As a Senior Director at Siemens, I have had the privilege and amazing opportunity to lead hundreds of Software Developers and many teams to create the best PLM software in the world. I live and breath software product development and design, business communications, and operational management.I've had an amazing opportunity to play many roles in my Software Development career—Senior Tester, Senior Programmer, Senior Manager, Director, and currently as a Senior Director, leading an Innovation and Research team to bring emerging software development technologies, cloud operations, and new cloud products to market. As a result, I have a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and to navigate complex software development challenges. My experience has taught me the value I bring comes down to the following:• Being in the arena with my teams• Focusing the team on goals to establish clarity of the mission• Empowering teams to embrace the unexpected and allowing for failure• Working across organization boundaries to drive collaboration towards unified goals and objectives• Instilling my teams with the confidence and skills needed to complete the shared journey• Having an understanding of the bigger picture, with a firm grasp on the pulse of the organization• Proactively seek ways to improve, reduce, and eliminate wasteful processes impacting my teams• Maintaining a calm, positive determination to turn big ideas into our organization's greatest successes