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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Bedford, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Co-led a cross functional team that identified, qualified, and sized ~$600M in revenue growth potential to create a robust long term innovation pipeline. Led Cold Coffee Growth Territory. Defined a system-wide strategy & roadmap to maximize 5-year potential Led roadmap development and execution for connected customer experience and loyalty program

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Product lead for Keurig's new Coffeehouse product line with P&L responsibility. Managed a cross functional team of engineering, procurement, finance, brand, and commercial to successfully launch K-Cafe and K-Latte into the marketplace.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Lead generative, evaluative, and quantitative market research projects to identify unmet customer needs and evaluate adjacent IOT opportunities for Bose’s automotive business.Created high level product visions and detailed product requirements through leveraging primary andsecondary market research to ensure final product meets customer needs and is differentiated.Drove cross-divisional alignment of senior leadership on product experience, consumer productintersections, business model(s), and channel partnership requirements for product introduction.Served as primary interface with strategic market development and channel development teams to launch products into direct-to-consumer channels.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Implemented a five-year product roadmap for Bose Automotive’s Active Sound Management business that increased long range sales forecast by 75%.Directed engineering research activities to secure collaborative development agreements (CDA) with multiple customers. CDAs prepared advanced technology concepts on product roadmap for commercialization.Led multiple market research activities in developed and emerging markets. Leveraged consumer insight to refine product concepts, drive investment decisions, and establish B2C value within B2B channels.Influenced key internal and customer stakeholders in the United States, Germany, and Japan to drive business growth.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Led all Nissan North America product development activities for Bose Automotive.Oversaw budgeting, development, validation, launch, and lifecycle management of several programs forNissan, Mazda and GM with budgets $230K - $1.8MM.Managed requirements of both customers and internal senior leadership to ensure programs were strategically aligned with the corporate vision while exceeding customer expectations.Cultivated highly functioning teams of project managers, engineers, and business personnel to ensure that allprograms met customer expectations, and were completed on time, and on budget.Oversaw multiple Program Launches into the United States, Japan, China, and Russia.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Successfully completed multiple projects with highly compressed schedules, business critical requirements, and no defined process. Regularly presented to executive management to align on the projects’ strategic initiatives. All projects were completed on time, and on budget.Obtained Automotive Production Part Approval (PPAP) certification with OEMs on all products managed.Developed/implemented multiple process improvement initiatives to 1) foster communication within product development team and with B2B customers, 2) reduce process waste, and 3) increase prototype product quality.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

• Worked with Project and Functional Managers to develop project management tools providing $12,000 in est. savings per project while improving project quality, schedule accuracy, and management visibility.• Successfully led effort to develop a process flow for the Project Management Office to improve design process clarity with Engineering Functional Groups.• Assessed the feasibility and impact of implementing Earned Value (EV) for project monitoring, developed a change plan proposal to improve project planning reliability, and gained management consensus.• Identified, developed, and led effort to implement Lean process flow for Pre-Production Part assembly and re-work (Expected savings of 25% F.T.E.).

Provided customer service, employee management, marketing, and financial management. Provided superior service and interpersonal communications (both with customers and employees) as well as managing cash flow. Expanded operation to include the entire seacoast of New Hampshire. Continued to operate while at internship in 2009-2010, and manage operations remotely while at college.

June 2010 Designed and coordinated implementation of modeling system for project funding analysis.Generated documentation for internal software design with $1M+ in annual benefits.Worked closely with functional project manager to generate test cases for software implementation.Participated in several lean enterprise training sessions.

Designed electro-mechanical parts and assemblies through the use of Inventor and AutoCad.Designed, implemented and coordinated (mock) a company-wide Emergency Evacuation Plan.Performed optics testing for the analysis and evaluation of low cost alternate sources.Researched and purchased critical electronic and mechanical parts.Designed and implemented several electro-mechanical test fixtures.Recommended changes for improvement of the Kanban inventory system to support company growthRevised production assembly procedural documentation.Made repairs and modifications to a consumable product manufacturing line.Assembled, packaged and prepared intricate bio-mechanical optical instruments.Provided final quality assurance of optical instruments.Designed several intricate cable assemblies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering