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Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Responsible for Kids solutions, including watches and tablets.

Overland Park, Ks

Product Marketing Manager for Wearables, Tablets, and Mobile Broadband

Overland Park, Ks

Responsible for the Life Cycle Management of Caller Name Presentation, Wireless Emergency Alerts, Text to Landline, and Contacts strategy.

Overland Park, Ks

Responsible for the Life Cycle management of Enterprise Messaging Applications, Wireless Emergency Alerts, Text To Landline, and CDMA messaging architecture project management. Created and deployed many feature phone and smartphone messaging solutions, including the first carrier branded HIPAA compliant messaging solution and the first carrier branded "Man Down" product in the U.S.

Grain Valley, Mo

Established and directed the PMO framework all new product introduction, variable cost productivity, and requisition projects totaling $30M in annual spend, resulting in reduced cost overruns by 600%, and reduced time to market metrics by over 400%. Introduced sound project management principles to the organization including: earned value, cross functional risk management, fully loaded project schedules, and change control processes. Span of control and development portfolio over three continents: North America, Europe, and Asia.

• Responsible for developing the enterprise wide, long range product and services strategy.• Responsible for process definition, and managing the documentation of product line strategic plans.• Insure product plans of record are tracking directionally to strategy and goals of the business units.• Insure alignment of product efforts across all product groups.• Manage a team responsible for researching, and developing strategies for emerging products/services and technologies.• Manage strategy projects resulting in the creation of key initiatives cascading throughout the enterprise.

• Responsible for building and maintaining the Sprint Select Carrier Device Program, providing over $10 million in cost recovery to Sprint annually• Manage both commercial and technical projects between Sprint and its international carrier partners.• Build and maintain relationships between Sprint, device manufacturers, and Sprint’s current and prospective international carrier partners.• Support international partners for handset terminals in the areas of: product roadmaps, marketing, testing, forecasts, procurement, and logistics.

• Responsible for the life-cycle management of a portfolio of wireless messaging products, including SMS, WAP based Short Mail, and Chat services, generating over $150 million in annual revenue.• Lead a cross functional team of product SME’s to ensure operational excellence of Sprint’s text messaging products.• Manage and develop vendor relationships.• Develop, plan, and manage new concepts for new messaging products or product line extensions. • Serve as the Sprint representative in industry forums on messaging interoperability. Act as a key industry catalyst and carrier negotiator for SMS (Short Message Service) domestic and international interoperability and universal short codes for SMS.• Represent Sprint on the Wireless Internet Caucus – Messaging Group to help cultivate new product innovation in messaging.

Managed a team of call center professionals in an 1100 seat call center. My team was responsible for answering questions from the general call center population and to take first level customer escalations.

Masters Certificate In Project Management, Project Management

Mba, Business/Marketing

B.S., Management

Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management