Jeff Rouse
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Michael Alexander
Having Jeff as the leader of our software group was a true pleasure. He explained complicated business plans with ease and clarity, which really helped our software team deliver what mattered. His ability to deep-dive with the team into software technologies and discuss design was impressive, as was his ability to communicate the team's challenges and direction to the non-technical stakeholders.
Michael Alexander
Having Jeff as the leader of our software group was a true pleasure. He explained complicated business plans with ease and clarity, which really helped our software team deliver what mattered. His ability to deep-dive with the team into software technologies and discuss design was impressive, as was his ability to communicate the team's challenges and direction to the non-technical stakeholders.
Michael Alexander
Having Jeff as the leader of our software group was a true pleasure. He explained complicated business plans with ease and clarity, which really helped our software team deliver what mattered. His ability to deep-dive with the team into software technologies and discuss design was impressive, as was his ability to communicate the team's challenges and direction to the non-technical stakeholders.
Michael Alexander
Having Jeff as the leader of our software group was a true pleasure. He explained complicated business plans with ease and clarity, which really helped our software team deliver what mattered. His ability to deep-dive with the team into software technologies and discuss design was impressive, as was his ability to communicate the team's challenges and direction to the non-technical stakeholders.
Credentials
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Pragmatic Product Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing
Experience
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ActiveState
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Technical Product Manager
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Nov 2020 - Present
Product/program management for multiple remote teams handling platform features such as:+ data acquisition of open source language ecosystems, + core services such as order management and dependency resolution,+ build services for language cores, packages, and libraries,+ GraphQL/REST APIs,+ build engineering. Drove open source supply chain security value for our customers via the creation of our vulnerability tracking, reporting, hand-curated notifications (CVEs), and SBOM features.
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VP of Product
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Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Member of the executive committee. Transitioned the product to a SaaS model from a legacy licensing model. Went from zero to one on a cloud-based SaaS platform for building open source language runtimes for Python, Ruby, Perl, and Tcl across all major operating systems. Grew the product team to include multiple product managers, dev advocate, documentation, and product marketing.
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Director of Product
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Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Member of the Executive Committee. Lead the company-wide process to determine the product direction for the next phase of ActiveState's growth (idea generation, research, customer discussions, all leading up to a "Shark Tank" style finale, and ultimately board presentation/approval). Re-engaged the company w/ its roots in the open source language communities (to name a few Python, Perl, Ruby and others). Hands-on product management of our language distributions, emerging SaaS platform, and Komodo Edit/IDE.
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ActiveConversion
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP Development & Services
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Apr 2010 - Feb 2016
SaaS marketing automation startup. Ran an outsourced development team and our services team. In true startup fashion handled the product management, QA, and software releases. Stack: java, apache, mysql (percona), javascript/css etc. SaaS marketing automation startup. Ran an outsourced development team and our services team. In true startup fashion handled the product management, QA, and software releases. Stack: java, apache, mysql (percona), javascript/css etc.
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Redfall Technologies Inc.
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Calgary, Canada Area
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Product Development Manager
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Aug 2009 - Apr 2010
International high-risk payment start-up - consulting role. Continuous integration/deployment, TDD, postgres, java, groovy/grails. NACHA, CPA, chequing. REST APIs, batch processing w/ banking partners. Pivoted into Vogogo.com. International high-risk payment start-up - consulting role. Continuous integration/deployment, TDD, postgres, java, groovy/grails. NACHA, CPA, chequing. REST APIs, batch processing w/ banking partners. Pivoted into Vogogo.com.
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Chartwell Technology Inc.
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Calgary, Canada Area
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Product Owner and Development Manager
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Feb 2002 - Jun 2009
Led the team that went from the first line of code to product launch on a multi-player poker product. Led the technical and talent evaluation part of the acquisition team when we bought another gaming firm in Vancouver. Responsible for integrating that team and taking that product to market under the Chartwell brand. Agile product development. Introduced a CI system in 2003, wrote the unit tests for our core poker hand evaluation engine. Technologies include: Java, SQL Server, Apache, ORM frameworks, Junit, Ant, Mercurial.
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MONTAGE Inc.
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Calgary, Canada Area
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Senior Consultant
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Jul 1995 - Feb 2002
Sys. Admin -> Developer -> Team Lead -> Project Manager. Clients included TransCanada (Led team of 8 developers), Nortel Networks, SMED International, Government of Yukon Technologies include relational databases, C, Perl, Bash, Java, Javascript. Sys. Admin -> Developer -> Team Lead -> Project Manager. Clients included TransCanada (Led team of 8 developers), Nortel Networks, SMED International, Government of Yukon Technologies include relational databases, C, Perl, Bash, Java, Javascript.
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Education
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The University of Calgary
B.Sc., Computer Science -
2008 - 2009
Project Management Institute
PMP, Project Management
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