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Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

Leixlip, Ireland

Global lead for competitive analysis & intelligence teams across the USA, Ireland, India & Singapore with responsibility for the generation and execution of tactical and strategic recommendations. • Coordinated senior executive strategic reviews, advancing recommendations on new product offerings, business model changes, GTM strategies, pricing, positioning, legal actions and acquisitions.• Reconstituted HP’s global brand protection strategy to defend the company from intellectual property, counterfeit and grey marketing infringement, resulting in >€250M annual return.• Led the creation of competitive attack and response material for media and PR world-wide.• leveraged on-line analytics, big data, and primary/secondly research to drive insights and strategic actions to optimise HP's profitability and technology strategy.

Leixlip, Ireland

Accountable for product vision, strategy, roadmap, feature definition, design, development, launch and lifecycle management for HP’s InkJet Office printing solutions portfolio. • Led a global cross-functional team with E2E ownership of the product lifecycle using structured product development processes (waterfall & agile) to deliver strategic hardware & software technologies and products on schedule and on budget.• Delivered >8% CAGR for HP’s critical Office Ink printing product portfolio, ensuring a competitive and profitable product line up. • Managed a global cross functional team to deliver strategic technologies and products on schedule and on budget; generating >€1B incremental revenue protected by >50 new patents. • Managed a €20M annual R&D budget.• Member of HP Ireland’s functional leadership team; successfully driving transformational change from an operational focus to leading and delivering global growth strategies.• Inspired, engaged and motivated a team of 80 multidisciplinary technologists from graduate level to >20 years’ experience across degree, M.Sc and Ph.D levels.• Managed and developed complex partnership and stakeholder models across multiple geographies and organisations with peers, key technologists and SVP’s. • Led the global employee engagement initiative for the core HP Ink Supplies business (2000 employees); achieving the best worldwide engagement scores.

Leixlip, Ireland

E2E operations management of HP’s 2nd largest InkJet platform, with annual revenues of approx. €1.5B. Recognised as the best managed platform within HP; most profitable, best quality, lowest cost structure. • Managed internal manufacturing and lab operations with an annual budget of €50M; approx. 200 staff including managers, process engineers, IT systems engineers, equipment technicians and operators• Governance of outsourced operations in multiple counties including China, Malaysia and the Czech Republic.• Developed global manufacturing strategies to reduce cost, drive asset utilisation and continuity of supply, resulting in annual savings of >€20M.

Leixlip, Ireland

Led the EMEA R&D New Business Creation team. Its purpose was to leverage internal and external regional technology assets to exploit emerging trends in areas complimentary to HP’s internal capabilities and business strategies. • Initiated diverse IoT collaborations including, high performance flexible electronics with CRANN and Tyndall and health sensors with NCSR. • Developed a unique funding model to achieve 10X leverage of HP’s investment; including partnerships with the IDA, SFI, EI, and the EU framework programs.• Led the global diversity initiative; 70% of women enrolled in the initiative achieved promotion within 18 months

Corvallis, Oregon Area

After a period of sustained rapid growth, HP's global structures were sub-optimised. I led a strategic transformation initiative to reduce costs and optimise performance across the complex global ecosystem (USA, Puerto Rico, Singapore & Ireland); resulting in breakthrough efficiency of >€100M annual savings.• Redesigned the organisational charters.• Provided strategic advice to regional & corporate executives covering portfolio & project management, operational efficiency, risk management and cost management business choice points.• Applied financial rigor to all initiatives that led executives to shareholder value based decisions.• Managed the global resource portfolio and the capital asset program to ensure effective use and return.• Global Program Manager for key new product introductions into the worldwide manufacturing system.

Leixlip, Ireland

Program managed the introduction of new products and process technologies to the Irish operation.

Leixlip, Ireland

Responsible for leading multiple process engineering teams, driving safety, cost, quality and availability metrics

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Responsible for the transfer of product and process technology from the US to Ireland.

Dublin, Ireland

Msc, Technology & Innovation Management, First Class Honours (Awarded Top Student)

Innovation Leadership Certificate, Organizational Leadership

Activities and Societies: I was selected as 1 of only 40 employees across global HP to take part in this prestigious leadership program. I.

Cloud Strategy & Data Business Grad Diploma, Information Technology, First Class Honours In Cloud Strategy

Activities and Societies: Completed Cloud Strategy in 2011. Currently enrolled in Data Business

Grad Dip In Engineering

Diploma In Engineering, Engineering