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5 Grant Street, Apt 2 \\
Cambridge, MA 02138-6005
72 Lexington Ave \\
Cambridge, MA 02138-3337
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Phone: & (617) 869-0997 \\
Email: & \href{mailto:gburd@ossus.com}{\tt gburd@ossus.com} \\
Email: & \href{mailto:greg@burd.me}{\tt greg@burd.me} \\
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\subsection*{Summary}

\begin{itemize}
\item Gregory Burd is currently a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Berkeley DB database products. He is responsible for open source licensing issues, communicating with marketing, evaluating product direction, building community, and many other facets of software production. Mr Burd has a diverse background including software engineering, product management, enterprise software consulting, software alliances and sales, and has contributed to open source and free software projects.
\end{itemize}

\subsection*{Philosophy}
\begin{itemize}
\item My passion is in delivery of excellent, purposeful, software. I care deeply about the people I work with and the teams I contribute to. I am interdisciplinary, unconventional, and ardent. I enjoy projects requiring creative problem solving, prudent risk taking, and careful orchestration. I take the initiative, and I accept the responsibility. I learn from my mistakes and I am a consummate communicator.
\item I am seeking a position as a software engineer/architect or other
contributor member of an engineering team.

\item My passion is the production and delivery of excellent, elegant and
purposeful software. I care deeply about the people I work with and the teams
I contribute to. I am interdisciplinary, unconventional, and ardent. I enjoy
projects requiring creative problem solving, prudent risk taking, careful
study and reuse of existing techniques and thoughful orchestration. I take
the initiative, and I accept the responsibility for my work. I continue to
learn from my mistakes.

\end{itemize}


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\section*{Employment}

\begin{itemize}
\item Senior Product Manager, Oracle Corporation -- Feb 2006 - Present.
\item Software Architect and Product Manager, Basho Technologies -- Jul 2011 - Present.
\item Product Manager, Oracle Corporation -- Feb 2006 - Mar 2011.
\item Software Engineer/Product Manager, Sleepycat Software -- Jul 2002 - Feb 2006.
\item Technical Alliance Manager, KnowNow, Inc. -- Dec 2000 - Jun 2002.
\item Managing Consultant, Primix Solutions, Inc. -- Jul 1999 - Nov 2000.
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\section*{Specialties}

\begin{itemize}
\item Software Architecture, Database, Java, C, Technical Writing, Technical Presentation, Technical Leadership, Market Analysis, Product Positioning, Project Management, Networking, Various Computer Languages, Systems Administration
\item Software Architecture, Databases, Distributed Systems, C/C++, Erlang,
Networking, System Administration/Operations
\end{itemize}


\section*{Practical Experience}

\begin{itemize}
\item {\it Basho Technologies} -- Cambridge, MA (~100 employees globally distributed)

I am currently a Product Manager for the Riak distributed NoSQL database at
Basho Technologies. In this role I am responsible for balancing the demands and
long/short term goals of engineering, sales, professional services and the
executive-team against the needs of our customers and trends in the distributed
database market. I educate sales and marketing through presentations and
product comparisons and take part in customer visits and partner activity. I
put my diverse background (software engineering, architecture, mentorship,
product management, etc.) to work identifying and solving problems. Previous to
that role at Basho I was an Architect and a member of the Client Services team.

\begin{itemize}
\item {\it Oracle Corporation} -- Burlington, MA (45 employed in a globally distributed team)

Sleepycat Software was acquired in Feb of 2006 by Oracle and I transitioned into the Embedded Global Business Unit (EGBU) responsible for edge, mobile and embedded databases. There I continued in my role just as before, managing the three products created at Sleepycat - Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB XML, and Berkeley DB Java Edition.
Sleepycat Software was acquired in Feb of 2006 by Oracle and I transitioned
into the Embedded Global Business Unit (EGBU) responsible for edge, mobile and
embedded databases. There I continued in my role just as before, managing the
three products created at Sleepycat - Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB XML, and
Berkeley DB Java Edition.

\item {\it Sleepycat Software} -- Boston, MA (11-38 employees in a globally distributed team)

Hired initially to do software engineering on Berkeley DB I later transitioned in 2004 to the role of Product Manager. I reported into the office of the CTO and worked with all parts of the organization, our partners and our board. I was directly responsible for the success of our products in their respective markets. I launched two highly successful products and continue to enhance and maintain them today in this role.
Hired initially to do software engineering on Berkeley DB I later transitioned
in 2004 to the role of Product Manager. I reported into the office of the CTO
and worked with all parts of the organization, our partners and our board. I
was directly responsible for the success of our products in their respective
markets. I launched two highly successful products and continue to enhance and
maintain them today in this role.

\item {\it KnowNow} -- Menlo Park, CA (4-40 employees)

Founded by Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin I joined KnowNow as the fourth employee. Together we pitched Kleiner Perkins. We were funded and worked at first from the KP incubator offices on Sand Hill Road. Our primary technological break through was AJAX (by another name) and some foundational ideas behind REST. My role was to communicate and advocate the technical value of the KnowNow Event Router and Micro-Server to strategic software integrators, value-added resellers, and other channel partners. I accomplished this with a mixture of sample code, on-site meetings and presentations.
Founded by Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin I joined KnowNow as the fourth
employee. Together we pitched Kleiner Perkins. We were funded and worked at
first from the KP incubator offices on Sand Hill Road. Our primary
technological break through was AJAX (by another name) and some foundational
ideas behind REST. My role was to communicate and advocate the technical value
of the KnowNow Event Router and Micro-Server to strategic software integrators,
value-added resellers, and other channel partners. I accomplished this with a
mixture of sample code, on-site meetings and presentations.

\item {\it Primix Solutions} -- Watertown, MA (30-50 employees)

It was my responsibility to report to the CTO on cross-functional performance, opportunities for strategic improvement, as well as to identify sub-par design decisions across the 5-10 consulting engagements underway at any given time. In this role I helped identify and foster open source frameworks, contribute to the success of many engagements, interface with customers and communicate back to the CTO and company leadership ways in which we could technically refine our delivery process and build reliable systems on time, within budget.
It was my responsibility to report to the CTO on cross-functional performance,
opportunities for strategic improvement, as well as to identify sub-par design
decisions across the 5-10 consulting engagements underway at any given time. In
this role I helped identify and foster open source frameworks, contribute to
the success of many engagements, interface with customers and communicate back
to the CTO and company leadership ways in which we could technically refine our
delivery process and build reliable systems on time, within budget.

\item {\it Sun Microsystems} -- Bay Area, CA (12-40 person teams)
I worked in a number of areas within Sun:
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\item {\it Marble Associates} -- San Jose, CA then later Watertown, MA (20-50 employees in two locations)

Senior Consulting Engineer building NeXTSTEP applications, porting TCP/IP onto OSI, and writing/delivering on SBIR grants. This small consulting firm experienced a tragedy when 3 of 4 founders (CEO, CTO, CFO) died in a small plane crash. This fractured the company, many left, I remained and helped to re-assert our position as a viable firm.
Senior Consulting Engineer building NeXTSTEP applications, porting TCP/IP onto
OSI, and writing/delivering on SBIR grants. This small consulting firm
experienced a tragedy when 3 of 4 founders (CEO, CTO, CFO) died in a small
plane crash. This fractured the company, many left, I remained and helped to
re-assert our position as a viable firm.

\item {\it NeXT Computer} -- Redwood City, CA (400 employees)

Responsibilities included custom development and technical support for strategic clients, sales support, and speaking and presenting. I worked to help the strategic accounts port software to NeXTSTEP.
Responsibilities included custom development and technical support for
strategic clients, sales support, and speaking and presenting. I worked to help
the strategic accounts port software to NeXTSTEP.
\end{itemize}

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