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Chicago, Illinois

Hoffman Estates And Chicago, Illinois

Product Manager responsible for major components of the core ecommerce sites for SHC for improved findability, site monetization, member profiles, and order center.• Working with development teams using Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban). • Utilizing web analytics, customer feedback, usability testing, live site A/B testing, and competitive benchmarking to drive the product roadmap and for prioritizing work, consistent with the overall strategy and direction of the business. Developing feature requirements for the team.• Driving site monetization initiatives to achieve significant net increases in advertising and sponsored products income.• Drove redesigns and continuous optimizations of the website global headers and footers for improving the browse experience and find-ability.

Libertyville, Illinois

Senior Program Manager, Mobile DevicesGlobal Program Manager for mobile phone development programs. Worked with cross functional teams on the introduction of new mobile phones covering definition, planning, design and validation (hardware and software), regulatory and industry certifications, customer approvals, and transition to manufacturing.• In 2012, led the program team to achieve a best-in-company schedule for a business critical program (4 weeks better than the previous best interval) by managing the critical path activities and working with key stakeholders and achieving all major milestones on time. Successfully responded to a major issue with a critical component and planned and executed the mitigations to eliminate impact on the program.• Successfully launched 7 mobile phones, including the V3 Razr, which set a new standard in mobile phone design and exceeded objectives for volume and margin contribution by an order of magnitude.• Helped the team complete the challenging designs of V3 and its successor phones on plan by actively driving the change management and convergence of the designs with the electrical and mechanical engineering teams and supply chain. • Successfully executed a rework and reuse plan for a phone for which the lead carrier business was lost after start of manufacturing, helping eliminate potential E&O of over $5M.• Demonstrated adaptability and ability for quick learning by working on programs spanning multiple access technologies and platforms, regions and customers, and development locations and models (e.g., internal and ODM).

Naperville, Illinois

Developed and directed a team of project managers (up to 14) for the development and deployment of wireless infrastructure for the international marketplace. Managed adaptations to enable deployment in networks in Latin America and Asia. • Enabled rapid entry into new markets by leading the setup of a scalable fast feature development process.• Set and achieved a high standard of delivery performance (over 90% on time) by introducing a disciplined process framework and working with stakeholders in a timely manner.• The program more than doubled over 3 years to an annual budget of over $30M, involving over 100 deliverables to over 30 operators and enabling revenue of over $800M in the third year.• During 2000 - 2001, directed a team of 4 product managers for wireless infrastructure platforms. This included introduction of next-generation common platforms and life cycle management of deployed products that constituted a very profitable revenue stream of over $200M a year.

Naperville, Illinois

Directed a team of network-level program managers to manage projects (“offers”) from definition through customer acceptance and across products and business units.

Naperville, Illinois

Signaling systems developer and Project Manager for telephone switching systems projects.