INVENTOR and PRODUCT MANAGER of products that have been:• Awarded Product of the Year many times at LDI, Lightfair, USITT, and other top tradeshows• Featured in trade reviews as “game-changing”, “classics in their own time”, and “a revolution” whose “significance and importance are impossible to overstate”• Adopted by leading influencers in thousands of prominent U.S. and international installations, including Radio City Music Hall, New York Metropolitan Opera, and numerous Broadway and London West End productions; “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, “Today”, FOX, Sky UK, and countless studios worldwide; the original Fort McHenry “Star-Spangled Banner” and National Museum of African-American History and Culture at The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Disney’s The Lion King stage musical and every Disney theme park across the globeSKILLS HIGHLIGHTS:• Product-based market research – industry-wide surveys; meticulous R&D testing and feedback; intensive exploration, creative incorporation, and steadfast pioneering of new technologies to industry• Management of product-development teams – Market Requirements Documents; strategic product planning; oversight of development schedules; reporting to and working with executive committees; guiding design of all product elements – aesthetic, electronic, industrial, software, user experience, component sourcing, vendor relations, safety certification, durability/longevity, and manufacturing• New product introduction – nurturing distributor and dealer relationships; sales contracts; installation commissioning; marketing campaign development; post-purchase customer support• Public speaking and presentations – product trainings, technology demonstrations, fundraising, organizational development, and promotional relations with news media• Pragmatic Marketing training – Practical Product Management, Requirements that Work• Benevon training – 1st and 2nd year sessions, Nonprofit Fundraising and Development