Exploring and testing various opportunities in SMB Targeted SaaS Tools and Services, Consumer and Industrial Products (incl. hardware), and Consumer Services. Some examples:- Home repair platform that delivers comfort, transparency, and savings to Homeowners, while increasing Home Pros revenue (Galet Home, www.galethome.com)- Tools to help high-risk individuals avoid digital scams/spam/fraud (www.personalcybersupport.com)- Novel consumer product addressing a common pain point of parents with an infant

Facilitated a smooth transition of business operations to the new leadership and maintain previous excellent results for the new ownership. Closed out all carve-out items from the original entity.Key Achievement | All key staff remained with the organization due to successful communication plans and select Long Term Incentive Plans.

Key Achievements• Delivered >16% Revenue CAGR, with Profitability 3 pts above target, despite significant supply chain headwinds.• Led the divesture of the organization into two new companies, regionally separated, with temporary service agreements between them, one at the highest known EBITDA multiple of a Pella branch transfer.• Drastically improved the Service and Installation departments, >20pt improvement in success rate and >17pt improvement in customer satisfaction.• Significantly improved the company culture, employee satisfaction, and retention; >40pt improvement in employee retention and a 4/5-star employee satisfaction.• Won numerous National and Staff-level Pella Corporate Awards: 3 segment awards, 12 individuals in President’s Club, including 2 Top Gun wins, 2 Rookie of the year awards, and most improved customer service for a large branch.• Successfully defended a variety of novel legal challenges against the business.Key Responsibilities• Manage up to 125 employees in 5 locations with up to $70M in annual revenue.• Balance performance and investment between different sales channels (B2B, B2C, B2B2C) and respective key enablers within the organization.• Evolve the company’s way of working to facilitate scalability and repeatability.

Key Achievements• Significantly reduced the organization’s Accounts Receivable risk by overhauling customer financing programs without a noticeable reduction in sales.Key Responsibilities• Develop this territory as a standalone business to facilitate its growth as a high potential but underdeveloped region.

Key Achievements• Facilitated significant savings (>$5M/yr) through reduced product warranty expense by replicating elusive field failures in the lab.• 8 patents; 3 granted and 5 pending.• 31 proposals for new product features and technical enablers; 3 Sonicare product features were derived from my insights on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility.• Interrupted a multi-million-dollar commercialization project by demonstrating key issues, which allowed the resources to be redirected.Sensors and algorithms competency lead (including ML / AI)• Generate strategic roadmaps for product features, technical enablers, and data • Grow internal competency by curating relevant content and hosting Lunch and Learn sessions (e.g. taught Machine Learning fundamentals to a group of ~50 engineers)• Evaluation and cataloging of external innovations, competition, and available components Innovation cultivation• 30+ personal proposals for new product features and technical enablers (5+ landed)• Frequently facilitate weekly innovation discussion for 15+ cross-functional members of R&D• Spearhead and execute internal hackathons for business-relevant technologies • Created an innovation tracking tool that enabled multi-site collaboration for Oral Healthcare; features: scheduling pitches to management, classification, and progress loggingProjects• Core team member of an intrapreneur Breakthrough Acceleration Program (HealthWorks)• Create value propositions via market research, customer interviews, and business modeling• Coordinate with Philips Research organization to maintain alignment with business strategy• Setup clinical study objectives to uncover and evaluate customer relevant opportunities• Ensure feasibility of new developments and safeguard existing, by defining specifications

Key Achievements• 1 patent granted.• Represented Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at an external review board when I was multiple levels below the typical tenure to present to such a key external stakeholder.Responsibilities• Wrote long-form proposals and pitch presentations to acquire resources for projects• Documented project results in quarterly reports which were disseminated to the sponsor• Identify opportunities to create additional capabilities, e.g. novel material microfabrication• Frequently facilitated a weekly directed brainstorming session with ~10 researchersResearch projects• Solved microfabrication process problems to enable the production of multi-wafer heat sinks• Evaluated feasibility and performance while guiding design via models (numerical, analytical)• Designed systems and select components for complex operations (mechanical, electrical)• Identify and evaluate embodiments and sensing principles to avert existing challenges• Facilitate fabrication: generate drawings (w/ GD&T), interface with vendors and machine shopsTopics: Phase change thermal management, micro-scale sensor development, lithium-ion battery cooling

• Developed and demonstrated patented microfluidic phase change heat sinks• Funding from Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) for laser diode cooling application• Designed and built a test facility to quantify the performance of prototypes• Modeled the properties of the devices under various conditions with FEA and CFD tools• Developed a numerical method for estimating heat transfer coefficient from experiments