Neil Mcdewar Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Canada

Victoria, Canada

A product champion for Media Cloud Engineering which provides media capabilities for Workday applications. Worked with internal and external stakeholders to compile, evaluate and prioritize the feature roadmap, and manage the tactical delivery of features. Led the execution of the roadmap to both internal and external stakeholders, and provided training and documentation to sales, marketing, implementation and support teams.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Matured and stabilized the QuikID product, successfully taking it from a demo to a commercial release, deployed with Fortune 500 companies • Built a highly motivated 10 person cross-functional R&D and Product team• Rolled-out software processes to effectively support the full sales cycle of the product, from lead generation, trials to licensing and distribution; aligning with Agile and Scrum. These processes were supported by building out and deploying tools such as JIRA and Aha.• Created the product backlog and roadmap, based on the voice of the customer, competitive analysis and market conditions. Adopted a UX driven approach as a sounding board to conceptualize new ideas• Managed the project plan and risk matrix. Championed key milestones with internal and external stakeholders, carefully balancing features, time to market and quality• Worked closely with Product Marketing and Sales, to define the Go-To-Market strategy, price points, product benefits and key value propositions• Liaised closely with customers, to gain a clear understand of priorities, pain points and key use cases, developed and executed on test cases also acted in the role of customer support• Gained knowledge and expertise in the world of security; attending conferences, studying on-line material and by working closely with security experts and advisors• Collaborated with local universities to spearhead new projects and novel ideas, based on provisional patents and visionary concepts • Secured additional company funding through various government grants and programs, such as SR&ED and IRAP

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Product Owner for Samsung KNOX services including: KNOX Customer Portal, KNOX DeveloperCommunity, KNOX Marketplace and KNOX IAM• Develop the marketing brief and product requirements for KNOX Services• Document and optimize the business flows to support the deployment of Samsung KNOX withEnterprise IT and Developer Partners• Ideate and productize KNOX Services, to support the business needs of partners and customers.The Samsung KNOX Portal has since gone on to win the best B2B Website Blue Drop Award• Create, manage and prioritize the product roadmap, lead the design and development of newservices and features across various teams and time zones• Gather, define and create user stories from the needs of clients and stakeholders, work withdevelopment to effectively delivery the required functionality• Provide day-to-day guidance on tactical and strategic objectives and just-in-time technicaldecisions to product level questions• Integrate 3rd party services such as Salesforce, App Direct and Hubspot to drive lead generationand increase product conversions

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Conceptualized and delivered new features and improved user experiences, to drive KPI’s and consumer engagement, contributing directly to an increase of 14 Million daily downloads• Innovated new solutions on Windows Phone (WP7 and WP8) to create a Personalized Merchandising Platform, jointly with Microsoft as part of a wining RFP. Developing a service with 1.2 Million active users and one of the Top Nokia Apps in Marketplace (App Highlights)• Defined the product roadmap for the Nokia Store consumer experience and drove end-to-end requirements and development across multiple teams• Managed a 6-person R&D team• Executed successful Beta trials to polish the product prior to launch• Analysed usage metrics and care feedback, to identify pain points and future opportunities• Organised product competitive analysis, benchmarking and usability testing with key stakeholders

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Understood the market through competitive product analysis, benchmarking and consumer studies• Facilitated collaboration between teams to ensure that features were delivered on-time to the market• Led change and drove innovation through new concepts• Represented Nokia as a spokesperson at trade-shows and product launches• Increased product value by creating related IPR• Co-managed a multi-million dollar project jointly with Microsoft to develop a Digital Rights Management (DRM) Music Service• Created and prioritized user stories as a key input to Sprint Planning

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Consulted with Product Management Global to develop the product brief and functional business requirements• Provided direction to the project team during periods of uncertainty and worked directly with customers to align platform and product objectives• Managed Sprint multimedia requirements, carrier compliance studies, feature specifications, technology roadmaps, product specifications and joint collaboration with Symbian

Vancouver

• Managed an end-to-end Bluetooth project, integrated the next generation of CSR (Cambridge Silicon) chips on the Texas OMAP1510 platform• Drove middleware and UI development, multi-site management of internal and external entities to deliver key software and hardware components on time• Managed the GPS/Location Based Services project and FM Radio project

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Liaised with customers to capture product requirements, carried out project planning and established the end-to-end development environment• Developed a GSM Location Server (GLS), team management, project planning, requirements analysis, high-level design and implementation

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Developed real-time signaling control software for Motorola’s GPRS switch• Developed a performance evaluation and load-testing tool used to identify peak load thresholds for call establishment and handover scenarios

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Managed the development of a multi-port Ethernet card running over ATM• Interfaced with the Business Unit to create the marketing specification and release functional specification

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Managed the Interface team, responsibilities included liaising with external contractors to create Interface specifications and developing software for the communications and power control systems• Developed integration test software for Alcatel’s GSM 1900 switch – the test tool was developed in UNIX using Motif for the User Interface, the communications protocol was based on the ASN1 encoding rules

Uk

• Developed real-time embedded software for Motorola’s GSM 900 switch and a real-time radio frequency analysis tool, used to monitor and simulate various handover conditions in an operational network

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Master'S Degree

Certificate