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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.

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.
• 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.
• Saved over $150MM, guiding a services re-engineering team, initiating a new vision for installation.

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs