Responsible for building market intelligence and customer insights, guiding strategy and driving growth for North America market, and expansion into neighboring territories.

Lead program management of projects > $170M, managing a team representing three business units • Collaborate development of next generation Product Development Process, released to global organizations • Lead alignment of disparate systems resulting from rapid growth through acquisition • Drive improvements in product development and tracking of performance metrics

Manage international programs and hold decision-making authority for R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, and Operations. Own the complete lifecycle from product development through product launch and sustaining. Responsible for reporting status and escalations to executive management. Deliver $32M annual revenue on multiple domestic and international programs. • Manage HID’s largest program award to date, $87M on a 5-year contract • Spearhead the development of new to industry credential security technologies to provide the next generation of integrated security features for the marketing and sales portfolio, and qualify new manufacturing capabilities• Advocate for and develop new platform products through collaboration with marketing by understanding customer and industry requirements using latest technology and stretch design concepts to exceed customer expectations• Own complete lifecycle from product development through production and sustaining • Direct product and continuous improvement efforts across all cross functional teams: R&D, Operations, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Security, and Sales• Negotiate product and program requirements as customer-facing representative that directly impact our profitability through optimization of design for equipment efficiencies and performance limits that improve yield rates • Transformed a struggling, high-visibility, international $700,000 contract into a multiple award winning product• Scope and manage $5M Capex budget to meet current contractual requirements and strategic business objectives, driving to improve capacity, capabilities, and cost savings initiatives• Develop new best practices for improvement and standardization to better meet customer contractual requirements through project lessons learned, leading to improved global production processes and quality testing requirements

Managed teams from contract to installation of power management solutions for data centers, including largest key customer exceeding $8 million annual revenue• Drove legacy hardware/software upgrades, and integrate legacy products to meet customer capacity requirements• Managed development of custom programming and hardware integration for installation of new equipment• Coordinated and monitored customer facing technical projects from initiation through delivery, ensure projects are completed on schedule, within budget, and with high customer satisfaction• Responsible for project financial forecast and profit/loss• Worked with internal and external stakeholders, overseeing and coordinating project priorities, scope, resource requirements, risk mitigation, and timing of deliverables

Managed and delivered multiple programs in production and qualification phases exceeding 5-year sales of $21 million, along with 5 prototype/R&D programs • Successfully met all financial performance and on-time delivery metrics by driving all phases of product development, manufacturing priorities and schedules, and contract deliverables. • Developed and implemented the companies’ first project management process; including requirements compliance matrix and gate driven schedule. Ensuring consistent documentation and understanding of project status• Reviewed and responded to customer contracts, Request for Proposals, and compliance• Managed engineering team to define requirements and scope development, and through product launch• Managed and drove resolution to vendor related technical, delivery, and quality issues

• Led resource allocation and prioritization across multiple cross site projects

• Successfully led team for powertrain, cooling, and suspension upgrade on tracked vehicle delivered to industry show• Delivered vehicle upgrade design exceeding the requested performance improvement by 750%• Performed trade studies to determine component selection and design given limited budget and requirements• Responsible for resource allocation, schedule, bill of materials, and engineering orders for part procurement

• Recovered struggling key supplier, who had deviated from design requirements and delayed production deliverables• Acted as BAE Lead Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR), working as point of contact with subcontracts group and Program Management for BAE and Honeywell• Reviewed vendors’ sub-assembly level Requirements Compliance Matrix (RCM) with respect to Configuration Item Development Specification documents

• Led development and production of critical system within Hybrid Traction Drive System• Oversaw design, approved and released drawings, submitted procurement requests, organized and submitted requirements for customer design reviews, and captured design changes• Worked with vendors on technical product issues, schedule, and cost

• Responsible for all phases of project management and design • Developed R&D team design practices to utilize up to 75% commonality in components• Achieved immediate savings of $500,000 and 1,500 man hours on follow for a $1M program• Realized reduction of warehouse inventory, design time, and component costs

• Led team in the development of requirements, definition of scope, compartment based architecture math models and resolution of cross-functional team system integration issues

Conceptualized method of developing international sub and component level testing through utilization of customer usage data, leading to robust testing methods to meet the 95% customer