20+ years of Program/Project Leadership experience to driving complex innovate products to market in the high-tech and orthopedics industries. Recently developed Project Portfolio Management system that enhanced the ability of project and functional leaders to improve time to market and strategic resource planning. This PPM development raised the capabilities of Acumed’s PMO by helping resolve significant project prioritization and resource constraints. At Tektronix, lead teams in multi-year high-end test and measurement equipment development and delivered one of largest single purchase orders in Tektronix history.Use Microsoft's cloud-based project tools and PowerBi to track and analyze portfolios of innovative projects, and to better equip an organization to monitor project resources and schedules. These efforts enhanced the ability of project managers to have better future predictability and it improved their project management skills. These tool improved the project time to market by 26% and development expenses by 36% over previous sized projects.Passionate about mentoring and teaching individuals to excel in their roles and to prepare them for other opportunities by imparting my expertise and knowledge. I use my ego-less and empowering leadership style to achieve business results through coaching, accountability for results, timely recognition, and constructive feedback. Effective in building connections and partnerships at all levels and with key stakeholders by establishing role clarity, active listening and adapting to my audience.Looking for a role to continue using my skills to lead cross-functional product development teams and empower others through tool and process improvements.Key personal interest in youth leadership development through 28 years in the Boy Scouts, responsible for directing local National Youth Leadership Training courses.+++ A few recent key achievements +++ - Created a resource forecasting and tracking systems that incorporates Acumed’s new product development and resource functions to provide planning and results metrics that resulted in a substantial impact on project time to market - Enabled and trained Acumed project managers on best practices to help align use of project management tools in the organization through ongoing training and the creation of a best practice manual - Implemented a Risk identification and planning process to improve early risk detection and mitigation for all Acumed projects