Martin Labelle

Current

• Director, Product Development at Bridgewater Systems

Past

• Technical Manager at Bridgewater Systems
• Software Development Manager at Nakina Systems
• Software Development Manager at Ceyba

• Software Designer at Visual Networks
• Prof at La Cite Collegiale
• Software Designer at Newbridge Networks

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Education

• Cite collegiale
• High School
• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

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Industry

Telecommunications

Martin Labelle’s Summary

Product Development Director with over 10 years of experience in both small and large technology companies, the majority of which have provided complex telco solutions to customers and partners. Results driven, customer focused senior manager with specific strengths in leadership, product delivery, people management and organizational performance.

Martin Labelle’s Specialties:

- Business case and business plan analysis
- Strategic product planning and feature analysis
- Project management and release lifecycle management
- Product feature specification and development
- PoC, Prototyping and IOT
- Testing – Unit/Functional/Soak/Performance & Scalability
- Customer Evaluation & Trials
- Design Support

Led, recruited and managed product dev teams. Managed development managers, product verification managers, project managers, developers and testers.

Martin Labelle’s Experience

• Director, Product Development

  Bridgewater Systems

  (Public Company; BWC.TO; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  • Providing strategic technical leadership to Product Development teams, responsible for the design, development, and verification of the software solutions.
  • Managing key business relationships with customers, Sales, Support, Product Management, partners and 3rd party vendors
  • Responsible for building the R&D team, determining the organizational structure and ensuring organizational efficiency.
  • Accountable to the executive team for team's overall performance in the context of business and product solution objectives, customer, quality and reliability requirements.
  • Responsible for setting the technical definition, content, scheduling, planning and implementation for the design and delivery of software programs.
  • Responsible for establishing budget requirements, securing budget, and managing within budget parameters.

• Technical Manager

  Bridgewater Systems

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year )

• Software Development Manager

  Nakina Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 5 months)

  • Managed a team of software developers
  • Drove software development while identifying and managing project dependencies, risks, and issues
  • Assisted Product Management with product planning, strategy, and requirements
  • Performed long-term planning and scheduling including budget input and resource planning
  • Release prime for major customer releases, Priming the end-to-end delivery of the product to Nakina’s tier 1 customers

• Software Development Manager

  Ceyba

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 7 months)

• Software Designer

  Visual Networks

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  November 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 2 months)

• Prof

  La Cite Collegiale

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

• Software Designer

  Newbridge Networks

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Martin Labelle’s Education

• Cite collegiale

  Technologie du génie informatique , 1995 — 1998

• High School

• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

  Biology

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