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Wilmington, Delaware

Data Science and Visualization

Data science and visualization.

Wilmington, De

Global Demand Manager for DuPont Advanced Printing • Responsible for leading demand management and forecasting for a global enterprise. Developed and implemented plan to shed inefficiencies and improve forecasting techniques.• Used deep data analytics, visualization tools and metrics to help business track and achieve revenue goals and business strategy targets. Raised capability of demand team with tools and training on best practice demand techniques.• Integrated three businesses with different demand processes into one. Eliminated conflicting activity and redundant efforts and trained new global team while maintaining demand forecasting on time and on schedule.• Developed superior forecast prediction and data visualization tools to improve demand-supply communication and execution in the near term.

Product Management Consultant – Product Line Management Team• Responsible for leading the development and implementation of Product Management best practices and tools across a network of 300 Global and Regional Product Management professionals for the $36 billion enterprise. Member of expert consultant team renewing product management practice throughout company including product development and innovation and product portfolio management.• Developed product line profitability modeling technique to optimize business constraints using deep data analytics and visualization yielding $100 million in profitability improvements. Embedded expertise in business by conducting intensive training with business projects involving cross-functional and cross-regional business teams to ensure sustainability of the gains. • Led the development of product strategies optimizing constrained production assets supported by profitability models for Nutrition and Health businesses covering $1.4 billion annual revenue yielding additional contribution of $20 million.• Developed profitability models to support product strategy decisions for the $730 million annual revenue Fluoroproducts enterprise, projects delivered $40 million of increased earnings.

Project Manager - Net Working Capital Productivity Improvement• Redesigned supply chain to improve working capital efficiency with inventory reduction of $5 million for an agricultural product in the US and EU.• Utilized broad knowledge of enterprise systems and data analytics while balancing supply chain, cash, SKU profitability, market and operations impacts in the design development.

Product Manager - Aftermarket Inks• Led cross-functional ink product development team that used extensive knowledge of ink development, market requirements and intellectual property constraints to produce aftermarket inks with freedom to operate.• Supported multiple market channels for new product introductions from ink supplier through direct retail partnerships which grew aftermarket ink for retail Kiosk system and bulk ink sales from 0 to $10 million annual revenue.• Responsible for financial evaluation of new opportunities and financial outlook, global sales plan and sales agent, while directing competitive analysis of target inks to assess competitive landscape.

Product Manager - Artistri/Digital Printing Systems• Led execution of strategy to jump start the inkjet textile printing industry with an integrated ink, printer, and software offering leveraging our experience in ink development, color science and software.• Led multifunctional team (Business, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Technology) through market assessment for new products, ensuring products met goals, development and introduction of four new ink chemistries to meet market opportunities and needs. Team placed 50 printers which resulted in $20 million revenue in the first year. Managed product specialist direct reports.

Product Support Manager - Ink Jet (product quality and scale-up)• Originated role of Product Support Manager for Ink Jet Business to increase customer satisfaction and address growing issue with customer complaints as business entered new market spaces.• Implemented new quality and customer complaint response systems and laboratory while leading the technical team for complaint response, management of change, and robust product scale-up and commercialization. Developed and led team of six direct reports consisted of scientists and technicians.

Product Marketing Manager• Led the development of Textile Ink sets for the first Artistri Printing System. Matched products to market needs determined through market assessment and product testing.

Senior Research Engineer• Long term research and development on dispersion processes and surface coatings and technology proposal development.• Developed rational ink design tools for accelerated ink jet ink formulation and development and reduction of new product development cycle time.• Developed quality control test on multi-million dollar product line with successful installation of test at both internal and customer plant and research sites.

B.S., Chemical And Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering