Filling in as a substitute teacher as needed for the schools in our School District.

I had the opportunity to educate my son in math, and under both poignant and uplifting circumstances, we embarked on a journey across the United States. During our travels, we immersed ourselves in the rich history of this nation, explored numerous historical sites, ventured into the beauty of our national and state parks, and cherished precious moments of quality family time.

Sales & Marketing leadership for a growth oriented X-Ray tube manufacturer that focuses on customization for specific applications. Focused on channel development, sales acceleration & new business development. Company serves global customers in industries such as electronics testing, medical, food inspection, battery inspection, X-Ray fluorescence, thickness gauging and imaging.

Responsible for the development and implementation of sales strategies for western United States and Canada. Focused on channel development, sales acceleration and new business opportunities. Introduced ZoomInfo to leverage stronger customer engagement practices.Network Critical’s visibility solutions provide the critical link between network infrastructure and network analysis tools using aggregation, filtering, load balancing, packet-slicing and inline traffic by-pass.

Owned P&L for one of Brocade’s WW strategic Global Partners driving global alignment of activities from long term strategic integration and shared engineering/development initiatives to short term quarterly revenue delivery. Core focus areas of the team included revenue/pipeline growth, driving new product introduction, joint sales enablement & channel alignment, established partner sales programs, prioritizing marketing and investment spend, solution design wins, and demand planning.

Ownership of strategic sell-in of products and solutions for 2 Global Partners to help ensure long term revenue growth ($100M yearly revenue). Collaborated with Partners to create market solutions leveraging Brocade technology (HW & SW). Created or assisted in creation of Sales/Marketing collateral. Presented at Partner events.

- Co-develop and drive Global OEM account strategies. Lead contract negotiation, pricing management, product development/qualification process and manage RFQ/RFI/RFP process. - Identify revenue opportunities for OEM partners.- Coordinated and launch new products for OEM partner. - Prepare & present product launch updates to executives & divisional management.

Analyzed data to create quarterly product and revenue forecasts. Owned and maintained demand planning & scheduling.Owned customer order fulfillment and escalation issuesManaged a team responsible for OEM product forecasting, planning, scheduling and fulfillment.

- Owned Operations program budget, schedules, resource plans, projected cost, and supply chain activities as well as product cost savings initiaves. - Managed product yields, cost activities and quality issues for Enterprise product.- Establish & monitor tracking mechanisms to prioritize manufacturing, quality and material issues which increased efficiencies plus provide visibility to management.- Partner with cross-functional Revenue Business Team to solve customer and company issues using the 8-D process.- Managed launches for OEM customized products. Organizing timelines, qualification testing, product training, part number release, inventory fulfillment, and marketing collateral.

Managed Operations at 3 plants; increasing revenue from $40M to $100M, staff from 1400 to 2K, & shipments from 2.5M to over 5M finished goods.Managed workforce of 2000 in Engineering, Production, Customs, Finance, & Human Resources. Facilitated Mexican Operations staff meetings and directed operations & manufacturing meetings. Grew the plastic injection molding capabilities to support in-plant supply of plastic components & increased metal sheet operations which added $8M in incremental business.Introduced Lean Manufacturing to the main assembly plant. Assisted in achievement of Factory ISO9001 Compliancy.Developed Tiger Teams to enabling resolution of critical issues in a timely-manner.Also held positions of Application Engineering & Manager, Application Engineering.