Director And Vice President, Product Development And Engineering
Chestnut Ridge, Ny, Us
[2007 - 2010] Director of Product Development | [2010-2014] VP of Product Development► Leadership of Engineering, Product Management and Product Marketing teams, reporting directly to the CEO.► Developed and continually enhanced the company’s product 3-5 years vision and roadmap. Held authority for product roadmap planning, budgeting and resourcing, while ensuring alignment with division business goals.► Building High-Performance Teams: Inspirational leadership to product teams in growth periods, and in business and economy downturns. Proactively mentored team members to spur professional development and growth. Effectively integrated on-site engineering team with a remote team, defying cultural differences, and creating common goals and spirit.► Facilitating Growth by Expanding the Organization: Grew cross-functional Engineering and Marketing teams to ~100 people based in the US, East Europe and Asia. Incorporated disciplines that included Marketing, Hardware, Logic Design, Firmware, Software, Mechanical Design, Validation and Technical Support.► Improving the Customer Experience and Relations with Sales: Eliminated customer satisfaction issues by developing and implementing streamlined multi-tier process that restored customer confidence, as well as the sales team’s confidence in the product management and development teams.► Enhancing the Foundation for Product Development: Drove creation of a thorough cross-department NPI process and set standards for product content and release criteria. Created streamlined & agile process to improve product/engineering management with practices that anticipated and addressed short- and long-term effects on product roadmaps/resources/budget.► Enhancing Product Design:Drove multiple product re-architecture activities to support next-generation technologies, solutions and user experience, all resulted in wide acceptance by users and in establishment of new benchmarks for division’s products.