Fergal McGovern
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Founder & CPO (Chief Product Officer)
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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Founder & CPO (Chief Product Officer)VisibleThreadJul 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)Driving the Next Generation of Product Innovation at VisibleThread & loving it!- Founder & CEOVisibleThreadJun 2009 - Jul 2025 (16 years 2 months)VisibleThread is a market leading language & content auditing company used in regulated industries.
With regional offices in the US, Europe and Australia, Enterprises & Government Agencies use our products to create and maintain risk free enterprise content. We help sales teams win more deals, proposal teams be more efficient, contract teams spot risks sooner, and content creation teams produce clear accessible content.
Our document analysis solution VT Docs identifies defects and streamlines compliance. It allows users to scan MS Word and PDF docs for language liability concerns, automatically create compliance documents, and provide content oversight. Our secure AI writing assistant VT Writer helps customer create im - Product Management DirectorCompuwareApr 2006 - May 2008 (2 years 2 months)After the SteelTrace acquisition, had global responsibility for BRM (Business Requirements Management) Solutions within the Product Management and Strategy team within Compuware.
Drove Compuware's Requirements Driven strategy across the ALM (Application Lifecycle and Management) suite of solutions. - SFounder & CTOSteelTraceJan 2001 - Mar 2006 (5 years 3 months)Founder, Chief Technical Officer & board member of SteelTrace.
Originator of Catalyze (now named 'Optimal Trace' under Compuware), a leading RM (Requirements Management) solution. Led technical development & commercial route to market activities. Catalyze 1.0 went GA (General Availability) in Feb 2002.
Catalyze was honoured in the first annual SD Times 100 list in 2003.
Drove Product Positioning, Product Development, Marketing and 'Go to Market' Strategy. Involved in strategic Sales Cycles and led Professional Services practice. At time of exit, SteelTrace had in excess of 300 customers, many fortune 1000. Worked on two major Funding Rounds & Final Exit Process.
SteelTrace successfully exited with - eVP EngineeringebeonOct 1999 - Jan 2001 (1 year 4 months)Led internal engineering dept. Developed & rolled out company-wide iterative based software development process.
- ITechnical Team LeadIONA TechnologiesJan 1998 - Oct 1999 (1 year 10 months)Iona Technologies is a middleware software product vendor. Technical Lead for GUI Tools across Iona's Product Lines. Member of Iona Architecture Board.
- GArchitect & UI Team Lead [Contract Position]Genesis InternationalOct 1995 - Dec 1997 (2 years 3 months)Independent contractor, UI/UX lead on Billing System & Telecoms Provisioning System for GTE (now Verizon)
- Snr Software EngineerBMO USMar 1994 - Oct 1995 (1 year 8 months)Responsible for Business/Requirements Analysis, Technical Design and Implementation for several internally developed banking systems.
- LSoftware ConsultantLante CorpApr 1992 - Mar 1994 (2 years)Worked on a number of Fortune 1000 client projects including: Dell Computer, Kraft Foods & Amaco Oil Company
- Software EngineerAdvantestSep 1989 - Dec 1991 (2 years 4 months)Worked on a number of 'C' and Win 2.1 based systems for testing of early digital mobile phone technology and CATV systems.
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- BSc, Computer ScienceUniversity College DublinJan 1985 - Dec 1989 (5 years)
- Cistercian College RoscreaCistercian College RoscreaSep 1980 - Jun 1985 (4 years 10 months)