Rob Macleod is a Hardware Product Manager for Communications Gbu at Oracle. He possess expertise in product management, voip, ip, telecommunications, wireless and 23 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I had the privilege of working with Rob at Acme Packet/Oracle. He is the rarest of the rare; a product manager who is equally adept at managing product feature development with engineering as well delivering exceptional support and guidance to the sales and sales engineering groups in the field, while never straying from interfacing with customers to gather and distill requirements, while enthusiastically and pragmatically acting as a technology and solution evangelist. Rob has always executed at a high standard with enthusiasm and commitment. His ability to gather information and make strong business decisions was indispensable. You could always count on Rob for his judgment in a crunch. His ability to clearly articulate and lead product strategy made him an invaluable asset. It was a pleasure to work with Rob and I sincerely hope to be able to do so again in the future." and "[I was looking over old emails on my Mac to get rid of, and I came across a memo I wrote and CC'ed myself in Feb of 98 about Rob Macleod, and I decided to trim it down and make it public. Rob did not ask for this endorsement, now or then, but just coming across his name made me smile.] To: RDM CC: President, Vp of Eng, VP of Marketing Subject: One of those things ... But I want to make sure that you and others know how much of a difference you have made to me in my ability to do my job over the last nine months and how much you have helped others in engineering and sales do theirs. I have appreciated getting: 1) A set of long term priorities on software and hardware projects that I was able to use to feed back to Marketing and Sales on rough availability dates. 2) Someone that was willing to spend the time with Sales people and explain to when things were going to get done or why things were not going to get done; willing to listen to the Sales people and not afraid to change the priorities when necessary and explain to me and my engineers why they needed to be changed. 3) Someone that helped set us on the right track on specifying products. It is good to be able to go to my filing cabinet and be able to pull out the XXX Priorities Document or the YYY product specs or the ZZZ prioritized feature list and other documents you either originated or helped assemble. 4) Someone who has been able to deal with a lot of cranky human beings who are under a lot of pressure and sometimes shouted back or were otherwise unreasonable. You have gently corrected me when I was wrong or thought we could do better and have cautioned me when I was about to do something foolish. I thought you were silly to leave Tech Support for Marketing. Now I just wish we could get more people like you in Marketing. Luis F. Ortiz Director of Core Technology Brooktrout Technology, Inc."