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Directed professional and field services covering company’s broad network physical infrastructure solutions, intelligent hardware, and software offerings. Oversaw strategic development, operational efficiency, and overall financial value for company’s data center, industrial automation, and IoT service practices. Rebuilt and restructured business for expansion through global partner community. Instituted PMO and value-tracking methodologies in alignment with corporate strategic goals. Developed offsetting and new service offerings for growing value in current and emerging markets. Helped negotiate and manage partnerships with major industry companies, including Rockwell Automation, Dell, and Cisco Systems.• Transformed unprofitable professional services group from losing $5,000,000 annually to breaking even within 2 years.• Launched new PMO from ground up to improve OEE and meet overall financial goals.

Guided research and development efforts spread over breadth of all internal product lines and businesses. Managed cross-functional teams engaged in both domestic and international projects. Identified, justified, and developed new business opportunities. Established collaborative engagement between R&D, business, and commercial teams. Assisted in strategic visioning at all management levels. Utilized entrepreneurial skills to create new business opportunities and launch new businesses. Transformed fledgling R&D group into high-performance design services group responsible for launching new product lines delivering over $60,000,000 annually. Obtained multiple patents.• Developed fastest growing product line in company history, exceeding $15,000,000 in first year.• Spearheaded first cross-company global product development R&D effort.

Supervised teams engaged in engineering and product development from conceptualization throughout fabrication of electronic connectors and other related products. Exercised overall responsibility for product definition, project scheduling and budgeting, prototyping, design, qualification of vendors, tooling procurement, product costing and testing, and leading customer interaction. Developed U.S. products for overseas transfer to Far East. Led international project teams. Developed and managed local pilot production facility developing new technologies, and products. Launched several new product lines, including medical device components. Received multiple patents.

Steered development, manufacturing, and marketing of electronic connector products worldwide. Led all aspects of process, including gathering customer requirements, ideation, and mass production. Interacted with global customers and partners, defining needs, resolving issues, and building relationships. Guided international business and engineering teams. Developed, maintained and executed departmental budgets and strategic plans. Guided product road mapping. Spearheaded global M&A evaluation and integration efforts. Exercised responsibility for ISO compliance. Received patents and assisted in forming legal opinions.

Participated in product development from concept to manufacture, including definition of product, design, scheduling, budgeting, testing, and debugging products to assure conformance with company and industry standards. Designed and developed consumer connector products. Coordinated joint projects with European engineering teams. Maintained and applied Lean techniques to control costs for existing product lines in Mexico. Oversaw cost-saving initiatives, resulting in more than $5,000,000 in savings per year.

Directed and coordinated product engineers and designers in developing electronic connectors. Oversaw strategic planning, formulation, and administration of budgets and interactions with international teams. Identified and launched multiple new product lines, bringing in several million dollars of revenue per year. Assisted with M&A, resulting in purchase of small manufacturing company. Obtained multiple patents.

Supervised contracted structural designers in sustaining engineering on C-17 aircraft. Retrofitted avionics on F-16 fighter jets. Managed group of 20 contract engineers and designers.

Designed electronic connectors and accessories. Designed molds for thermoplastic injection molding. Trained engineers on CAD systems. Developed new products; listed on multiple patent applications.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8/4.0

Graduated with Distinction (2nd in Class)

Industrial And Product Design

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