Manager of the Pricing Solutions team at AMD.Responsible for ensuring AMD has the tools needed for effective and efficient pricing.Focused on Pricing tool operations and support, and implementation of functional enhancements.

Program Manager for Corporate Sales Simplification Project:Implemented Salesforce for AMD's worldwide Sales team.Implemented Model N Pricing system (Revenue Cloud and Rebate Management modules) for all AMD Business Units and Sales teams.Completed on time and on budget.

Market Analyst:Developed PC market segmentation models, mapped AMD share coverage, projected industry trends, and identified highest ROI opportunities to target.Owned business relationships with industry analyst firms IDC, NPD, GfK, and several others, including vendor engagements, data deliveries, and contract negotiations. Managed $9.1M annual budget.Channel Data Team Manager:Managed channel partner sales reporting team. Responsible for partner onboarding, vendor data collection, aligning IT interface, data stewardship, and report tracking.

Developed retail sales reporting system. Responsible for data vendor relationships, IT process standardization, data stewardship, internal customer communications, and system improvement roadmap. Managed $5.7M budget.Supported quarterly Earnings Calls and Board of Directors meetings with sales charting and analysis.Built interactive, executive business intelligence dashboards that combine and align previously siloed data.Consolidated multiple processes to streamline budget administration for Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) spend.

Program managed $1.2M pricing system upgrade, and collaboration between vendor, AMD IT, and AMD Business Units. Completed on time and on budget.Led tactical integration of Graphics Business Unit into pricing system when AMD acquired ATI.Defined Product Hierarchy and improved master data management to enable linkage of pricing system to SAP.Monitored operational business procedures and worked with IT to ensure health of pricing system.

Produced and directed the successful “Team AMD Tech Tour” seminar series, training over 9,000 computer resellers in AMD products and messaging, at 81 seminars across the US and Canada, spanning three semiannual road shows. - Augmented $2M budget with 24 vendor sponsors to offset 1/3 of cost by third series. - Delegated and oversaw efforts between AMD regional marketing, corporate services, marcom, tech docs, and field sales teams, as well as three external events vendors. - Personally presented Sales & Marketing sessions at seminars.Project managed cross-functional, multi-vendor development of channel partner web portal. Created ROI model to secure $2.1M project funding.Initiated reporting capabilities for marketing spend analysis in North America and Latin America channels. - Linked separate data sources from multiple departments. Automated data cleansing and importing processes. - Recommended relevant metrics and delivered reports for business owners.

Administered customer requirements within AMD for strategic OEMs: IBM, Gateway, and Acer.Prepared quarterly forecasts, negotiated weekly product allocations, and monitored daily logistics. Executed increase in quarterly shipments from 250K to 500K units in two years. Expedited resolution of customer issues through appropriate technical or business groups.

Coordinated cross-functional efforts of processor development, production engineering, and marketing groups to bring new products to market. Attained increasing levels of responsibility in program management of three different product families: Am486, AMD-K5, and AMD Athlon™ processors.Collected and communicated marketing requirements for engineering execution.Facilitated constant communications among teams to guide progress, track status, identify challenges, assess program impact, and resolve issues.Maintained detailed Gantt chart schedules for processor, socket, chipset, memory, motherboard, and BIOS development.

Project managed nine different notebook and desktop PC motherboard reference platforms. Aligned scheduling for all development activities. Also:Assisted in mechanical and electrical interface issues prior to schematic design.Negotiated with contract vendors and supervised services including motherboard layout, component procurement, board fabrication, board assembly, test, and burn-in. Prepared support documentation to be released with demonstration platforms.

Designed PC motherboard upgrade to cost-reduce existing product by over $200.Evaluated chipsets, designed schematics with integrated VGA and I/O subsystems.Solicited bids and contracted vendors for physical layout, prototype manufacturing, and testing.Provided technical support on prototype testing & debug, FCC testing, and production launch.

Analyzed instruction cache design for IBM RISC/6000 workstation.Wrote and performed over 500 test vectors to identify and correct logic errors.