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Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Istanbul, Türkiye

• Greg leads Qualified ONE's product management consulting and training practice.

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Aug 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

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Dec 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 · 0 mo

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs

• Providing strategic product management consulting services, including assessing the maturity of product management organizations. I also provide cutting edge training on product management fundamentals and workshops on product strategy, Product Management and Design and research engagement with product development. Coaching for product managers and product management leadership also available.
• List of upcoming trainings on www.prickril.com.

Jul 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Part of core team that established an organization dedicated to managing innovation in a billion dollar company
• Implemented Agile/Lean approach to defining priorities and managing work, including management of a tool-supported hierarchy of backlogs. Defined best practices for group regarding prioritization of opportunities sprint planning etc.
• Lead product management discipline on team created to manage innovation and incubate new business ideas company-wide
• Consulted innovators on negotiating gated “innovation process”, including the definition of products and associated business cases. Prepared multiple topics for formal senior management review.
• Successfully liaised between New Business Incubation team and research/Advanced Technology Group to ensure proper alignment of research and commercial priorities, including definition of priorities and statements of work
• Led efforts to acquire intellectual property rights for commercially relevant technologies from universities
• Provide ongoing leadership and guidance by mentoring product owners weekly

Sep 2011 – Jul 2012 · 10 mos

• Defined strategy for entrance into urban management market via urban safety and security
• Engaged with industry analysts to share vision and capabilities, helping to shape the burgeoning topic of “safe city”
• Defined solution details, including products to be developed, capabilities to be acquired and required services offerings
• Led multi-discipline team producing collateral for sales, including customer presentation, value proposition and detailed product description
• Led product ownership discipline as part of a highly successful roll-out of Agile development
• o Developed product ownership best practices and engagement model with R&D and recruited product owners from research and development
• o Consulted on development of tools and practices to manage hierarchies of backlogs
• Led build/buy analysis of critical “community engagement” capabilities
• Recognized as outstanding contributor and “go to” presenter throughout organization
• Presented and gave demonstrations of urban management/safety and security topics at trade shows and other events

May 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsible for defining vision, strategy and detailed portfolio investments for SAP’s business process management suite (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM)
• Established and managed hierarchical agile backlogs and portfolio priorities for business process management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM) topics as a member of the office of the Chief Product Owner
• Significant contribution to lean-based organizational policies and practices related to managing hierarchical sets of agile backlogs, including alignment practices and reporting requirements
• Defined a common strategy for BAM at SAP spanning multiple products and organizations
• Defined organizational practice for capturing vision and three-year roadmaps via “Vision and Roadmap” documents
• Responsible for engagement with SAP Research on BPM and BAM topics, including prioritizing research topics and defining the engagement model

Sep 2006 – May 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Established and led a team of “product designers”, building on my experience with the program management function at Microsoft. This team drove vision and scope for SAP NetWeaver’s business process management suite, NetWeaver BPM and Business Rules Management (BRM)
• Defined best practices related to expressing and managing scope, including the use of end-to-end scenario-based methodology
• Piloted “design partner councils”, close design collaboration programs with internal and external customers and systems integrators
• Acted as consultant and mentor for broadening the product design approach to the Technology Group and NetWeaver
• Actively participated in multiple engagements with industry analysts on NetWeaver product vision and strategy
• Organized portfolio review and feedback sessions with key members of SAP field, including business development, sales and pre-sales support

Jan 2006 – Sep 2006 · 8 mos

• Owner of business process management strategy and features in Microsoft’s Office-centric composite application platform, “LOBi”. LOBi is an effort to generalize the SAP-specific Mendocino/Duet platform for use by all customers and ISVs.
• Owner of key cross-group relationships, including LOBi’s most critical partner, Office Server Group.
• Owner of functional specifications and responsible for coordinating the development effort of the following features:
• o Document assembly (collaborative document authoring based on structured templates)
• o Contextual Workspaces (easily provisioned portals that carry business context)
• o Business context (meta-model based tagging of business Entities and content)
• Implemented end-to-end (E2E) scenario methodology to drive functional requirements on LOBi v1 release.
• Championed the approach and won support from key disciplines, e.g., development, test, including the definition of release milestone criteria based on E2Es
• Defined and managed the creation of key artifacts, including “swimlane” diagrams, user persona consolidation, activity lists etc.
• Key contributor to the long-term BPM vision of the division

Mar 2003 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Thought leader in Connected Systems Division regarding business analyst-oriented process modeling tools
• o Member of core team that promoted business analyst-based process modeling concepts resulting in a funded incubation project, Project Libra
• o Key contributor to development of business-level process meta-model
• o Owner of design process modeling tool specification, including definition of complete user experience
• o Owner of Libra business process notation, based on Business Process Management Notation (BPMN).
• o Owner of end-to-end scenario demo to showcase key model and tooling concepts
• o Extensive participation in managing relationships with external design partners (three of United States’ top global services integrators among others), including the creation of interim tools to facilitate model and tooling validation
• o Developed new, innovative approach to constraint-based workflow modeling to support adaptive workflow and facilitate gradual adoption of business process management
• o Key contributor to effort to define techniques to infer process definitions from user work patterns
• Program Manager for BizTalk Windows SharePoint Services adapter
• o One of key user-oriented features in BizTalk vNext
• o Worked broadly with groups inside Microsoft to promote this feature in Beta 1 via brownbags, Webcasts etc.
• o Key “bridge” feature for positioning BizTalk with Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft’s “platform” workflow component
• Program manager for Business Activity Services, a Windows SharePoint Services-based collaborative business-to-business portal

May 2000 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Defined product requirements and managed full development cycle for a major release (3.0) of Lotus’s process automation product, Lotus Workflow. Lotus Workflow is available on platforms as diverse as the PC and IBM zSeries, is translated into 14 languages and sold world wide.
• Represented the product team at numerous trade shows, customer events, customer visits and executive briefings. Articulated the platform’s value proposition to executives, IT managers, administrators and developers.
• Developed solutions building blocks designed to accelerate adoption of Lotus Workflow by existing and potential customers and partners
• Piloted instructor-led courseware for Lotus Workflow in English and Portuguese.
• Given highest possible annual performance rating
• Team generated one million dollars per person in revenue

Mar 1994 – May 2000 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• Delivered a Web-based procurement application processing millions of dollars in employee requisitions for one of the world’s largest petroleum companies. Considered an expert in the Americas on integration of Domino with SAP
• Architected and delivered complex collaborative solutions for some of Brazil’s largest companies, including the state-owned oil company and Brazil’s largest media company
• Developed an application framework that significantly reduced project delivery time and increased solution quality and supportability
• Gave lectures, presentations and taught self-developed advanced programming courses in English and Portuguese

Jan 1992 – Jan 1995 · 3 yrs