Gavin Whyte Email & Phone Number

United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

As the Director of Product Management at More4apps, I play a crucial role in shaping the company's product vision and strategy. This role includes overseeing all aspects of product management, from initial concept through to launch and beyond.Key responsibilities include understanding the market and customer needs as well as creating and managing the product roadmap to ensure alignment between customer requirements and product features. This role also entails close collaboration with various departments to deliver innovative and user-centric products.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

As a Senior Product Manager for the Licenses & Registrations team at Avalara, I managed several SaaS products and services that helped companies research, acquire and renew licenses and registrations for their businesses. This included integration of the Business Licenses acquisition into Avalara while also leading the validation and implementation of new ideas. During this time, I also worked closely with UX design, Engineering, Analytics and Machine Learning teams to deliver several initiatives that delivered significant, measurable improvements that lead to increased conversion rates, improved customer satisfaction scores and a reduction of manual effort by over 30%.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I joined insightsoftware with the acquisition of Excel4apps and took over the Product Management of all Excel4apps solutions. As the business continued to acquire companies, I took on the Product Management of several newly acquired products including BizNet, Event1 Softtware and Mekko Graphics solutions. I worked with customers and internal teams in a fast-paced business to deliver maximum customer value and revenue growth.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I worked with our internal teams to bring the PeopleSoft and FinancialForce Wands products from concept to market. I performed both Product Management and Marketing functions, working with development, sales, internal operations, and marketing to ensure our solutions added real value to our customers and grew revenue for Excel4apps. The combination of product and positioning allowed us to gain several enterprise customers within the first year of availability.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I engage with companies running SAP and Oracle eBS in order to help streamline their reporting processes. I do this by applying my significant ERP experience in combination with the understanding of business processes and KPI's gained through my studies. I'm an avid believer in Microsoft Excel and its ability to empower non-technical users. Whilst helping clients, I get involved with sales, report development and training.

I operate as both a Senior Business Analyst and Team Lead across a number of clients in the Financial Services industry. These roles include planning, risk & issue management, research, requirements gathering and coaching. I use my background in business applications implementation and my MBA studies to help clients identify requirements and leverage technology to meet their strategic needs. This typically results in a range of outputs such as business cases, strategy positioning papers, requirements documentation and Request for proposal (RFP) documents. My focus is always to ensure that the work I do delivers value to my clients through insightful yet pragmatic solutions.

Project and resource planning for an Oracle eBusiness Suite R12 upgrade at a large South African Financial Services client.

Researched Oracle and Oracle certified applications and technologies in order to develop and implement a product strategy for iFACTORY Consulting. This involves online research, networking and informal interviews to gather required information followed by strategy development and implementation workshops to establish skills development and sales plans. I am also responsible for the evaluation and selection of software solutions for iFACTORY’s internal use. Some of my achievements in this role are:• Invited to speak at the South African Oracle User Group on my research of the latest developments in Oracle applications and technology• Invited to participate in an Oracle ACE Director podcast following the Oracle Applications User Group in the United States to provide feedback on my highlights from the conference• Invited to speak on my research findings at the South African Oracle Human Resources Special Interest Group• Established large influential network of Oracle professionals and employees to help inform my strategy decisions• Successfully implemented hosted Customer Relationship Management software within iFACTORY to create visibility of pipeline and profitability

I manage a client base in the financial services sector helping them to maximise their return on investment in a portfolio of Oracle ERP, Content Management and Business Process software.I also manage several small internal projects centered around company strategy following the restructuring of the leadership team within the company. These focus on introducing formal controls to manage performance and leadership development.

Managed support and projects teams of Oracle ERP Consultants

Project Managed the roll out of Oracle Financials to the UK subsiduary of a locally based financial services provider

Involved in Business Analysis and configuration for several enhancement and 3rd party product implimentation projects

Analysis, development, testing, training and deployment of customised solutions based on the Epicor ERP system.

Executive Mba, Management

Executive MBA via Distance Learning. Dissertation focused on the role of personal context on the views of project success.

Advanced Diploma In Project Management, Project Management

Project Management - Advanced Diploma

Bbussci (Hons), Information Systems

Business Science Honours Degree with a major in Information Systems

Matric, (Ieb)