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Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States

Holly Springs, North Carolina

Cary, North Carolina

• Lead a cross functional team including engineering, sourcing, legal, compliance, and marketing to conceptualize, design, develop and launch a new differentiated and modular industrial display platform. This new.
• Drove software team to deliver key market differentiating features like VNC, SNMP and HTML dashboards for GE's Operator Interface products.
• Developed and executed integrated promotional campaign to simultaneously create demand for GE's Operator Interface portfolio and enable key global Channel Partners to sell more effectively with the deployment of.
• Drove development of new Industrial computing platforms employing industry standard COM Express technology to reduce time to market and add greater flexibility for standard, semi-custom and complete custom offers.

Knightdale, NC

• Aided in the 30% growth of the OEM Machine Control solutions business by increasing offer presence, and properly equipping the OEM sales team, Channel Partners and Distributors with key tools to grow the business and.
• Developed and executed anticipation campaign to create demand for the next generation of the Schneider Electric machine automation solution through the use of promotional videos and strategically targeted messaging.
• Successfully launched the next generation of OEM Machine Control PLCs and Software with a market penetration pricing and value strategy.
• Equipped OEM Sales team with powered demo cases with in-depth instructions on how to describe and showcase key features of the new solution to their current and potential customers.
• Developed campaign to retrofit and redeploy automation training panels to key distributors in choice markets for extending Schneider Electric’s effective market reach, and equipping partners to conduct prototyping.

Knightdale, NC

• Aided in the 15% growth of the Low-End / Simple Machine Control business by increasing offer presence, and properly equipping the OEM sales team, Channel Partners and Distributors with key selling points through.
• Successfully brought the Twido Extreme PLC through End of Commercialization while minimizing customer dissatisfaction.
• Managed various quality issues through cross-functional teams while maintaining customer confidence.
• Responsible for analyzing market trends and developing marketing initiatives to position Schneider Electric to grow the business for low end control products.
• Responsible for analyzing sales trends and forecasting current and future offers.
• Responsible for initiating and monitoring new product launches and maintaining current business through close attention to the needs of the end customers.

• Developed a database that took a multitude of information into account to help upper level marketing management develop a qualified list of targeted customers for their Machine Struxure Solutions launch.
• Gathered information on all OEM’s operating in targeted segments including, location, financial information and types of machines produced.
• Developed Targeting metrics to determine “best fit” targets for efficient solutions deployment.
• Managed and developed a new process for extending market reach to previously untouched markets.

• Changed tires, balanced wheel assemblies, performed free flat repairs and sold services to customers.
• Helped to develop systems and process flow to improve efficiency.
• Lead service techs by example, brought in customers’ vehicles, pulled stock and managed inventory

• Developed a model that predicted future fuel surcharge rates for various third party logistics suppliers based on DOE’s future estimated costs of Jet Fuel, Diesel and Gasoline.
• Developed the model to accept various inputs and calculate the total estimated future fuel surcharge costs and total impact to logistics budget in any given month from now until the end of 2010.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

B.S, Business Administration - Operations And Supply Chain Management Concentration