Alexandre Silva Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Md, Us

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Key technical hardware product manager responsible for creating products across global markets from ideation to launch. Provide support for product improvement of released products.Work with a team developing, refining, and advancing Powin’s battery energy storage technology for use in the next generation of the grid.• Translate product roadmap and strategy into detailed requirements for the development of prototypes and ultimately products.• Convert market requirements and use cases into detailed requirements that the engineering team can build against and determine if the product goals are being technically met.• Work with vendors in determining the suitability of their product to improve efficiency or to address a shortage.• Contribute to an overall product enhancement/optimization.• Work on continuous improvement of released products based on feedback from customers, project engineers, installation team members etc., with emphasis on hardware components and respective documentation.• Identify product capability gaps for internal and external customers and quantify the values of filling those gaps so they can be appropriately prioritized for development.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Product manager for the water-cooled, magnetic-bearing centrifugal chiller product line. Responsible for establishing product quality and optimizing product performance, as measured through realized margins and market share.General Product Management• Understand characteristics and reasons for product success and recognize opportunities and gaps.• Prepare timely and accurate forecasts for business strategy and financial planning.• Identify major deviations between actual and projected revenue and recommend corrective actions.• Track prices, costs, profitability, and all other relevant Key Performance Indicators of product outline.• Support field sales team and applications engineers for custom orders and special quotes.Marketing & Sales• Create product-line-specific content for training, sales support, and customer collateral.• Ensure consistent marketing across all internal and external messaging via collaboration with marketing managers in alignment with core strategy and JCI Vision/Goals.• Create sales tools required to feed strategic growth plans, both globally and regionally focused.Product & Strategy Roadmap• Manage product lifecycle and strategic product roadmap to include launch, development, and sunsetting plans.• Develop requirements for new products and product extensions, enhancements, and options.Competitive Analysis• Assemble competitive benchmarking to meet product development requirements.• Identify competitive positioning opportunities, identify product gaps, predict competitive reactions, and guarantee effectiveness and profitability.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Manage all aspects of product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical activities (feature definition to launch and support).• Develop business cases and own all product management responsibilities to drive adoption and grow the customer base of assigned product.• Define detailed product requirements based on market needs and industry trends.• Drive prioritization of the product backlog through collaboration with development teams and software architects.• Analyze market trends, customer requirements and competitive strategy to identify opportunities to increase customer and business value through product differentiation.• Lead new feature development from concept through commercialization, including voice of customer research, definition of customer and product requirements and value proposition, public presentations and competitive analysis.• Serve as the expert for products and features.• Ensure projects are completed on time, within budget and according to quality standards.• Communicate launch plans, status and messaging to marketing and sales team.

Milwaukee, Wi

• Provide support to the Rockwell Automation Supplier Quality Program, which includes: - Supplier Assessments and Approvals, Supplier Development and Improvements, Advanced Quality Planning for process and part approvals, management program for continued supplier success, i.e. Supplier Performance metrics and Supplier Corrective Action process, and Management of planning, monitoring and improving the receiving inspection function.• Ensures suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services.• Qualifies suppliers according to company standards.• Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier related problems.• Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices and quality standards are met.• Evaluates suppliers and administers supplier development programs when necessary.• Leads/participates in customer issue resolution and ensures all commodity issues are driven to closure.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Manage global quality processes (Stop Order, Product Quality Waiver, 8D, Root Cause Failure Analysis) as part of the Quality Management Systems (QMS) group. - Own and update the procedures that define the processes. - Collaborate with IT to enhance systems that support the processes. - Train personnel on the processes.• Oversee process to control shipments when quality issues are discovered.• Monitor 8D problem solving efforts to ensure resolution of quality issues.• Drive business groups to complete corrective and preventive action.• Work with product quality groups to control release of product.• Organize and run regular, global meetings to keep the processes moving forward and hold people accountable. • Use business systems (SAP and others) to capture necessary information and maintain current status information.• Own supporting SAP processes (Notifications, Routing, Returns) and work with global locations and functions to determine requirements.• Generate metrics and reports to communicate status of processes to management. Understand the sources of data, offer insight and analysis to management, and suggest actions to address concerns.• Lead teams and partner within QMS and across departments to complete quality projects and push standardization.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Internal Lead Quality Auditor (ISO 9001/18001, OHSAS 14001).• Ensures that established manufacturing inspection, sampling and statistical process control procedures are followed.• Evaluates and analyzes the efforts in organizing, documenting, and interpreting inspection support of global policies and procedures.• Management of manufacturing instructions.• Ensures activities and items are in compliance with both company quality assurance standards and applicable government regulations.

• Applies market, customer, industry, application and technical knowledge to assist in preparing Customer requirement Document and Product Requirement Document for product development projects (new line extensions, enhancements and cost reductions).• Assists in defining specifications with price, cost and reliability objectives for product development projects. Helps with preparation of on-going competitive analysis and regularly communicates relevant information throughout the organization.• Supports Commercial Marketing organization in the development - business/product management, development engineering, quality, test, industrialization, and repair.

• Collaborate with the analysis of abnormal wear and malfunction of Diesel vehicle parts.• Responsible for planning and administrating the inspection of malfunctioning parts and assuring the execution of the services in less time and more quality, using the right resources.• Data base management.• Plan and administer all aspects of dealer warranty repair.• Schedule maintenance and general repair service.• Customer satisfaction assurance.• Data Entry Clerk.

Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering

Solidworks, Technical And Advanced English

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