Mark Tegge Email & Phone Number

United States

Newtown, Pa

My responsibilities include:- Successfully managing portfolio of hardware/software RTLS products through the complete design/development/marketing lifecycle.- Creating roadmaps (Product Plan) for New Product Development (NPD) and Sustaining- Capturing Voice-of-Customer (VOC) and prioritize/funnel products/features into either the Sustaining or NPD pipelines- Creating Marketing Requirements Documentation (MRD) for new and existing features- Built/fostered a collaborative work environment between engineering (software/firmware/hardware), marketing, sales, and customers to collect/share VOC, UI designs, product portfolio roadmaps and business strategy- Managing backlog functioning as the Product Owner in a SCRUM process.- Proactively took over 100% of the UI/UX design for all the desktop and mobile applications dedicated to the product line. This decreased the UI design cycle by over 80% and provided customers with UI prototypes within days versus months.- Created/enhanced tools in Excel and Smartsheet to accurately manage forecasts/inventory levels, quoting tool, and manage product commercialization tasks in real time. 75% of tools were adopted company wide.

Wisconsin, United States

Responsibilities: Directed owners, operators, architects, general contractors, and suppliers in designing technology systems for new construction of long-term care communities. Executed designs in the form of markups delivered to the drafting team through all phases of construction from Schematic Design through Final Construction documents. Accomplishments: • Led technology partnerships to drive to a shared vision and solution design which included a high degree of integration / field engagement to improve resident care and dedication to an exceptional customer experience while consistently helping to meet or exceed sales goals and exceeding established growth initiatives of 15%.• Created in-depth Surveillance Camera designs for end-users reducing the sales cycle for these systems by >75% increasing revenue and establishing a solid value add sales proposition.• Accountable for quality assurance design review, execute regulatory review, budget management, and RFP / Submittals for projects, mitigating potential legal / regulations risks, and reviewing potential vendors delivering internal business value while reducing customer redesign and capital / labor expenditures by >50%.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsibilities: Consulted with clients to assess current technology, made recommendations, and created budgets/ final proposals.Accomplishments:• Organized development of new Technical Sales Engineering role including best practices, business strategy, implement processes, staff training and continuous improvement in coordination between internal and external partners. Utilized analytical / creative thinking skills to influence the user experience.• Led cross-functional teams from ideation through startup performing customer facing consultations, requirements gathering, regulatory review, and delivering project plan to design and create reliable integrated solutions avoiding feature overlap and consistently meeting / exceeding corporate KPI growth business objectives of 12%.• Partnered with cross-functional team to create Tech Track program that collected / analyzed VOC data via survey and uncovered customer requirements which delivered standardization for their technology portfolio.

Milwaukee, Wi

Executed projects in fast pace environment from lead generation through installation utilizing resident monitoring, wander management, HVAC controls and generator systems.Accomplishments:• Provided commercial collaborative sales / customer technical support to overcome post-sales issues reaching 100% customer satisfaction.• Created flexible budgeting estimation sales enablement tool to quickly align system cost and communicate budget to customer which reduced budget /proposal turnaround time from 3-4 weeks to 15-20 minutes.• Created / executed go-to-market strategy for new generator category increasing breadth of market penetration.

Responsibilities: Accountable for the financial performance and growth of the commercial faucet category.Accomplishments:• Successfully managed Profit and Loss and product lifecycle for global product category while using leadership skills and strategic direction during execution of annual 5-year product roadmap reporting up to Business Management / President to grow 400% within 5 years.• Achieved 60-75% annual net sales growth by developing competitive knowledge base, analyze market trends, technology trends, customer research / documenting VOC feedback, and repositioning current commercial faucet line to meet annual budget and drive marketing / sales activities.• Executed product life cycle management for commoditized manual faucet product line by creating and executing cost reduction process which analyzed data from manufacturing processes and eliminated communication issues between departments to raise margin on identified products by 10+%.• Expanded product line to increase product sales performance by developing a go-to-market strategy and launching a market driven high margin / innovative sensor flushometer line including the world’s first commercial low flow flushometer/bowl combo.• Restored customer confidence in the product line by providing ownership of quality commercial support post-sale, building vital relationships, and creating / executing consistent training to the top 25 distributors and 100% of the commercial sales force.• Developed / integrated Kohler’s faucet water conservation message into product line, promotions, and marketing materials by collaborating with marketing communications team as part of the overall Green sustainability program.• Represented Kohler at 2-3 major trade shows and 6+ marketing events annually.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Managed Industrial Computer line of products

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

- Designed/implemented firmware/software/drivers for industrial automation controllers and user interface hardware- Realtime designs realized with C, C++ using real-time operating systems in the controllers and Windows for the User Interfaces

Barrington, Illinois, United States

- Designed/implemented firmware/software for Cardiac Catheterization Imaging Systems- Realtime implementations in C and Assembler- Re-designed Image Acquisition Storage System that: 1) Completed project in less than the 1 year deadline 2) Took > 80% of cost out of subsystem 3) Enabled Engineers from all over the world to troubleshoot the subsystem versus just the German Engineering Team on the drive system currently in place.

Ms, Biomedical Engineering

Bs, Biochemistry