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Portland, Oregon, US

• Manage design and construction teams for rapidly growing fiber optic service provider
• Drive project management, planning, KPIs, and strategy decisions.
• Grow the efficiency of existing organizational processes and procedures.
• Ensure operational activities remain on time and within a defined scope, schedule, and budget.

Oregon City, OR, US

• Drive project management, planning, KPIs, and strategy decisions.
• Grow the efficiency of existing organizational processes and procedures.
• Ensure operational activities remain on time and within a defined scope, schedule, and budget.
• Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing of clients and projects.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

• Manage product, finance, IT and operational resources to drive development, distribution and sales of cutting edge consumer electronics products.
• Structured new product management team and process for rapid product development.
• Created budget, forecast and sales and operations (S&OP) processes for business operations.
• Developed central business intelligence including KPIs and dashboards for measuring corporate, department, and individual performance.
• Created contract templates and ongoing management system for manufacturers, distributors, retailers and suppliers.

• Manage overall P&L, sales, product marketing, operations, information systems and human resources functions for the U.S. Communications division:
• Generated over 400% revenue growth and became #1 market share leader in the Baby Monitor category in 4 years.
• Generated over 260% e-commerce revenue growth across Amazon and major retailer web sites in less than 3 years.
• Created a culture of excellence and accountability by aligning teams on clear goals and KPIs, while celebrating successes with formal employee rewards and recognition programs.

• Directed all operational departments including: supply chain, inside sales, business intelligence, information technology, transportation, distribution and returns with budgets over $15 million.
• Managed brand licenses and renegotiated contracts driving $90M to the bottom line over 10 years.
• Developed costing and profitability systems, which analyzed and drove all customer pricing, programs and promotions.
• Led overall program, using 6 sigma methods, to re-engineer core operations, which drove $40M to the bottom line over 2 years.
• Implemented safety program for 200k square foot warehouse, which resulted in 7 years without an accident.
• Reduced IT budget by 40% and telecom costs by $500k annually.

• Directed company operations, including: budget planning, contract management, engineering, day-to-day network operations, billing, customer support, quality assurance and production.
• Managed the launch and rollout of HomeRelay’s nationwide Internet services.
• Generated $3M in revenue with over 30k customers in first year of operations.
• Reduced over $1 million of HomeRelay service costs through contract renegotiations.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Created strategic direction for new Verizon web portal presence.
• Managed team of 30 to develop GTE’s nation-wide Internet access business.
• Developed GTE's corporate web site and Internet service, which grew to over 1M users in 3 years.Additional roles at GTE:
• Directed development teams to support GTE's Entertainment division.
• Managed programming and operations staff to support main R&D center of 500+ users.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy