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Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Lead multifunctional team consisting of sales, product marketing and engineering with responsibility for winning and managing business with large global brands and strategic customers. Acquired new customers driving.
• Developed custom connected platform security solutions serving brands such as Samsung, Apple, Meta, Intel and Google.
• Developed business/product strategy to enter the security market for luxury brands and grow the total available marketby 100%. Penetrated specialty soft goods and luxury brands including Louis Vuitton (LVMH Group).
• Serve on executive staff with divisional P&L responsibility

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Develop product strategy, while leading innovation, product development, and market execution for a rapid-growth, international retail B2B HW product and SaaS application organization. Conduct strategic analysis and.
• Created and executed a strategy for rebuilding product portfolio and improving positioning across core product categories, resulting in the acquisition of major new retail and OEM brand accounts.
• Cultivated strategic business relationships and created products, leading to major direct business awards from leading OEM brands including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Lenovo, developing brand business to 30% of.
• Awarded nine US and international patent applications and awards.

Austin, TX, US

• Effectively prioritize engineering and product development functions, delivering sales and commercial support to global teams. Directly supervised a team of 30 product marketing and applications engineering.
• Achieved penetration with major global smart utility meter producers, IoT, and smart automotive applications, while repositioning product portfolio to enhance positioning and segmentation across core markets.
• Developed solutions to achieve tighter alignment of RF, MCU, and networking software applications across multiple corporate divisions and sites.

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

• Developed strategic marketing plans for the organization, and successfully orchestrated brand development and management, budget oversight, marketing strategy, web and digital design, product management, applications.
• Designed a line of sharply positioned, application-specific integrated passive devices, resulting in penetration and growth at top mobile and consumer electronics OEMs, becoming de facto industry standards.
• Consistently developed strategies to achieve gross margin and Return on Investment (ROI) targets, significantly boosting annual revenue.
• Won Supplier of the Year Award from Motorola.
• Executed a successful product line launch for solid state lighting applications, while redefining product segmentation through functional integration, leading to higher selling prices and margins, increased revenue.
• Combined Nokia and Samsung portfolios, creating stronger competitive positioning and improved product margins by 20%+ before pre-acquisition levels.

US

• Corporate officer responsible for market strategy, product management, tactical marketing, applications engineering, and marketing communications. I led the planning and execution of market and product strategies for.
• Developed line of sharply positioned, application specific integrated passive devices (ASIPs) that achieved penetration and growth at leading handset and consumer electronics OEMs becoming de facto industry standards.
• Ramped new product revenue to a $50 million annual level within first 36 months.
• Developed and grew strategic customer relationships with Intel, Qualcomm, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sharp and Cree.
• Executed successful launch of a high value, advanced protection product line for solid state lighting applications. Redefined product segmentation via integration of rectifiers and of over current, over temperature and.
• Diversified company revenue with new lines including LED drivers and serial display controllers (MIPI/MDDI) for small form-factor TFT LCD displays. Developed strategic partnerships with Intel and Qualcomm. Achieved.

Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Wafer Level CSP Forum. The forum actively promotes the adoption of wafer level chip scale packaging for high volume, semiconductor applications. The forum membership includes WLCSP assembly providers, semiconductor companies, end customers and their suppliers. The forum is engaged in a variety of.

Austin, TX, US

• Managed marketing, product development and program management activities for the company’s Optical Storage Division product line. Developed and implemented shift in product strategy from data centric “PC-based” CD-RW.
• Completed negotiations for $100 million, 2-year volume purchase agreement with THOMSON Multimedia for Microsoft X-box game console.
• Led business unit participation in due diligence efforts on several MPEG-2 encoder/decoder technology acquisition efforts culminating in purchase of Stream Machines.

US

• Executive level position responsible for product development, marketing and sales for a pre-IPO flat panel display company. Developed the company’s small form factor display strategy and contributed to the.
• Identified and engaged lead customers in gaming, handheld PCs, automotive displays and desktop monitor applications. Developed working DVD player, mobile Internet device and desktop monitor product concepts and secured.
• Negotiated a $125 million, two-year volume purchase agreement and equity investment with lead customer.
• Developed relationships and initiated investment interest with companies including Sony, Trigem-KDS and Thomson Multimedia for potential $100 million-plus investments and joint technology development targeted at large.

Austin, TX, US

• Promoted four times over five year period to series of product marketing, director and general manager level positions each with increasing levels of responsibility. Responsibilities scaled from managing marketing.
• Managed engineering, product marketing, tactical business marketing and applications engineering teams for desktop and portable graphic controller business unit with annual revenues of $120 million. (’97-'98)
• Led portable graphics BU with annual revenues of $60 million and organization of 60 people including director level reports in marketing, design engineering, product engineering and applications engineering. (’96-’97)
• Responsible for Japan market business development for company’s graphics, flat panel electronics, audio, data communications, magnetic and optical storage product lines. (’95-’96)
• Developed segmentation strategy, product definition and business plan for TFT-LCD column driver business. Defined cost and feature differentiated product line based on a first to market, 6-bit resistive string DAC.

San Jose, CA, US

• Developed product roadmap and managed product development for a new line of LCD graphics controllers. Initiated a custom development program for Toshiba and secured design wins with IBM, Compaq and Dell. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• From inception, generated $60 million in annual revenue by third year.
• Developed the industry’s first single chip LCD graphics controller (WD90C20) and the first windows accelerated LCD graphics controller (WD90C24). Captured 60% market share.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Responsible for managing new product distribution and sales for 110 store regional supermarket chain (Ingles) based in North Carolina.
• Served as Mid-Atlantic Regional Marketing Coordinator for Tide NASCAR Racing Team.
• Developed of corporate sales materials for a regional test market of Dash detergent.
• District Field Representative for Packaged Soap and Detergent Divsion for Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Responsibilities included collection and analysis of sales and distribution data.
• Oversaw field sales representative training programs, district level sales analysis and major account responsibility.

Epgc, Management

Bachelor’S Degree, History

Mba, Marketing

Certificate, International Marketing