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Houston, Tx, Us

Owensboro, Kentucky, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

TD Modular Solutions

Houston, Tx, Us

Columbus, Oh, Us

Global Racks

Started management consulting firm. Lead a team of professional and support personnel. Selected engagements…• Launched a startup. Created an LLC to start a consumer products company (MeyersLee client). Built a product internet site, established a supplier support strategy. Devised the branding, marketing and promotional strategies and tactics. Grew the business from $0 to $1.8M and laid a solid foundation to propel continued growth.• Avoided a costly investment. Analyzed feasibility for a utility power construction company to develop the supplier support and sales strategy for a modular power solution. Conducted research among current clients, prospective suppliers and sales channels. Advised client of the expected real costs to implement since required investment far exceeded client’s original expectations including time to implement. Client decided to not invest in the effort.

Houston, Texas, Us

Promoted to this P&L position to lead the HP Modular Datacenter (POD) development team and program. Managed a $50M budget and a team of 80 management, professional and support personnel. Focused on product development, operations, supplier management, sales, marketing, supply chain and contracts. Served as media spokesperson.• Led a turnaround. Resolved technical problems. Rebuilt the development and support teams. Established one of the industry’s first, successful, fully configured IT compute and storage datacenter deployment programs. Drove sales to more than $1B. Led to creation of a new modular datacenter market.• Conceived a new approach to traditional datacenter design. In response to spiraling compute power and cooling densities, forged a collaboration with HP Labs and between IT and facilities design. Became an industry thought leader and Gartner Seat Holder. Served as company and industry spokesperson. Won market acceptance and successfully bridged the gap between traditional facilities and IT so that both are fully engaged in datacenter development and deployment. • Forged a new engineering graduate program in facilities management to drive the development and deployment of next-generation datacenters. Collaborated with SMU and key industry leaders to tailor key graduate level classes that for the first time melded key facilities and IT elements together. • Transformed a new concept into a profitable product. To put as much compute and storage density in a rack space as possible, developed a new high density power and cooling concept. Earned a DOE grant (first ever for HPE) and gained a patent for developing the concept into a product solution.

Houston, Texas, Us

Promoted to create and lead the IT Rack Infrastructure Product Division. Managed a $30M budget and 100 direct and indirect employees.• Built a profit center. Developed the industry’s first Development & Support Team specifically focused on customer IT racked compute solutions and related rack infrastructure products. In three years, drove sales to $800M with margins exceeding 45+% in both hardware and software. • Accelerated development. Devised a new supplier co-development process that facilitated the creation of new company-branded solutions that utilized HP and supplier IP. Produced many industry-first products. Gained a time-to-market advantage of 12 to 18 months of exclusivity.• Seized an untapped opportunity. Developed a supplier supported sales and marketing initiative for infrastructure options products. Built a sales and support team that helped increase product sales 30% Y/Y worldwide. • Developed an industry first. In the past, rack and components were installed onsite requiring days of assembly and testing. Created a new rack that could be dynamically loaded, integrated and shipped to customers. Opened an entire new revenue stream and customer value add in the form of integrated rack and compute services via factory express.• Unified overall approach to product development. Formed a business team and instituted a collaborative process to ensure that the best possible solution to the often disparate interests of marketing, finance, procurement and engineering was achieved. Ensured that the company’s rather than each discipline’s interests were best served resulting in quicker and more informed decisions and reduced product time to market.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led a 30-person team responsible for the design resolution of customer product issues for released storage option products. Created a new team approach to resolve product issues in the field related to IT storage and options products. Hired a staff, built a lab geared toward design problem identification and worked with sales, engineering and service/support worldwide. Cut resolution time in half and warranty costs 30%. Boosted customer satisfaction.

Msie, Engineering Management

Bsie, Engineering