Work with customers to realize digital transformation in the hospitality industry through a implementing a modern guest experience platform. Automate guest check-in and out through mobile, web and kiosk.

Lead UC and Smart WorkSpace Product Management in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa. Team is responsible for Enterprise Platforms, Applications and Devices in excess of $50m USD. Full Product Life Cycle management from idea to end-of-life with a emphasis on product and market strategy. Work very closely with NEC Japan on building global product and business strategy in addition to prioritizing investments and development to meet achieve company goals.

Responsible for finding, creating, and scaling solutions for healthcare and hospitality markets globally. Prioritize products and solutions based upon business and market requirements and return on investment across NEC's regions. Utilize NEC's strong technology offerings, and partnerships to offer differentiated solutions to customers.

Charged with business planning, strategy alignment, identifying new product opportunities, and managing the global product roadmap for the Unified Communications for Enterprise product portfolio (UCE) for NEC, globally.- Successfully launched and rolled out NEC's Unified Communications products into the China and Asia markets through NEC’s Asia distribution channels. Sales results into Thailand, Singapore, China, Malaysia.- Successfully coordinated with the NEC Australia organization to gather requirements and build features to meet the needs for Australian customers to launch the UC application portfolio into Australia. The launch was successful in late 2014 with many customers now using the products throughout Australia and New Zealand.- Collaborated with NEC’s European and Asian market teams to launch NEC uMobility into Asia, Europe and Australia. NEC uMobility is a mobile SIP application that integrates Android, iOS, and Blackberry devices with the PBX to allow a smartphone to act as a PBX phone.- Accelerated sales of NEC's Unified Communication's solutions in North America with targeted functionality for key vertical markets of Hospitality and Healthcare. Many prominent hospitals and hotels throughout North America use NEC's Unified Communications products for mission critical scenarios.

Led a product management team that was responsible for the product backlog and roadmap for Unified Communications and Contact Center applications for North America. In addition to NEC developed applications, our team managed third party partner relationships to offer a full portfolio to our customers where gaps existed in NEC's product offerings.- Revenue and Gross Profit responsibility for Unified Communications portfolio including Contact Center applications totaling more than $3m in yearly revenueKey Accomplishments• Increased sales of UC application portfolio by a CAGR of 35% from 2010 to 2013• Grew attach ratio of UC Application Platform to Voice Platform from 23% to 60% from 2010 to 2013• Built a BYOD product strategy to fulfill upon the growing demand for mobile solutions• Successfully participated in several pre-sales presentations that resulted in closing multi-million dollar sales

Key Accomplishments• Successfully built business plans for 5 vertical solution offerings and launched the solutions to channel partners increasing NEC’s competitive position in the vertical markets of Healthcare, Hospitality, Government and Education• Successfully saved a luxury brand hotel in Chicago as an NEC customer. Personally eased concerns of hotel owners and proved that NEC could deliver applications in time and meet the requirements of property. Worked directly with development teams to create guest services application for hotel guest room phones through idea to installation. Application was accepted by hotel owners, and delivered on-time for opening and resulting in NEC recognizing $100k in revenue and avoiding legal proceedingsResponsibilities• Full software product life cycle responsibilities, from idea through product launch and end of life. Set pricing to maximize gross profit potential of product• Managed third party partner relationships to offer a full portfolio to our customers where NEC product offerings had gaps identified• Set pricing and gross profit for managed products. Built Quoting logic for Account Managers and Sales Engineers to accurately quote solutions for channel partners

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· As a member of the Strategic Alliance team, I was responsible for core research, business development, alliance building and all on going alliances associated with all products.· Produced business plans and product roadmaps that included value propositions, business objectives, key initiatives, market segments, key differentiators, and short and long term product performance measurements. · Managed a team of individuals and product life cycle from the strategic planning phase through implementation. This included outsourced activities with a software development company in India that produced applications for the TI OMAP.· Developed and implemented a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.· Responsible for market research, competitive analysis, requirements development, and product marketing activities.· Developed product specifications derived from key customer requirements using primary and secondary market data.