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San Diego, California

Responsible for managing projects in support of Radiation Monitoring Systems (RMS) product line for nuclear power industry. These systems are manufactured in the U.S.A. conforming to the industry highest levels of quality and safety while meeting each customer’s specific facility requirements.

Rancho Bernardo, Ca

Responsibilities included management of large multifaceted proposals in the energy and government sector. - Enhanced proposal process to significantly reduce development timeline while increasing quality and effectiveness. - Managed team to develop simultaneous responses to a large number of proposals while maintaining quality and on time delivery

Southern California

Geomni, a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business specialize in airborne data acquisition, warehousing, and licensing in support of insurance risk predictive modeling and liability assessment. Geomni is focused to create, populate and maintain the leading 3D data warehouse asset, as measured by coverage, resolution, accuracy, timeliness, ease-of-use, and best-value. Geomni’s unparalleled data acquisition and distribution capability provides public and private sectors with core data needed for their location based decision support systems. Responsible for end to end business development activities of the Southern California market. - Developed pricing strategy along with data licensing structure to maximize growth and profitability - Developed strategy for a reseller channel program to enhance brand loyalty and foster rapid growth in various markets

San Diego, California

Fugro is the leading independent provider of geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions for large constructions, infrastructure and natural resources. Fugro provides the technical data and information required to design, construct and maintain client’s structures and infrastructure in a safe, reliable and efficient manner. The Marine Geoservices group designs and carry out technical studies, surveys and investigations to establish the characteristics of marine development areas, sites and routes.Responsibilities included markets, products, and pricing strategy development; management of promotions, public relations, marketing and lead generation activities. Managed business development, tendering, and leads tracking processes. Conducted project risk assessment and developed mitigation plan for financial impact, currency exchange, and personnel security; oversaw contracts review and negotiations.In response to the O&G declining market identified new multi-billion-dollar market. Developed vision and strategy while drawing from international business development experience with multilateral development banks such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to position Fugro for market leadership in coastal zone management. Current market estimates exceed $25B per annum in 5 to 10 years.Changed business development and marketing processes to incorporate industry best practices in consultative sales methods, thus appreciably improving lead to close procedures. Organized sales team in logical markets, aligned with their associated core competencies to effective results including significantly increasing win ratios.Developed strategy, led business development team, managed proposal development and contract negotiations to secure millions in new contracts.

The Innovision Group provides high growth, high technology firms with strategic, technology and analytical consultancy for new innovations and process improvements. Responsibilities include providing consultancy services to ‘C’ level executives and management of The Innovision Group.Business Consulting - Corporate Mission/Vision and Strategy Development - Business Model Analysis - Mergers & Acquisitions - Valuation - Operational AnalysisIT with emphasis on Location Intelligence (LI) - LI Needs Assessment - LI Integration Strategy - LI Web Strategy - Project ManagementParticipated in design of an IT cloud solution methodology, in a server virtualization environment, for a pharmaceutical company to maximize R&D’s IT resources by better utilization of current assets to manage massive databases.

As of November 2010, Traverse Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Deloitte Financial Advisory, LLP. Traverse provided location based computer related consulting services to business industry and government sector. Responsibilities included consultancy to develop strategy, implementation plan and execution of systems using agile development and product management framework. Successfully engaged, midstream, in a mission critical application development project in danger of failure for a U.S. based commercial satellite imagery company. To meet stated project objectives and provide exceptional user experience revised application functionality, realigned resources, and implemented agile software development framework. Managed three remotely located development teams to successfully complete project on budget and ahead of schedule.Managed software re-factor of a web-based, geo-enabled Right-Of-Way Management system for a very large municipality in Texas. Project included upgrades and enhancements. The revised product doubled system functionality, while reducing client’s operational cost by 33% and system maintenance cost by 75%.

Irvine, California

A startup as a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corporations (SISCO), the fourth largest title insurance underwriter in the U.S., that was providing location based information services through an online web-based application developed for the commercial real estate market. The online product enabled customers to improve their real estate transaction processes. Responsibilities included managing all strategic, P&L, marketing, sales, and operational activities.After success of internet based application for residential real estate market, developed business plan and raised several million dollars to develop a similar system, specifically for commercial real estate market.Introduced new data layers, germane to commercial real estate such as point of interest and demographics, to integrated with property information, aerial imagery and base maps to increase web-based application’s functionality and capability. The first phase of this system enabled land developers to quickly conduct due diligence on properties of interest and purchase dynamically generated online reports, thus reducing days of research to minutes. With these reports developers saved thousands in reduction of initial due diligence costs and significantly more by avoiding tendering options on land that didn’t meet their basic requirements.Led promotion of the newly developed geospatial platform within and without SISCO by working with corporate and division executives and real estate boards.

Irvine, California

As a subsidiary of SISCO, provided location based technology products and services. Responsibilities included managing all strategic, P&L, marketing, sales and operational activities. Became the location based technology evangelist (promoter) within and without SISCO. Transformed acquired firm from one dimensional data producer to multi-dimensional solutions provider. In first year of operations increased sales by 39%, net income by 167%, and stockholder equity by 214%. Subsequently, reorganized operations to outsource segments of production, resulting in growth through increased productivity by 600% and reduced hourly cost by 70%.In mid-2001 in response to SISCO’s strategic plan to provide national access to its real property information database, envisioned a web-based geo-enabled distribution platform to amalgamate real estate property information with real estate market inventory data through Multiple Listing Systems (MLS). After confirmation and acceptance of strategy by Sr. Management, in first quarter of 2002 to jump start the plan, developed business plan and raised the required funds to acquire GlobeXplorer, the incumbent largest online distributor of satellite and aerial imagery in the world.With GlobeXplorer led the development of a residential real estate information portal in 2003 to create a new user experience in real property search. The result was the first web-enabled pure browser based enterprise GIS using web-services to integrate imagery, maps and real estate data including ownership and inventory.

Costa Mesa, California

As of June 2000, AverStar, Inc. was acquired by L-3 Communications Titan Group. AverStar, Inc. provided information technology services and software solutions for commercial and government customers. Responsibilities included business development, proposal development management, pricing financials such as overhead rates and tracking results by various analytic matrices.Developed strategy to utilize GIS resource of AverStar in land titling and management application via client server database approach. Interacted with multilateral development banks such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to market company services.Leveraged open access to the Russian Federation, due to fall of the Soviet Union, by securing a $600k grant from the U.S. Trade Development Agency for a feasibility study to evaluate impact of implementing a land registration process to accelerate the land reform in Russia. This highly visible and successful project resulted in award of a World Bank funded, $80 million contract, entitled Land Reform Implementation Support Project (LARIS), to a consortium of three firms led by AverStar.Through strategic relationships, built with Western European companies, developed a broad marketing campaign to leverage award of high profile, Russia based, LARIS contract to provide similar services to former Eastern bloc countries in Europe. Successful results included qualifying more than $250 million in project pipeline.

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