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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

General Manager in the Precision Science & Technologies SBU at Ingersoll Rand for the global Milton Roy family of brands including Milton Roy Pumps and Mixers, LMI, Williams, and Albin.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

General Manager for the Air & Gas Solutions P&L at Ingersoll Rand. My team is responsible to bid and sell, engineer, manufacture and deliver the the world's most reliable engineer to order centrifugal air compressors from 2,000 to 25,000 horsepower for critical customers based all around the world. I manage a team of over 330 people across 5 continents and 12 countries, with key metrics around orders, sales, EBITDA, net working capital, and employee engagement. I have ownership for sales, service, tendering, product management, engineering, sourcing, operations, project management, and warranty groups, for both original equipment and aftermarket product streams.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

Product management director role focused on growing share and improving margins on Ingersoll Rand's most complex engineer to order product line.

Chicago, Il, Us

Dynamic product team leader who executes strategy for all core locomotive technology including engine, traction, and control systems to maintain competitive differentiation and industry cost leadership. Responsible to develop and maintain technology multi generation product plans using a market backed approach, focusing on customer outcomes. Drive smart capital allocation through deep market understanding and competitive intelligence and disruptive technology IQ. Deep understanding of product should cost and opportunities for platforming and standardization. Champion for World Class Product Management initiatives to help synergize tools, processes, talent, and training across P&Ls and regions.• Initiated technology plans enabling $400M NPV organic growth worth $3.5B in revenue over the next ten years• Generated a plan leveraging locomotive technology to gain $2B of incremental revenue in adjacent market segments• Delivered an NPI go-to-market plan spanning 3 continents worth $300M annual revenue with $65M of contribution margin• Executed new controls and traction strategies to reduce cost by $50K/unit while increasing engineering productivity 30%

Chicago, Il, Us

Guided a team of our most senior product managers to a record international locomotive orders backlog of over $3B in volatile and highly competitive markets such as India, Pakistan, Angola, South Africa, and Indonesia, through sound product strategy and competitive analysis.• Formulated product and competitive strategies to secure a record $3B of international orders in a single year• Delivered $750M in international locomotive sales with $134M of margin• Expanded product margins by 10% on our largest contract through design and sourcing cost out initiatives• Gained $4M in locomotive upsell contracts with key customersProvided overall product leadership for global lightweight and mid-weight locomotive product lines. Responsible for contribution margin and customer satisfaction for Locomotive products and lead programs aimed at driving profitability and winning share by balancing customer and market requirements with Engineering and Supply Chain resources. Collaborated with the Sales and Service teams in developing winning sales plans. Responsible for understanding market requirements, including; customer CTQ's, price points and competitive options available to the customer. Define program goals including costs and price targets, product performance goals, and other business objectives. Worked closely with Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Supply Chain in developing and executing product plans aimed at exceeding customer and GE requirements.

Chicago, Il, Us

Senior Product Manager for GE's Shunter and Passenger locomotives, including USA and Russia/CIS regions. As part of this role, I engineered a cost out plan to enable over $200M of organic product growth in the CIS region while generating detailed go to market plans to expand the leverage of this new product in the rest of the world. This plan produced 20% cost out which enabled the key international order for a new engine product line. I also organized cross functional teams to solve two business critical part shortage and customer quality issues.

Chicago, Il, Us

Regional sales leader for GE Transportation Marine & Stationary Power solutions in Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, located out of the GE Philippines office in Manila.Established a beachhead for stationary power sales by relocating to Asia to develop market strategies, forming distributor relationships, and growing a robust sales pipeline from scratch in the Australasia region. As part of this role, I located and developed 7 distributors in 3 countries to sell and service power gen and marine products, while expanding our sales pipeline from $30M to $200M across 8 countries in less than a year and reduced product cost by 25%.

Chicago, Il, Us

Charted a go-to-market path for global diesel power generation rentals through competitive intel, market analysis, and voice of customer. Overhauled the marine and stationary sales toolkit and plotted a commercialization path for a new combined heat and power product line. Established a cross GE business unit collaboration agreement and secured a $6M launch order for rentals, and created detailed life cycle cost and value models leading to significant power generation sales internationally.

Boston, Ma, Us

Process owner for the ITO (Inquiry to Order) Process, focused on proposal development & execution, contract risk management, SalesForce.com maintenance & enhancement, commercial metrics development & management.As part of this assignment, I spearheaded an inquiry to order process simplification strategy through continuous improvement to Salesforce.com process, maximizing global empowerment through localization of risk management process, and by overhauling the proposal process to become more customer focused. I obtained Master Black Belt and GE EDGE Certifications through extensive project execution and mentoring. I also championed global empowerment to 64% on critical decisions and reduced approvals by 32%, and designed a new ITO-OTR handoff process to enable downstream execution and implemented it at our global sites.

Chicago, Il, Us

Orchestrated a team of global commodity leaders in execution of deflation, contract execution, localization planning, and product development on a $200M annual spend or 18% of the total business spend, consisting of highly specialized and mission critical locomotive systems. I oversaw execution of $4M of deflation and over $2M of supplier recovery by a team of senior commodity leaders. Over this assignment we achieved >80% spend under contract and charted a course to 95% while eliminating high risk sole source situations.

Boston, Ma, Us

Controlled a complex and diverse spend of over $100M annually across key engineered systems suppliers critical to locomotive performance. Developed contracts to secure material and service cost productivity while improving our terms and conditions. I delivered $3M (5%) deflation and $5.5M service productivity while increasing South Africa content from $1M to $48M, and executed the first ever strategic supply agreements worth >$300M with our two most critical vendors in parallel.

Chicago, Il, Us

Drove cross functional alignment between product, engineering, supply chain, quality, and sourcing teams to execute electronics NPIs, redesigns, and global growth initiatives while remaining on time and on budget. I coordinated launch of the most complex electronics NPI in Transportation history ahead of schedule and below cost, while forming a critical component localization plan in South Africa directly enabling a $200M locomotive contract.

Boston, Ma, Us

Strengthened vendor relationships, contracts, and purchase strategy inside a $40M electronics panel spend across GE Rail and GE Global Signaling businesses worldwide. I was able to implement > $5M deflation and $5k/unit product cost reduction through negotiation of strategic contracts. I localized electronics assemblies in China to enable regional sales while reducing product cost by 40%.

Boston, Ma, Us

Exceeded expectations in the post-graduation career accelerant OMLP, a 2-year development program consisting of 4 rotations that afforded me the opportunity to build leadership and functional skills through challenging rotational assignments in supply chain and world-class training.• Lean Leader – Locomotive Final Assembly• Process Technical Advisor – Diesel Engine Final Assembly• Sourcing Leader - Controls• Project Leader – Services Cost

Boston, Ma, Us

Demonstrated high value to the GE business while in the final 3 years of my engineering under grad program in services and manufacturing, culminating with receipt of the only Student Intern Co-op Contribution Award among 200+ interns.

Boston, Ma, Us