Inbound and outbound product management for products that help enterprises do things with data: Data and application integration, data preparation, data virtualization, Big Data, data warehousing, analytics, data discovery, and data quality products.
Senior Product Manager, Cisco Data Virtualization and Cisco Data Preparation @ In the Data Virtualization Business Unit (formerly Composite Software).
Product manager for Cisco Data Preparation. Developed strategy and roadmap for integration of Data Prep with Cisco Data Virtualization and other Cisco analytic offerings.
For Cisco Data Virtualization, owner of data source roadmap, data source SDK, and integration with Big Data and NoSQL sources. From December 2013 to Present (2 years 1 month) Senior Product Manager @ Contributor to Mule's connector development program and SDK; Customer on-ramp and documentation issues; benchmarking and performance efforts. From November 2012 to October 2013 (1 year) Freelance product management/marketing consultant @ Providing product management and product marketing services to technology companies. Selected client list: EventGnosis (complex event processing), Calpont (columnar database for analytics). From March 2012 to November 2012 (9 months) Data Integration Product Mktg Manager @ Outbound product marketing management activities including sales training, support on deals, public webcasts and collateral on data integration topics including Big Data and Cloud integration, preparing and presenting briefings for analysts, and working with product reviewers, press and PR agencies. Inbound activities included management of data integration product roadmap, competitive analysis around data integration (especially cloud integration and Big Data), and creation of requirements documents. From May 2011 to November 2011 (7 months) Senior Product Manager, Data Integration @ Senior product manager with PM responsibility for data integration products in middleware and database divisions, including Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), and accompanying data quality offerings. Served as Voice of the Customer for OWB data warehousing customers. Working on product strategy, positioning, and messaging, sales training, assisting with complex sales, resolving support issues, presenting at conferences, and cultivating reference customers. Working with marketing to determine product roadmap and messaging for middleware and database data quality products. From May 2009 to May 2011 (2 years 1 month) Senior Product Manager, Oracle Warehouse Builder @ Product manager on Oracle Warehouse Builder, the leading ETL/data quality/data integration tool. for the Oracle database. Input on feature set, engineering functional specifications, doc, collateral and whitepapers.
Refining product messaging/positioning for 11.2.
Creating and delivering product demonstrations (including VM demo environments and demo scripts).
Presenting OWB to customers and at conferences (OpenWorld 2008 on DQ and MDM; ODTUG New Orleans on SOAP/WS Integration from OWB; Collaborate08 on data quality and scope and execution risk); BIWA SIG 2008 on Data Rules in OWB.
Backstopping support for particularly difficult technical issues; working to improve communications and raise product profile through blogging and discussion groups, and introduce other means of collaborating with current and future customers.
Working on long term ideas on product messaging. From April 2007 to May 2009 (2 years 2 months) Principal Technical Writer/Tools Developer @ Developed new Web interface to upcoming database documentation library portal release, and automated documentation production processes based on Adobe Framemaker and Acrobat, to where >50K pages of documentation are rebuilt from source daily or weekly. Reduced documentation production costs, shortened typical production processing from days to hours, improved management visibility into the state of the documentation and reducing the risk due to manuals that are out of date with the current state of the product.
Redesigned the documentation library to take more advantage of Javascript, Dynamic HTML, and AJAX. Managed vendor evaluation for content management system, refining real techincal requirements and conferring with vendor representatives and internal decision makers.
Developed and maintained documentation for database backup tool Recovery Manager (RMAN). Developed documentation on Oracle Secure Backup tape backup utility. Worked closely with developers and product management for direction and review. From October 2002 to April 2007 (4 years 7 months) Editor, Popular Culture and Technology, and Web Developer @ Recruited and managed editorial team to cover film, interactive media and other popular culture. Defined house writing style. Managed and edited contributions of experienced professional journalists, academics and domain experts.
Managed arts and entertainment content syndication and co-branding relationship with Compuserve.
Built custom content management systems for publishing magazine and event calendar, with search engine optimization, in-browser WYSIWIG editing, and content syndication. Integrated subscription management and third-party payment services (e.g. iBill, PayPal, Verisign). From 1998 to 2006 (8 years) Web Designer/Database App Developer @ Provided Web site design and Web and database programming for varied clients including the Packard Foundation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Sites included online communities, group blogging sites, remote Unix web cache appliance administration, and assistance for other projects. From May 1999 to October 2002 (3 years 6 months) technical writer @ Wrote developer's guides, installation guides, application developer's cookbooks, and whitepapers on Telescript application server/intelligent agent programming language. Worked closely with development and product management staff on fast-evolving technologies. From October 1994 to August 1996 (1 year 11 months) Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Developer on CUSP/GV Agents cross-application scripting language/framework. Evaluated workflow technology from acquired company and planned incorporation of workflow engine into existing Viewpoint/GlobalView office automation suite. From October 1989 to July 1992 (2 years 10 months) Research Assistant/Programmer @ Research assistant/programmer working on intelligent tutoring systems, rule-based systems, and databases. Built search and indexing tools and browsing GUI for Wordnet lexical database (http://wordnet.princeton.edu). From May 1988 to October 1989 (1 year 6 months) Software developer @ Developer on personal finance and news and information access software. Developed portable code in C for DOS, Macintosh and Apple II. Created build and QA tools using AWK, sed and MKS Shell. From September 1987 to August 1988 (1 year) Summer Research Assistant @ Rapid application development and mainframe app UI prototyping using Smalltalk on PCs From 1985 to 1986 (1 year)
M. Phil., Comparative Literature @ Yale University From 1992 to 1998 BSE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science @ Princeton University From 1983 to 1987 Cum Laude, High School Graduate @ Collegiate School for Boys From 1971 to 1983 Carnot Romero is skilled in: Product Management, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Data Preparation, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Databases, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Oracle, Integration, ETL, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, XML
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http://www.aromero.com