Timothy Lindner Email & Phone Number

Cold Spring, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

The Senior Business Consultant is responsible for supporting Account Executives in the consultative selling process to new prospects and current customers. The primary applications are multi-modal (voice, RF scanning and vision-based augmented reality) mobile work processes for distribution centers hosted either in the Cloud or on local servers..

This is an advisory role to the President of Specialty Publishing and the Chief Editor of Connected World magazine, offering recommendations for major story themes for the magazine, and strategic planning assistance for the annual Connected World Conference.

Lindner Technology Representation LLC acts as a bridge between companies requiring game-changing B2C / B2B technology solutions and companies that specialize in developing them. In B2C, concentration on technologies that monetize social network activity, including mobile applications, and extend US merchants' internet sales venues to international.

Business development responsibilities for Sony Electronics' new division, FeliCa America. FeliCa is an IC-based technology for contactless transaction systems, with applications in banking, transportation, education, sports, entertainment and hospitality and healthcare.

Leadership role for the development, implementation, marketing and sales of service programs and products for Sony’s media and corporate (B2B) customers. Responsible for annual service contract sales budget of $20M. Introduced new technology services such as System Monitoring Solutions (software and service associated with the remote monitoring of machines.

Position reported to Sr. Vice President, Professional Services, was responsible for assessing and rationalizing the various contract and service administration processes associated with Regional Service Centers, Field Service Engineering organization, contract sales and marketing, and post-contract entry financial reporting and profitability management.

Responsible for the creation of www.bpcvalue.com for the sale of Sony’s refurbished inventory, resulting in average sales of $800k monthly via the Internet store. Program development for Product Marketing groups to provide dealer special sales opportunities.

Engaged by the President of Sony’s Broadcast and Professional Products Company to analyze it’s greater than six month supply of slow moving inventory and to develop, implement, manage and monitor marketing / sales programs and liquidation initiatives for the reduction of this inventory. Valuation of inventory: +$30 million targeted for reduction. Created.

Leadership role for the establishment and development of the company’s first global vertical marketplace, encompassing media and entertainment companies, including television and cable networks. Responsible for development of the Sales Team, and vertical specific marketing strategy. Lead negotiator and closer for Viacom Inc. account.

Leadership role for corporate strategic sourcing, video archive business development, and enterprise-wide electronic commerce initiatives (CBS "Eye on the Buy"). +$3 million operating budget. Staff of 17. Responsible for the CBS Records Center, Boyers, PA. Annual spend: $700 million, including broadcast equipment, digital data processing / communications /.

Leadership of the Buy Smart Initiative Broadcast Equipment Team, responsible for +$20 million material spend reduction for 1997 / 1998. Leadership of cross-divisional negotiation teams responsible for leveraged corporate Agreements with key suppliers, such as Sony Electronics, Panasonic and Tektronix. Manage compliance to material spend reduction targets.

Appliance Park, Louisville, KY

Cross-functional leadership responsibility for strategic supply chain practices integration into the Controls, Subassemblies and Packaging commodities teams. Leadership of international finished goods distribution supply chain project tasked to restructure customer billing process to capture $1.2 million (annual) additional margin gain for GEA. Leadership.

Based in Polar's international procurement division (Western Hemisphere Export Co., Inc. (New York, NY)The of Empresas Polar, C.A. (Venezuela), developed and managed the international materials supply chain for raw materials, capital equipment and replacement parts. Operational responsibility for leveraged material sourcing in the Americas, Asia and.

Managed the international customer service group, responsible for customer communications, order processing, expediting, export documentation and shipment consolidations to Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Managed the Export Department, responsible for export operations, order processing, and international customer service. Acted as the corporate liaison with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for nuclear application export sales.

Managed the procurement and export of materials and capital equipment required to support commercial diving operations on offshore oil drilling and production platforms.

MOS: 3002 Logistics officer, 5th Marines and 7th Communication Battalion