Marc Houle
Accomplished technology leader with a track record of success in building and growing products from scratch to maturity. Highly experienced at leading product and engineering teams, developing new lines of business, and managing all aspects of the product lifecycle. Extensive experience in cloud solutions, digital media, AI authoring, advanced analytics, partner and vendor relationship strategy (including OEM), and GTM strategies for fast growing organizations. A people-person who enjoys working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and fostering communication between product management, visual design, engineering, marketing, sales, and support.
Agile
The faster you get features out, the faster you can engage with your customers. Marc has a long history of designing, developing, and releasing features through iterative agile processes.
Innovative
Creativity and innovation comes from all sources. Marc engages with his team and his customers, listens to them, drives experimentation, and then iterates until he has a product that is innovative and successful.
Successful
Marc has delivered successful products by engaging with customers to build both what customers want and what they need. Marc has driven products from inception through development and on to deployment.
Technical
Whether it was for large enterprises and small businesses, Marc has built solutions for every environment and every device. Marc has owned clients that ran on mobile, web, and on the desktop, and solutions that ran on-premise and in the cloud.
Experience
Senior Manager, Oracle Content Management, Oracle — 2015-present
Marc is a member of the team designing and planning Oracle’s digital experience solutions as part of the Oracle Content Management product. Marc is managing for the team responsible for digital asset management, video processing and delivery, smart authoring (AI/ML), and all the community-related features. Marc is responsible for creating an innovative business plan for both a cloud-based and enterprise-based solution. In this role, Marc is creating product roadmaps, defining user interfaces, and managing the complete product life cycle.
Principal Product Manager, Oracle Social Network, Oracle — 2011-2015
Marc was a member of the team designing and planning Oracle’s enterprise social networking solution. Marc was responsible for the client-side communication tools (web, mobile, and desktop), the integrated desktop strategy, the conferencing service, voice and video conferencing services, and social intelligence strategy. Marc was responsible for creating an innovative business plan for both a cloud-based and enterprise-based solution. In this role, Marc was creating product roadmaps, defining user interfaces, and managing the complete product life cycle.
Principal Product Manager, Unified Communications, Oracle — 2008-2011
Marc was the primary product manager for the Unified Communications and Real-Time Collaboration pieces at Oracle. As Product Manager, Marc was responsible for performing competitive analysis, creating product roadmaps, defining user interfaces, and managing the complete product life cycle. Marc was the principle point-of-contact for teams based in Canada, France, India, San Francisco, and Chicago.
Senior Product Manager, Collaborative Technologies, Oracle — 2004-2008
Marc was the primary product manager for the enterprise collaboration and client components for the 10g release of the Oracle Collaboration Suite. He oversaw Oracle’s third-party Office and Mozilla integration projects. During this period, Marc helped double the number of Oracle Collaboration Suite customers and saw customer satisfaction results triple.
Senior Strategic Solutions Architect, Oracle — 2002-2004
Marc provided custom solutions for high-profile multi-national corporate prospects and customers around the world, both in North America and internationally. His role included training, sales presentations, product demonstrations, project management, product installation, VIP support, and consulting. As part of the ACE Team, Marc acted as the main technical resource for France and much of northern Europe, supporting advanced email, calendar, conferencing, and content services implementations.
Senior Technical Consultant, Steltor — 1998-2002
Marc provided international enterprise-level consulting, development, and training for Steltor’s Time Management systems. He led integration projects with third-party standards-based systems, including email, directory, web, and wireless on a wide-range of platforms, including UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
Marc Houle
Senior Manager
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
514-815-6758