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San Diego, Ca, Us

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Program Manager and Core Team Lead for a novel Medication Management System, (MMS), NPI project. Leading a large cross-functional, cross-division team responsible for requirement definition, product design, development, qualification, and commercial launch nationwide within contracted scope, budget, and schedule. • Working with functional managers to develop and manage the design and development plan, the integrated project plan and schedule, adjusting to account for risk by applying project risk buffers.• Ensuring alignment of the minimum viable product scope with value proposition and strategic business objectives and assessed scope impact from new information or changes that added risk to project outcomes, schedule, or budget.• Influencing critical key business decisions and providing input on strategic discussions to determine recommended direction.• Leading cross-functional alignment, program coordination and information dissemination at peer and Leadership Team levels, including preparing and presenting project updates to executive leadership.• Leading cross-functional project/initiative teams and playing a key sponsorship role of the teams, including collaboration with tooling and mechanical engineers, supplier quality and potential tooling vendors to develop the hardware tooling strategy for prototyping, engineering/design verification, and commercial production.• Championing customer experience and continuous discovery initiatives to capture early iterative user feedback on the design to ensure customers’ needs are met.• Employing program management best practices to deliver high quality, customer and business valued solution within contracted scope, budget, and schedule, supporting advancing the product development process.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Selected to serve as the Enterprise System, (ES) Program Manager and Core Team Lead, I led a large cross-functional, cross-division team responsible for requirement definition, product design, development, qualification, and commercial launch nationwide to deliver a nationwide ES release within contracted scope, labor and non-labor expenses, and schedule.• Established critical working cross-functional and cross division relationships to develop bottoms-up plans for requirements definition, product design, development, and commercial launch, with the goals of meeting the schedule and delivering business and customer value drivers.• Negotiated program resourcing plans with functional managers to ensure appropriate Core Team and extended Core Team resources were committed to the project.• Established a collaborative NPI working relationship with a BD business partner for the joint development and commercial release of the first BD Pyxis ES Refrigerator.• Guided the ES team to prepare for Commercial Excellence reviews, Phase Gate and other Go/No-Go decisions by executive leadership, highlighted issues and provided options and recommendations for resolution • Directed cross-functional alignment, program coordination and information dissemination at peer and Leadership Team levels, including preparing and presenting project updates to executive leadership. • Functionally managed two permanent project managers and one contingent project manager to maximize project success. Provided performance feedback and growth plan for the permanent project managers.• Provided significant 3rd-party feedback to functional leaders regarding the performance of ES Core Team and extended Core Team members towards their annual performance evaluations. • Utilized program management best practices to deliver high quality, customer and business valued solution within contracted scope, budget, and schedule, supporting advancing the product development process.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Developed plans for six quality improvement projects for a 2-year, multi-million-dollar quality initiative. Identified for each project the quality improvement, success criteria, steps to get there and completion dates.• Guided MMS Infusion cross-functional teams through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action to implement the quality initiatives.• Hired, assigned, and functionally managed permanent and contingent project managers to maximize project success.• Worked with 3rd-party to establish an Infusion pump syringe characterization team in Mumbai, India, who successfully created and executed ~11,000 test cases to complete the characterization for BD North America and Australia/New Zealand syringe markets.• Managed cross-functional R&D, quality, and regulatory team to develop and deliver on-schedule a BD Alaris infusion system FDA 510(k) submission in 2018.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Directed all phases and business activities of programs from inception through completion to successful schedule/cost, performance and customer satisfaction. Accountable for product delivery to Plan of Record for multiple concurrent projects, each with unique technology, team dynamics and aggressive schedules.• Developed and presented project proposals, plans and budgets to meet business objectives in core and adjacent markets.• Led, directed, and motivated cross-discipline teams to achieve schedule and meet/exceed customer requirements to secure design wins. • Collaborated with teams across numerous geographic locations to leverage expertise for projects.• Established and fostered dynamic vendor partnerships to expand product ecosystem.• Effectively built relationships and reached consensus across divisions to reduce duplication of effort.• Implemented new concepts and technologies to achieve product/market differentiation.• Developed technical and business reports for project leads/senior management, to assess progress and identify key issues. • Collaborated with HR and finance to build teams of permanent/contingent staff within budget constraints to execute projects.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed all program business activities for HW and SW development, integration and test of proprietary test base station.• Collaborated with hardware and software teams in R&D division to develop test base station essential to verify operation of breakthrough LTE modem. • Accelerated development, production and deployment of hundreds of units across geographically dispersed labs to enable commercialization and achieve market leadership.• Reduced 3rd-party test equipment expenditure by several million dollars.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed SW development, integration and commissioning of UHF transmitters from US and European vendors to meet aggressive deployment schedule for mobile TV network.• Developed foundational partnerships with several US and European vendors to yield lowest possible cost per transmitter.• Aligned Qualcomm and vendor SW teams to meet aggressive national deployment schedule.• Contracted out and oversaw installation and commissioning of two San Diego transmitter sites

Germantown, Md, Us

Managed and defined the roles of engineering team responsible for the design, integration and test of digital transceivers. Forecast and managed group budget for personnel, capital and computer equipment, training and travel. • Developed and implemented processes and procedures for systems verification and compliance qualification essential for product commercialization.• Oversaw system level integration, verification and validation of digital wireless mobile terminals, achieving regulatory approval and customer acceptance on schedule and within budget.• Planned and implemented test plans and procedures for systems inter-working testing and field trials to achieve customer acceptance.• Prepared estimates for non-recurring engineering costs to reduce development budget. • Established and fulfilled Certified Liaison Engineer (CLE) position to work with regulatory bodies on product changes critical to achieve regulatory certification.

Kadoma-Shi, Osaka, Jp

Managed, developed and expanded a team responsible for software system testing a range of GSM dual band and GPRS cell phones, and oversaw all aspects of testing from initial design to mass production.• Coordinated design configuration testing, system integration testing, regulatory approval testing, field trials, pre-production and mass production testing of cell phones. • Controlled a software test budget of £1.5 million.• Represented Panasonic at ETSI GSM Certification Forum steering group.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Responsible for team development and strategy for the system testing of second generation digital GSM mobile handsets and dual mode Globalstar GSM/CDMA satellite terminals.• Represented Ericsson at ETSI SMG7 for terminal conformance.• Planned software system testing for GSM and satellite terminal projects including the coordination of multi-site testing worldwide. • Coordinated Beta testing in the USA for the dual mode GSM/TDMA terminals

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NATO Programming Centre, Europe 1993-1996Software Test Manager• Supervised configuration management for all test programs and related documentation and procedures and responsible for the overall quality control and assurance of testing of the NATO Radar Defense system.The Royal Air Force (U.K.) 1990-1993Communications & Electronics Engineering Manager• Managed a worldwide installation and recovery service for HF, VHF, UHF and microwave antenna systems, environmental protection radomes and fiber optic installations. Oversaw the professional activities of more than 50 engineering and administrative personnel. Successful in achieving 5% annual savings on installation budget.Acting Pilot Officer - Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, U.K. 1987-1990• Information Technology undergraduateJunior Technician to Sergeant, U.K. 1977-1987• Avionics technician; radio, radar and navigation instruments

Master’S Degree, Wireless Health

Post Graduate Certificate, Wireless Health

Stanford Certified Project Manager (Scpm), Advanced Project Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology