A commercially astute, global leader with proven operational and technical management experience in large publicly owned manufacturing, fulfillment, and e-commerce organizations. Expertise in establishing, developing and maintaining strong internal and external working relationships, and adapting rapidly to work within broadly differentiated environments worldwide. Deploying a pragmatic, participative approach I’m able to build rapport; lead, energize, and advance teams at all levels to effectively drive innovation.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Drove the selection and identification of process automation investments across global and domestic operations in both manufacturing and e-commerce fulfillment. Curated customer and stakeholder relationships to implement data driven investment criteria to meet business needs across key performance metrics including variable cost, capacity, safety, and product differentiation. • Developed, deployed, and operationalized multigenerational technology roadmaps and strategies to execute on targeted automation investments. Created plans enabling precise product development aligned with application needs while minimizing time to market and maximizing installed base.• Built agile, high performing teams and organizational structures to support global automation and robotics initiatives across engineering, project management, product management, controls, software, safety and compliance. Identified and developed external supply bases, partners for integration, manufacturing, and deployment of automation and robotic solutions for domestic and international application. • Led engineering and product development teams in the execution of new product development from concept through production readiness across use cases leveraging industrial robotics, AI and perception, computer vision, mechatronics, sortation, and traditional automation and material handling equipment. Delivered product designs utilizing full stack in house engineering and designs developed in partnership with commercial solutions and integration partners. Experienced in design of systems for both greenfield and brownfield implementation. • Led product capital planning, including global product rationalization to align S-team stakeholders across finance, operations, engineering, and quality with technology investments. Responsible for funding for over 250 new product installations across multiple product families with a track record of delivering automation products that meet and exceed financial targets.