Patrick McGrath

Sr. Director Product Strategy @Medidata Solutions

🧨 ConsultingSMM ManagerBusiness AnalystAdvisorEngagement ManagerInfluencer Marketing ManagerMarketing Director💸 Marketing✔️ ITSolution IntegratorSystem AnalystData AnalystProduct ManagerProject ManagerContent Manager

Expert in strategic planning, market analysis, and product development with a strong emphasis on go-to-market strategies. Proven to align roadmaps for product/market fit, develop and implement effective business models, partnerships and pricing strategies across industries. Adept at identifying market opportunities, enhancing customer value, and driving revenue growth. Exceptional communicator with a track record of building high-performing cross-functional teams. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, product lifecycle management, and agile methodologies. Dedicated to continuous improvement and achieving outstanding business results. Recognized for strategic thinking, problem-solving, and team-building capabilities that drive organizational success. Proven innovator, leveraging data-driven decision making and customer insights to inform strategic choices. Experienced in roadmap planning, performance metrics tracking, and market research to ensure alignment with business goals. Adept at risk management and navigating challenges to mitigate potential issues. Committed to mentorship and coaching, fostering team growth and development. Skilled in change management, leading teams through organizational and market shifts to maintain competitive advantage.

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Work Background

Medidata SolutionsSr. Director, Product Growth and Offering Development

Aug. 2022California, United StatesMedidata is the leading global provider of technology-enabled clinical research solutions. Facilitated growth opportunity assessment and strategic planning with product and services teams across the portfolio. Acted as Offering Management leader for Clinical Data Studio, Medidata’s new generation AI-driven data management platform to support clinical trials, data quality and research applications. Acted as Offering Management leader for Medidata Health Record Connect, a standards-based integration of health records to clinical trials and other applications.

CommvaultDirector of Product Management - Data Privacy, Compliance, Search & Analytics

Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2022San Francisco Bay AreaPatrick led the product management team for the Activate product family that uncovers and remediates data, privacy and compliance risks from backup and live data sources. Led efforts to move solutions to a SaaS delivery model including, eDiscovery, data privacy, intelligent archiving systems and data fabric-as-a-service offerings.

CommvaultDirector Product Marketing - Archiving, Search, Analytics

Feb. 2017 - Jul. 2018San Francisco Bay AreaThe Commvault Data Platform has an unparalleled ability to collect data across an organization, on-premises or in the cloud, particularly as a result of their backup and archiving processes. But few organizations are able to take advantage of the breadth of data due to information silos or shortfalls in search or data analytics. If you can't see it, you can't control it or exploit it for the benefit of your organization. Patrick provides thought leadership and Solutions Marketing for Commvault's offerings that support content and other unstructured data. Search, analytics, AI and machine learning applied to data policy automation, information governance, information discovery, and ultimately digital transformation.

EMCDirector, Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Content Division (ECD)

Jun. 2016 - Jan. 2017Pleasanton, California, USALed product marketing team efforts to align and showcase ECD's portfolio of Enterprise Content Management and other offerings that support today's digital transformation initiatives. Worked with analysts and press, is a speaker at industry events, helped to align ECD's offerings with EMC's network of service and technology partners. Crafted marketing campaigns to create brand and product awareness within the context of digital disruption and digital transformation. Consulted with ECD's products and services teams to refine offerings to meet market opportunities and trends.

Enterprise Content Division, EMC Corp.Director Product Marketing

Oct. 2014 - Jun. 2016Pleasanton, California, USAOversee and perform product marketing functions across EMC's Enterprise Content Management portfolio. Digital transformation thought leadership, content management and product evangelist, development of marketing plans and collateral, analyst briefings, customer and market insights, cultivation of EMC community, sales enablement, product strategy.

The CrowdSauce GroupFounder Partner

Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2015CrowdSauce Group is a boutique management consulting firm that helps companies understand, evaluate, and implement new Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, revenue, and transformation models that will stimulate business results. Unlike traditional management consulting firms that specialize in developing strategy but fall short on execution, CrowdSauce Group plays an active role helping clients create an organizational culture that continuously seeks out opportunities to find new ways to innovate, relate better to existing customers, realize efficiencies and cost reductions in current business and create new channels of business.

Academiacs.orgBoard Member

Apr. 2014 - Dec. 2014Academiacs is a community of educators and students of online courses. Become an Academiac and be part of our unique open education exchange!

UC BerkeleyAssoc. Director - Content Management

Apr. 2010 - Jan. 2014Developed and managed campus-wide content management services using on-premise, SaaS and PaaS solutions * Document imaging and workflow (Perceptive Software) * Content collaboration (Google, Box, SharePoint, Alfresco) * Web presence and social media / engagement (Drupal) * Research data management (Alfresco) * Case management (Footprints, ServiceNow) * Founded UC Berkeley campus records management program * Formalized product management functions

UC BerkeleyAssoc. Director - Data Repository Management

Jul. 2007 - Apr. 2010• Managed museum collection management systems used in teaching and research. Developed open source / crowdsourcing models for development, support and delivery. • Developed new operating and planning financial frameworks and tools for the IT division that incorporated project and service portfolio management techniques. • Launched and managed the Media Vault Program, focused on services needed to support management and preservation of digital assets used in campus research. • Managed enterprise data warehouse / business intelligence. Led selection of new business intelligence tools, increased the scope of the campus data warehouse to include additional financial and student data, student and university relations (donors and gifts) subject areas. • Led the campus-level response for 4 major data-loss incidents. • Represented the IST division in campus-wide architecture, data management and governance committees.

UC BerkeleyAssoc. Director - Reporting, Analysis and Program Office

Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2007• Created the first Program Management Office (PMO) within the IT division. Developed project portfolio management and project management tools, standards, templates and processes. Acted as product advisor to ITM software. • Led several other IT service management process improvement projects based on ITIL and COBIT frameworks. Standardized Service Desk operations, upgraded ticketing systems. • Developed a technical account management function to market and sell centralized IT services to a wide campus market. • Responsible for operations of the campus data center. Developed service chargeback models used to fund ongoing data center operations. • Managed data warehouse development and operations. Led cross-functional business intelligence and data warehouse architecture planning initiatives, with a key focus on application, technology, data and delivery architectures supported by an organizational strategy.

UC BerkeleyAssociate Director - Systems and Database Administration / Enterprise Architect

Oct. 2001 - Sep. 2005• Established and maintained computing infrastructure used in the operation of campus-wide administrative systems. Managed 7x24 operation of 300 servers (Mainframe, Unix and Windows); databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server); and Data Warehouse (Informatica / Oracle / Hyperion). • Managed infrastructure sub-projects of PeopleSoft implementations of ERP suites (Financials and HR); design and installation of necessary components of mainframe, windows server, database administration, capacity planning, performance testing and systems tuning. • Led infrastructure planning and design, platform feasibility evaluations (mainframe and alternatives), firewall and security, server consolidation, RDBMS evaluation and selection and disaster recovery planning. • Create the frameworks to define, administer, and enforce technical policies, standards, and procedures. • Represented the IST division in campus-wide architecture committees.

DigitalThinkClient Services Manager

Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2001• Managed global implementation of Saba (HCM/Learning Management System) integrated with DigitalThink Learning Content for Adobe. Developed partnering strategies, hosting and support procedures and managed customer and supplier relationships. • Managed PMO and department of project managers, integrating LMS and custom DigitalThink content with customer training objectives. Developed project management methodologies and tools for ongoing customer systems integration engagements. Directed business planning, budgeting and staffing. • Key liaison with product management and technology teams for development of DigitalThink’s learning portal and reporting platforms. Technology and human performance strategist for major engagements.

DocumentumIT - Global Applications Manager

Jan. 1997 - Dec. 1999* Managed department, implementing and supporting the full suite of PeopleSoft financials modules and the integration with financial planning software (Hyperion Pillar). * Managed selection, implementation and integration of solutions for: ** Project accounting and billing (PeopleSoft) for Documentum Professional Services Organization ** Learning management and billing system (Saba) for Documentum Education Services ** Contracts management system (Documentum) for the Documentum Controller’s office. This was used as a best-practice model for selling the Documentum solution to clients. ** Travel and expense management system (Extensity) for the Documentum Controller’s office. * Responsible for broader support and deployment of Documentum (document/content management) solutions to internal stakeholders.

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