A Product Development executive bringing extensive management expertise and a commitment to excellence to build and deploy quality products worldwide, adding value by increasing revenue and profitability, improving on-time delivery, ensuring product quality, reducing product costs, and treating customers and staff with dignity and respect.Project Management – Developed and managed an incentive program that improved the product development schedule and quality by delivering the product 13 weeks early with no known defects. The $250K cost of the incentive program was offset by the $1.2M R&D savings and multimillion dollar savings in potential delivery penalties.Cost Control – Decreased operating expenses year over year and found ways to under-run multi-million dollar budgets when requested. Achieved annualized million dollar savings in legacy product costs. Never overran department budget and returned as much as 10% of R&D funds when requested.Product Acceptance – Built a dedicated team of software engineers and established procedures that resolved all major known product problems and increased product acceptance worldwide.People Development and Management – Received Honeywell’s highest corporate recognition, the Lund Award, and Honeywell’s highest division recognition, the General Manager’s Award, for people development.Merger Leadership – Led Software Development Integration Team for Honeywell during the merger between AlliedSignal and Honeywell that developed and presented a plan that delivered integration savings of $25.4M over three years.