Michele Ricks Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Manage technology partnerships and promotion of OLED technology and materials, focused on the US and Canada.

Strategic market analysis for OLED lighting and displays.

• Increased visibility of Kodak’s leadership in OLED technology, in part through implementation of on-line marketing strategy (blogs, YouTube). Kodak moved from page 8 of Google search of "OLED" to page 1. Resulted in.
• Successfully marketed Kodak's technical superiority in OLED for displays and lighting, leading to granting of several royalty-bearing licenses and 2009 OLED Lighting Enabling Technology of the Year and 2008 OLED.
• Effectively promoted usage of Kodak technology, through trade shows, customer visits, lectures and preparation of marketing collateral. Increased market share from 0 to 10% for key technology area in 18 months..
• Pulled 5+ new products into and through commercialization, based upon identified customer needs. Emphasized disciplined business processes for managing product roadmap, customer trade-trials and pricing strategy..
• Demonstrated excellence in technical project management. Earned a reputation for managing deliverables and rapidly bringing projects to completion, on-schedule and within budget. Reduced cycle time from 18 months to six.

• Led technology transfer team during manufacturing start-up at first ever Active Matrix OLED factory with Kodak’s Joint Venture manufacturing partner in Japan. Effectively trained new operators to run equipment and.
• Improved manufacturing yield more than 5X through statistical process control and analytical problem solving. Frequently reported progress to senior management of both Joint Venture partners.
• Successfully launched production of world’s first Active Matrix OLED display, which won the industry’s 2002 Display of the Year Gold Award and the 2003 Silver Award as part of Kodak LS633 digital camera. OLED.
• Awarded 20 US patents.

• Successfully developed and implemented an environmentally compliant bonded repair process for aircraft as part of a technology advancement team comprised of representatives from industry, military, and universities..
• Effectively coordinated projects amongst a team of eight engineers and technicians and responsibly managed a $1.4M defense contract. Our team was one of the few that met all deliverables on-time and under budget.
• Experienced in testing to and maintaining MIL and Boeing specifications.
• Maintained Secret level government clearance.

Bs, Materials Science & Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega, Tau Beta Pi, Honors College, tutored student athletes, Tower Guard Society (translated.

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Activities and Societies: Concert & Jazz Bands, National Honor Society Salutatorian