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Greater Tampa Bay Area

Greater Tampa Bay Area

Directly engage with customers to understand areas of opportunity in their business, from driving revenue, saving cost, reducing specific pain points and/or building a competitive advantage. The goal is to define a viable vision that solves an opportunity of interest, show how that vision can be achieved while resulting in desired business outcomes.

Clearwater, FL

Experienced Program Manager leading high priority software development projects supporting an evolving IT infrastructure. Key elements include providing strong team leadership, managing through scope changes, evaluating options and driving to decisions. Proven success in collaborating with business partners, IT management and the development team to.

Clearwater, FL

Experienced Product Manager (Product Owner) in Agile product development environment. Focus on translating business requirements into product requirements, driving future releases. Proven success in collaborating with business partners and software development team to meet business goals.

Orlando, Florida Area

Led International, multi-cultural team, utilizing strong communication skills to set expectations, form solutions and drive customer specific deliverables on time, on budget, driving average sales growth 20% YOY.Cultivated, secured and maintained customer relationships with high-profile accounts including Apple, HP, Nikon, to deliver B2B products on time.

Directed and managed all product development and commercialization projects, including Business to Business, Business to Consumer and OEM projects.Led and directed all product development activities, off-shore manufacturing and operations activities, managing over 150 sku's from inception through obsolescence.

Led and managed WW Digital Camera Accessories $24M Product Portfolio. P&L responsibility, orchestrated product development, directed transition to sales, grew business 220% in less than 3 years.

Took on company's need to create newly formed role of Strategic Program Manager to conduct strategic technology planning to ensure solutions are identified prior to commercialization. Product family growth increased 3x with 4 years as a direct result.

Led and managed extended team of 200 software, hardware and image science engineers across multiple commercialization projects. Spearheaded project planing, staffing, budgeting and process improvements. Developed product technology roadmap, patent clearance and application process.

Managed team of software engineers assigned across multiple commercialization projects. Drove, refined and managed software product requirements.