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• Lead teams and organizations in defining and creating the future. The open marketplace always moves faster than any single company. You can’t drive the Future to Market unless you are willing to dynamically transform.
• Instrumental in transforming a hitech industry giant’s approach to engineering software across the lifecycle
• Guided co-development of an industry-disrupting business model enabling a telecom leader's entry into a new multi $B market
• Forged strategic partnerships to realize 100% growth in innovation lab portfolio while securing multi-$M investments
• Introduced strategic and tactical innovation strategies and practices aligning lines of business and functions as well as initiating cultural transformation to drive growth and create market differentiation.

Greater San Francisco Bay Area

Built reputation as a thought leader / expert in Open Innovation throughout SAP & BIF; Engaged with executives from diverse industry leaders including Autodesk, United Health Care, Visa, Intel, Standard Chartered Bank and many others to explore leveraging emerging technology trends (e.g., Big Data & IoT) and business models to accelerate innovation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Catalyze business growth through innovation. Drive collaboration in the discovery and application of innovative business models, technologies and best practices.

Greater San Francisco Bay Area

• Orchestrated innovation and transformation strategies & initiatives / Guided global research, discovery and collaboration / Directed strategic programs to accelerate value creation, delivery and capture from innovation
• Spearheaded visionary global Software Integration playbook as a foundation for cross-LOB Product / DevOps strategies; Instrumental in shaping cultural and process changes WW across the software product lifecycle.
• Bridged business growth and product development strategies by envisioning & leading the development of the SAP Framework for Open Innovation (below); Delivered a comprehensive set of strategies for corporate-wide.
• Cultivated team of technical & non-technical experts to undertake a cross-organizational Design Thinking initiative and solve a strategic issue for a high-profile KM team; Promoted creativity & risk taking to challenge.
• Nurtured growth of innovation ecosystem communities/networks; Fostered internal and external innovation best practices through social media and other KM channels creating global reach; Extended SAP’s innovation.
• Co-directed whitespace analysis as part of strategic business planning cycle with cross-product management stakeholders; Explored, identified and prioritized emerging technologies and opportunities for new business.

Greater San Francisco Bay Area

• Doubled IP creation capabilities & cultivated partner venturing investments in a pioneering technology lab / Guided senior management on creating and managing solution roadmaps with partners
• Forged strategic partnership network to realize 100% growth of SAP’s Co-Innovation Lab projects within 12 months; Secured multi-$M venturing investments from partners; Guided high impact negotiations to influence and.
• Championed reinvention of the global Partner Portfolio Management model & system, reducing planning times from months to weeks covering 100s of $M in partner-generated revenue; Drove co-innovation and implementation of.
• Orchestrated co-development of the strategy and roadmap for Pirelli/Telecom Italia’s Business & IT transformation, integrating two LOBs into a shared services organization; Advised on blueprint for building a more.

Moraga, CA

Challenged classes comprised of international and local eMBA students by examining the promise and challenges of co-innovation, emerging technologies and aligning them with business strategies and models; Participated on faculty/industry discussion panels, providing visibility and growth of St. Mary's MBA program brand.

Worldwide

• Empowered clients to disrupt markets / Dramatically grew strategic consulting & aligned with regional & WW Sales
• Guided co-development of industry-disrupting business initiative empowering SBC Communications to become a first mover in the multi-$B local long-distance market; Directed left-brain and right-brain teamwork across.
• Grew WW consulting portfolio by 24% annually; Achieved profit margins above 40%; Collaborated with top-tier management & integration consultancies to enhance value creation, delivery & capture; Guided integrated.
• Achieved industry leadership status by investing C-level customers with the ability to quantitatively assess IT’s capacity to support and sustain business agility; Inspired global team to innovatively envision.
• Advised executives at start-ups with business plans; Captured 1st and 2nd round investment funding worth more than $3M.
• Streamlined partner engagement processes; Reduced excess payments to channel partners saving hundreds of $K annually.

Ba, Mathematics

National Technology University (Consortium)

Activities and Societies: Graduate studies in Computer ScienceNTU is a collaborative effort among many major engineering and management.

California Single Subject Teaching Credential, Mathematics