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Partnering with organizations in crafting and deploying scalable solutions for our oceans through:• Validating Solutions: Setting success benchmarks and ensuring market readiness.• Market Strategy: Identifying gaps in the market and crafting effective business plans to fill them• Business Development: Building partnerships and pipelines.• Productizing: Ensuring products are robust to perform in the most demanding of operations• Scaling Operations: Ensuring companies are positioned for sustainable growth.

Responsible for overseeing the administration, programs and strategic plan of the organization. Other key duties include fundraising, marketing, and community outreach. General responsibilities include: board governance, financial performance & viability and organization & mission strategy. Key achievements include:• Achievement of non-profit status in the State of California• Recruitment and establishment of a board of directors • Public launch of InOceans and associated establishment of key partnerships

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Strategic marketing, business development and account management for Advanced Navigations commercial solutions. Achievements include• Highest historical order intake for maritime solutions• Formulated regional launch strategy for Hydrus micro-AUV leading establishing an early adopter program and consequently first orders globally

Victoria, Bc, Ca

2019 to Present: Vice President. Sales and Marketing: AML OceanographicResponsible for the functional management and leadership of AML Oceanographic global marketing & sales activities, Key achievements include: • Highest historical bookings and gross profit in company history• Formulated & executed global launch strategy for new product line achieving sales within 2% of plan

Zeist, Utrecht, Nl

Key roles include: functional management and leadership of all QPS Americas business activities: Keyachievements include:• Expanded reseller and OEM channels increasing channel revenue by 150% leading to 15% annualgrowth• Formulated & executed regional launch strategy for new product (Qimera) achieving 200 license sales in year 1• Developed and executed business strategy for autonomous systems for commercial, offshore wind & defense sectors

Slangerup, Dk

Responsible for the overall coordination, the functional management and leadership of all salesactivities of RESON products in the Americas as well as the development of new market sectors forTeledyne RESON products globally. Key achievements to date Include:• 80% growth in order intake in first two years • Implementation of Latin American Sales Director for channel restructuring leading to 200% growth in first two years • Implementation of Technical Sales Support channel for key business developers

Rud, 1351, No

Key roles included: Global Offshore Segment Manager for the Nortek Oceanographic product lines.Provided sales & marketing strategies for Nortek product line to the offshore community, management of the development of the first Nortek Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), formulation of key OEM partnerships/distributors for the DVL & creation a DVL product launch strategy. Key achievements include:• Increased sales 400% in the US Offshore Energy sector within first 10 months • Opened up 3 new markets within the US Offshore Energy sector• Secured 2 large OEM accounts prior to DVL product launch that is provide an estimated annual revenue of $2 - 2.5 million

Acting General Manager for Myriax Inc. and Lead Business Development Manager for the Eonfusion 4-Dimensional software solution. Key roles included: to provide management of daily operations, forecasting and budgeting of all sales/marketing activities, formulate strategies for business development /sales, and reporting to Myriax Global board of directors. Key Achievements Include: • Formulated Global launch strategy for Eonfusion • Achieved $300,000 in Eonfusion license sales within first quarter of launch

Slangerup, Dk

Global Business Development for Marine Research & Robotics applications. Key roles included: to provide market analysis for trends in scientific research and related projects, assist in forming industry partnerships with key institutions, provide competitive matrix to Global Sales Managers. Key Achievements Include: • Expanded scientific and Robotics Business Sector by 40% for total incremental growth of sales of $3.8m• Promoted to Global Business Development Manager for Marine Research & Autonomous Applications

Rud, 1351, No

Regional sales for Western North America including the Gulf of Mexico. Key roles included: to provide customer sales & technical support, market analysis on industry trends, tradeshow marketing, proposal generation, application development & product demonstrations. Key Achievements Include: • Increased western region sales revenue by 300% from $800,00 to $2.4million • Developed 3 new key markets and establishing a long-term/loyal customer base within the academic, federal, naval and offshore communities • Developed several new application areas/ markets for Nortek technology

Training and consulting specific clientele in the theory and operation of the hardware and software associated with customer specific hydrographic & Oceanographic operations. Project Management for projects involving Hydrographic & Oceanographic data acquisition, processing, analysis & final product production. On-site and remote trouble-shooting of problems. Clientele and applications include:• Fugro Pelagos, Inc. o Acquisition and analysis of multibeam, sidescan and backscatter information for all nearshore and offshore applications. Applications include Essential Habitat Classification, Sediment Transport studies, Anthropogenic studies, NOAA Charting, etc. o SCUBA Operations for various geological, oceanographic, benthic and commercial applications.• Terrasond, LLC, Palmer, Alaska. o Real-time control and shallow-water Multibeam bathymetry data acquisition & volume calculations for NOAA contract hydrographic surveys o USACE Contracted Harbor pre- and post-dredge surveys, environmental monitoring.• Bean Stuyvesant, LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana. o Real-time control and shallow-water Multibeam bathymetry acquisition & volume calculations for pre- and post-dredge surveys.• RPM Nautical, Key West, Florida. o Real-time control and shallow-water Multibeam bathymetry and Imagery data acquisition for archeological operations.• Tenera Environmental, Inc., San Luis Obispo, California. o Real-time control and shallow-water single-beam hydrographic acquisition. o Business and application development.

Slangerup, Dk

Worked closely with Global Sales Managers to provide technical sales support and provided customer support (installation, training) and systems integration for RESON product line including third party products. Conducted product demonstrations and application development projects to develop new business areas including academic, commercial, federal and defense applications.

Reston, Va, Us

Projects, roles & responsibilities include: • Historical Bathymetric Change in Suisun Bay: 1867-1990; Analyzed historical bathymetry using Arc/Info to determine patterns and rates of erosion and deposition for North San Francisco Bay. • MOBSEE project; Designed and deploying oceanographic instrument packages for data collection of Oceanic Currents and Sediment transport information offshore of Davenport, California.

Moss Landing, Ca, Us

Roles & Responsibilities include: • Geologist. High resolution bathymetric survey of the seafloor region near the McWay Landslide, Big Sur, California. Bathymetric and seafloor substrate mapping and interpretation of seafloor geomorphology. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and California Department of Transportation.• Geologist. Quantitative inventory of habitat and species of Management importance at Punta Gorda Ecological Reserve. Sidescan sonar, bathymetric and seafloor substrate mapping and interpretation of seafloor geomorphology. California Department of Fish and Game.• Geological Oceanographer. Mapping benthic communities and ocean currents in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Big Creek Ecological Reserve and adjacent coast. Sidescan sonar mapping of seafloor geomorphology. NOAA Fisheries.• Principal Investigator. Tidal hydraulics and its relation to erosion and sediment transport in Elkhorn Slough, California. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Grant. • Navigation and Hydrographic Systems Analyst. Identification of Anthropegenic debris off McMurdo Station, Antarctica through use of sidescan sonar, bathymetry and ROV video surveys. Management and direction of all sidescan sonar operations. National Science Foundation grant to Rikk Kvitek, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.• Geotechnician. Ice scour disturbance and its effect upon Arctic benthic communities, Resolute Bay, Canada. National Science Foundation grant to Rikk Kvitek, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.• Principal Investigator. Elkhorn Slough Erosion Project. Management and direction of all field operations. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary grant written with Rikk Kvitek, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Ms, Oceanography/ Geology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences