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Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Us

Lead the product, design, research, and engineering functions of Carrier's Digital Foundry.Founded by the inventor of modern air conditioning, Carrier is a world leader in high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Carrier experts provide sustainable solutions, integrating energy-efficient products, building controls and energy services for residential, commercial, retail, transport and food service customers. Carrier is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come.

Québec, Québec, Ca

Lead the product, design, engineering, strategic planning, and IT organizations for FLO (formerly AddEnergie). We build EV charger hardware (EVSE), cloud services, and apps (CPO & eMSP) solutions for residential, commercial, and public applications.FLO is a leading North American charging network operator for electric vehicles and a major provider of smart charging hardware and software. Every month, FLO charging stations and its FLO network enable approximately half a million charging events and the transfer of 5.5 GWh in electricity, thanks to 40,000 high-quality stations deployed on public networks, commercial and residential installations. FLO's headquarters and network operations centre are based in Quebec City, and its assembly plants are located in Shawinigan (Quebec) and Auburn Hills (Michigan). The company also has an office in Montreal and regional teams located in Ontario, British Columbia, California, New York and Florida.————————————-Dirige les équipes de produits, de design, de recherche et développement, et de TI pour FLO. Mène le développement de solutions de chargeur de VE matérielles et logiciels, pour une clientèle résidentielles, commerciale, et publique. AddÉnergie est un opérateur intégré de réseaux de bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques et un fournisseur de logiciels et d’équipements de recharge intelligents de premier plan en Amérique du Nord. Chaque mois, les bornes FLO et son réseau FLO rendent possible environ un demi-million de sessions de recharge et le transfert de 5,5 GWh d’électricité, grâce à 40 000 bornes de première qualité déployées sur des réseaux publics, ainsi que des installations commerciales et résidentielles. Le siège social de FLO et le centre des opérations réseaux sont situés à Québec, alors que les usines d’assemblage se trouvent à Shawinigan et Auburn Hills (Michigan).

Austin, Texas, Us

Led the product management, design, user research, and data science teams for Dealerware and Silvercar. Also led in interim the engineering team. Spearheaded the definition, development, launch, and maintenance of Dealerware and Silvercar products. Deeply understood problems, developed strong customer relationships, and designed the complete product experience. Ensured product best practices were applied from product inception through delivery across their cross-functional teams. Developed, articulated, and championed Product Vision with the leadership team. Silvercar's unique combination of hardware, software, and operations combine to deliver a full stack ecosystem of new mobility solutions. The acquisition of Silvercar helps Audi strengthen its platforms to serve the evolving mobility needs of the U.S. marketplace. Dealerware offered courtesy vehicle fleet management SaaS for Automotive Dealerships. Silvercar offered three primary mobility products:- Silvercar by Audi, a premium car rental service, which allows for seamless access to transportation in cities and airports locations through our app- Dealerware, a B2B product that enables dealerships to streamline the management of their service loaner fleets- Audi Select, a monthly vehicle subscription service, currently available in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area

Santa Cruz, California, Us

Santa Cruz, California, Us

Head of the global Experience Design (XD) team for Poly, formerly Polycom and Plantronics. Experiences delivered include wearables, personal & team collaboration devices, open workspace experiences, and IT/Admin cloud experiences. Responsible for a team of ~50 comprising of Industrial Design, User Interface Design, User Research, and Human Factors. Evolved the organization from classical design and design thinking, to data-driven AI/ML-powered computational design.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead the global XD team for Polycom. Built high-performing Industrial Design and User Research teams from the ground up within one calendar year. Brought isolated and globally distributed designers together into a single unified team. Fostered best practices in product design & development including Agile, Discovery/Prototyping, Design Sprints, and UX-specific development milestones. Strengthened user research discipline across functions through a range of methods from attitudinal to behavioral, and qualitative to quantitative. Identified key user, workspace, and workflow insights that informed Polycom’s strategy. Key contributor on the Plantronics-Polycom Product Integration team.

San Jose, California, Us

Drove strategic initiatives including portfolio simplification, UI unification, and the definition of a future beyond audio/video conferencing. Key contributor on the Polycom Strategic Planning team, actively involved in inorganic plays.

Icontrol Networks (now Comcast and Alarm.com) is a leader in Connected Home technology and a driving force behind "The Internet of Things", home security, and home automation. Icontrol’s solutions power many of today's most prominent home management and security offerings including ADT Pulse, Comcast Xfinity Home, Time Warner Intelligent Home, Cox HomeLife, and Rogers Smart Home Monitoring. • Built a vision and crafted presentations on the connected home experience, starting with the core human needs for peace of mind and quality of life. These 2 core human needs underpin the fundamental value of the connected home, upon which products and services are developed, marketed, and sold.• Provided strong leadership and expertise in everything “UX”, including first-time user experience (FTUE), out-of-box experience (OOBE), packaging, industrial design, mechanical interfaces, touch UIs, push notifications, audio pattern detection, natural language processing, video processing, TV UIs, wearables, geolocation, micro-location, and predictive/prescriptive data analytics.• Produced weekly market updates and quarterly competitive analysis for the executive leadership, highlighting connected home movements from vendors including Alarm.com, Vivint, Control4, AT&T Digital Life, Honeywell, Alert Me, Google, Apple, Samsung, Wink, Smarthings (now Samsung), Dropcam (now Google), Nest (now Google), Belkin WeMo, Nexia, Swann One, Sage by Hughes, SimpliSafe, Netatmo, and Insteon.• Defined a connected home user experience roadmap, incorporating the latest technologies to reduce UX friction while aiming to deliver unprecedented peace of mind and quality of life in the home. • Coordinated quantitative market research to identify core market needs for the connected home. Assisted with qualitative research to further understand and validate results from quantitative research - helping identify areas of innovation for the connected home.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead a cross-functional and multi-disciplinary research effort to define new areas of innovation, and provide a framework for product roadmap prioritization.

San Jose, California, Us

• Identified market requirements to meet and/or exceed customer & market needs, maximize Polycom's technical capabilities and meet business objectives. Gathered input from a wide variety of inputs, including customers, focus groups, technical team and sales.• Distilled the information into prioritized, actionable requirements. Identified customer needs (not wants!), created a comprehensive PRD and contributed heavily to the functional specifications. • Devised a tiered product offering to deliver strong growth in NA and EMEA while supporting BRIC and MIST regional requirements.• Initiated and developed relationships with leading 3rd-party vendors to cut product cost and surpass all competitive products in terms of functionality and user experience.• Presented to Fortune 500 corporations, leading telecom service providers and large international corporations in three different languages. • Repositioned the idle product lines to receive investment and engineering resources to advance Polycom’s core videoconferencing business.• Turned a basic product cost reduction initiative into the creation of an industry-leading product with world-class performance and innovative features to lock out the competition. • Established product positioning and transition strategies for the Outbound Marketing team. • Defined and implemented pricing and distribution strategies

Austin , Texas, Us

New Technology Introduction – Launched a revolutionary new product for performing sensor measurements based on fiber optics. Defined target markets and messaging, created content and managed the product launch. Developed the product ecosystem including product integrators, sensor vendors, and developing the core markets of civil/geotechnical, transportation and energy. • Introduced the new NI PXIe-4844 Optical Sensor Interrogator at NIWeek 2010 and met all objectives, yielding high visibility and numerous requests for article submission from trade publications. • Identification of market requirements, and development of strategies to grow market share• Identification and creation of sales opportunities • Development of new external marketing content including presentations, white papers, webcast, video demonstrations, web pages (www.ni.com/opticalsensing) and four high impact demos. • Performed requirements gathering, influenced product roadmaps and defined future product features. • Development of sensor, software, and integrator ecosystem • Provide training for marketing and sales about fiber optics, optical sensing technologies, key market players and application areas• Published over a dozen technical articles in North-American and European trade publications

Austin , Texas, Us

• Identification of market requirements, opportunities, development of strategies to grow market share• Creation of ni.com/structural-test web portal• Development and management of relationship with customers & sales managers to win business and influence product development and custom engineering• Lead and train marcom on the technologies and marketing messages• Provide training for sales about lock-out specs, market players and how to sell in structural applications

Austin , Texas, Us

• Grew the USB data acquisition business at a compound annual growth rate of over 30%, becoming the highest volume product line at National Instruments• Initiated a new design language that is now broadly deployed on NI Data Acquisition products. Presented a business case and elevated the importance of industrial design to NI leadership. Worked closely with mechanical engineering throughout the process to define and evangelize a unified and consistent ID look & feel, while delivering better usability at equal or lower COGS. • Development of content and contributed articles on topics including the universal serial bus, measurement technologies, I/O for embedded systems and Intel processors for portable data acquisition.• Established relationship with The Mythbusters and consulted with the Deadliest Warrior for NI product placement on these shows. Created best practices for product placement on TV and presented to the marketing organization. • Lead web marketing efforts including web banners, search engine optimization, Google AdWords, tradeshows and online directories.• Presented at several events including NIWeek, NIDays, PITTCON, Automotive Testing Expo, and Sensors Expo; created several technical demos including a machine fault simulator, USB surround sound emulator, and RF automated test system.

Austin , Texas, Us

• Led a team of 7 engineers, providing technical knowledge and support• Lead recruiter for McGill University, recruiting over 10 new engineers• Instructor for new hires and customers on technical topics including the fundamentals of data acquisition and LabVIEW programming.

Master Of Science - Ms, Integrated Circuit And Systems - Incomplete

B.Eng, Electrical Engineering

Dec, Pure & Applied Sciences

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