CTO

Translate Vision to a Specified Roadmap

• Creation of rolling 4 quarter product and solution roadmap, tied to Apcela vision, differentiation, business personas, etc.
• Systemic revisions to roadmap, as required and dictated by market needs, strategy, customer requirements, etc.
• Solutioning support (with right person, perhaps outright ownership of sales solutioning - while we’re still small)
• Roadmap includes solutions/product configurations, as well as “concept of operations” required to support at scale (roadmap for run-time operations)

Product/Solution Development, Execution and Delivery

• Owns development and go-to-market methodology which ensures delivery of roadmap components on time, on budget, in keeping with value proposition
• Development methodology: Agile to “test/dev” … must be expert level in agile development methodologies, processes, and requisite program management
• Go-to-Market Methodology: “Pragmatic Marketing” (or similar approach) which ensures milestone-based delivery of key roadmap components, signed off and agreed by sales, marketing, finance, etc.
• Proven track record in …
• Solutions and product development, utilizing methodologies outlined above
• On-time/on-budget (or better) delivery of roadmaps in a scaled, high-growth environment
• Technical and commercial acceptance demonstrated
• Technical: patents, certified development expertise, etc.
• Commercial: revenue track record from product release to maturity
• Team builder - ability to manage diverse development talent (skill sets, geographies, in-house vs 3rd parties) and to work cross-functionally (sales and marketing in particular); ideally, can field appropriate team quickly

Network Engineering and Architecture

• Establish path to software-based network (migration from physical to SaaS underlying architecture)
• Own migration plan from physical to software-based
• Managed, maintain current network for LCM (life-cycle management)
• With operations and sales, develop top [10] customer-specific migration plan as need arises