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Douglas Jones is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of driving product development and delivery in the software industry. As Vice President of Product & Operations at NETSOL Technologies Inc., he successfully led the launch of the NetSol Financial Suite, a world-class asset finance solution, and oversaw the deployment of Ascent, a lease/loan finance system, in the Americas. With extensive experience in product management, software engineering, and program management, Douglas has delivered high-impact projects, including video streaming software and mobile messaging products, to global customers.

Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Vice President Product & Operations
      • Jun 2019 - Present

    • Senior Product Manager
      • Aug 2016 - Jun 2019

      Senior Product Manager for the latest version of the NetSol Financial Suite - a set of world class asset finance solutions targeted at both equipment and vehicle lessors. Ascent is the newest addition to the suite and I am responsible for all product decisions to bring this lease/loan finance system to market in the Americas. It is currently live at Mercedes Benz leasing in the APAC region with 14 countries planned for the full roll out. NetSol is a global organization with over 1700 employees in 8 offices around the world.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Director of Engineering/Product
      • Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

      Currently Director of Engineering and part time Product Manager for a video head-end product that enables both live and video-on-demand content to be ingested, transcoded and streamed out to a variety of hardware including TV’s and mobile devices. Used Agile process to effectively manage the product development of video streaming software deployed globally into the hospitality industry. Managed all facets of product development from vision, to engineering implementation, product demonstration and eventual release to enterprise channel partners.

    • Senior Product Manager
      • Nov 2012 - Dec 2015

      Senior Product Manager for our CommSuite line of mobile messaging products. On a day-to-day basis I am juggling multiple projects/releases, working with a diverse customer base and building out a robust product road map for the future. CommSuite includes capabilities such as Visual Voicemail, Voice-to-Text and Video streaming. Visual Voicemail w/ VTT is currently deployed on the Sprint network with over 16 million devices in the field. On the CommSuite-Vidio side of the house, this solution allows our customers (carrier, Fortune 500 etc.) to stream video from any source (Live TV, VOD etc.) to any destination (mobile phones, tablets, TV's, PC's etc.)

    • Program Manager
      • Jan 2010 - Sep 2012

      Managed multiple product line programs for Push-To-Talk (PTT) solutions, video streaming (VIDIO) and others for our carrier and enterprise customers.

  • Core Mobility
    • Mountain View, CA
    • Director - Sync Solutions
      • Jun 2008 - Nov 2009
      • Mountain View, CA

      Program / Project manager for Network Address Book product used on Sprint-Nextel smart phones. I was originally hired for this position by Core Mobility. Smith Micro acquired them in December 2009 and I continued on in this position.

    • Director of Software Engineering
      • Jul 1998 - Jan 2008

      Drove development of processes key to repeatable, on-time delivery of a complex lease and asset finance accounting application utilizing a global team of engineers, generating annual revenue in excess of $3,500,000. Managed customer expectations, oversaw build and release processes, and initiated joint work with sales/marketing functions resulting in enhanced technical product knowledge and additional revenue generation.

    • Director Software Engineering
      • 2006 - 2008

      Drove development of processes key to repeatable, on-time delivery of a complex lease and asset finance accounting application utilizing a global team of engineers, generating annual revenue in excess of $3,500,000. Managed customer expectations, oversaw build and release processes, and initiated joint work with sales/marketing functions resulting in enhanced technical product knowledge and additional revenue generation.

    • Release Project Manager
      • Jul 1994 - Jun 1998

      Responsible for project management of full software development lifecycle. Managed team of 8 developers and QA engineers, established key milestones. Generated management reports monitoring schedule, productivity, quality, and revenue.

Education

  • 1978 - 1984
    University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
    Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration

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