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Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Global market leader of transportation safety equipment for mobility devices with significant market share in over 70 countries. They have led the industry in innovation and distribute a mass customizable product lines.
• Established the Product Management function and recruited, trained and integrated new resources for the role.
• Worked closely with the sales team to develop 50+ new product variants to meet the needs of our channel partners, OEMs and transportation agencies.
• Mapped vehicle Bid Specification process to identify opportunities for new product communication.
• Implemented a market driven product development process that focused on quantitative, qualitative and Ethnography insights to identify unmet needs that drove new product USPs.
• Developed and deployed a pricing tool that leveraged market-based assessments and validated elasticity through Van Westendorp and Conjoint analysis.

Greater Denver Area

• Led multi-site, product development team including Advanced Technology, Innovation, Industrial Design, Project Management, Mechanical/Electrical/Software Engineering and Quality functions in support of the $400M North.
• Led efforts to transform the organizational structure, internal processes, new technology development, resource competency and engineering automation tools to deliver +$213M of incremental new product offerings.
• Improved multi-site project staffing by 175%, skillset improvements by 40% and redundant resource elimination of 15%; increased engineering capacity by +325% while reducing R&D/Revenue by +11% and Revenue/Head by 28%.
• Implemented a product portfolio management system that leveraged “Open Innovation” methods to initially identify 350+ new product ideas with a potential incremental annual revenue of +$450M.
• Developed an Opportunity Assessment tool to quickly evaluate project market potential and resource prioritization to go from 120 active projects delivering $12.5M annually to 28 active projects delivering $53M annually.
• Implemented a resource capacity planning system and process to ensure focus of critical technical resources to improve Time-to-Market (TTM) by 33% and schedule attainment from 78% to 93%.

Bowling Green, KY

• Leadership team member of a $120M business for market leading products. Instituted new strategic thinking, clear objectives, team structures and key performance metrics across the product development lifecycle.
• Transformation of global resources from a functional operating structure to a value stream orientation organizing across U.S and Asia and aligning competencies to cross-functional teams to create a global matrix.
• Industry expert on LED technologies and capabilities and established key partnerships with LED manufacturers and technology providers to establish industry best lumens/$, efficacy and expected lifetime.
• Assembled and led retail line review efforts that led to a 10% increase in SKUs and placement of initial LED products that ultimately enabled HeathCo to win “Vendor of the Year” at Lowes.
• Led efforts to launch successful lighting program in Australian market that produced 50% growth in total sales in first year.
• Promoted to Strategic Business Unit manager of the $80M Intelligent Lighting business that yielded a global Net Sales CAGR of 6% and Contribution Margin CAGR of 13% in a down market.

Hampton, VA

• Recruited by the Chairman/Founder to transform a niche R&D company into a commercially viable, fully integrated business. Member of a 3-person senior leadership team with oversight for establishing cohesive R&D.
• Recruited, organize and led a 40-person cross-functional team from program management, electrical, mechanical, chemical, test and materials engineer¬ing disciplines. Supplemented technical expertise with 3rd party.
• Assisted in the development of a new business model and strategic plan to capitalize on +$50M of emerging market opportunities and position PAR as a niche market leader in high volume, global component development and.
• Established organizational structure and staffing model, lean product development processes, performance management systems to improve organizational throughput by +35%.
• Oversaw 76 US/foreign filings for smart material applications and engineering/technical procedures.
• Completed the feasibility and concept cycle of 8 products/applications on average per year offering higher performance and durability.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Member of the Product Development management team responsible for driving the Engineering function on new products, sustaining and innovation. Activities included:
• Reorganized engineering function to enable full support of all new product development activities including hardware, software, mechanical, systems, packaging, test equipment and production processes.
• Implemented Product Data Management system, a more efficient, integrated product planning and development approach.
• Developed resource capacity planning tool that provided proactive allocations of resources to ensure schedule attainment.
• Aligned global engineering processes and developed templates to improve time to market and accuracy of engineering deliverables.Established Engineering Automation function and implemented a PDM, system software CM and.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering