Manage a large, diverse team of engineers supporting the development of Meta hardware.

Nytec was acquired by Accenture in March 2020. Still the same innovative product developers now part of Accenture's Industry X.0

Lead the Program Management function in delivering rapidly developed, innovative consumer electronics devices.Insure the product development teams meet customer and business objectivesHelp manage customer relationships and communication strategies

Define and lead the execution of the SMART kapp (www.smartkapp.com) product roadmap to support launch and expansion of a new product category. Lead and influence improving the customer support experience.TEAM LEADERSHIP:• Work with organizational leaders to improve the product development process, delivering more consistent results.• Define the goals and vision of each of the products, and manage the Program Managers delivering to this vision.• Escalate and unblock issues hindering team progress.TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY:• Define and prioritize customer needs, align delivery of technologies and product improvements to support roadmap.• Identify and recommend new technologies which support the product roadmap. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Revised the development process to make significant improvements in end to end quality, timeliness, and cost of the products in the roadmap.• Build an integrated HW and SW roadmap, aligning the business needs and resource requirements.• Launch two new products, kapp42 and kapp84, add new products and accessories to the pipeline.

Define and manage the product vision and specifications to ensure efficient and optimized results. Accurately manage costs and schedules from initial concept through to on-time production of high volume computer peripherals.TEAM LEADERSHIP: Manage the people and resources across disciplines to ensure optimization of product goals, time, tools, and skills. Ensure team members understand the product vision. Manage employees and teams through conflict and disagreements with successful outcomes. Foster an environment and culture of continued learning, growth, challenge, development, and retention.CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION: Gather input from up to 30 different teams and disciplines to inform the product outcome. Troubleshoot and negotiate issues across people and teams as the project progresses. Schedule and facilitate meetings at all levels of the organization.TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY: Ensure technology and engineering goals are aligned with business, client, and industry initiatives. Facilitate engineering discussions related to build, scalability, reliability, structures, performance, and cost efficiency. PRODUCT & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT: Develop the project schedule and roadmap, define and assign resources and deliverables, and specifications. Make certain all processes and resources are in place to scale the product for mass production. Quickly adjust and realign resources resulting from changes in project scope and schedules.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Managed the development of a lower-priority project for Microsoft, which resulted in capturing more revenue and market share than the priority product due to delighting customers.+ Tapped by leaders to develop four different projects with a $600K budget in rapid fashion. Budget was then cut to $300K. Successfully launched six different products for only $150K with two-months to ROI, driving $80M in revenue.

Led and managed the growth, development, and maturity of the Microsoft Asia Center for Hardware. LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT: Grew the team from 28 to 100+ employees, expanding the team capability and value to the business. Hired key leaders who were capable of taking a strategic approach to growth and employee development. Set high standards for hiring, building, and improving organizational capability. Focused on talent management, succession planning, and organization health. Trained and developed employees and managers on decision-making, process, and program management. Managed a people, vendor, and capital equipment budget of $2M+.CROSS-FUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT: Directed efforts across 14 different disciplines including software, firmware, electrical, structural, and mechanical. Added functions including software development and test, sustaining, industrial design, FW, and manufacturing test. Coordinated with supply chain, operations, Xbox, and China R&D to create a highly successful development center. Communicated schedules, priorities, conflicts, and product capabilities across the leadership team. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Increased the number of programs delivered from 7 to 14 devices per year, always on-budget and on-time. Played a key role in helping the PC product development at headquarters to survive the economic downturn.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Completed an organizational maturity matrix to assess and measure communication, engineering, and process capabilities to inform improvement efforts. Identified specific areas of focus that augmented headquarters efforts.+ Established best practices for management gate reviews, subsequently adopted by the Redmond development org.+ Moved the organization from cost-cutting and product extensions to growth and expansion in product development.

Managed all Mechanical, optical and CAD engineers involved in delivering computer peripherals (keyboards, mice, and webcams) across three locations: Colorado, Redmond, and China. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: Designed, recruited, hired, and provided formal and informal feedback to a talented engineering organization. Set the strategic direction and vision for the team and ensured alignment of team members. Led hiring efforts by identifying core competencies and skill gaps on the team and recruiting appropriately.OPERATIONAL & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Directed resources to appropriate projects based upon skill set, availability, and career goals. Played an integral role in developing the Product Roadmap including strategic investments and resource allocation. Assigned engineers to do technical assessments for potential M&A activity. Handled troubleshooting of potential and actual roadblocks from other function teams to clear the path to success. Managed mechanical CAD licensing, contracts, and budget for all of MS (i.e., Xbox, Mobile phones, Xbox accessories). KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Played an evangelistic role to help bring the organization into a forward-looking research mode of operation that clearly informed the future product development vision and subsequent allocation of resources.+ Spearheaded a technology planning team with other managers to fully vet product ideas to identify resource needs, priorities, and then allocate against the execution plan.

Designed and brought into production multiple generations of computer mice; some of the highest volume (and often lowest cost) products in the Microsoft lineup with the lowest customer complaints of any Microsoft mice.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Successfully persuaded management to convert the development process from a time-consuming prototype tool development method to going straight to production tooling, shaving considerable time off development schedules.

Developed products from concept to production within a wide range of industries. Led teams with a focus on innovation.

Designed robust cardiac defibrillators for the Hospital and Emergency Medical Professionals

Designed electromechanical and fiber optic interconnect equipment for the telecommunications industry