Who We Are
The productOps team leverages over 100 years combined business, technical and operational expertise for your benefit. Our experience spans every type of client, from startups to Fortune 50 companies, and includes entrepreneurial coaching, project management, software development, web design, information architecture, operations, brand management, marketing, and business planning.
Strategy + Operations
Bob Cagle
The productOps CEO recently completed a two year stint with Krugle, where he built and managed the development team that created a vertical search engine for source code. In 2001, Bob co‐founded Open Field Software, developers of Ella for Spam Control.
In 1990, he co‐founded Thuridion, a commercial software consulting firm. During his tenure as Thuridion’s CEO, he led the growth of the organization to over 50 people as it completed over 500 commercial projects for companies like Symantec, Microsoft, Adobe, Hewlett Packard and American Express.
Product Marketing + Brand
Frank Humphries
Frank's capabilities include marketing strategy, product marketing and all aspects of brand and identity. He has held marketing positions in Europe, Asia and the USA and spent 17 years with Hewlett-Packard in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley. As Director of Marketing for HP’s Enterprise business he drove the concept, development, construction, funding and operation of HP’s $25M / 40,000 sq ft corporate briefing center / brand showcase.
As a consultant Frank led a team to design and build HP’s media-based, Consumer Experience Center in San Diego, and worked with a number of clients on brand and communication strategies - including Don Peppers' 1-to-1 Marketing and EMC Legato. In addition he spent 3 years managing operations for a boutique financial services firm where he doubled the staffing, quadrupled the top line and increased the bottom line by a 10x factor.
Design + Interactivity
Spencer Lindsay
Spencer is our design lead, and has worked as a multimedia professional for 20+ years and brings a creative design sensibility and deep experience working on a wide variety of projects. His game studio credits include art direction and 3D design at Atari Games, technical direction and user interface design at Rockstar Games, as well as environment design and team management at Midway Games.
Spence has delivered web design, visualization, product design, architectural rendering, and a variety of related 3D and video work for Intel, Rambus, and other Silicon Valley companies. Spence also teaches design and 3D art production.
Process + Development
Dean Pfutzenreuter
Dean leads all aspects of software development for productOps. He has almost 20 years of experience developing and delivering shrink wrapped and enterprise software. Most recently Dean was Vice President of Engineering at Krugle, Inc., an innovative open source and enterprise code search engine. He was Vice President of Product Development and co-founder of Open Field Software where he architected an award-winning anti-spam product.
Before that, Dean was Director of Consulting Service at Thuridion where he provided insight into new technologies, developed reusable code libraries and helped define their software development process.
Information Architecture + Findability
Erik Schmidt
Erik has built and managed the development and operation of websites since 1996. He emphasizes clean information architecture, findability, and content development. Past clients include Audible Magic, Cisco Systems, the Corporation for National and Community Service, DARPA, Data Domain, and Encentuate, to name just a few.
Erik recently obtained a J.D. at Santa Clara University, where he wrote for and managed the development of Tech LawForum, a website that covers the intersection of law and technology. He also created Mac Law Students, a successful blog and online forum for Mac-using law students.
Contact Us
productOps
1347 Pacific Ave. Suite 201
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831.466.9247
info@productops.com