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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Principal Software Product Owner with Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm & Heart

• Agile: Successfully and collaboratively transformed the existing waterfall teams into ten agile pods, increasing development efficiency and improving the ability to meet customer and stakeholder requirements.• Big Company Effectiveness: Part of the company-wide company-wide migration from legacy systems to Google Cloud Platform.• Communicator: Selected presenter for HR transformation pod as part of the all-developer quarterly updates.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

• Digital: Successfully produced a complex, integrated suite of applications via a worldwide development team.• Agile: Accelerated efficiency, understanding, and transparency by simplifying and accelerating the Agile process. Leveraged Epics, Stories, JIRAs, BDDs, scrums to establish a tight collaboration with Project Management. • Lifecycle: Delivered the capstone of a four-year project, replacing an enormous and complex decades-old system.• Leadership: Continuous improvement of development processes and best practices.• Management: Led & mentored developers and support professionals, aligning to both long & short-term goals.

• Roadmap: I retargeted all storage product lines by developing user stories across all markets and price points.• Lifecycle: Repositioned, revitalized, and launched a replacement for a 20-year-old product to meet new market requirements, including 10x performance and 100x capacity scaling, along with cloud integration.• Partnerships: Strategically integrated disparate and proprietary product lines from HPE and SGI, including HW and SW OEM partners, repositioned and relaunched into a larger market, netting 60% year-over-year growth.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Lifecycle Launch: Profitably launched Cray’s fastest-growing storage product with a new OEM partnership, leading 80% growth, netting $200M over three years with higher margins and a 100% increase in attach rate.• Partnership: I forged a trusted, successful, and dynamic multi-national OEM partnership with Xyratex / Seagate, developing efficient and effective processes for addressing customer issues in a rapid, collaborative manner.• Team Collaboration: I established alignment with executives, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain through strategic, tactical, and financial presentations, accelerating identification and repair of issues, scheduling, and finances.

San Jose, California, Us

• Lifecycle: Defined positioning, pricing, & launch for our first integrated appliance platform for StorNext.• Strategy: Grew revenue 60% and market share 40% while improving margins by converting from a software-only approach to an appliance model. Shrunk dev cycle, reduced support costs, and improved customer satisfaction.• Forecast, P&L: Wrote and presented strategic business plans and portfolio concepts to executive management and cross-functional teams to support new product line concepts, portfolio, investment, and ROI.• Collaboration: Tight focus with engineering to bring clarity to requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

• Lifecycle: Defined positioning, pricing, & launch for our first integrated appliance platform for StorNext.• Strategy: Grew revenue 60% and market share 40% while improving margins by converting from a software-only approach to an appliance model. Shrunk dev cycle, reduced support costs, and improved customer satisfaction.• Forecast, P&L: Wrote and presented strategic business plans and portfolio concepts to executive management and cross-functional teams to support new product line concepts, portfolio, investment, and ROI.• Collaboration: Tight focus with engineering to bring clarity to requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Strategy: Grew revenues by creating a modular product platform to increase margins and enable new target markets, including medical imaging (PACS), Video on demand, audio/video copy protection markets.• Roadmap: Reduced time-to-market via a close partnership with Engineering and Manufacturing based on reusable and re-deployable components. This collaboration enabled the company’s most profitable product lines.• Strategy: I worked with BCG to reposition strategy from physical to cloud-based delivery.• Partnerships: To meet $10M Big Box sale, led a new cloud-based video product strategy line for $10M sale.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Grew annual product line 250% by extending existing product lines to enable new target markets, including medical imaging (PACS), Video on demand, audio/video copy protection markets.• Reduced time-to-market by 50% by creating a scalable, integrated suite of products. Close partnership with Engineering and Manufacturing yielded effective MRD/PRD docs yielding most successful product line to date.• With Boston Consulting Group, repositioned company from physical media to cloud-based delivery.• Owner of objectives & issues, ROI, and led the world-wide internal and external field and support presentations.

Nashville, Tn, Us

• Managed and drove product management, product marketing and development in a high tech division of Gibson Guitar.• Rescued Gibson CEO-initiated corporate project that had failed under three different teams by tightening product definition focus, narrowing risk, and creating effective, high energy cross-functional culture between Nashville-based guitar maker and Silicon Valley high tech company – launched on-time, received Patent for innovation.• Expanded TAM 10X with innovative first-generation USB for musicians, eliminating end user technical barriers while improving sound quality.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering