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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

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Rockville, Maryland, Us

Cross-Functional Leadership and Teamwork• Led 20-person product team without authority. Worked with senior management, operations, finance, and engineering to set vision for company’s first robotic platform. Developed key results and aligned them with business objectives. • Directed testing and design iteration. Defined KPI’s and wrote traceable testing matrices. Then, spearheaded redesign effort, improving platform performance by 50%, achieving key results ahead of schedule and under budget. Product Development• Prioritized feature backlog. Created feature pipelines through Agile and Scrum principles. Gained buy-in from product team and ensured sprint tasks were aligned with product vision and roadmap. Data Analytics• Created data processing method. Created an automated Python framework to collect, analyze, and generate reports for thousands of data points. Resulted in 70% reduction in engineer-hours needed to conduct tests and report KPI’s. User Research• Engaged core customers to align project goals with end user pain points. Led a small team in quantitative and qualitative data collection, including ethnographic studies, usability testing, and user interviews. Authored traceable requirements and specifications documents to develop product feature roadmap and KPI’s.

Rockville, Maryland, Us

Organizational and Product Strategy• Created strategic vision. Evaluated trends in machine learning and computer vision technology and synthesized into an actionable, long-term roadmap. Resulted in entrance into new sectors and $5MM in new revenue. • Developed go-to-market strategy for a branding initiative. Through consumer insight research, recognized an opportunity to partner with leading customers in order to increase product exposure. Gained executive leadership buy-in and led the partnership efforts, increasing new product orders by 75% and $1MM in revenue. Customer Focus • Drove revenue by acquiring new customers . Led outreach to public and private funding groups, engaged with prospective customers to understand pain points, authored project proposals, and gained buy-in on product vision. Resulted in 225% growth in funding over five years. • Coordinated stakeholders and set business objectives. Worked with public and private partners to align expectations, key results, and deliverables. Gained consensus on product roadmaps and managed multiple development teams.• Delivered commercial product to industry clients. Collaborated with customers over multi-year development periods and led organization’s first successful commercialization efforts. Resulted in three products delivered to customers. Design Thinking and Innovation• Identified opportunities for technology application. Led team in novel implementation of machine vision in the food production sector, delivering market ready technologies to private partners. Resulted in three patents, six industry papers, and four national awards.• Conducted product testing. Managed field trials for a novel industrial processing machine. Spent six months coordinating over 50 floor workers to collect data on machine efficacy. Resulted in commercialization of technology.

College Park, Md, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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