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Led the Product Management Team at GE Lighting. Key member of the leadership team that creates the future vision for the company. Responsible for the product strategy that delivers upon that company vision.

Led/mentored Product Management Teams to deliver quality products and services. Achieved double-digit growth of 11.6% between 2017 and 2018. Joined the Senior Executive Team (E-Staff).• Reimagined the standard mobile application which was delivered to the market soon after leaving Control4. Recognized as a quality application, the app received industry praise and awards.• Drove change management and implemented business processes to increase efficiencies and optimize R&D resources. Built-in staggered product release cycles and an enterprise-wide organized product roadmap.• Realigned Product Managers into a matrix structure based on technologies and business roles to ensure that products and categories were correctly managed.• Greatly Improved the new product introduction cycle through a tight partnership with Product Marketing. Launched interdependent processes and created milestones to facilitate communication and improve collaboration.

Dramatically enhanced the company's ability to monitor and evaluate project viability prior to committing resources. Formalized an MRD process within an overall structure and established a development gate process.• Created an environment centered in open communication, respect, and where innovation is expected. Encouraged creativity in development through the application of a collaborative PRD process.• Consolidated development teams and redefined roles to create a more efficient use of team members.

Responsible for the Product Management and R&D for the company's lighting and comfort products and solutions.• Structured a strategic management approach and drove intensive market research. Developed a three-year rolling roadmap to boost product categories, increase revenues, and improve customer satisfaction.

Responsible for the Product Management and R&D for the company's security and communications products and solutions.

Created support and training centers in the United States, United Kingdom, China, and India. Initiated scalable support processes and procedures to process 3K+ highly technical calls weekly• Honored that during this tenure, the Support Team won the "Best Technical Support" award from CEPro 7 out 10 years, and the Training Team won "Best Training Program" awards from CEPro 8 of 10 years.• Directed and coached the Training teams to develop training curriculum. Offered and hosted training events to the dealer channel. Trained 2500+ attendees annually.• Hired and assembled an award-winning industry-recognized tech support and training organization.

Directed the teams that deployed smart hotel room technology in 10K+ hotel rooms worldwide. Boosted hospitality sales 25%+ YOY with profitability 20%+ YOY.• Negotiated lucrative sales and post-sale support contracts with international hotels and hospitality groups.• Envisioned a new sales channel model for the hotel sector to yield a predictive and organized method of successfully partnering with large hotel projects.• Directed the team responsible for an innovative product line of touch screens, subsequently winning design awards.• Won praise for the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, within the City Center project, and the largest privately funded construction project in U.S. history.

Recruited during the start-up phase of the company business life cycle. Designed and established the supply chain, logistics, manufacturing standards, and quality control operations.• Brought 23 products from the design phase to distribution in 18 months. During the second year of manufacturing, reduced COGS by 10% on average per product.• Developed the outsourced manufacturing strategy and transitioned manufacturing to a Chinese manufacturing matrix.• Increased inventory turns from 2 to 5 turns over a 12-month cycle. Implemented a data-driven decision making process and detailed sales and supply chain forecasting model.

Responsible for the metal blind / cellular shades manufacturing and quality operations.

Responsibility for the company's manufacturing, supply chain, quality and IT organizations.

Responsible for managing the DOD product manufacturing and planning personnel.

Responsible for the company's IT organization.

Responsible for managing the company's swing shift manufacturing operations.