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Kihei, Hawaii

Santa Cruz, California

San Jose, California

In charge of Sierra Lumber’s marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business. Responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit for Sierra Lumber.Function to secure profitable work through cold calls, referrals and marketing. Develop competitive proposals while maintaining a viable, efficient work force that can effectively satisfy the requirements of the company. • Oversee day-to-day operations• Created a new operational plan to increase profitability and growth for company• In six months, increased profit from 3.8% to 7% overall bottom line• Design the strategy and set goals with Corporate Management for growth and stability • Maximize best business practice and optimize expenses to fall in line with budget• Set policies and procedures to ensure all departments are in line to achieve company goals

San Jose, California

Assisted the General Manager. Ran day to day operations

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Tasked with creating and implementing the companies overall New Product Design Process. Achieved this by using the phase gate approach, allowing for checks and balances for each phase. Managed individual projects for the Microbial division of Charles River. • Created New Product Development process for the Microbial Division of Charles River.• Tracked and maintained master project schedule (by a high level of customer communication and carefully tracking and documenting project status, budget and timeline to ensure highly successful projects.• Presented project status to Management monthly and Executive staff quarterly.• Co-created the Request for Product (RFP) document for a new robotic test equipment

San Jose, California

Catch all, (from IT, Marketing, Leadership)

San Jose, California

Provided Bids and Estimates for Residential Fencing needs. Ran each job from start to completion

Develops program plans and schedules to ensure timely completion of programs, coordinating the work of engineering and that of other functional groups. Communicate frequently with team members and management regarding program updates and status. Identifies and manages program risks with timely resolution of issues. Work on retail (Norton) and business (Symantec) websites for the company. • Tracked and maintained master project schedule (by a high level of customer communication and carefully tracking and documenting project status, budget and timeline to ensure highly successful projects.• Organized project checkpoints and track milestones, and checkpoint deliverables.• Lead team through the product lifecycle working with peer functional managers (Product Management, Development, (web production, content management, localization/globalization, UI, and Flash-based) and QA) to continuously manage trade-offs between quality, schedule, scope, and resources.• Software tools used during project development phase, (Groove, SharePoint, Microsoft Project…).

Had the primary responsibility for new product development projects from product specification approval through product obsolescence. Participated in product specification definition and had primary responsibility for project scheduling and identification of resource requirements in creating the product development plan.• Managed cross-functional engineering teams in the development of new products, (team members included: Electrical Eng., Mechanical Eng., Firmware Eng., Software Eng., Test Eng., Sales, FAE, and QA)• Worked closely with key customers to understand new requirement changes and create plan/s to mitigate any delays to schedule impact.• Communicated project status to Management during weekly review meetings.• Successfully released the first glass-on-glass touch sensor (mobile product) for a high-profile customer.

Management of engineering development programs (Integrated hardware, software & firmware system & sub-systems) through product development & manufacturing lifecycle (requirements, design, fabrication, assembly, software development, integration, test & delivery). Created schedules, resource/execution plans with communication and visibility reporting for status. Did cost planning, analysis, forecasting & financial reporting using Net Present Value Management; Risk Management; stakeholder & vendor coordination.• Worked with Product Management, Engineering, and QA to define resource allocation and schedule and track the same. Reported variance when schedule gets pushed out or pulled in.• Communicated program status updates to the Executive Staff during a weekly review meeting.• Identified risks and developed the mitigation and contingency plans to obsolete the issues or obstacles.• Defined and own budget, track BCWP (Budget Completed Work Progress) and ACWP (Actual Work Completed Work Progress) against the same. Reported any variance on a weekly basis.• Part of core team which created and implemented the company’s new PLC (Product Life Cycle) process.

Acted as program leader/liaison between executive management and the project team; tracked deliverables & output from the team; created & executed detailed project plans and worked with functional managers to provide resources for the project. Maintained and issued status reports and acted as key interface to product management to ensure that the team and development process meet technical, schedule and cost objectives. • Responsible for the overall development cycle, conceptual phase through first customer shipment.• Responsible for resource leveling and resource management for each program.• Key contributor in determining ODM manufacture for our offshore development.• Lead interaction with offshore tooling manufacture and plastic molders for enclosures.• Created and delivered Request for Quote (RFQ), Request for Product (RFP), and Statement of Work (SOW) documents that are essential to the ODM relationship.• Worked closely with Engineering, Product Management and Marketing teams to ensure all product functions and features meet the target specification.• ISO 9000 lead for Engineering group, managing internal ISO processes.• Managed relationships between OEM customers and outside vendors for customized products based on Proxim Wireless (WIFI/WiMAX) designs.

Responsible for all Marketing and Product Management functions within the company. Worked with team to manage numerous product families including wireless AP’s, Client Cards, Media Converters, and Switches through the product life cycle from concept to obsolescence. • Lead the Product Marketing and Marketing Communications teams, including staff of four employees, and managed multiple 3rd party agencies.• Created and directed all product literature and collateral development in support of multiple product lines, including technical white papers, marketing briefs, data sheets, sales presentations, customer presentations, and product catalogs.• Collaborated with Marketing Manager for all Tradeshows and Events.• Established and worked with major retailer (CompUSA) to sell Wireless Networking product line.• Developed financial short- and long-term business plans outlining product features, market revenue, and profitability for the company. Product line produced 45% ($9.0M) of company’s overall revenue.• Established overall direction for corporate product roadmap including enterprise product families (wireless and switching) and created consumer branded product for retail market.• Established company’s first relationships with overseas OEM suppliers in Taiwan & China improved margins from 25 to 42% in one year (2000). Improved to 46% in 2002 fiscal year. • Overall responsibility for managing multiple product lines from a Profit and Loss perspective; managed sales trends and development/operational costs to ensure the maximum rate of financial return.• Responsible for garnering and distributing all worldwide major account management prospects to sales team in order to close deals, resolve service issues, and align expectations.

Product Manager (1997-1999)Program Manager (1993-1997)Manage the overall planning/development of product management strategies for the company’s Media Product line. Responsible for the overall Program Management and support for the media product line• Managed product line revenue and profit objectives per corporate business plan. Met or exceeded plan every quarter during tenure. Product line produced 51% ($110M) of company revenue.• Partnered with engineering to co-develop product design, feature requirements, and documentation of new products from first concept to market introduction.• Developed and managed all market-based decisions related to the product, including pricing, product launch strategy, channel strategy, promotional strategy, and lifecycle management.• Provided in-depth market and competitive analysis to position products according to market requirements.• Lead strategic effort with marketing to provide knowledge of the product line to various internal departments, external media and industry analysts.• Co-wrote, Published and presented numerous articles for technical publication magazines.• Managed cross-functional project teams to ensure finished products met market and technical specifications.• Managed all phases of the product development (lifecycle) process to ensure completion based on established schedule and requirements, including working with sales, customers, and OEM suppliers.• Worked closely with the product manager and engineering staff to design product feature set and functionality.