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United States

United States

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Technology Product Manager with nearly a decade of experience at a global pharmaceutical company leading complex technology initiatives. Passionate about leading teams to create better customer experiences through technology. Extensive experience with audio visual technology, workplace technology and working with global deployments.Available full time or as a fractional product manager, innovation advisor, or CPO.

Tokyo, Jp

Managed the development and execution of campus technology experience vision and strategy, including budget management and cross-functional team leadership for B2B technology products.• Crafted vision and strategy to improve workplace experience for over 55,000 internal customers globally.• Initiated a global customer listening campaign to gather customer insights and understand unique needs in different business units and regions.• Directed cross-functional teams in developing product strategies for meeting spaces, collaboration technology, digital signage, campus apps, and experiential technology.• Managed a $3M budget and influenced additional $10M+ program budgets.• Prioritized backlog and investment in highest-value features and solutions.• Worked with global PMO, engineering teams, and OCM to shape training, communications and marketing plans to increase adoption.• Met with key stakeholders globally to ensure alignment on roadmap and priorities.

Tokyo, Jp

Managed a product team responsible for global meeting experience product.• Managed backlog for the upgrade of global conference technology portfolio and end-to-end meeting experience.• Led the Meeting eXperience team working with PMO to deliver over 1000 meeting spaces within a year.• Partnered with Facilities Space Planning to design purpose-built meeting spaces including eXperience Design Labs.• Launched a space utilization PowerBI dashboard using multi-platform data to uncover business insights.• Crafted a product roadmap bringing into focus customer priorities in the areas of telemetry, meeting room experience, support, and advanced collaboration.

Tokyo, Jp

Lead for a small team internally focused on conferencing, AV and collaboration technology architecture. Worked to develop architecture to support capabilities and roadmap to provide reliable, scalable, secure solutions. Directed migration to cloud based device management systems. Developed budget and proposal for senior leadership that was approved for $30M global project to modernize all technology enhanced meeting spaces globally. Brought together cross functional teams in IT to reshape front end user experience with intelligent backend systems harmonizing UCC, digital assistants, wellness, safety, corporate communications for an exceptional end to end employee experience.Successfully envisioned and established the Technology Innovation Labs Program where the latest technology is thoroughly tested in Takeda's unique digital ecosystem before being advanced to pilot phase.Architected new technology solutions to provide better connected experiences for the hybrid workforce. Played a key role in an Agile Scrum pilot team focused on integrating the Microsoft meeting and collaboration ecosystem into Takeda's environment. Contributed to reshaping global service and support models leveraging smart backend systems for more efficient service delivery leveraging automation as well as regionalized support models for faster mean time to resolution.

Tokyo, Jp

Within the IT Core Technology and User Experience Team led harmonizing, modernizing and transforming Takeda's conferencing and workplace tech solutions to meet the changing needs of the hybrid workforce while elevating user experience. Working with multiple teams to develop a fresh portfolio of hybrid friendly spaces for our internal customers to fit with a variety of workstyles, and meeting formats. Working with cross functional teams to solve engineering, network architecture and security challenges. Explored ways of leveraging new data sets to improve UX.

Tokyo, Jp

Led a small team responsible for workplace technology project delivery for the US region within Global Real Estate Facilities Procurement. Area of responsibility included 450 meeting spaces in the US. Managed technology project portfolio totaling $10M+ including workplace tech delivery in a new flagship office facility in Cambridge. Influenced the architectural and infrastructure design of multiple spaces to better fit with the technology in new Cambridge headquarters. Accountable for the delivery of two state of the art multi-million dollar boardrooms.

Tokyo, Jp

Led AV support, AV asset lifecycle management, service and projects at a biopharma campus in Cambridge with 6 buildings and over 150 meeting spaces. Responsible for $750K AV CapEx spend per year on average. Managed AV projects including design of cutting edge specialty spaces. Managed AV support team supporting 300+ meetings and events annually. Reduced service spend by 50%.Grew the digital signage footprint 5X and increased coverage providing better access to important corporate messaging. Designed AV systems for 100+ spaces including serving as internal PM.Successfully led project to launch new interactive wayfinding for the entire campus.Led cross functional team to select and launch internal video presentation streaming solution that received over 10K visits annually.

Schiller Park, Illinois, Us

Lead audio engineer and AV tech for hundreds of high-profile corporate events with Fortune 500 C-level executives and national talent. Delivered flawless technical execution for events. Provided RF management for large events requiring 50+ channels in crowded environments. Led technical production teams through all phases of events. Appointed to the national product advisory committee as audio SME to advise senior leadership.

Seasoned freelance AV tech(A1, A2, V2, L2, TD) specialized in live sound, technical direction, training and system engineering. Experience working with and leading teams for large convention center events, ballroom events, multi-stage outdoor events, theatre events, etc. Experienced with pre-planning and system design using electro-acoustic modeling, array design and analysis software.Experience mixing FOH and Monitors for theater, corporate, worship, concerts on a wide range of consoles from Allen & Heath, Avid, Midas, Soundcraft, Yamaha and DiGiCo. Experience coordinating over 50 channels of wireless in crowded RF environments.Worked as audio engineer and general AV tech at hundreds of Tradeshows, Corporate Events, Concerts, Festivals and Conferences. Also worked at multiple venues on a contract basis. Experience working with a variety of touring artists.No longer regularly freelancing but will consider gigs, consulting and speaking engagements based on availability.Fall 2024 update: open to freelance work again in the short term. Contact for more info.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Leadership Certification

Topics That Interest Me, Taken Out Of Personal/Professional Interest Not For Academic Credit

Certificate, Project Management

Managementor Plus

Bachelors, Brain And Cognitive Science, Business Minor

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