Gary Bahl

Product Marketing Manager at Talend

Email: bahlgary@gmail.com

Mb: 510 449 1665

 

Background Accomplished software professional with diversified experience spanning over 13+ years working with cross-functional teams. I have worked extensively in Data Management, CRM, MDM, DQ, Big Data, & Data Integration in different product development roles. I have experience in Telecommunication, Healthcare, Life Science, Financial Services, Higher education, Insurance, Public Sector, High-tech, Retail & Manufacturing, Supply chain and Media industries. Proven track record of increasing sales, sales enablement, product promotion and market expertise to thrive.

 

Key Skills:

·         Solutions Architecture for enterprise solutions.

·         Enterprising product manager and product marketer

·         Product leader and evangelist for data management and big data products

·         Enterprise Software and Open Source expertise

·         Leadership skills for domestic and international teams to deliver cutting edge technology

·         Manage Executive, Analysts, Sales and Market communications

·         Hands on experience CRM, MDM, Data Quality, Data Integration, Big Data, ESB. BPM, BI, On Premise, Cloud applications

 

Talend, US                                                                                                                              Nov 2012 – Current

Product Marketing and Product Management Nov 2012 – Current

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ø       Product leader and evangelist for MDM and DQ, BigData quality & Data Governance products

Ø      Drive product vision, strategy, pricing, requirements (PRD) and product launch activities for MDM and DQ big data product line

Ø      Lead analyst relations for MDM product line. Product champion and spokesperson at industry events – debuted Talend MDM in Gartner MDM MQ and Forrester MDM wave in my first year on the job.

Ø       Sales Enablement on MDM & DQ though quarterly sales trainings, messaging docs, deal support, & sales playbook

Ø       Lead Competitive Intelligence for MDM & Data Quality

Ø       Build product marketing assets and product messaging

Ø       Develop and execute product vertical strategy

Ø       Work with field marketing and generate supporting collateral for lead generation activities

 

Oracle|Siebel Systems, US                                                                               Nov 2005 – Nov 2012

Principal Product Manager, Customer Hub & Data Quality, MDM June 2007 – Nov 2012

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ø       Product Manager for Oracle Customer Hub (Siebel UCM) – 100M+ portfolio

Ø       Create feature business requirement doc (BRD/MRD) and functional design doc (FDD)

Ø       Contributor to Oracle Customer Hub and Data Quality product briefings with analysts

Ø       Hold Patent on Data Governance (Web 2.0 UI for Stewardship and Governance tool)

Ø       Lead effort to develop product verticals for different industries. Developed Higher Education, HealthCare (MPI), Public Sector, Financial Services and data monetization verticals

Ø       Lead Strategy, product management for Oracle Customer Hub

Ø       Foster Partner network, also worked with them in co-development model to accelerate product innovation and market dominance

Ø       Lead MDM and Data Quality Strategy Council and Customer Advisory Board for 50+ customers

Ø      Enable Sales/pre-sales on Customer Hub and material for product launch events.

Ø      Market research and competitive analysis

Ø      Lead customer reference program and maintain close relationship with customers

Ø       Lead scrum engineering, QA, PSR, Data Model, infrastructure and document writing team

 

Siebel CRM Solutions Architect Nov 2005 – June 2007

RESPONSIBILITIES:             

Ø       Solutions Architect for Siebel CRM/UCM consulting implementations.

Ø       Hands on Lead in Siebel projects during in all phases i.e. discovery, requirements, estimation, team building, project plan, solution architect, development, delivery, go live and support

Ø       Interface between Business and IT Development team

Ø       Worked as Solutions Architect for UCM (Customer Hub) at BellSouth, Atlanta

Ø       Worked as Solutions Architect for client Autodesk Inc, San Rafael handling multiple Siebel CRM and UCM (Customer Hub) assignment.

Ø       Managed project team of two developers and two QA resources

Ø       Business development and Sales deal support for Consulting organization

 

Patni Computer Systems, US                                                                              June 2003 – Nov 2005

Solutions Architect, Siebel CRM On-Premise/On-Demand at PCS business process outsourcing for company

Ø      Solutions Architect and Delivery manager on Siebel CRM/Order Management implementation at Covad (San Jose), Verio (Dallas), Sprint Canada (Toronto) & Surewest ( Sacramento)

Ø      Responsible for Service Sales Account Management, pre-sales, project delivery and revenues ranging from $100,000 to $1.5M per account.

Ø      Managed team of three to six consultants with appreciation for complete lifecycle of engagements from pre-sales to project execution and delivery at clients mentioned in above

Ø      Lead on Siebel CRM and Order Management projects during in all phases i.e. discovery, requirements, estimation, team building, project plan, solution architect, development, delivery, go live and support.

Ø      Thought Leadership to lead the CRM and Order Management practice for Cymbal corporation with later got acquired by Patni computer systems

 

Smart Data Enterprises Limited, India                                                        March 2002 – May 2003

Project Leadership and Business development in Smart Data, I lead offshore projects for Radio stations and media companies. Responsible for deliver multiple projects with aggressive timelines. I was named as the employee of the quarter for in Jan 2003. I handled multiple clients for delivering the off shoring projects in Java, .net and Visual Basic

 

Trident InfoTech Corporation Limited, India                                                June 2000 – Feb 2002

Software Engineer, I ran training center for the company. I trained engineers on new Software programming like Visual Basic, C++ and Java. I also designed the course curriculum for corporate trainings and manage team of tutors and made sure that software development organization resources working for the company are trained on cutting edge technologies.

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, GND University, India (1996-2000)

Product Management, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Stanford Continuation Education: Building Software Products from Strategy to Sales (Jan 09-Mar 09)

Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate course (2005-2008)

 

References can be furnished upon request

 

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