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Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Characterized markets and managed product lifecycle from concept to end-of-life for enterprise and consumer collaboration and social networking applications / integrations for BlackBerry devices.
• Marshaled 5 releases of BlackBerry clients for IBM Lotus Connections and Quickr from product definition to market launch.
• Successfully diagnosed market performance of product line and aligned product direction with company business model by tracking trial and purchase behavior of 200+ customers.
• Uncovered opportunity to reduce R&D expenditure $4M while ensuring uninterrupted support for existing customer base by conducting 150 point competitive solution analysis.
• Facilitated customer focus groups and presented highly rated sessions at industry conferences (Lotusphere, BlackBerry World) and customer partnerships road shows.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Defined product roadmap and detailed feature set for licensed BlackBerry technology and coordinated partners and internal RIM teams to bring integrated products to market.
• Specified feature set of BlackBerry products for Windows mobile devices and drove licensable technology through development cycle.
• Liaised with RIM and partner marketing and business development teams in development of product feature sheets, promotional and launch items, and support and sales training materials, ensuring channel pull through of.
• Identified future growth opportunities and emerging threats to sustainability of current business by conducting detailed ecosystem analysis of 7 handheld device operating systems and channels.
• Assessed viability of new product concepts through 100+ intercept interviews process.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Primary point of contact with licensee development teams for all development items for Nokia and Sony Ericsson Symbian and Windows Mobile Operating System devices.
• Prioritized and managed 40 member development team’s deliverables to licensees throughout product integration cycle and liaised with internal RIM organizations to secure approval of integrated solutions for deployment.
• Pioneered BlackBerry approval program for integrated products.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Led team of project coordinators that coordinated the activities of R&D, production, quality, and materials teams in support of In Vivo trials of an artificial heart.
• Led cross-functional “Tiger Teams” in investigation of manufacturing yield issues and managed the implementation of processing changes that decreased part rejects and improved finished unit cycle time.
• Reduced schedule management efforts 75% by introducing project schedule analysis tools.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Managed all aspects of project planning, integration, tracking, and reporting for a new 65 person R&D team developing a 160 Gbit/s optical MAN switching product.
• Implemented a company-wide Product Life-Cycle Process, increasing the efficiency and tractability of the development effort.
• Managed the development and implementation of cost effective on-line document, problem, and action item repository and tracking systems to prepare the organization for future resource and product line growth.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for coordination of an international, 5-site development team's activities and interface to product line management as part of a project management team charged with delivering a cost effective last mile fiber solution for consumer Internet access.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Performed project planning, budgeting, scheduling, and monitoring for multiple, simultaneous advanced wireless communications technology projects in areas including wideband transceivers, co-channel interference.
• Designed, implemented, deployed, and supported a multi-user, 3-site relational database application for budgeting and personnel tracking, reducing the planning cycle-time by 75%.
• Managed all logistical concerns for 3 custom 1M gate ASICs including factory liaison, prototype quantity forecasting, scheduling, and distribution.

Ottawa Ontario, Canada

Performed independent validation on class 4 and 5 international telephone switches.Primed implementation of quality system within product verification and validation group as member of organization wide ISO implementation team.

Mba

B.Eng, Electrical

Computer Science