Led a team of 30, with 8 direct reports, that were responsible for new product development, sustaining engineering, and developing a technology roadmap aligned with the company’s strategic goals. This included managing a $4M technology budget.• Managed monthly R&D spend against budget targets with course correction as needed.• Led R&D redesign by installing Lean and Agile development software practices to support future growth and scalability of both people and products.• Set departmental KPIs that aligned with company targets, tracked monthly, and initiated countermeasures for targets missed two consecutive months.• Introduced company artificial intelligence (AI) strategy rolling out GitHub Copilot to the R&D teams and Azure OpenAI to the entire company.• Took first AI and ML SaaS product from concept to commercially available in 10 months by setting strict milestone targets and closely managing the project weekly.• Instituted standardized “good-for-product” customer enhancement request process and built out the initial Product Management organization and roadmap.

Led a team of 150, with 10 direct reports, responsible for software development and delivery aspects of the warehouse management suite of products. This included working with Finance to set and manage a $20M annual R&D budget• Translated executive OKRs into departmental and team-level OKRs and guided teams to completion.• Partnered cross-functionally to help define and drive the product roadmap and deliver customer value through product releases using the Agile and SAFe models.• Provided product expertise and guidance for customer-facing departments within Blue Yonder.• Defined departmental KPIs and developed tools and dashboards to track scrum team performance, as well as building offshore teams in China and India.• Coached and mentored directors, senior managers, and managers who led scrum teams to build the next generation of leadership.

Led a team of 70, with 8 direct reports, that were responsible for software development and delivery aspects of the warehouse management suite of products. This included managing an $8M annual budget for the department.• Completed the transition of the conversion from a traditional client server to a web-based architecture.• Delivered our largest customer’s top feature requests by creating a new parallel development effort.