Roy Gum

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About Roy Gum

A visionary, innovative leader with proven strategic planning, product management and engineering capabilities brought together through broad experience in technology, software engineering, management, and the delivery of enterprise software solutions to solve business problems. Plus I can fly airplanes, I have several college degrees and applied to be an astronaut! What have you done lately? I have a passion for using technology to solve business challenges and helping customers understand how best to address these challenges through clear and simple communication. I have unique perspective as a software engineer, product manager and presales consultant, but I have also been the customer on the other side of the desk being sold to by technology vendors and I understand the customers thought process. Complete product lifecycle experience from initial concept and planning to development and launch, and subsequent on-going release management. Specific expertise in building and managing technology teams, product strategy and requirements, roadmap development, architectural direction and oversight, client engagement, advisory boards and development partners and management of 3rd-party relationships. Broad technical knowledge of enterprise application platforms, Cloud Computing, CRM, Enterprise Content Managment, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), business process and workflow management (BPM), Business Intelligence (BI), web portals and applications, Internet technologies, information assurance and technology security management and Mobile Applications. Specialties: Expert at building and managing technical teams and establishing sponsorship for Business Strategy Initiatives, Strategic planning, product management, product strategy, software engineering management, software architectures, information assurance and technology security, new product development, SOA, SaaS, Web, Cloud Computing and Mobile strategies.