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Lakewood, Co

Create Statements of Work (SOW), negotiate terms and schedules, track deliverables, milestones and invoices.- Estimate project costs, resources and associated expenses. Track and report on financial indicators weekly.- Create Statement of Work (SOW), negotiate schedule and terms, track deliverables, milestones & invoices.- Capture business requirements, develop strategies and schedules to achieve results on time and budget.- Conduct weekly status meetings with Client's to manage relationship, communication and expectations.- Lead, direct and drive combinations of Large, Medium and Small scoped projects concurrently. - Ensure successful development, launch, maintenance and support of software for SaaS model.- Create and update resource usage and revenue projections for each project every week.- Be responsible and accountable for resolving issues between competing priorities. - Lead daily SCRUM stand-up meetings on project progress and status.- Proactively manage stakeholder communications and expectations.

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

Attending networking events Researching Industry LeadersTracking Industry TrendsParticipating in Industry Discussions

Westminster, Co

Direct cross-functional teams located around the globe working on complex GPS/GNSS system programs.- Drive the Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, and Closing of Projects and Programs to completion.- Generate and implement scope baselines for programs involving GPS/GNSS, Wi-Fi, Cellular Modems, etc.- Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) then decompose into the activity list, schedule, and budget.- Direct engineering and manufacturing resources to achieve program milestones on time and on budget.- Perform Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to identify risks and create mitigation strategies.- Drive continuous improvement processes to identity and implement constant quality improvement.- Initiate, monitor and improve communication between marketing, engineering, sales and support.- Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) including cost, schedule, and resources.- Negotiate, execute and monitor contracts with OEMs, partners, suppliers and vendors.- Identify global regulatory requirements and testing necessary for each target market.- Be responsible and accountable for resolving issues between competing priorities. - Proactively manage stakeholder communications and expectations.

Firestone, Co

Direct the research, development, design and testing of advanced technology solutions for law enforcement.- Negotiate requirements pricing, delivery and terms of contracts with contractors, suppliers and customers.- Lead the research and development of advanced electro-mechanical products through their life cycles.- Gather market intelligence on any products in development that might compete in our market space.- Perform technical reviews and product capability assessments throughout the development cycle. - Develop the strategic product vision then generate tactical plans to bring the vision to fruition. - Develop and manage strategic relations with Federal, State, and Local Government officials.- Track and control Profit and Loss (P&L) to maximize product Return on Investment (ROI).- Ensure Voice of the Customer (VOC) was always used to prioritize solution requirements.- Identify and mitigate problems in development before they impeded the schedule. - Write grant proposals in response to RFPs that align with the company vision.

Longmont, Co

Direct international, cross-functional teams in developing complex high quality software product solutions. - Adapted Stage Gate, SDLC, Spiral and Agile methods for use in industry leading software development.- Identify project risks, generate mitigation strategies and risk triggers to minimize overall product risk. - Collaborate and coordinate with other Project Managers to ensure alignment with Strategic priorities.- Implement continuous improvement processes through the product life cycle to eliminate waste.- Drive refinement of Project/Product requirements to ensure alignment with market requirements.- Proactively manage changes in project scope, timeline and budget to meet objectives.- Create and maintain the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for each project.- Calculate Return on Investment (ROI) and other project KPI metrics.

Longmont, Co

Manage an eight member team responsible for directing the industry’s leading FPGA design tool suite.- Lead the Software Product Marketing department to record setting success in customer satisfaction.- Develop strong relationships with product stakeholders both inside and outside the company.- Continuously search business news sources for potential new market opportunities.- Define product positioning and pricing strategies to increase market penetration.- Evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and feature sets of competing products.- Build and manage a high performance team of product managers.

Longmont, Co

Manage a $15,000,000.00 product line. Consistently improved the customer satisfaction rating for products.- Train the sales force on features and benefit of new products at semi-annual sales conferences.- Generate marketing requirements documents (MRDs) for products to be developed.- Assign priorities based on ROI analysis for product features under development.- Test products under development for usability, quality and customer appeal.- Develop market penetration strategies and forecasts.

Longmont, Co

Manage a $5,000,000.00 product line. Correct performance, quality, and usability problems in products.- Conduct product usability assessments leading to significant improvements in ease of use metrics.- Collect, analyze and prioritize customer requirements for next generation of software products.

Provide technical and field sales support for a team of 10 field sales, and 10 inside sales people.- Teach engineering classes on usage of DSPs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and tool usage with VHDL and Verilog. - Support hundreds of engineering customers across Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.

- DOD SECURITY CLEARANCE: SECRET.- Designed and tested a telemetry conditioning system using A/D and D/A converters, multiplexers, operational amplifiers, comparators, instrumentation amplifiers and various digital components.- Designed and tested the power conditioning and distribution systems for two space based satellites programs. These designs contained IGBTs, power MOSFETs, opto-couplers, linear and switching regulators.- Redesigned an existing power system and flight operations system which improved the reliability by 300%.

Bsme, Mechanical And Electrical Engineering, 3.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)Focus on Robotics and Control Systems.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Project Management, 4.0/4.0

Non-Degree Program, Computer Science, 3.85/4.0

C, C++ and UNIX system administration.