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San Diego, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Engineering program lead for product development, release, site coordination and research activities for this start-up company, bringing an emerging technology and new product platform to market. Implemented Agile/Scrum processes, key team member for planning and prioritizing software sprint/development activities, used Jira, Confluence, MS-Office suite and MS-Project to track and manage work. Coordinated development and site activities for all deployments. Developed processes for the new PMO group. Created Development, Product Release and Research portfolios, roadmaps and project plans using Portfolio for Jira.

Greater San Diego Area

Owner for all new product introduction activities, worked independently at the customer site transferring new products/platforms from Teradata’s sw/hw engineering teams to the Flex(tronics) engineering teams for final requirements prioritization, integration and release at the Flex facility in West Columbia, SC using Agile methods, Jira, lean tools, MS-Office suite, MS-Project and Oracle ERP.• Completed over 30 major product/platform releases across product lines and 50+ product/platform updates and sustaining projects.• Led a cross-functional core team at Flex driving Agile release planning and coordination of product releases for this $300M/year Flex business.

Greater San Diego Area

Led the definition & implementation of processes and methods for building a new product pipeline.• NPD process to meet FDA requirements: Member of a working team for redesign of the entire new product development (NPD) process to meet FDA requirements for medical device development - products included the Alaris IV pump and Pyxis medication management product lines.• New product pipeline: Effectively led, collaborated across functional groups and divisions, built consensus around new methods for early phase product/market development work for new product pipeline. Completed project for the concept definition NPD phase.

Greater San Diego Area

R&D lead for cross-organizational Operational Excellence / Lean Six Sigma initiative. Led, defined and completed key cross-functional improvement projects using lean tools/methods & MS-Project. Completed intensive 5-week Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt program.• Completed Blackbelt projects: Defined and established a new product pipeline process to fast-track new product opportunities, expanded division capacity for innovation, $1M savings. Led project team for a market-leading medication order management system to improve product software & system performance using lean analysis tools, reduced recurring product costs by $2M the first year.

Greater San Diego Area

Built new product needs/requirements analysis function from the ground up. Defined strategy, plan, budget; staffed new department. Visited customers and discussed product capabilities and opportunities (VOC); prioritized product improvements. Assessed and created intellectual property (see patents below).

Greater San Diego Area

Led the development and delivery of the market-leading medication management suite of products. Managed a team of 20 Software Engineers.• Planned and executed all Med development programs: Technical lead for roadmap and release planning, requirements development & prioritization, concept definition and needs/cost analysis for established products and new-to-market POC’s (including a MedStation & Alaris IV pump integration POC). Led all MedStation releases (both new and sustaining), developed and released the new-to-market Anesthesia System. • Led software design & delivery, developed coordinated project plans with the Systems Integration and Quality teams in MS-Project, and managed key partners.• Led requirements prioritization and release planning, development and successful release of the Pyxis MedStation 3000, which created a spike in renewal and new business, increasing market share (~80%).

Greater San Diego Area

Led the systems integration and release-to-market work for all Pyxis development projects.• Managed a team of 20 Project/Systems Engineers and 3 Engineering Supervisors, drove work on 25-30 concurrent new product development projects/POC’s/sustaining projects.• Led systems sw/hw integration; assessment, licensing & integration of new technologies; managed key solutions partners. Worked closely with in-house, remote and partner development teams.• Acted as owner for key projects integrating acquired products and bringing them to release. Opened new markets, increased market share.

Mba

Graduate Certificate, Technology Business Creation, Von Liebig Center/Jacobs School Of Engineering

Coursework included: Venture Mechanics (creating, assessing, developing new product/market ideas), Enterprise Dynamics (market strategy.

Ba

Graduated from Muir College, broad range of coursework in mathematics, sciences, linguistics, humanities.