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Natick, Ma

Lead international team of marketing managers. Analyze market and business results at regional industry and company level. Develop strategic goals for the regions. Work with Sales and Field Engineering to grow adoption of tools. Evangelize value of and best-practices for Model-Based Design and Technical Computing. Collaborate with Development to identify new product areas and technologies. Work with Licensing team to support customers' transition to new licenses. Lead marketing effect to expand MathWorks tool offering into new domains such are architecture modeling and analysis.

Natick, Ma

Product Manager for System Composer from product inception through launch. Worked with MathWorks Development and Driver Accounts to identify minimum viable product functionality for initial release. Lead naming and market position development. Created demos and provided internal training.

Natick, Ma

Served as senior manager for Industry Marketing Team located in Munich Germany. Worked with local senior team lead to provide career guidance to local team members. Provided feedback to team members on projects as well as individual performance.

Natick, Ma

Lead international team of industry marketing managers for MathWorks’ largest industry segments. Responsible for development, execution and performance analysis of industry specific strategy and business plan. Provide guidance and support to worldwide sales and service personnel on how MathWorks’ products address industry challenges and develop marketing programs to drive this awareness within the industries for AUTOSAR, ISO26262, DO-178C, DO-330 and 331, and other standards.

Natick, Ma

Perform market analysis of regional automotive industries and companies. Establish strategic goals for the regions. Lead automotive marketing and customer events including MathWorks International Automotive Conference, MathWorks Automotive Customer Advisory Board, Model-Based Design sessions at the Society of Automotive Engineers Congress and Commercial Vehicle Congress (COMVEC). Serve as MathWorks representative on SAE Commercial Vehicle Electronics Committee (2006 – 2009), SAE Electronic Design Automation Standards Committee (2005 – 2008), and SAE Model Based Embedded Systems Engineering Task Force (2006 – 2007).

Electrical Engineering Supervisor – Supervise section of 6-15 people. Work with core engineering to deliver electrical content across all model years for the Expedition and Navigator. Lead launch, material cost reduction and quality activities on the platform. Electrical Launch Leader at Michigan Truck for Model Years 2004, 2004 ½, and 2005. Led introduction of standard Tire Pressure Monitoring, THX Audiophile System, and MS/HS CAN Communications network. Implemented $4.5M worth of cost reduction actions during 2004.

Program management supervisor for current model platform. Supervise section of 4-7 people. Work with marketing, engineering and finance to develop and deliver small feature vehicles to create "showroom buzz." Past projects resulted in profit of $20.3M. Identify and participate in efforts to address ongoing quality, process, and manufacturing issues with five assembly plants in three countries (Canada, Mexico and the United States). Lead cost reduction projects for the 2000 F-Series team that saved Ford Motor Company over $160M.

Co-Leader of Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD) Integration Process Team. The goal of the team was to develop a process and tools based on MATLAB and Simulink by which the powertrain organization could build and test its control software in a simulation environment, rather than using prototype vehicles to debug the final version of the software. Total project saved Ford Motor Company $1.5M in time and resources. Analyzed CACSD tools for large-scale system verification and validation developed by external and internal sources. Identified modeling techniques to improve accuracy and speed of simulations.

Various positions

Mba, Marketing And Strategy

Phd, Aerospace

Activities and Societies: Dissertation Title: Modeling, Identification, and Control of Lightly Damped Structures

Mse, Aerospace

Activities and Societies: National Science Foundation Fellowship, Teaching Assistant for Aerospace System Design and Multivariable Linear.

Bsee, Aerospace

Activities and Societies: SGT, TBP, AIAA