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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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..
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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

Education record