Jim Murphy
CTO at Demeure
Kitchener, Canada Area
- Current
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- Partner at Laurence Capital Technology Fund
- CTO at Demeure
- Past
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- VP Development at PostRank
- VP Product Management at Mindreef, Inc.
- President at Ironring Software
- Director of Software Developement at WWWhoosh
- Director and Software Architect at Pencom New Technologies
- Software Engineer at Aspen Technology
- Software Engineer at Hyprotech
- Education
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- University of Waterloo
- Recommendations
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27 recommendations - Connections
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500+
connections
- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Summary
Wearer of many hats in early stage/startups
LeanStartup, Customer Development,
Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Development
Software Architecture, Product Development
Business Models and Go-To-Market planning and Execution
Managing Software Development Teams
Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Project Management
Bridging Agile and Market-Oriented Product Management
Context:
Early Stage Companies, Developing New Markets
Examples:
Social Media, Web 2, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services,
Enterprise Software, Software as a Service, and Consumer Internet
Hands-On, Highly Technical and Motivated
Specialties:
LeanStartup, Customer Development,
Agile Product Management
Certified Product Owner (CPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), http://www.scrumalliance.org
Pragmatic Marketing Certified
http://www.pragamticmarketing.com/
Experience
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Partner
Laurence Capital Technology Fund
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
April 2010 — Present (6 months)
Laurence Capital Corp. (LCC) is a Waterloo-based merchant bank which provides capital and stewardship to Canadian growth companies. Working closely with investee and potential investee companies LCC provides strategic and operational assistance, multiple forms of debt or equity, and can invest in public or private companies.
Laurence Capital Technology Fund actively seeks investments in new companies led by entrepreneurs and existing companies with radically innovative ideas for revolutionizing existing businesses. -
CTO
Demeure
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
March 2010 — Present (7 months)
Demeure is an invitation-only luxury travel club that redefines the ultimate vacation experience sought by discriminating world travelers. We’ve built on the foundation started by other destination clubs and have taken a great concept to the next level.
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VP Development
PostRank
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)
Assisted early stage Web 2.0 style startup with strategy and execution on product, marketing and sales
Hired and managed development team, instilled agile development culture and practices
Hands on development of a large Internet scale, cloud based system in Ruby, Rails, MySQL and Java
Defined and implement product strategy identifying business development opportunities, building direct sales channel, negotiated data licensing agreements
Plan and execute marketing initiatives, business development, empty dishwasher, slightly improved my foosball game -
VP Product Management
Mindreef, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — June 2008 (6 years 1 month)
Founded enterprise software company building test,diagnostic and governance infrastructure for XML Web services and Service Oriented Architectures
Lead teams to help with software development, market development, evangelism and product management
Served as product line architect and eventually as product manager
Supported sales, strategic partnerships, road mapping feedback with key accounts: Salesforce.com, IBM, WellsFargo, Schwab, AT&T, Liberty Mutual, Fidelity
Acquired by Progress Software, June 2007 -
President
Ironring Software
(Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — October 2002 (4 years 10 months)
Consulting - Angel and Institutional/Venture services, Architecture, Project management, Product management, Marketing
Worked with several web companies building large scale, high performance distributed systems doing due diligence, design, implementation and debugging from Wall Street to Silicon Valley
Acted on behalf of institutional venture and high net worth investors helping startups with technical and market challenges, cleaning up post-bubble companies.
Assisted with project planning and execution of globally scaled automated financial trading application
Worked with an early stage family business building an "eTrade in a Box" application marketed to smaller regional banks
Assisted in the consolidation of several electronic medical record companies -
Director of Software Developement
WWWhoosh
(Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
My bubble company :)
Raised $4M series A in late March 2000! Felt very, very alone.
Founded and lead a team of engineers building Internet content acceleration technology. High performance appliance grade software for lower bandwidth costs for high traffic sites
Required a deep understanding of Internet architecture, TCP/HTTP and the ability to develop an innovative product in a changing market environment
Learned how not to grow a European office -
Director and Software Architect
Pencom New Technologies
(Computer Software industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Founded a fixed price, custom software development shop in Boston and New York City.
Developed advanced analytical software for the American Red Cross Organ Transplant Lab in Baltimore, MD for matching bone marrow donors with potential recipients
Managed team of young, highly skilled software developers in a dynamic environment -
Software Engineer
Aspen Technology
(Public Company; AZPN.PK; Industrial Automation industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Learned first-hand the power of highly disruptive products in an underserved market
Assisted in the integration of many large, complex modeling systems built in different languages and platforms into a cohesive architecture
Built complex thermodynamic and transport models for refinery and petrochemical processes used in model predictive control and closed loop, real time optimization -
Software Engineer
Hyprotech
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1992 — 1996 (4 years )
Opened remote development office in Houston, Texas
Migrated widely deployed, petrochemical process simulator, HYSIM, from DOS based implementation in C to object oriented Windows GUI application
Developed advanced thermodynamic models for multiphase fluid flow to model pipeline characteristics
Applied large scale, numerical solution methods to non-linear, partial differential models for energy and mass transfer simulation
Education
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University of Waterloo
BASc , Engineering , 1990 — 1995
Option in Management Science, Operations Research
Additional Information
Websites:
Interests:
family and kids, aviation, kung fu, carpentry, motorcycles
Groups:
Communitech, NAO, StartupCamp
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IASA: The Global IT Architect Association -
Pragmatic Marketing Alumni -
280 Group: Product Management & Product Marketing -
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
University of Waterloo Alumni Group -
Web Analytics Association -
Agile Alliance -
Toronto Entrepreneur Alliance -
Agilistas -
.Net Professionals -
Salesforce.com Professional Network -
AspenTech Alumni -
Scrum Practitioners -
Cloud Computing -
Net Promoter Score (NPS) Forum -
Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing! -
Kitchener-Waterloo Entrepreneurs -
Conversational Marketing Group -
OpenTravel Alliance -
Hyprotech Alumni -
Kitchener-Waterloo Executives -
Solr -
CM Summit NY 2009 - Attendees Only -
The Social Blogger -
Tech Capital Partners -
Third Tuesday -
Lean Startup -
Canadian Digital Media Network -
Lean Startup Circle
Honors:
2007 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, both SOA and Test & QA
2007 Jolt Productivity Award, Testing, Mindreef SOAPscope
2006 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, SOA and Integration
2005 Infoworld Technology of the Year, Best Web Services Dev Tool
2003 Jolt Productivity Award, Web Services Tool, Mindreef SOAPscope
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