David Meyer Resume

DAVID MEYER
1279 Arguello Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94122

415.846.1974 ■ [email protected]
STRENGTHS
Leadership and Organization Development
An inspirational leader who has regularly rebuilt groups of various disciplines into harmonious, efficient
departments. Has led QA, Development, Customer Support, Technical Publications, User Design, and Product
Management. Capable of rapidly analyzing organizations and restructuring them to thrive.
Creative Executive Strategist
A strategic thinker, adept at solving complex business issues with creative solutions. Comfortable working with C-
level executives to forge company strategy and develop plans to outmaneouver the competition.
Software Development Expert
Commands a thorough understanding of how to build usable, high-value, high-quality enterprise software on time
and on budget. A clear understanding of what works and what doesn’t work when building enterprise software for
Fortune 1000 companies, whether in a startup or a billion dollar public company.
EXPERIENCE
BEA Systems, Inc. October 2005 - Present
Vice President of Product Management, Business Interaction Division
Responsible for Product Strategy, Product Management, Roadmap and Delivery for 3 product lines:
o AquaLogic User Interaction
o Enterprise Social Computing
o AquaLogic BPM
Responsible for Technical Publications, Program Management and User Experience
Head of related Integration Team for current merger activity with Oracle
Grew revenue 40% YOY from 2006 to 2007 and growth continues apace
Regularly brief C-level management and engage with C-level customers
Manage product planning efforts across geographically disperse BEA product groups (U.S., India and Argentina)
Regularly brief customers, field personnel and analysts on the direction of the industry and the details of the BEA
products
PLUMTREE SOFTWARE September 1997 – October 2005

VP of Product Management, Program Management, and Technical Publications October 2004 to Present
Principal in diligence meetings with BEA that resulted in the October 21, 2005 acquisition.
Delivered Plumtree’s G6 Product Line, a simultaneous releas of 13 products including the flagship portal, on time
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September 15 , 2005, a date established in fall 2004.
Instituted Program Management across development, normalizing processes and development methodologies,
leading to predictable results.
Completed Plumtree’s Strategy Roadshow in May 2005, establishing product line roadmap through 2007.
Established new User Experience design team to address needs of future strategy
Regularly brief customers, field personnel and analysts on the direction of the industry and the details of the
Plumtree product line.
Regularly brought in to help close key company deals, especially multi-million dollar accounts.
Development’s representative on the Product Strategy Group, working with Sales on strategy and how to
achieve revenue targets.
Proposed, defined and participated in panel at Java One 2005 of major portal vendors
Interim Director of Worldwide Customer Care December 2003 – March 2004

In December 2003 Plumtree entered a Customer Care failure, where a combination of low morale, poor leadership,
and prevalent product quality issues led to a customer confidence crisis. Worldwide Customer Care was transferred
into Engineering.
Took over direct management of Customer Care,
Restructured team and established new mission, and
Hired new management team, including current VP of Worldwide Customer Care.
In the subsequent year our at-risk-customer-list dropped from 30 to 0, with record customer satisfaction ratings.
Interim Office of the Vice President of Engineering August – September 2003
In late 2003 the VP of Engineering took a new position in the company. I was appointed interim office of VP
reporting to the CEO, including the following activities: ran meetings with other engineering directors to establish
operating plans and resolve issues in the 130 person engineering department, reported weekly to CEO on strategy,
tactical concerns, and engineering progress, resolved interim organizational issues, and ran interview process for
replacement VP of Engineering.
Responsibilities expand to include Technical Publications 2003

In the summer of 2003 Plumtree released the 5.0 major release of Plumtree’s product line, with an incomplete and
inaccurate set of documentation. I was given control of Technical Publications, with activities including hiring new
management and talent, re-establishing customer confidence through conference calls, webinars, and customer
visits to key accounts, and fixing the documentation gap and customer perception gap by the end of 2003.
Director of Integration Products and Development Tools 2001

Led several development teams to build Plumtree integration products including
o SAP, Siebel, and PeopleSoft Frameworks
o Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Documentum portlets and crawlers
o Microsoft Excel Framework
Led developer tools development team to build development kits
Created developer ecosystem through online labs and active discussion forums
Director of Solution Center 2000

Built a new engineering organization under Business Development to help partners and customers apply technology
to business problems. Group included Development, Quality Assurance, Technical Publications, Program
Management and Product Management functions.
The Solution Center created a new marketplace for portlets, the building blocks of portals, materially differentiating
Plumtree products in Sales situations, and defining success criteria that competitors such as IBM and Microsoft
followed for 3 years. Attach rates for top selling portlets reached 70% of the install base.
Manager of Quality Assurance 1998 – 2000

Built QA team, established QA processes and procedures, released the first 3 major versions of the product line that
established Plumtree as a software vendor.
Quality Assurance Engineer 1997
SCIENTECH, INC. 1995 - 1997

Risk Analyst
Built and ran risk models for nuclear power plants for Probabilistic Risk Assessments
Developed new risk assessment approaches in conjunction with the University of Maryland
Crafted expert testimony for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Traveled to Kiev to train Ukrainians on Risk Assessment approaches
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA ( BSE Systems Engineering ) 1993
University of Washington – Seattle, WA ( MSE Civil Engineering ) 1995
Norwegian University of Technology – Trondheim, Norway (Valley Scholar) 1995

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DAVID MEYER

1279 Arguello Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94122

PLUMTREE SOFTWARE September 1997 – October 2005

Interim Director of Worldwide Customer Care December 2003 – March 2004

Responsibilities expand to include Technical Publications 2003

Director of Integration Products and Development Tools 2001

Director of Solution Center 2000

Manager of Quality Assurance 1998 – 2000

SCIENTECH, INC. 1995 - 1997

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