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Louisville, Colorado, United States

Louisville, Co

CableLabs is a non-profit Innovation and R&D Lab founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry. With a strong focus on innovation, CableLabs develops technologies and specifications for the secure delivery of high speed data, video, voice and next generation services. It also provides testing, certification facilities and technical leadership for the industry.CableLabs’ mission is to enable cable operators to be the providers of choice to their customers. Cable operators from around the world are members.In the Program Manager - Innovation role and a member of the Strategy & Innovation and R&D community I develop and manage the innovation management platform with an end goal to accelerate the development of innovations, their prioritization, and resource allocation.Key activities include the following: - Lead the deployment and management of Innovation Management System(s) and its integration across relevant business workflows. - Coach/mentor individual and teams as they identify, explore and assess potential innovations focusing on a 3-8 year timeline for relevance. - Perform metric reporting and data analytics for the innovation portfolio and other relevant KPIs. - Champion operational activities necessary to develop external and internal innovation challenges and other engagements. - Coach for Innovation Bootcamp which is a training event on innovation.

Fort Collins, Co

Schneider Electric is a $30 billion global energy company with 180,000 employees in 190 countries.Leader of new product pipeline development for Cloud Services Division of Schneider Electric.- Explored and promoted innovation ideas for multiple business units.- Championed and managed the development of innovation processes following Lean Startup methodologies including securing IP and patents.- Led the incubation of ideas by focusing on learning activities found through strong customer engagement, market research, and prototyping.- Iterative collaboration with executive leadership and product management.- Specialized in maturing ideas in three dimensions: Customer – driven on value proposition. Technology – centered on technical feasibility. Business – focused on sustainable competitive advantages through effective business modeling, partnerships, and university outreach.- Promoted the increase of innovation and forward-thinking maturity for all business units within Cloud Services, which included leading the annual Innovation Garage for the division.- One example of a successful revenue generating project: combined weather forecasting and asset management to generate a predictive analytics platform for storm damage. This project also included developing and formalizing a university partnership.- US patent pending 15/217,384 filed July 2016 for URAMS - Utility Resource Asset Management System

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Managed internal development staff and provided strategic vision, schedule management, coaching and career path development. Leveraged software architecture knowledge and experience to lead design and development of Schneider Electric software packages. - Inspired team members towards excellence in customer service and providing prompt solutions when challenges with Schneider Electric platforms arose.- Collaborated with customers to provide forward-thinking and problem-centric business solutions.- Responsible for and fostered numerous technical architecture initiatives to gain business alignment and continuity through architecture governance of technology roadmaps.- Provided high level of cross-team and cross-business unit collaboration, focusing on next generation solutions. - Led the guiding team of technical leads charged with improving product quality across multiple Schneider Electric products. - Spearheaded the Colorado State University outreach and internship programs.- Developed relationships spanning teams and technical domains to identify opportunities for collaboration and innovation. - Championed innovation culture by initiating the ‘Innovation Garage’ annual event.- Initiated two patent applications. Encouraged and supported multiple other patentable opportunities. Recognition- Awarded title of Global Senior Edison Expert in 2013, exemplifying technical expertise, customer orientation, innovative contribution, networking, and knowledge sharing. Only 103 others within the company have currently achieved that title out of all employees globally.

Fort Collins, Co

Calpine is a power generation company focused on gas fired and geothermal power plants.Managed a team of Solution Architects for internal projects supporting entrepreneurial business units.- Established centralized architecture frameworks and process that enabled a common approach to solutions across the enterprise.- Served as lead software architect, project manager and technical lead for numerous business solutions. - Led Enterprise Architecture efforts and communications aligning tactical technology solutions with strategic business objectives.- Owned and co-architected the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for improved compliance (SOX), ITIL, and solution development best practices.- Worked directly with SOX auditors during audit activities.- Led maturity improvements and mentoring associated with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI), Identity Management, Enterprise Reporting, Enterprise ETL, Business Intelligence (BI), data warehousing, OLAP, collaboration, technology rationalization, ITIL best practices and SDLC. Recognition- Received CEO Innovation Award for 2005. This project propelled Calpine Information Services to be ranked 5th in innovation across all companies and 1st in Utility firms.- Received CIO Innovation Award for 2004.- Led a project that saved Calpine’s Clearlake plant over $1M annually.

Fort Collins, Co

VantagePoint Network was an online information solution for agricultural producers, their advisors, and food processors.- Managed and directed code migration and integration of software across multiple development teams.- Technical leadership spanning projects related to OO design, Visual C++, ATL, Visual Basic, COM, MTS and ESRI GIS data, software and tools.- Architected and developed middle tier and data tier components.- Operations specialist / technical lead for fault analysis and resolution of the production web site during times of outage.- Performed ESRI SDE administration and tuning tasks against Oracle and SQL Server databases.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Miner & Miner delivers geospatial solutions for electric, gas and telecommunications industries globally and was acquired by Telvent in 2004, and then by Schneider Electric in 2011.- Technical lead on multiple domestic and international projects advancing asset management within utilities via ESRI technologies.

Gaithersburg, Maryland

2nd year Intern - Member of the NIST/NRL Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) team. With team members: • Designed gas manifold system specific for EBIT operation. • Designed improved cryogenic valve and temperature control system for EBIT. • Performed optical engineering studies related to visible and HUV spectroscopy. • Designed and implemented electronic improvements on EBIT main control panel. • Performed light machining. • Gained experience with AutoCAD. • Attended miscellaneous scientific seminars.1st year Intern - Assisted in an atomic spectroscopic database project.• Organized and manipulated preliminary data for database use. • Designed and developed Lotus 123 Macros. • Installed PC hardware and loaded software onto an IBM RISC 6000 system. • Recommended which reference materials and data to include in project.• Instructed others on use of DOS and UNIX operating systems and miscellaneous software. • Attended miscellaneous scientific seminars.