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Virtual Office, New Jersery

Guided 30 Enterprise Architects covering over 150 transformation projects per year. • Supported Enterprise Architects, assuring that designs met principles, aligned with corporate strategy, and were properly documented for reuse.• Introduced innovations that improved quality, efficiency, and visibility. • Captured data flows and interface details of projects in a central tool for wider visibility, deeper understanding, analysis, and strategic planning.

Virtual Office, New Jersey

Led multiple customer experience transformation projects.• Supported business transformation by helping architects, engineers, and managers visualize and gain application architecture insights through use of the tool.• Established checklists and trained Enterprise Architects to review and document projects.• Guided evaluation, selection, and initial implementation of QualiWare, enabling a corporate tool for Business Process and Enterprise Architecture modeling.

Murray Hill, New Jersey

Orchestrated creation of the corporate Portfolio Management referential tool. • Led large cross-organizational team, identifying stakeholders, defining requirements, expanding data fill, improving user interface, and linking other systems to a new corporate portfolio tool.• Raised visibility of products, services, and solutions in the database, improving strategic planning.

Holmdel, New Jersery

Team modeled & analyzed Gross Margin for cost reduction and product mix trade-off decisions.• Exceeded company-wide product cost reduction and gross margin goals for 7 quarters.• Provided integrated information on gross margin, inventory, and delivery for Senior Leadership.• Prepared and presented Boost Our Margins webinars on: Market-Based Target Costing, Experience Curves, Quantifying Customer Requirements, Value Analysis, Supplier Partnership Workshops, & Margin Optimization to improve company's overall financial performance.

Holmdel, New Jersey

Steered team of 5 engineers facilitating workshops• Created Supplier Partnership Workshop process. Team conducted over 100 workshops with client design teams from Germany to China, generating thousands of ideas valued at over $200MM.• Orchestrated finalist interview that led to Lucent Technologies receiving Purchasing Magazine’s 2002 Medal of Professional Excellence Award.• Co-authored Target Costing: Market-Driven Product Design, a how-to book to: define & quantify customer needs, determine their willingness to pay, set cost targets, achieve paths to targets, manage costs, and optimize profits.• Trained 100's of project managers in Target Costing and Full-Stream Target Costing courses.

Princeton, New Jersey

Coordinated cost management program and facilitated cost reduction workshops• Created spreadsheet tools, and facilitated cross-functional meetings that achieved 10%/year savings on $1B product portfolio. Drove Target Cost achievement coverage to 88% of portfolio, significantly improving gross margin.• Saved over $150MM, guiding a services re-engineering team, initiating a new vision for installation.

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs