The Lone Mountain Consulting Group is a results-oriented business advisory service helping businesses and 501c3's create growth through innovationCoaching and developing business leaders on creating a customer-focused, creative and innovative product development culture• Aligning leadership, vision, strategy, culture, and people to better serve the customer and stakeholders.• Transforming customer needs and insights into innovative products that customers want to buy.• Maximizing results through lean product development, platform development, product range and life cycle management, and price/discount optimization.• Specialize in Product Development, Product Management, Research and Development Engineering, Innovation, Design, Manufacturing, and Continuous Improvement.• Strategic patent development

The Assa Abloy Residential Group includes the brands Emtek & Schaub, manufacturing high-end residential decorative locks and cabinet hardware. Hired to lead a multi-million-dollar company with over 470 employees, with full P&L responsibility.• Implemented companywide performance improvement plan to address tariff impacts, sales, EBIT, manufacturing, cost savings, and employee engagement.• Consolidated the two companies into the California location, eliminated an underperforming business division and negotiated a lease for a new office location.• Expanded R&D engineering to improve product development, manufacturing, innovation, automation and quality.• Expanded Customer Service to include 24/7 customer service, order processing and live-chat. • Implemented customer insights and satisfaction assessments to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement and ease of doing business.• Implementation of employee development, training and retention programs to provide better opportunities for all employees.

The Assa Abloy EMS & OEM Group includes the brands Adams Rite, Alarm Controls, HES and Securitron, manufacturing high-end mechanical, electromechanical, electromagnetic and electronic products in the commercial building access control industry.Advanced the North America strategy for product development, product management, patent development and customer insights to strengthen business results and compliance. • Introduced a global product management training program to strengthen the role of product manager using a standardized approach for incorporating the voice of the customer (VOC), “go to market strategies”, “principles of platform development” and long-term generation planning.• Spearheaded the effort to develop, strengthen and defend industry codes and regulations on behalf of Assa Abloy North America. Joined other industry leaders and competitors in development and enhancement of building, product and safety codes and regulations.• Executive participation on the Technologies Council, Design Council, Platform Design Council, Product Management Council, IP Council and Customer Experience Council.• Led the defense of two successful patent infringement lawsuits and one trademark infringement lawsuit against competitors.

The Assa Abloy EMS & OEM Group includes the brands Adams Rite, Alarm Controls, HES and Securitron, manufacturing high-end mechanical, electromechanical, electromagnetic and electronic products in the commercial building access control industry.Led the vision and strategy for R&D engineering, product development, product management, project management, marketing, brand management, and customer insight research teams for a multi-million dollar fast-growing company. • Transformed product development by implementing a lean product development process, visual management tools and heightening the focus on delivering value-based products. Reduced the average product development time to market by 50%.• Achieved a 40% freshness index (percentage of total revenue from products launched in three years), by driving innovation, establishing a monthly ideation day (expanded globally), and transforming customer insights into innovative market-leading products that customers want to buy.• Led team to achieve over 30 industry product design awards from 2010 to 2016. • Led the Platform Development Council ensuring the principles of platform design and modularization were rolled out and utilized globally. • Established a patent development strategy to strengthen the organization’s IP position. Achieved over 110 unique US patents or patents pending and numerous international patents or patents pending, covering forty new product designs. • Established as the center of excellence for customer insights research for Assa Abloy worldwide.

HES is a leading US manufacturer of high-end electric strikes and electric cabinet locks for the commercial building access control industry.Led the design, manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of electric strikes, electromechanical locks and integrated access control products. Managed 80 employees in accounting, IT, HR, engineering, operations, sales and marketing. Led the company through two acquisitions and significant growth to become the market leader in the industry.• Negotiated the sale of HES to Effeff in 1998 and to Assa Abloy in 1999. • Designed or guided the design of every product line for the company, dominating every product category in the US/CN market. All products designed to achieve insanely high-profit margins.• Facilitated the introduction of lean manufacturing and the philosophy of continuous improvement.• Created the Product Idea Realization (PIR) customer insights research program to better understand customer needs and drive data into decision making.