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• Define penetration strategy for mechanical vehicle storage products in multiple geographic markets• Create strategies to drive short, medium, and long-term corporate growth• Simplify product information and customer access, to improve customer understanding of benefits achieved by incorporating mechanical parking into medium and large scale construction projects• Leading approval programs for regulatory acceptance by building department in various jurisdictions• Driving cost reduction through development of efficient corporate processes• Directing continuous product improvements and new technologies, to satisfy expanding user requirements

Natick, Ma, Us

• Defined strategy for multiple machine vision product lines across different technologies used to monitor industrial processes such as papermaking and steel converting.• Created new products targeted at specific applications to simplify customer UX, reduce cost of production, and capture market adjacencies.• Developed product maturity to support channel sales• Led CE certification program, and directed changes to software and hardware to successfully complete the program.• Interviewed customers, support, and service personnel to document their voice and feed it back into the development process.• Drove cost reduction through component selection and BOM hierarchy configuration simplification. Successfully persuaded engineering to convert “tribal knowledge” into documented processes.

Taoyuan City , Taiwan (R.O.C.), Tw

• Promoted to Product manager ten months after hiring on to manage system engineering. • Used lean “minimum viable product (MVP)” methodology to drive cross-functional teams to produce products which meet cost, feature, regulatory, and schedule requirements.• Responsible for new product ideation, market research, technical and commercial product requirement definition, new product development, and cradle to grave ownership of the lifecycle of high-reliability embedded systems, used in medical, mobile military, aerospace, transportation, and industrial environments.• Managed numerous concurrent products, and developed campaigns to migrate customers through EOL and product transitions to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction.• Created technical webinars to teach support personnel, internal sales teams, external sales representatives, and channel partners, and to collect product feedback.• Created product roadmaps and go-to-market strategies based on a segmented pricing plan using soft product features.• Wrote product proposals to influence CEO and executive team to approve new product development plans and budgets.• Wrote marketing requirement documents to fully define product requirements in detail.• Introduced new system products to market, adding revenue streams by penetrating new verticals, raising the business unit’s contribution to total corporate revenue.

Taoyuan City , Taiwan (R.O.C.), Tw

Managed system product development including thermal, mechanical, electrical, and industrial design of rugged computing platforms. Managed internal engineers, local & international consultants, and contract manufacturers.

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Start-up environment producing automated industrial logistics systems to guide warehouse operations. Customers included Borders Books, Duane Reade, Petco, and Advance Auto Supply.• Designed and installed large-scale networked material handling systems, including business-rule driven logistics, and conveyer and sorter controls.• Managed months-long remote installation projects at customer sites. Planned and staged components and equipment, hired and trained temporary labor and supervisors to install systems.Also responsible for corporate IT:• Implemented and maintained the company’s entire IT systems, including in-house Microsoft Exchange, Subversion repository, and network infrastructure, and user support.

Responsible for managing all phases of product production, including vendor selection, component procurement, PCB assembly, mechanical design, and system configuration.Managed contract manufacturers to meet specifications, on-budget, and on-schedule.Implemented Inventory and ECO documentation procedures.Produced prototypes for demonstration purposes using CAD and standard machining and molding, as well as rapid prototyping techniques.

Natick, Ma, Us

Responsible for inventing algorithms, optical systems, and mechanical solutions. Created new applications for Cognex inspection systems, based on CCD imagers, Vxworks, Solaris, and WindowsNT/2000/XP, and Proprietary hardware platforms. Managed external and internal resources to develop inventions.

Integrated Industrial Automation Systems.Key customers included Kodak, Xerox, Boeing, AC Delco, and Lockheed Martin