Alex Drexel
Economics graduate, pursuing MBA at Berkeley and working as Principal Product Strategy Manager at Oracle Corporation.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Groups: | 2011 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, Haas Entrepreneurs Association at Berkeley , UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, [INACTIVE] UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2008-2009 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of California System - Berkeley |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Oracle Corporation |
| Position: | Principal Product Strategy Manager |
| Time period: | December 2005 - Present |
| Description: | • Led company wide, cross functional project to implement new technology.
• Received award from Senior VP for working with customers to validate solutions. • Briefed Forrester on strategy and direction for HCM compensation products. • Created framework for strategy group to perform competitive analysis. • Proposed bundling strategy for new product and projected revenue. • Estimated cross sell opportunities for Oracle’s next generation of products. • Developed product roadmap which included market, competitive, and SWOT analysis. • Wrote article for IHRIM on global rollouts of compensation systems. • Presented strategic direction of products to 100+ customers in Shanghai, China. • Leading project to form strategic partnership with software vendor. |
| Employer: | Oracle Corporation |
| Position: | Manager, Product Management (Promoted four times) |
| Time period: | December 1998 - November 2006 |
| Description: | • International Assignment, Australia July 2002 – July 2006; Worked closely with developers to assure solutions responded to customer business needs for five major releases that delivered a total of 35 new features. Reviewed all requirements documents, functional designs, test plans, user guides, tutorials, implementation guides, training material, demo scripts, inbound and outbound marketing collateral. Assisted director in hiring and mentoring staff. Visited largest Asia/Pacific customer, Westpac, to implement product.
• Spoke several times in front of 100+ customers at the Oracle Applications User Group and Oracle Open World conferences to evangelize product. • Led security related, cross-group project critical to the division’s 11.5.10 release that included sending daily status reports to all vice presidents in the division. • Traveled to support centers and conducted full day classroom training sessions. Conducted sales and support training sessions via web conference. Coordinated with documentation team to produce tutorials, user and implementation guides. Coordinated with Oracle University to produce online training sessions for internal and external use. |
| Employer: | Baan Company |
| Position: | Junior ERP Consultant – Consultant Trainee Program |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 1999 |
| Description: | • Assisted customers with issues relating to the finance module. Advanced to level of mentor and became responsible for training group of five junior consultants in support center procedure, IT/software systems, and case solving techniques. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Finance and Strategy, MBA |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 1997 |
| Degree: | Economics , BA |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Member of the Haas Academic Committee
Member of Toastmasters; received best speaker award twice and table topic winner four times. Participates in philanthropic events with the Oracle Volunteers group. |
