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Hernando, Fl, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Gabbard-Cornell Consulting Group is a Product Strategy and Operational Excellence consulting team helping our clients navigate through business challenges. Visit us at www.gabbardcornell.com

The SkeensMcDonell™ Consulting Group works with companies to help them excel in their product and service realization projects. The Group’s Project Review Practice can be enlisted and will utilize proven methodologies to review critical projects which will result in specific recommendations to achieve time to market, quality and expense objectives. Our review teams are typically comprised of executives, managers and Subject Matter Experts who have strong backgrounds in executing complex projects of varied sizes. The team, after conducting a series of interviews and analyzing data provided by the companies’ staff, generates a presentation and written report with detailed recommendations. These recommendations not only have impact on the reviewed project but frequently result in structural, organizational, and process changes which have lasting benefits.In addition, The SkeensMcDonell™ Leadership, Project Management Training and Project Management Certification Preparation courses help companies develop sustainable high performing product and service realization organizations.

Palatine, Il 60074

Eastside Consulting is a leading provider of business and technology consulting services to governments and global organizations. We work closely with our clients to create transformational solutions to meet business needs and drive performance, in the area of Internet of Things (IoT). Our mission is to effect sustainable change for our clients, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

Northbrook, Illinois

Privately held manufacturer, software service provider and worldwide distributor of advanced health and wellness technologies including category leading Power Plate and bioDensity.Lead sales in North America and EMEA, software development and various other roles. Participate on senior leadership team managing all aspects of the business.

Chicago

Having doubled in 5 years the company needed to improve on product strategy and development execution. I brought Product Management discipline to the company and worked hand in hand with the company’s strong creative talent to make the best slot games in the industry. My job was to incorporate strong business decisions into the prioritization of products for the company’s roadmap.Though I started with Product Management, I was soon asked to also lead Engineering and Game Development. I was invited to be a member of the company’s Strategy and Innovation committee where company vision was debated and business strategies were decided. By every relevant metric the product development organization improved. We significantly reduced software defects by over 4x, reduced churn (changes to products during development cycle), greatly improved on-time delivery of products while at the same time improved the creative environment and gave game designers more time to make games better without compromising schedule.The decision was made to sell the company and I was asked to be part of a small leadership team to meet with prospective buyers to explain the company’s products and services in relation to the company strategy.

Arlington Heights, Il

I was asked to lead Product Management for the company’s legacy 2G and 3G then eventually 4G businesses. The purpose was to meet all customer requirements, continue to earn top revenue but move as much development budget to next generation 4G wireless broadband technology. The total budget was several hundred million at the time. Having just spent 10 years managing a large account, I was uniquely qualified for this job and had empathy for our customers and their challenges as well as a keen understanding of what it takes to produce a new product or feature. I successfully shifted significant budget from legacy investment to next generation investment while maintaining all required legacy customer commitments.

Arlington Heights, Il

Alltel was one of Motorola’s largest U.S. customers and I was brought in to lead a team that supported this account. I had a solid team of engineers, technicians, sales people and program managers. The team had been demoralized because the customer was planning to end all business with us. Over a 10 year relationship we become their ‘Supplier of the Year’ and instead of losing their business, we more than doubled and grew market-share. We did that by building a partnership with the customer and listening to their needs and working to solve them together at all times.

Arlington Heights, Il

I was the technical lead on a team assigned to win CDMA business from Sprint PCS. After we won, I was responsible for the planning and deployment for the Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland markets. We hired over 70 market managers, engineers, technicians and program managers in about 90 days. The network was launch ready early and the network performance was excellent. The launch was flawless and the customer was very pleased.

Rolling Meadows, Il

I led a team set up to provide the technical guidance for designing, building and maintaining CDMA networks. Motorola (and the industry) at that point had only done experimental and trial work with this new technology and it was not clear how difficult it was going to be to maintain high capacity commercial networks. My team was set up to capture best practices; develop tools and processes to help the many teams designing and deploying CDMA for Motorola. We spent time in the field learning the nuances of this new technology and translating that learning into successes for other teams.

Schaumburg, Il

Network Ventures (NVD) was a great experience for me. It started with an opportunity to move to the UK to lead a technical team to design and build a new DCS1800 network where I recruited a new team of about 20 engineers to test this new radio band then do the radio deployment planning. At that time, Motorola’s interest in being JV partners to own and operate wireless networks around the world grew significantly and I was tasked to build and lead a team to help win wireless licenses for opportunities. We won and built networks in Jordan, Lithuania, Russia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Dominican Republic, Mexico and others. We also managed our interests in Chile, Argentina, Israel and others. Although not on the board of these JV companies, I was the technical advisor leader for several of them.

Arlington Heights, Il

I managed more than 10 systems engineers supporting all international customers. We were responsible for all aspects of network and radio planning for all of Motorola’s cellular network customers. This included radio site selection, traffic engineering and PSTN interface planning, equipment specification, database transcripts and dialed number translations.

Oak Brook, Il

A partner and I formed a startup cellular systems engineering company to provide consulting to cellular operators. We did network design work for GTE Mobilenet, Bell South Mobility, Centel, Ameritech Mobile and others.

Schaumburg, Il

I was hired out of college as the first systems engineer for Motorola new cellular business. My job was to learn how to deploy these networks and provide the systems engineering support. I was also wrote computer programs to automate as much of this process as possible.

Mba

Bsee, Electrical Engineering