Initiation and Management of Strategic Projects
High-Tech companies need to keep innovating to maintain their edge while growing revenue, increasing market share and expanding their work force in size and also geographically.
I provide hands-on management in product management, business development, development, hiring, and outsourcing. Working with management and operational teams, I devise plans that provide direction and momentum. And focusing squarely on results, I manage the execution of these plans.
Strategic Projects
SDL Tridion
SDL Tridion was established in 1999 and has constantly grown into a leader of web content management systems for enterprises. Total investments until 2001 were € 23 million from venture capitalists Doughty Hanson, Barnard & Company, Gilde IT, Kappa IT Ventures and Prime Technology Ventures. In 2007 SDL acquired Tridion, which further strengthened its global presence.
Having been very successful in the market in recent years, Tridion was looking for someone to kick-start innovation and to lead a number of research and architecture projects to assure that the company would remain on the leading edge of the content management space. Over the course of a year, I built teams and defined scope for several new initiatives including a high availability solution and a new web interface.
Q-go
Q-go was founded in 1999 and received significant funding in late 2000 from Alpinvest Partners, Newion Investments, and Prime Technology Ventures. Following difficulties in the post .com bubble era, Q-go made a remarkable recovery under new management and grew to become a leading European supplier of natural language search solutions.
Its business generating solid cash flow, Q-go wanted to increase its long-term development efficiency by strengthening product management. They promoted two junior product managers whom I supported as coach. Together we developed the first roadmap in the history of the company.
Plexus Medical Group
The Plexus Medical Group is a consultancy specializing in the health care industry. Over the years, they built up a wealth of knowledge, which was formalized in a library of key performance indicators for hospital efficiencies. Plexus makes these KPIs available to hospital clients in a SaaS model.
Plexus was looking for someone who could turn the initial application into a successful product and build a development and support organization around it. I was brought on board for six months and created a roadmap, strengthened the team, and upgraded the application through several smaller releases with the objective of making it ready to be spun out into an independent company.