Director Of Product Development
Westlake, Texas, Us
ECi Software Solutions is a business management and e-commerce software publisher, primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses in manufacturing, wholesale/retail distribution, building and construction, and field and IT services. In August 2017, funds advised by Apax Partners (“Apax Funds”) reached an agreement to acquire ECi Software Solutions. Carlyle retains a minority ownership position in the combined company. Concurrent with this transaction, the Macola, JobBOSS and MAX businesses of Exact Software (a current Apax Funds portfolio company) were combined with ECi. These businesses are based in the U.S. and provide ERP software applications to SMB manufacturers.As the Director of Product Development for ECi Software Solutions, Randy Singleton cultivated and mobilized product development teams in research for new product enhancements and product redesign for this global enterprise software organization serving SMBs in the building and construction, distribution, and manufacturing sectors. Directed the activities of 3 Scrum teams; Custom Development, Core Development, and New Technology and evaluated the potential and practicality of products in development. Joined as Manager of Custom Development and promoted based upon merit to Director of Product Development. ► Stimulated the custom development team backlogged by 21 weeks reducing the backlog to 4 weeks and eliminating aged technical debt► Rehabilitated the product development team 1 year late on delivering the next product release and launched application based on re-baseline schedule ► Transformed an on-premise, perpetual license ERP software package to a subscription-based hosted solution to result in securing a reoccurring revenue model for the company ► Initiated, developed, and implemented a DevOps model for the new subscription-based hosted solution► Oversaw key projects, processes and performance reports, data, and analysis