Alan Hansen

About Alan Hansen

Alan Hansen has over 37 years of software industry experience leading both engineering and product management teams, with over 27 of those years in higher education. Most notably, he served as the vice president of product management at Ellucian for many years, where he led the Banner product line, an ERP system used by more than 40 percent of the U.S. higher education market.Alan has a wealth of experience and proven leadership in software and IT. Alan began his career as a software engineer, and then worked his way up to architect, manager, director, and then vice president of software development at WordPerfect, Novell, Inari, and Campus Pipeline. He then switched to product management and has led both product and technical teams to success at Ellucian, Symantec, BYU-Pathway Worldwide, WGU, SecurityMetrics, and Higher Digital. Alan is steeped in lean / agile. He is a Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant, a Certified Scrum Product Owner, and is Pragmatic Marketing Certified. Alan holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the University of Utah. Alan speaks English and Spanish fluently.Specialties: Technology Leadership, Higher Ed Administration Solutions, Higher Ed Academic Solutions, Product Management, Corporate Strategy, Software Development, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Go-to-market Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Strategic Partnerships, and Advanced Spanish: listening, speaking, reading, and writing

Experience

1. Enterprise Application Architect

   Byu-Pathway Worldwide

   Mar 2021 — Present · Salt Lake City, UT, US

   Lead a team responsible for all enterprise applications and services, including everything Student Information System (SIS) related.

Education

• University of Utah

  MBA, Executive

  2001 — 2003

• Brigham Young University

  BS, Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)

  1985 — 1992

Skills

• Product Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Enterprise Software
• Software Engineering
• Competitive Analysis
• Sdlc
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategy
• Erp
• Sharepoint
• Product Development
• Software Project Management
• Program Management
• Integration
• Process Simulation
• Project Portfolio Management
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Web Applications
• Business Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Product Marketing
• Leadership
• Java
• Saas
• Agile Methodologies
• Management