Rob Tomkins
Director of Product Management @Solace
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Product Management @Solace
Ottawa, ON, CA
Responsible for the product management of the Operate & Observe and API products and solutions across PubSub+ Cloud, APIs, and the PubSub+ Event Broker itself. This includes the management of several experienced technical product managers, strategic, customer engagement, and roadmap leadership of portfolio. Includes the following products and solutions- PubSub+ Mission Control and Cloud Event Broker Services- Observability, PubSub+ Mesh Manager, PubSub+ Insights, and Solace Distributed Tracing- Declarative Management (dSEMP) including Infrastructure as Code- Solace APIs, Integrated Kafka, and Integrated REST/HTTP (RDP)- Solace Schema Registry. and more
EDUCATION
University of Waterloo
B. Math
SKILLS
ABOUT ROB TOMKINS
Innovative Senior Director Project Leader experienced in steering multi-faceted teams to generate impact with new technologies, markets, strategies, and products. Skilled at building teams/ecosystems and overseeing strong demonstrations, prototypes, and productions to entertain and inform audience members. Creativity-driven with strong technical knowledge, team leadership abilities, and problem-solving skills. Drives business decisions to deliver outcomes based on innovations, demonstrations, business analysis, business plans, ecosystems, marketing, hardware and software development, and deployment for customers worldwide. Enjoys evaluating new market and technology opportunities, leading a multi-disciplinary team to build the business case to gain corporate commitment to solution intercept, and leading the team for proof of concept and initial product release. Career new product/market highlights include TCP/IP and Ethernet Solutions, Ethernet over Optical from 1st implementation to mass market adoption, led Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem, NORTEL President\'s Leadership Award, Strategic Market Analysis including Market Consolidation, Partnership, M&A analysis, and due diligence, Coherent optics into Cloud/Content Providers, SDN Incubation Technical Leadership, President Obama\'s US National Security Telecom Advisory Committee on Big Data Analytics, Video Networking, Product Managed Video QoE Software Defined Network solution from problem statement to multi-party demonstration (AWECAT) including personally inventing and patenting the solution & partnership development, distributed tracing, partitioned queues, and declarative management with Terraform.Innovative and active in patents, publications, and public presentations.Solid and timely analysis of complex concepts and business models in an ambiguous environment, identifying and solving issues, and turning ideas and issues into strategies. A unique approach to innovation and change both internally and in the broader industry.
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