Ryan Millar Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Responsible for creating, implementing and measuring the success of comprehensive marketing and communications programs with the mandate to increase market share, brand awareness, organic growth and strong recruitment opportunities. These strategies are based on target markets, market relationships and new market penetration targets while being aligned with the overall corporate and business development goals.• Ensure proper articulation of the organization’s value proposition and mission statement coupled with improving its image and position within the marketplace. • Responsible for editorial direction, design, production and distribution of all the organization publications including press releases, monthly news letters, white papers, case studies and all social media content.• Managed the development of a complete company re-brand along with updated collateral, presentation content and trade show booth hardware (backdrops, pop-ups, videos, social media campaigns).• Coordinate all aspects of trade show and events supporting the business endeavours across the company.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Product Manager of the company’s newest technology and product, ChipCHECK™ - from research and development to market launch.• Responsible for all aspects of the product throughout its life cycle. This includes cross-functional leadership and the management of a diverse set of highly technical resources over a wide range of departments including Research, Engineering, Production, Customer Support, Marketing, Sales and Business Development.• Managed the transition from a research proof of concept through to new product launch. Successfully achieved continued revenue growth equating to approximately $15M in contracts over two years and expanded market penetration from the original targeted market to and additional five markets and industries.• Involved in numerous technical proposals and quotation activities including research & development grants, early adopter industry roll out programs, industrial offset investment funding, new product introduction into several industries, multiple-year support programs for military and commercial aviation applications.• Achieved a 25% margin increase over two years through bottom line optimization coupled with increased market penetration, leading to continued year-over-year growth. • Conduct regular product health and progress reports to senior management including price point and margin analyses, revenue & order performance against the business plan, win/loss analyses, product issues and competitive analyses.• Significant experience presenting technical content to a wide variety of audiences and interfacing with the senior management of a wide variety of corporations for business development purposes.• Continuously balance my technical background with externally facing business development activities, internal requirements definition and project prioritization to ensure alignment with my established product roadmap.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed multiple technical projects and multi-disciplinary teams (sizes between 15-30) with primary focus on transitioning outputs from the Research Department into prototypes for beta-trial within target markets or modifying existing aerospace products in accordance with the Engineering Change Proposal procedure.• Developed and managed project plans, detailed requirements, resource work breakdown plans (personnel and equipment), budgets, success criteria, risks, issues, policies and procedures to ensure that my projects achieved their requirements while remaining on time and on budget. • Continuously managed resources to ensure that each of them were aligned with their skills sets, natural talents and passions to ensure continued productivity, success, motivation and morale throughout the team. • Managed the interaction and communication between each of the departments involved, ensuring a unified understanding and buy-in to the project with a common goal and required outcome.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Was responsible for the research, design and prototyping of new products and conducting modifications, improvements and implementations to existing aerospace components. Tasks included detailed design, extensive testing programs (finite element, stress, vibration, thermal, electrical), prototyping, engineering documentation, results presentation and ensuring components and assemblies adhered to applicable industry and business policies and standards. • Designed and implemented the organization’s formal Root Cause Analysis (RCA) program and Standard Work Policy and procedure which aide and streamline engineering investigations to ensure a common process that rendered viable mitigation solutions.• Designed and implemented the organizations’ formal Pressure Drop Analysis (PDA) program which allowed for the review and presentation of system integration impacts prior to manufacture which led to significant savings in time and cost.