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Morrisville, NC

• Manage a diverse team of young and experienced engineers through all phases of board design, from initial concept through test.
• Coordinate operations between worldwide marketing, project management and cross-functional teams to provide schedule, development expense sizing and deliver a quality product that is time-to-market.
• Provide regular updates to management on operational developments, offering comprehensive solutions to potential critical issues to proactively prevent or mitigate any schedule impacts.
• Customer Engagements: Identify and resolve customer pain points to gain their confidence and secure a strong partnership with Lenovo.
• Mentor young engineers and interns by conducting personalized performance evaluations and facilitating bi-weekly patent meetings to encourage growth and drive innovation.

Morrisville, NC

• Traveled extensively to Mexico and China, visiting customer sites and manufacturing plants to resolve product manufacturing issues. Built strong relationships with customers, by addressing their concerns and relaying.
• Established a productive working rapport with personnel at manufacturing sites in Mexico, China and the US, by adapting to different cultures and establishing an effective bridge of communication between all 3 sites.
• Drove naming convention design commonality across entire Lenovo server portfolio to facilitate cross-team collaboration when debugging potential issues.
• Led hardware development for the customization of Lenovo’s 8-socket server for tier one customers, from initial concept through test and post-release maintenance.

RTP, NC

• Managed a team of 15-25 members, consistently meeting and exceeding sales targets of 15% growth year over year.
• Drove B2B negotiations with key stakeholders, meeting customers’ expectations and our sales goals, while fostering the company’s growth in 17 US states and over 20 countries worldwide.
• Qualified leads and conducted research to identify potential prospects to grow the sales pipeline.
• Developed and implemented customer retention and growth strategies that resulted in 85% repeat business and 15% yearly growth in our customer base.
• Researched trends in our local market to accurately predict quarterly expenses necessary to maximize revenue and increase market share.
• Built partnerships with venue owners and event coordinators, gaining their trust, to expand the brand of our local events and the brand of the company worldwide.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• System Lead on a 4-socket server upgrade design from initial concept to post-release maintenance.
• Led hardware development of high-speed backplanes, network adapters, 2-socket processor subsystems and 2-socket processor mezzanine cards.
• Reassessed high speed backplane designs and validated support for future technologies, extending the life of product by 200% over initial estimates.

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Developed complex programmable logic design and high-speed adapter cards.