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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed the introduction (on-boarding) of the Aruba/HP Wi-Fi portfolio into Ericsson processes, including team creation (operations, supply chain, marketing & comms, customer support, training, documentation, R&D), generation of list of deliverables, planning, task assignment, execution, tracking.• Provided pre-sales support during RFx process with timely and accurate product/solution technical information. Conducted RFP defences at customer sites.• Gathered, compiled & analysed market data through customer meetings and competitive analysis. Identified key features required for new product releases. Captured requirements in specifications documents.• Owned and manage the Ericsson Wi-Fi portfolio’s roadmap, including the 3PP portfolio.• Owned and managed Ericsson Wi-Fi SW Lifecycle Management Plan, announcing milestones through release of Product Bulletins.• Generated product packages, quoting and ordering rules.• In collaboration with the Systems team, developed network migration paths, minimizing network disruption as the customer evolves from legacy Wi-Fi to next generation Wi-Fi solutions.• In collaboration with the Pricing team, set product pricing levels using UM analysis and street pricing intelligence.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Bid Leader – Leading a team of Wi-Fi experts, created business solutions (technical & commercial) that satisfied requirements of Carrier Wi-Fi RFx. Answers were compiled into a comprehensive and accurate response document and delivered by due date.• Engaged and negotiated with 3rd party partners as required to ensure RFx’s were fully compliant.• Generated financial analysis; results were presented to company executives for final approval.• Won Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Verizon and Telefonica bids.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Business Development Leadership, responsible for front end of the Space Division business. Meeting with customers or potential investors (CxO’s in private and government organizations, including the Canadian Space Agency, Export Development Canada, P3Canada), product presentations, trade shows, bid responses, costing, scheduling, technical reviews, concept studies. Programs included Polar Communications & Weather (PCW), ORBITALS, RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM), Space Station, SCISAT, CASSIOPE.• Generated 2011 Space Division Strategic Business Plan,• Managed staff of fifteen engineers (Systems, Software, Electrical, and Mechanical). Responsibilities included team and individual goal setting, performance appraisals, professional development, workload planning to ensure optimized productivity.• Improved procurement process using Lean/Six Sigma methodologies, reducing lead time by as much as 30%

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed projects through the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Work Package (WP) Descriptions, Project Risk Management/Analysis Assessment with mitigation strategies. Programs included Polar Communications & Weather (PCW) satellite, ORBITALS.• Generated program status reports; reporting earned values, Cost Performance Index (CPI), Schedule Performance Index (SPI)• Generated milestone meeting presentation packages; presented program status at customer milestone reviews

While working at Nortel, I held program and product management positions within different lines of businesses, including Wireless, Optical and Enterprise.Program Manager responsibilities included:• Managed a geographically dispersed, cross-functional project team of 19 members (in total, over 300 professionals in R&D, marketing, operations, validation, alpha/beta, customer support, product manager, documentation and training were assigned to the project).• In collaboration with team members, developed project plan (schedule & budget). Reviewed all functional plans, challenged each team member to ensure the soundness & efficiency of their proposals.• Generated risk analysis, including mitigation strategies.• Resolved issues by pulling in the right team members & creating solutions. Leveraged other resources as needed (functional managers, subject matter experts, Sr. Management).• Chaired daily/weekly project meetings. Minutes/actions were captured & distributed to all stakeholders (team members, managers, Sr. Management).• Reported program status, highlighting risks, issues & recommendations to the GM of the organization.• In collaboration with functional managers, assessed each team member’s performance and contribution to the program for input into yearly performance appraisals.Product Manager responsibilities included:• In collaboration with architects, developed product evolutions strategies encompassing emerging technologies.• Gathered and compiled market data through customer interaction and competitive analysis. Analysed and synthesized data. Captured requirements in requirements documents.• Managed relationship with OEM supplier to ensure efficient operation of business, including R&D roadmap, feature specifications review, customer support process, pricing, contract negotiation.• As a 6-Sigma green belt team member, identified business processes inefficiencies. Improvements were implemented, resulting in approx. $14M annual savings.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Responsibilities included development and design of spaceflight ground support test equipment, writing of Statement of Work for vendor selection, vendor relationship management, calibration and validation of test equipment and testing of flight equipment for the ANIK E, Olympus, RADARSAT 1, MSAT missions.• Project team leader for Assembly and Testing of spaceflight equipment. Tasks included resource planning, scheduling, task assignments, log entries, configuration management.