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Cleveland, Oh, Us

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Olympic Valley, Ca, Us

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Santa Clara, California, Us

Full-time executive coach, partnering with executives & leaders to grow their potential. Led strategy for Intel's award-winning leadership coaching program. Strategy lead for Intel's coaching program. Recipient of the 2022 ICF PRISM award for Coaching Excellence in Organizations.Services provided include 1:1 coaching, group coaching, leadership development programs and strategy coaching. Coaching programs served >1000 leaders / year achieving 2.7x higher promotion rates, $40M+ reduction in attrition costs, ~$1B measured improvement in operating margin.Personally coached over 50 senior leaders to create awareness for positive change and take integrated action to transform themselves and their organizations for improved business performance - average Net Promoter Score 85.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led a team of senior strategists that advise the CEO and board on organic / inorganic strategies to drive revenue growth and company profitability.Designed and established a new cross-company, integrated corporate operating model to link product roadmap, capacity, strategic and financial planning and enable a streamlined and consistently managed business plan. Led corporate strategy discussions with the executive leadership team and the board of directors to facilitate identification of actionable responses to the most important strategic questions. Topics included how to win in key market segments (e.g., AI, 5G/network/edge, SaaS), geopolitical issues (e.g., China, supply-chain resilience) and the company’s response to increasing competition in silicon manufacturing. These discussions set the stage for a major shift in strategy, recommitting the company to leadership in leading-edge silicon manufacturing including building out a viable foundry business.Partnered with corporate finance on a series of strategic acquisitions. Developed and deployed a streamlined framework for strategy development that was adopted by business units across the company and facilitated a tighter linkage of individual BU strategies and plans.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led a team responsible for researching and synthesizing key market trends across Intel’s business and bringing them to the attention of Intel’s executive management. The team also engages in industry analysis projects to analyze business and ecosystem forces in specific segments of the market to inform Intel’s business strategy in those segments and provides strategic consulting to Intel’s Corporate Strategy OfficeBuilt Intel's Market Watch program - a platform for continuous trend sensing & foresight that engages internal and external sources to synthesize and highlight disruptive threats and opportunities across customers, competition, ecosystem and industry to the CEO and executive staff. Recommendations made via this process have led to significant strategic initiatives to orient the company towards new growth segments including Deep Learning/AI, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality and autonomous driving.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Directed product marketing, media functions, creative localization, channel marketing, point-of-sale merchandising, and press relations for the Latin America region.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for change management initiatives to sustain company’s global market competitiveness. Shape processes and organizational structure to improve global staff productivity and guide development of executive communications and strategic marketing projects. Report to Intel's Chief Marketing Officer.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Director of co-marketing - Manage all aspects of Intel’s flagship Intel Inside(r) OEM co-marketing program worldwide.Transferred to Intel's HQ in Santa Clara in April of 2006 - previously responsible for managing the Intel Inside program for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Directed a team of 20+ co-marketing specialists (first-line managers and direct reports) implementing demand-creation campaigns for Intel premium products with a total budget in excess of $300M per year.Developed brand value proposition for launch of Intel's flagship Core processor line and implemented marketing strategy to bring Core into the mainstream and reposition Pentium as a value brand

Santa Clara, California, Us

Designed and implemented market growth programs across the full breadth of Intel’s product portfolio (desktop PCs, notebooks, servers) and all market segments (consumer, enterprise, mobility) for the EMEA emerging markets region, with main focus on Russia/CIS and Eastern Europe.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led a team of up to 11 direct reports responsible for management of Intel’s PC client products (CPUs, chipsets, motherboards for desktops and notebooks) across the product life-cycle in the EMEA region. Drove product roadmaps, product positioning, competitive analysis, transition management and implementation of demand creation programs for product lines representing in excess of $4B yearly revenue.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed a team of 8 developer relations engineers responsible for development and execution of ISV co-marketing programs in the areas of e-Business and Internet professional services. Acted as business / technology consultant to Intel’s internal VC arm (Intel Capital) for various e-Business related equity investments.

Munich, De

Led project teams of up to 15 engineers in the implementation of large scale Internet-based solutions for e-Publishing and e-Commerce based on a variety of standard software products (Netscape, Actra, Oracle, Opentext, Broadvision). Business responsibility for P&L with a $3.5M annual professional services revenue target. Grew the direct project team from 3 to 9 project engineers achieving profitability in year 2.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed a suite of graphical programming tools (performance analyzer, profiler, debugger) for Intel’s iPSC/Paragon supercomputer product line (Unix, C/C++, X-Windows, Motif). Rolled out first European pilot deployment of HFC cable-modem infrastructure in Paris (partner project with France Telecom).

Munich, Bavaria, De

Research assistant to the chair for computer technology (Prof. Arndt Bode)

Coach Intensive Training — Spring 2018, Professional Coaching Of Individual And Organizational Systems

Master Computer Science, Computer Science, Parallel Programming, Programming Tools, Physics

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