I have 30 years of experience leading innovation and managing people, projects, and products to achieve optimal business and stakeholder outcomes, generate commercial opportunities, and solve customers' problems. Key Attributes:Creative mindset, processes, and unconventional thinking.Deep expertise in helping businesses thrive via strategic technology initiatives. Strong EI and champion of a diverse workplaceBuilder of highly functional and motivated teams. Enthusiastic, high level of curiosity and passion for exploring different world views, solving hard problems, and introducing novel approaches to create impactful outcomes. Capable collaborator to bring together diverse stakeholders, including scientists, engineers, business leaders, and investors to build innovation ecosystems. Notables: Founder of two Innovation Labs, transformed traffic cameras into weather network, built the first vehicle-based weather network, built the National Mesonet Program, visionary of a "smart orchard" system, named inventor on two patents, received two Small Business Innovation Research Awards, and secured a Callahan Innovation Research Grant. Expertise: Executive management, Innovation management, product management, program/project management, strategic planning, customer relationships, team building, decision mapping, creative problem solving, SDLC (Agile, Lean), design thinking.Technologies: GIS, remote sensing, weather and environmental data, IoT/connected devices, applied meteorology, digital twins, mobile platform observation systems, weather analytics, hyper-local data, sensing systems, M2M.Certifications: Pragmatic Marketing Product Management Certification Level III, Lockheed Martin Program Management, Risk Management, Subcontract Management, Cornell University – Leadership Development Program, Design Thinking Better By Design.Patents: Method Of Organizing Information Into Topical, Temporal, and Location Associations For Organizing, Selecting, and Distributing Information 10/124,296, Monitoring and Detecting Weather Conditions Based on Images Acquired from Sensors Aboard Mobile Platforms" Patent Application 14/660,510