This page describes the key subject matter experts in the area of Product
Management at Nexbridge. Our sincere hope is that as we work with you, you will
come to treasure your relationship with us as much as we do with you. All our
people, by the very nature of our business, understand that we must exceed your
expectations of us. All we ask is that you let us help you.
CEO and founder of Nexbridge Inc., Randall has been a software development
professional since 1980. Randall brings thirteen years of strategic product
management and development, client relations, and change process reengineering
to the company. His software architecture skills are instrumental in creating
long-lived and highly flexible frameworks for the companies who engage his
services. He has worked extensively in virtually all aspects of the computer
software development and product business.
Randall's Product Management experience started in 1989 when he joined Data
Design Systems, Inc. to direct their line of software products. As Director of
Product Management, Randall set out a ten year strategic product plan for the
company. Taking a software configuration management (SCM) product on the Tandem
NonStop™ platform, with zero market penetration, Randall led a major
re-architecture effort of the product and the company. Creating a new vision of
what should be, Randall's product management and technical leadership drove that
new product, RMS, to become the leading SCM solution for the Tandem platform.
Brokering the relationship between the RMS user community and the developers,
Randall maintained the product vision while ensuring that user requirements were
consistently met, and often exceeded.
Stemming from the core corporate strategic product plan of Data Design
Systems, Randall also was product manager for a line of Tandem NonStop™ TCP/IP
protocols, including NFS, RPC, and SNMP. These laid the foundation for the
migration of RMS capabilities into heterogeneous computing environments.
In 1998, Randall pursued a career in consulting, leading to the foundation of
Nexbridge Inc., based on Product Management as a core business process. The
inclusion of Product Management fundamentals in his work as senior architect and
database administrator on contract to Victoria's Secret Stores Ltd. was
instrumental in the successful delivery of their second generation data
warehouse solutions on Tandem NonStop™ and TeraData platforms.
Involved at the initial strategic planning for Creative Discovery Inc.,
Randall helped analyze the success likelihood for a series of potential products
based concepts developed by their founders over fifteen years. He identified the
existing capabilities the founders wished to bring to market; established the
value of the capabilities to the founders and to their client base over the
projected life-span of their company; and continues to guide and mentor the
founders in maintaining and effective business strategy based on sensitivity to
their clients own expectations.
Working with Optimark Technologies Inc., a service company to stock
exchanges, Randall was chartered with bringing in a product model to their
development and application support group; building infrastructure to
significant reducing time-to-market for new capabilities; and helping them take
back control of the development of their software from an out-source company.
Randall also acted as a mentor in product development strategies, and technical
and architectural decisions for this client.
Randall also acts as a product mentor to various consultants to help focus
them on their core offerings and strategies.
Randall holds a B. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. In
addition to his Product Management experience, Randall has also worked as an
independent software development consultant, as Director of Client Services, as
a strategic software systems architect (in his role as Product Manager of RMS),
and as a software developer for small software companies.
Randall can be contacted at rsbecker@nexbridge.com.
You can also view his related Executive
Summary.
Peter has been involved in deploying computer-based solutions since 1974.
Initially as an Analytical Chemist, he utilized computers as an integral part of
delivering innovative solutions for the instrumentation and automation of
Chemical Analytical procedures. Since these early days he has applied his
experience and expertise in a variety of environments including scientific,
engineering and financial in both the private and public sectors working in the
North American, European and Middle Eastern markets. He brings a wealth of
knowledge and experience in the areas of product architecture and development,
change management and industrial, technical, and business process development
applying practical methodologies and solutions in many industries.
From 1985 to 1995, Peter fulfilled various roles in Logica, an international
software and consulting company. Among his achievements were developing
processes and methodologies for the development, deployment and customer support
for a financial application installed in major banks worldwide. These Product
Management activities involved software development in multiple locations
supporting a client base in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. He
was responsible for improving the time to market of software releases from five
weeks to one week for European and Middle East clients by improving the
coordination of process activities being executed in New York, Toronto, Boston
and London England. He led in the design and implementation of Product Review
and Customer Change request review processes and initiated the multinational
application of these processes.
Peter and Randall were both part of the Optimark team. Using the Nexbridge
approach to integrating development, users, and technology, into the overall
Product Management Framework, Peter brought the sustainable deployment of
changes in the management of Optimark’s product configuration from a minimum
of three weeks down to less than half a day. By leveraging and integrating the
users community’s actual methods of decision making into a configuration
structure, massive reductions in manual procedure overhead were removed. This
enabled significant reductions in time-to-market with minimal additional
training requirements.
Peter has also initiated the establishment of a customer call centers and
help desk, in Boston and London, and established proper coordination and
communication channels, greatly reducing both duplication of effort and ‘time
to problem’ resolution.
Peter can be contacted at pdobson@nexbridge.com.
You can also view his related Executive
Summary.
Randall S. Becker, CEO