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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Building client base to increase the speed, output and efficiency of their product organizations.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Global product strategy and technology leader for a billion-dollar smart home, smart energy and consumer lighting business.• Merged the engineering organizations of Savant Systems and GE Lighting, a Savant company.• Introduced structures & processes to maximize output of the combined team.• Moved investment to strategic growth areas (batteries/inverters/controls) while maintaining multi-million-dollar lighting & smart home business. Grew size of energy management products by 10x.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Global product strategy and technology leader for billion-dollar consumer lighting product business.• Shifted >80% of product investment to LED and connected home smart lighting products.• Integrated lighting products with voice assistants (Alexa, Google). Quadrupled product portfolio beyond light bulbs to include fixtures and switches, plugs, camera and thermostats.• For major account win (Lowes), led creation of >300 new products, supporting sales of >$300MM/year.• Part of strategic team which helped sell the $0.5B GE Lighting business to Savant.

Global product strategy & technology leader for multi-billion-dollar family of high performance lighting products.• Grew margin (1 to 2 points / year) for entire business via development and commercialization of new products.• Drove annual revenue growth >25% across broad range of the product portfolio.• Created long term competitive differentiation via technology. Included investments in leading edge phosphors leading to >$30MM in IP licensing revenues.

Led technology team which transformed GE’s traditional lighting product portfolio to one based on LED fixtures and controls.• Created broad portfolio of products including a comprehensive range of bulbs & fixtures (Outdoor, Indoor & Industrial). Grew sales from <5% to greater than 50% of total revenues.• In course of 2 years, built team from <60 engineers to greater than 200 engineers. Shifted skill sets from process & physics problem solving to creative mechanical and electrical design.• Improved new product introduction process. Reduced cycle time by 50% via streamlined reviews and careful risk management. Further delivered >90% of programs on time and in budget.• Supported and led the engagement of external technology partnerships. Acquisitions comprised fixture and driver companies. Led joint development of new technologies with partners. Acquisitions/Partnerships increased revenues by >$100MM.

Technology leader for multi-million-dollar family of high performance lighting products. Led team of 60 engineers in 3 locations.• Tripled the size of GE’s Ceramic Metal Halide lamp family. Solved high temperature physics, chemistry and materials problems to deliver first-to-market, world leading products.• Led > $20MM investment in new equipment to build CMH lamps. Included ceramic injection molding & sintering processes, automated dosing & sealing machines and assembly machines.• Identified and built strategic manufacturing partnerships in China to expand GE capacity and to serve new markets. With local partner, built $20MM manufacturing facility in Nanjing.

Led team building a new process to make high purity quartz material for use in fiber optic cable.• Developed flame hydrolysis process to manufacture high purity quartz.• Built $20MM piloting line to produce material.

Mba, Business

Ms, Physics

Bs, Physics

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