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Loveland, Colorado, US

• Worked with stakeholders to set the vision, define the product roadmap, and execute against goals for precision agriculture and logistics space.
• Reincarnated work order platform by collaborating with sales and supervising the planning, development, and implementation, impacting 200+ locations and over $200M in annual revenue.
• Conducted quantitative and qualitative research resulting in actionable data-driven insights that secured SaaS strategy with $500M+ annual impact; infancy to completion within 2 months.
• Created product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for the Digital Agronomy pillar, resulting in a precision agriculture software overhaul with a $1B+ annual impact.
• Expanded new sales recommendation tool use by 30% for the retail market through feature development and internal marketing campaign.
• Mentored, led, and guide Digital Product Managers in developing and implementing the product strategy, practices, and roadmap for their product areas at the enterprise level.

Westminster, CO, US

• Responsible for global agriculture market analysis, competitive research, market segmentation, and long-range planning for agriculture technology in precision agriculture hardware and software markets.
• Led Product Management team that revamped product roadmap for multiple display lines that supported $100M+ in annual sales resulting in 50% growth in display sales.
• Created innovative market and financial roadmap for autonomous vehicles, resulting in a new autonomous solutions team.
• Directed strategic business plan development, including authoring narrative, developing supporting materials, and collaborating with leadership resulting in business growth of 30+%.
• Partnered with global sales teams to expand data-driven decision-making across retail channels, to grow and qualify market share, increase in-segment penetration, and strengthen channel financials.
• Presented quarterly actionable global market intelligence to senior leadership for business planning and investor relations, including business environment evaluation, competitive analysis, industry trends, and revenue.

Westminster, CO, US

• Responsible for Customer-Facing SaaS market planning, new product introduction, product roadmap, long-range planning, and Agile implementation.
• Co-developed multi-horizon product and economic roadmap for state-of-the-art mobile and cloud agricultural software.
• Co-led the revolution of Agile culture across product development, resulting in a dramatic customer satisfaction increase, improved product quality, and cadenced value deliveries.
• Onboarded targeted company acquisitions resulting in the launch of multiple new products into the Trimble channel.
• Forecasted business revenue with an accuracy of +/- 3% during the agriculture market downturn resulting in an effective adjustment of resources to maintain economic viability.

Moline, IL, US

• Deere & Company is a world leader in providing advanced products and services with 60,000 employees and $36 billion in sales in 2012
• Lead team responsible for product development processes including the implementation of systems improvements, management of the execution of the process, and certification of the process
• Responsible for the implementation of knowledge management system improvements
• Manage portfolio of projects ranging in impact of $1-$5+ million annually
• Lead project manager for divisional strategic initiatives
• Lead initiative to expand Product Development Process team resulting in the hiring of new process pro

Moline, IL, US

• Responsible for product development processes including the implementation of systems improvements, management of the execution of the process, and certification of the process. Responsible for the implementation of.
• Developed and implemented of new Product Development IT system to 700+ employees in 5 countries spanning Engineering, Supply Management, Quality, Program Management, and Manufacturing functions
• Reduced change implementation time by 20% and decreased labor per part by 50%. Team earned divisional award for highly aligned teamwork in software development activities
• Implemented new tool training methodology, reducing employee in classroom training by 50%, $200,000 savings
• Development and implementation of new knowledge management methods for 400+ employees
• Development of a knowledge management model utilizing transactional DOE to model the amount of knowledge lost in an organization versus the amount of knowledge created. The model was used to estimate the requirements.

Moline, IL, US

• Responsible for development of systems and components to meet Customer Requirements and Governmental engine regulations
• Inventor, Temperature Controlled Venture for the use with an EGR system in an internal combustion engine. Patent number US 7,921,830 B2
• Implemented new management approach for prototype components to meet development schedules resulting in 6-month improvement in prototype build process
• Developed and implemented 100+ components including valve train, cooling system, lube system, exhaust gas recirculation system, and gear train
• Modeled and developed drawings, bills of materials, and assembly instructions for 200+ components.
• Worked with suppliers to develop components resulting in development and release of supplier components to production

Moline, IL, US

• Manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, and supervisory support for a $20+ million cast iron machining operation.
• Responsible for quality, capability, throughput, manufacturing, cost, and safety for 50+ components producing 70k pieces annually.
• Developed capital plans to implement new machinery and robotic handling equipment.
• Responsible for implementing 30 new components through the Product Life Cycle (PLC) and supporting design for manufacturability (DFM) with the product development team.
• Led Continuous improvement projects, including Six Sigma DOE that reduced scrap by 58%.
• Implemented manufacturing improvement projects resulting in ~ $2.3 million annual cost reduction

Moline, IL, US

• Responsible for development of new methods to manage lubrication in drivetrains and engineering liaison between development and testing facilities
• Identified and tested methods that reduce drivetrain windage losses by great than 40%.
• Speaker at John Deere Drivetrain Development Conference on energy losses and lubrication management.
• Responsible for detailed drivetrain competitive study

Moline, IL, US

• Continuous Improvement Student Training Program
• Responsible for conduction Load Testing Hydraulic systems
• Presentation and write up of final testing report to Hydraulic Engineering team
• Work with Engineering team to develop requirements for testing scenarios
• Provided shop support personal test work orders to conduct testing
• Operation of Data Acquisition system to complete testing

• Responsible for the design, fabrication, and testing of roll over protective structures (ROPS) for Allis Chalmers D-17 and Allis Chalmers WD-45
• Torsional axle housing ultimate strength testing
• Aided in remote control setup of tractors for dynamic rollover testing
• Conducting of dynamic rollover testing
• Responsible for dynamic Global Position System (GPS) testing including parallel swathing, variable rate application, dynamic turning radius accuracy
• Responsible for setup of materials for Data Acquisition labs for Engineering courses

Moline, IL, US

• Continuous Improvement Student Training Program
• Responsible for conduction Load Testing Hydraulic systems
• Presentation and write up of final testing report to Hydraulic Engineering team
• Work with Engineering team to develop requirements for testing scenarios
• Provided shop support personal test work orders to conduct testing
• Operation of Data Acquisition system to complete testing

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Agricultural Engineering

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates