"Leadership is facilitating the output of others. " -- Chrismon Nofsinger“People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.” –- Simon Sinek“Strategy is knowing what not to do.” -- Michael Porter"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. “ –- Peter Drucker“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” –- Albert EinsteinThese are the principles I follow everyday in my approach to business. My passion is the strategic and operational leadership of high performing teams focused on growing the business by solving hard customer problems. I am a collaborative systems builder with deep business acumen who discovered design thinking early in my career. I build and work with cross functional teams in startups and mid-sized companies pursuing rapid growth through innovation and technology application. I am a brand evangelist known for thought leadership and business growth leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) in both industrial and healthcare markets. I regularly connect with companies and thought leaders across the country and regularly share my network with energetic startups working to innovate in those markets. I am an experienced practitioner of comprehensive operational and financial management of the business through strong interpersonal and formal communication skills, team building with strategic partners, customer relationship management, and strategic planning for multi-faceted organizations. As a CTO leveraged my expertise and experience across a wide range of markets and connected applications to help profitably grow a full-stack professional service business from <$1M to >$40M in 10 years. As an technology and operations advisor I helped set up and define the strategy for the conversion of a captive manufacturing operation to a leading market-facing technology development platform and as a Product Officer helped establish a transformative strategy that grew annual new product revenue 7x in three years including doubling the SaaS revenue of the business. Team Builder | Technology Leadership | Growth | Strategic Planning and Execution | Brand Management Product Development | Innovation
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