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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Strategy & Planning executive leadership across a range of different organizations within HP including Personal Systems, Global Imaging & Printing and, most recently, leading strategic planning for Global Office Printing Solutions business.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead the Asia Pacific Customer & Market Insights function supporting Hewlett-Packard’s Printing & Personal Systems business unit. Based in Singapore and India, his team was responsible for a range of primary and secondary research efforts aimed at informing decisions across a range of functions from marketing to category management to channel strategy.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for managing a wide variety of business and marketing operations functions to support the Asia Pacific Personal Systems Group product portfolio. Operational responsibilities for all downstream systems setup managed out of Bangalore, India, tactical execution of new product introduction out of Singapore and governance responsibility related to forecast accuracy.Dedicated team responsible for priority process transformation, applying Lean Six Sigma rigor to a number of critical business improvement opportunities – new product introduction, pricing & contra management, forecasting, business monitoring and product portfolio management.Developing new team competencies with advanced analytical tools including SAS JMP to support initiatives aimed at improving planning processes including product configuration definition, demand modelling and price optimization. Progress to date has positioned the team as a lead collaborator with HP Labs research broadly focused in areas such as forecasting and predictive modelling.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Focused direction for HP’s Notebook Global Business Unit SVP/GM, developing business and technology strategies for the worldwide commercial and consumer notebook product portfolios.Developed strategies geared toward driving investment decisions in a broad range of opportunity areas including emerging geographic markets, Open Source, virtualization, and emerging mobile device categories.Developed a recognized center of excellence around business analytics. Drove the use of innovative modelling techniques including Monte Carlo simulation to understand implications of risk and uncertainty on business decisions. Successful applications include long-term scenario planning, acquisition valuation problems, globalization risk assessment, market share growth modelling, and evaluating new market opportunities.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Achieved successful accomplishments managing a team of strategic technology planners in the Mobile Computing Global Business unit focused on strategic technology planning. Promoted to team manager in 2005.Key focus was on developing next generation 3G wireless WAN technology strategy for notebooks, from setting strategy to product requirement definition to developing new business models. Efforts resulted in the successful launch of three new business notebook platforms in 2006 featuring support embedded wireless WAN.Developed the HP ProtectTools security strategy – a marketing framework and technology strategy to deliver an industry leading security solution set that leverages partnerships while delivering a differentiated value proposition.

Part of a product marketing group focused on consumer facing tools such as web-based e-mail and instant messaging. Developed the product concept for a search centric, client-based toolbar. Specific deliverables included product definition, objectives, preliminary financial models, and competitive assessment.Key member of a Strategic Alliances project to integrate third-party consumer-oriented online file storage and web-based bookmark services into the AltaVista Network. Responsible for competitive assessment of potential partners, defined integration plans and actively participated in structuring and negotiating deal terms.Responsible for developing the product roadmap for consumer facing tools as part of a larger corporate strategic planning exercise. Core presentation successfully argued for focusing client and web-based tools exclusively on supporting AltaVista search leadership.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Part of a strategic marketing group within the Commercial Portables Division to define with primary responsibility for technology planning focused on identifying strategies for new technologies. Developed product concepts for two high-mobility notebook products and successfully obtained management approval to proceed with product definition phase.Created product concepts for two high mobility notebook products and successfully obtained management approval to proceed with product definition phase. Activities included working closely with Market Research on structuring primary research, defining product & segment objectives, preliminary market sizing, preliminary financial models, feature set definition and establishing engineering design priorities.Successfully developed comprehensive assessment of market requirements for notebook durability. Worked closely with Market Research on structuring focus group research, created final management presentation, and published an internal white paper communicating durability requirements and product durability positioning.Created product concept for a next generation docking product. Activities included working closely with Market Research on structuring focus group research, product definition and business objectives, and actively working with engineering teams on feasibility assessment.Developed comprehensive notebook security strategy and successfully solicited management approval to develop two key security options based on Smart Card and biometric identification technology. Worked closely with the Commercial Desktop Division to ensure strategic consistency with their security initiatives.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for software marketing to define software requirements for high-end commercial notebook products and worked with engineering teams during the development cycle to ensure requirements were met.

Regional Sales Manager with EnerSoft Corporation, an early stage energy software start-up in Houston, Texas. Primarily responsible for selling the Company’s flagship product, an electronic cash trading system for natural gas and pipeline capacity release.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Computer Systems Consultant with Softwarehouse Inc., responsible for making computer hardware and software proposals to small businesses and institutional clients.

Executive Education, Building Innovative Leaders Program

Mba, International Management

B.Com, Accounting