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Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Very excited about joining the leadership team at Worldpay will be focused on helping them build out and grow their Integrated Payment technology.

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

Charged with new product development R&D responsibilities for the Inflight Entertainment and Connectivity segments representing roughly $1B in revenue. Managing 900+ global employees through 8 direct reporting staff across 6 international sites. Accomplishments to date:• Drove Comprehensive Engineering Organizational Redesign including transforming leadership, leaning out organizational structure, refreshing engineering skills, integrating large scale acquisition, installing improved engineering processes/practices/tools, recruiting best in class engineering talent.• Installed enterprise wide scaled agile workflow model (SAFe) which resulted in cycle-time improvement from 18 months to 23 weeks, improved product quality 3X, and continuous improvement process targeting 8% yearly productivity improvements.• Stood up a User Experience CoE focused on experience driven UX solutions and End User based design principles, resulting in Thales award for Process-Innovation in 2017, improved customer satisfaction and a world class customer experience center.• Drove product development for 2 generations of IFEC product lines resulting in key new airline customer wins: AirCanada, JetBlue, Singapore, Qatar and Emirates resulting in 2X improvement new order intake.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charged with new product development R&D responsibilities for the America’s Environmental and Combustion Control business representing roughly $1.2 billion in revenue. Managed 400+ global employees across U.S. cities; Mexico; Brno, Czech Republic; India; and China, along with 250 indirect associates through five direct reporting staff encompassing all engineering disciplines. * Drove creation of an ECC wide Program Management Office tasked with obtaining 100% on-time, on-cost delivery of high quality innovative new product development initiatives.* Completed Engineering Organizational/Skills assessment identifying hiring and training actions needed to create a world class R&D community positioned for the future.* Cut time-to-market by almost 50% and improved executive lifecycle governance by spearheading initiative to blend legacy Stage-Gated NPI process and modern Agile/Iterative practices. * Achieved double digit year over year growth by driving key new product development initiatives related to Connected Home and Smart Building Management Systems.

Lombard, Il, Us

Charged with improving WiMAX solutions, increasing cash flow, and raising margins. Directed product R&D, Global Field Service and Manufacturing/Supply Chain functions for the 4G Wireless Broadband Business unit. Defined key external technology partnerships to create more cost effective and agile organization; restructured team to appropriate levels to maintain technology, and changed service community to align with a service strategy to focus on high-margin offered services. The Supply Chain main thrust was moving manufacturing facility from 1 location to another. Key leader in the organizational transformation required to create a new financially sound business organization. Managed 250 employees through 11 direct reporting staff.• Drove R&D technology strategy transfer and plans to lower costs of engineering resources. • Completed transition in 5 months and achieved operating cost reduction of >40%.• Spearheaded new service strategy to focus on higher margin (central support) and exit lower margin (local in-country support) services resulting in increase of gross margin by 20%.• Spearheaded manufacturing strategy and plan to move manufacturing facility to lower volume provider. Completed within 6 months including first post-pilot run and recertification testing.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Motorola sold their networks business unit to NSN in May 2011 and I followed that path to NSN; where I was tapped to help package 4G WiMAX technology for sale and to promote the sale from NSN to NewNet.Accountable for 300 member organization with 220 Engineers and 7 direct reporting staff, and budget of $50M for 2 product initiatives. Laid groundwork for 3g/LTE Small Cell initiative and directed R&D for WiMAX. Key role in divesting business to NewNet, which included presentations to their private equity leads and their CEO and CTO. Collaborated with NewNet executive team on carve out activities. For the LTE Small Cell initiative, directed ~100 engineering resources to invent new distributed 4G/3G/WiFi Small Cell architecture that would be the basis for a new product line now targeted for commercial release in 2013 enabling entrance into a new +$3B telecom Small Cell market.• Directed product development and field support strategy for more than 30 commercial carriers on global basis.• Created new development organization targeting the emerging 3g/LTE small cell market; managed 3rd party partnerships with key SoC and ODM vendors.

Chicago, Il, Us

Held full accountability during last 18 months of tenure for inventing WiMAX technology leading all R&D activities and completed within 22 months; directed $150M engineering budget and 1K staff working on the project that was 1st in market.• Orchestrated development for radio access, core network and management products; effort peaked at 1000+ engineering resources that where distributed across 6 different engineering locations. Solution was market leader in 2007, 2008, 2009, and #2 in 2010 and 2011.• Directed all SW R&D activities related to WiMAX during first few years in this role, including device, access-point, network management, and core equipment. This organization created a world class market leading solution which included the creation of >7M lines of new software combined with assets from over 11 other 3rd party contributors.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

In charge as key Technologist and Leader in development of the Motorola iDEN wireless communication system through 1st 2 generations which brought public safety “Push-to-Talk" features to the cellular user mainstream. This technology also proved to be one of the strongest Motorola businesses of all time. Directed engineering organization of 100 to 300 engineers in the U.S., China, and India.• Developed all aspects network products, the main push-to-talk switching center, user interfaces, network protocol stacks, RF, and personally contributed to network protocol and RF function definition resulting in key related patents.

Advanced Executive Leadership Program

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Engineering

Bsee, Computer Engineering