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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Develop strategies to increase opportunities and profitably grow Commercial and Medical markets while producing effective product messaging to communicate with customers. Create robust product roadmaps to expand customer focused solutions to transmit torque, control angular position, and protect delicate components from excessive force.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Build a customer first new product development organization by creating robust, sustainable processes to accelerate new product introductions in a high growth environment. Lead Engineering team to design creative solutions to customer lighting problems. Actively engage with customers, sales teams and market influencers to understand market trends and customer expectations to develop strong cross functional strategic plans, efficient, aligned processes, and the right products for growth.… Show more Build a customer first new product development organization by creating robust, sustainable processes to accelerate new product introductions in a high growth environment. Lead Engineering team to design creative solutions to customer lighting problems. Actively engage with customers, sales teams and market influencers to understand market trends and customer expectations to develop strong cross functional strategic plans, efficient, aligned processes, and the right products for growth. Oversee new products from initial product roadmapping, through design, validation, and then market launch and ongoing brand promotion and marketing. Show less

International Standards Committee developing new fluid connector standards (ISO80369) to prevent medical misconnections and improve patient safety. Prior to ISO/TC210/JWG04 responsibility beginning in 2006, involved in this effort as part of European standard committees.

Led a global organization to profitably develop and grow Colder Products’ medical sales. Identified and cultivated new opportunities with current and prospective customers through strategic pricing, new product identification and introductions, contracts, and marketing programs to create the business unit within CPC. Responsible for strategic market direction and planning, large account management and market messaging for medical products and markets.

Led cross-functional team and transformed customization process into key core competency and competitive differentiator. Key initiatives around training, coaching, relationship building, and continued, formal process development and improvements resulted in double digit improvement in top line sales and profitability. Led team of design engineers, project managers, product managers and cost engineers with responsibility for strategic direction, design approvals, pricing and negotiations… Show more Led cross-functional team and transformed customization process into key core competency and competitive differentiator. Key initiatives around training, coaching, relationship building, and continued, formal process development and improvements resulted in double digit improvement in top line sales and profitability. Led team of design engineers, project managers, product managers and cost engineers with responsibility for strategic direction, design approvals, pricing and negotiations, profitability and promoting capabilities to industrial and medical OEMs. Show less

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area