Jim U'Ren Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Manage product lines and create new innovative safety related products for manufacturing and warehousing. Product expertise includes OSHA related safety awareness products, OSHA and ANSI signage and innovative new products, materials and production capabilities that help address workplace safety. Work with business intelligence tools and SAP to manage product deployment and analysis, use Jira to follow agile processes and lead and collaborate with a global team to build and market new products that address market needs.

Oversees all functional areas of the course and restaurant • Manages and sets goals for general manager for both business units• Manages and approves budget for both business units• Updates restaurant menu items, pricing and sets goals and strategy• Responsible for marketing and advertising programs to generate new business• Owns social media accounts, website and online marketing• Technical lead responsible for computer setup, management, maintenance• Runs board meetings and annual stockholder meetingsWillowbrook Golf Course has been privately held for over 40 years, it is a public course that offers 27 challenging, scenic holes of golf. With a full service restaurant, The Brook, that serves lunches and dinners seven days a week including pizzas, pub food and a full service bar. We host golf outings, special events, open golf and leagues with several packages to choose from.

• Member of Executive committee that sets policy and provides over-site of the course which is managed by the General Manager. Report progress and successes to the board and stockholders quarterly.• Updated restaurant staff and selected new head chef to focus more on the restaurant side of the business. Created and implemented plan to update the interior of restaurant and focus more on drawing in non-golf based customers.• Implemented and manage social media program to raise visibility of the business in Western NY and Southern Ontario. Designed, coded and launched new website with very positive feedback to its improvement on helping our customers navigate our offerings. Actions led to increased website traffic by 20% and golf business by 12% year over year• For the 2014 season focused marketing efforts on improving golf revenue with an increase of 10% for Season Pass revenue, 25% increase in Tournaments and 20% increase in receipts of the driving range.

Amherst, New York, Us

Product Manager for solid state appliance portfolio which disaggregates storage over Ethernet or Fibre Channel from compute using simple SAS JBOD/JBOF shelves of storage with SSDs and HDDs. PM duties include:• Market research and customer user journeys to define product requirements • Building plans for product development through waterfall and agile development methodologies• Creating marketing programs and content for social media, training and collateral• Managing product lifecycle from inception through end-of-life• Leading, collaborating with and motivating cross-functional teams• Training and mentoring co-workers, employees and customers in-person or via Webinar• Business development activities leading to new alliances or support for existing alliances

Amherst, New York, Us

Amherst, New York, Us

Amherst, New York, Us

As the President of this company I:• Created business plan to raise capital funding and investment• Established organization, vision, mission, goals & objectives• Designed front-end UI and architecture requirements for multi-stage automated software• Designed and developed AuctionAbility marketing strategy & all marketing materials• Designed, developed and maintained corporate website• Generated $2 million in overall sales over a 2 year period• Managed 12 employees at 3 storefronts with a 12,500 square foot warehouse.• Managed all advertising and hosted auction focused weekly call-in radio show • Provided training classes at Buffalo State College

Hosted call-in talk show that had a similar format to that of the PBS program Antique Roadshow.

Amherst, New York, Us

• Duties consisted of running Design Verification Testing and Acceptance Testing which included the creation of test scripts, documents and procedures to confirm hardware and software functionality.• Created and prioritized incidents to submit for resolution with engineering teams.• Developed an understanding of Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA, SCSI and iSCSI protocols and specifications. Tested and operated Fibre Channel Host Adapters, Switches, Hubs, Bridges and Storage Controllers.• Field activities to resolve incidents and further debug issues at customer sites.