Alan Forbes Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, Nh, Us

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

I am a dynamic professional with a proven track record as the inventor and lead evangelist of RPR Wyatt's flagship product, PowerScripts. With expertise in both product and sales, I excel in wearing multiple hats in a small agile company. My contributions span managing development teams, coordinating cross-functional activities, leading sales efforts, and ensuring customer satisfaction. I am passionate about understanding market needs, aligning organizational strategies, and converting prospects into customers.Product Innovation: Successfully led the pivot of VitalSigns from an on-premises server monitoring solution to a cloud-based platform (“PowerScripts”) empowering IT managers to control PowerShell script execution in Microsoft365 environments.Sales: Play a pivotal role in the sales team, actively participating in writing proposals, delivering compelling pitches, and relentlessly following up on leads. Maintain a customer-centric approach to align the product with evolving market needs, resulting in increased deal flow.Agile Management: Managed multiple development teams across geographically dispersed locations, including the US and Hyderabad, India. Conducted regular SCRUM meetings to coordinate activities and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. Utilized JIRA, GIT, automated build scripts, NSIS, and Confluence for efficient project management.Marketing and Presentations: Leveraged my expertise to represent the company at trade shows, engaging with prospects in the booth and delivering presentations to live audiences. Review email copy, host webinars, and create content.Documentation and Code Reviews: Demonstrated attention to detail by writing comprehensive product documentation and marketing materials. Regularly conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.I am passionate about driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and achieving exceptional results in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Grapevine Tx

I drive product strategy for an out-of-the-box collaboration solution that drives a corporate culture shift from boring Intranet that nobody really likes to a social Intranet with integrated document management (stage 1) to a fully digital workplace (stage 2). I especially enjoy working geographically-dispersed custom application development projects which leverage Office 365 integration and Azure cloud deployment optimization. Recently helped the company position the software as a good solution for state fusion centers and helped land a five-year contract with the Utah State Information Analysis Center.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Bear Brook Software LLC is the legal entity which publishes my best-selling books on Amazon and gives me a playground in which keep my fingers in code. See our websites at www.epicmessages.com and www.remindermagic.com, two side gigs which taught me a lot.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Provide senior leadership and technical direction for a startup online newspaper. Researched, selected, and installed the website and collaboration tool set. Created and actively participate in a publishing process that utilizes Slack to take stories from ideas to publication. Member of the editorial advisory committee. See https://portsmouthpulse.com

New Jersey, United States

Provide senior leadership and technical direction for a very cool virtual company which produces software that helps drive cutting-edge animal research. Mentor China-based developers.

MZL Software was the legal entity which owned VitalSigns, which was later acquired by RPR Wyatt, Inc.

Reading Ma And Nice Fr

Responsible for all pre-sales demos and technical support for Desktop Manager, MailFlow Analyer, and InfoNSF. I served as the liason between the US market and the France-based development team.Wrote and executed mass-mailings using Vertical Response.Served as the SalesForce.com system administrator and managed the transition (and data migration) from Maximizer.I worked with Fortune 500 customers in support of their Notes environment to evaluate, customize, and deploy Desktop Manager and MailFlow Analyzer.

Cambridge Ma

Developed the next-generation browser application used to track compliance certifications of airplane components. Although I was originally hired to create an electronic version of a 'simple' paper form, I was able to convince key stakeholders that replicating an electronic version of an awkward paper process was not actually the best way forward. Despite the rigidity of government decision making I was able to guide the end users to imagine a dramatically improved workflow, of which the paper form (which was mandated by regulation) was merely the output. This process (and the resulting technology) was accepted and implemented across the western region.I was a subcontractor to a subcontractor to a subcontractor to a federal agency. While the project was a ultimately a success, one of the things I learned working here was that the (slow) pace of working in government is not really a good fit for me. I like to drive projects forward as rapidly as possible.

Nice Area, France

I managed product customization projects by gathering requirements from the customer, communicating them to development, then testing/explaining/implementing the results with the customer. I assisted customers with configuring a monitoring solution for Domino, Sametime, and BlackBerry servers. For several years I was the sole US employee of this French company and thus managed multiple aspects of the business, which included smoothing out the occasional cultural misunderstandings, handled all inbound sales, made cold calls, stood in trade show booths, wrote all the marketing materials for the US market, answered the telephone, etc.

Stoneham Ma

Managed the feature set and development of three Lotus-related applications including: PowerFlow (an advanced workflow engine targeted at Notes developers), Notrix (a data synchronization tool), ServerAdmin Plus (a Domino server administration productivity tool targeted at Notes administrators).

Wakefield Ma

Built the company from zero to 10 employees and from zero revenue to $2.1M before selling to my co-founders. Along the way I managed the development, marketing, and sales of Visual Help Desk-- a Lotus Notes based help desk platform, the rights to which I purchased from the bankruptcy administrator when Brainstorm Technologies flamed out.

North Andover Ma

QDM was a company way ahead of its time. As technical consultant, I helped companies realize the incredible power of Lotus Notes long before anybody really got it. A great group of people and awesome technology.

Cambridge Ma

I was responsible for all aspects of Brainstorm's software products. I filled in the gaps between different functions and departments in order to make sure that the products developed and made progress with the aim of making the product perform better relative to the competition.Gaps can occur between Development & Direction, Sales & Reality, Revenue & Profit and Managing & Doing

Burlington Ma

I got to experience the birth of LAN. When I joined the company the computers were not networked and we did not even have email. I helped implement and train users on cc:Mail, WordPerfect, Windows, Ami Pro, Laser printers, and lots of cool 'new' stuff.

Master Of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Graduated with honors by concentrating in entrepreneurship. Won the "Douglass prize" and had it handed to me on stage by non other than.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration