.
  
  Essentially this role involved acting as the central contact point for Oracle Database product information, sales support, training, and technical support in Asia Pacific.

• Senior Product Manager, Migration Technology Group

  Oracle

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

  January 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 8 months)

  Product manager for the development of software to assist customers move from 3rd-party solutions to Oracle solutions, such as SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase to Oracle and ASP to Java. This position involved product direction guidance, customer interaction/feedback, marketing events, documentation reviews, development reviews, online web site management.

• Consultant, Partner Technical Services

  Oracle

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

  September 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 5 months)

  Assisting Oracle partners with architecture advice, product support, project work, project management, migration from 3rd party products to the Oracle Technology platform.

Blair Layton’s Education

• The University of Queensland

  Bachelor , Information Technology , 1992 — 1996

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