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Greenville, South Carolina, US

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, US

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, US

Continued to grow the consumer and industrial power tool accessories team with a team of 5 Product Managers and 3 Channel Managers.

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, US

Led both consumer and industrial power tool accessories team with a team of 3 Product Managers and 2 Channel Managers to drive new product development and new initiatives for the company

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Championed a $500M global business unit of consumer power tools with a team of 5 Product Managers to drive new product development and new initiatives for the company
• Directed product development team by teaching how to listen to customers, manage cross functional teams, and leverage their own unique skills in order to effectively launch 8 new products in under 1 year
• Refocused brand by researching the voice of the customer and leveraging marketing partnerships to reshape the brand that raised sales by 5% and gross margin by nearly 3%
• Created a new subcategory of power tools by analyzing true customer needs that will create 6% sales growth and over 45% improvement over the previous subcategory segment’s gross margin

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Led 3 category segments of consumer products with a team of 2 products managers as direct reports
• Simultaneously introduced 12 new product SKUs by leading my team to create strong internal partnerships with engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain to deliver on time and at cost
• Successfully launched new sub brand by partnering with marketing, sales, and merchandising teams to create $20M of new sales growth
• Uncovered cost savings in 15 different legacy products that realized over $1.6M in yearly cost savings and raising profit by over 2% across separate category segments

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Managed 2 consumer products categories and 2 consumer electronics categories with 1 product manager as direct report
• Spearheaded and won a full product line review for an entire category at The Home Depot, devising in-depth competitive strategy and marketing, and conducting multiple sales pitches and demonstrations. Ultimately.
• Evaluated new outsource vendors at overseas factories to create over $3M in annual savings through negociation and relationship management
• Determined viability of new products, line extensions, and emerging markets through frequent field research and relentless focus on the voice of the customer
• Identified and managed attacking $2.5M of key cost improvement strategies for existing product lines
• Protected new business ideas areas by designing new solutions that lead to 2 USPTO Patents (US 10,167,661; D841,444)

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Managed new IoT business category by successful product planning and product marketing
• Championed the yearly Product Line Review by developing and pitching innovative concepts to The Home Depot in order to successfully sell in 3 new products
• Directed global program development, product life cycle, and growth on new business categories for consumer electronics products
• Relentlessly focused attention on communicating and maintaining customers to build new customer base of over 20,000 users in the first 3 months
• Innovated product category by developing new ideas that resulted in 2 USPTO Patents (US 10,237,996; US10,443,295)

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Lead teams of electrical, mechanical, computer, app development, and IT engineers to create company’s first IoT product that led to $16M of sales in its first year
• Uncovered new areas of opportunity in stagnant markets to create a revolutionary new product line that was noted by Home Depot as their “Innovation of the Year”
• Created 4 new-to-world cordless power tools that won 4 different Pro Tool Awards for Innovation
• Designed interface of all these IoT products by strong group collaboration between engineering and industrial design that lead to 4 patents (US 10,015,898; D812,010; D871,472; D872,153)

Racine, WI, US

• Led engineering groups and more than 20 factory workers that lead to the sucessful creation of various engineering and pilot builds of new fish finder products
• In Pro/Engineer 3D modeling software, created original prototypes, plastics/metal designs and various design modifications to current products that resulted in new sales for company
• Designed new testing fixtures for solar, water, and life-cycle testing for new products that lead to effective, valuable testing of new-to-world products
• Programmed new software development of touchscreen technology by using advanced knowledge of C, C++ and SQL that lead to effective testing of new technology