Director of Product Management at Neustar
Joined on February 28, 2011
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Patrick joined Neustar Webmetrics as the Director of Product Management after his startup, BrowserMob, was acquired in July 2010. BrowserMob provides low-cost, self-service, cloud-based products that help monitoring and test the performance of modern web sites. Patrick is an avid open source contributor, having founded OpenQA, developed Selenium Remote Control, and co-created Struts 2. Prior to founding BrowserMob, he was the senior Product Manager at Gomez, running the QA Solutions product group. Before that, he founded HostedQA, an automated web-testing platform acquired by Gomez in 2007. Patrick has held management and software engineering positions with Jive Software, Spoke Software, and Cisco Systems.
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