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Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Program Manager leading new product development teams

Somerset, New Jersey, Us

Contract Program Manager working for Baxter on a new compliance project.

Ballerup, Dk

Lead team of 18 engineers and Project managers with budget of $5M. Created product roadmap and resource planning to support new product goals. Project management of cross functional teams with 40+ individual contributors. • Generated over $400M in revenue by overseeing development and launch of 15+ new products.• Enhanced leadership decision-making capabilities by presenting status updates on projects to management team, answering questions, and providing updates and schedules. • Exceeded expectations by leading development of first Receiver in Ear hearing instrument from concept to launch in 12 months. The typical new product timeline at that time for GN was 20 months. • Enriched team quality and consistency by developing diverse engineering staff talent and capabilities through regular communication, meetings, and coaching on new product development and sustaining product performance and delivery. • Increased efficiency, decreased late changes, and ensured better on-time team performance by leading cross-functional team on improving stage gate development process, reviewing procedures, identifying and eliminated redundancies, focusing on aligning requirements in new product development. • Improved Mechanical Design process, decreased injection mold tool iterations by adding FEA talent and incorporating FEA into front end product design process.• Met regulatory requirements for Class I medical devices (hearing instruments) by leading diverse teams through requirements elicitation, risk management, verification and validation processes while ensuring quality and deliverables comply.

Ballerup, Dk

Guided team of 3 Project managers and 5 development engineers with budget of $2M. Launched new platform of custom products. • Drove team that created and introduced new stage gate product development process.• Improved custom product sales 15% and saved operational and service costs $3M annually by developing and launching new custom product platform. • Increased NPI efficiencies and optimized resources by coaching and mentoring project management Staff and developing strong partnerships and collaborative relationships with Operations team in Ireland, ensuring better communications and cooperation across global functions.

Independent contractor supporting Cardinal Health consulting team to implement operational efficiencies in hospitals

Niles, Il, Us

Leadership of RF, Software, Hardware, Acoustical, and Advanced Development groups. Responsible for priorities, product portfolio, resource requirements and administration of 50 engineers. Budgets for these departments totaled $5 million. Engineering representative in new product planning process. • Key engineering participant in Strategic Planning for all new product development and life cycle management of products. Leading strategy of product development choices for two business units in Performance and Installed Audio.• Served on team including the president and senior operations, sales and marketing individuals to review and improve the new product selection and implementation process. • Approved and submitted R&D and new product proposals for funding consideration to the Business Unit and Senior Management.• Experience with front end product planning as well as most functions associated with manufacturing of products.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing And Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering