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Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Morrisville

Director of Solution Program Management for Electric, Lighting and Infrastructure.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Program Manager responsible for the implementation of new RF Infrastructure Products and RNI Software Releases. Key accountabilities include implementing and executing Development Plans, coordination of joint verification between Sensus Reliability, Regulatory and Systems Test, and the facilitation of Design Reviews. Work jointly with Engineering, Operations and the Customer to create and execute Controlled Launch/Field Validation plans.Key Achievements:• Managed multiple complex programs through collaboration with cross-functional organizations to ensure the success of programs at all stages of the life cycle (including quoting, design reviews, production, shipment, and after-market support)• Led cross functional team to introduce several new multi-million dollar RF Platforms including M400 and S1600 in North America and Europe. •Responsible for Phase/Gate Process Development and Administration• Facilitated weekly RF sustaining calls with Engineering and Operations to determine real time solutions to field issues. • Facilitate Executive Leadership Gate Milestone Reviews

Six Forks, Raleigh, Nc

Responsible for establishing a Program Management presence within Sensus Conservation Solutions Marketing Organization. Key accountabilities included introducing a model for project process compliance. Responsible for driving integrity, quality and schedule predictability across cross functional Project Teams. • Coordinated monthly Content Prioritization Business Review with Marketing and Sales Executive Team.• Chaired weekly IPT Release call to deliver Organizations Plan of record consisting of over 120 Features, Products and Solutions.• Launched and delivered 2 Major, 2 Minor Regional Network Interface Software Releases and 5 Radio Frequency Hardware Platform Programs over 14 Month period to deliver >$30 Million Revenue.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led multi- organization NPI Team while participating as a voting member of the Executive Portfolio Management Team. Directly Managed NPI Team responsible for end-to-end project lifecycle management for over 30 Products. Responsible for lifecycle based corporate standards, procedures and metrics and for driving cross portfolio quality improvement initiatives and lessons learned.Key Achievements:• Key contributor to the establishment of a Program Management Office (PMO) within Nortel. • Managed team of 15 project managers.• Hosted Portfolio Management Team meetings with Nortel senior (VP-level) executives.• Developed and implemented business process improvements including formal New Product Introduction Process for managing large complex solutions• Developed training collateral and rolled out training to over 2000 Nortel Employees• Introduced Quality Assurance/quality audit process for NPI team.• Jointly created personal development plans with teams to ensure all received Green Belt Training as well as ensure all obtained PMP Certification.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Served as Integrated Project Team Leader with responsibility for the hardware, software and bundled service product launch preparedness for a $500M telecommunications business.Managed the global product release of Carrier VoIP hardware/software products (including core, edge, peripheral, and OEM/3rd party network elements) and bundled services into the supply chain operations, engineering, service delivery and technical support business functions, represented operations business preparedness, risks and deliverables on Integrated Project Teams, ensured that all product lifecycle deliverables were met and coordinated product launch deliverables, risk mitigation strategies and service delivery/customer support training with regional operations teams. Developed/deployed new business processes and managed cost reduction initiatives.

Mechanical Engineering Technology

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.)