Dan Braden Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for life cycle management of the product/service/solutions from development, launch, refresh to obsolescence.Accountable for leading an organization of individuals by setting overall initiatives, allocating financial and human capital for programs and projects, and ensuring timely and effective delivery of personal systems programs.Defines and continually refines the product roadmap, synthesizing technical, market, and operational considerations.Monitors market trends, analyzes competitors’ offerings, and solicits input from clients, partners, sales teams for product planning and design.Provides thought-leadership on new personal systems offerings as well as refreshes.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for maximizing and advancing personal systems financial performance through the delivery and support of Collaboration/PC programs. This involves identifying new / adjacent product categories to deliver the right products at the right time and cost, ensuring production commitments are achieved, and maximizing financial performance for the business throughout the product lifecycle. Leads program concept and RFQ enablement activities, followed by formal execution of the quote and award cycles. Held accountable for developing program plan of record (POR) that provides the appropriate balance between marketing requirements, organizational ability to execute, and business requirements. Then leads the cross-functional system team tasked with delivering the desktop program per the POR.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for maximizing and advancing business desktop financial performance through the delivery and support of desktop programs. This involves driving product category strategy, leading cross-functional teams to deliver the right products at the right time and cost, ensuring production commitments are achieved, and maximizing financial performance for the business throughout the product lifecycle. Leads program concept and RFQ enablement activities, followed by formal execution of the quote and award cycles. Held accountable for developing program plan of records (POR) that provide the appropriate balance between marketing requirements, organizational ability to execute, and business requirements. Then leads the cross-functional system team tasked with delivering the desktop POR.

Houston, Texas Area

Engineering Program Manager / Architect responsible for planning and development of new commercial desktop PC’s within HP PPS CMIT R&D organization. Responsibilities include hardware architecture planning and working with ODM partners overseeing engineering activities during development leading to production release.

Austin, Tx

(Rotational assignment to corporate internal consulting/audit organization.) Consulting engagements often displaced big four consulting firms, allowing for faster learning curve, ability to keep knowledge in house and lower overall cost. Reviews included strategy development, process review, risk evaluation and finance specific operations. Final consulting engagement results were communicated to CEO and executive staff. Specific engagements examples:  1) Reviewed previous 5 years of company acquisitions. Implemented process changes specific to due diligence and integration.  2) Reviewed services business contract approval process and adherence by analyzing the corporate review process and the onsite process at client sites. Implemented both strategic and tactical process changes, reducing deal review complexity and reducing liability exposure.  3) Lead team to identify five-year revenue and efficiency opportunities totaling $3B for the storage business.

Austin, Tx

 Established new organization to perform analysis on competitors’ positioning, performance, cost, advantages/disadvantages and customer perceptions to implement changes into future product definitions, improve current products and/or marketing material through testing and market research.

Austin, Tx

 Lead cross functional, dispersed and international teams to drive engineering development and implementation from concept through release with suppliers, partners and OEM’s for products and services.  Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Directed project teams and development partners. Oversaw development of schedules, critical deliverables, budget and resource allocation plan. Communicated program progress, escalations and issue analysis to stakeholders to address issues by developing and implement changes to product and process. Coached, mentored, motivated and supervised project team members and contractors, influencing them to take positive action and accept accountability for assigned work. Oversaw product responsibilities for wireless (WLAN and WWAN,) LAN, battery, keyboard, touchpad, hard drive, Latitude D4xx and Latitude E-series development and release.

The Woodlands, Tx

Project Manager, 1998-2000  Managed electrical, mechanical, and software development for new product design. Duties included cost estimation, interacting with marketing, sales, manufacturing and service organizations.  Managed product responsibilities for development of handheld wireless scanners used in major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Home Depot.Senior Manufacturing Engineer, 1997-1998  Developed the design, testing, and incorporation of new products into manufacturing.  Managed the PCBA/final assembly personnel, test, and quality of released products, producing improvements in throughput, cost, and processes.

 Supervision of 5 – 30 union technicians to disassemble nuclear weapons.