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Vancouver, Washington, United States

Earned this role after strong performance stepping-up upon my predecessor’s sudden departure. Led a lab of ~40 technologists and staff delivering world-best brand protection and security solutions worth hundreds of millions of revenue annually. Created the vision, strategies, roadmaps, and deployment plans powering the future of HP’s print business while also securing the vast millions of printers in use worldwide and HP’s primary profit engine.- Built a suite of secure hardware, software, cloud, data, and manufacturing solutions protecting customers and share across consumer, commercial, and graphics markets, worths tens of points of share - Grew a cloud and data team to deliver authentication, digital twin, and data science/machine-learning services enabling new subscription business models and preserving regulatory market access worth hundreds of millions.- Strengthened partner collaboration and decision-making processes recognized by partner executives as exemplary and saving millions in operating costs annually.- Recognized as a culture leader by my Vice President, with employee engagement ranking yearly among the top 10% of HP. Attracted and/or retained a dozen or more top-talent employees since 2020 through remote/hybrid work support, creative growth opportunities, and engaging work. Served as mentor and coach in multiple emerging-leader programs.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

As a volunteer championed the HP-Vancouver site work environment, employee needs, and R&D infrastructure as a site-wide liaison to HP Corporate Real Estate. Led highly-complex and emotional site and workplace initiatives, resolved site-wide space utilization challenges, and hosted executive site tours. Served as an advocate, escalation path, and sympathetic ear for employees.- Led the 2010 HP-Vancouver site relocation of 1000+ employees and 550 ksf of office, labs, and infrastructure into a sub-100ksf footprint. Led management of change initiatives and communications from executives to site-wide. Saved hundreds of local jobs through novel office design, delivered site relocation on-time and -budget, and turned employee perceptions from extremely negative to overwhelmingly positive.- Solved extreme office capacity issues with bold decisions leading to the HP-Vancouver expansion into an additional 55 ksf building for 400 people. Used employee feedback to create optimized office design concepts that met business needs and created high employee enthusiasm.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

Recruited and promoted to lead a hand-picked team of elite engineers in the innovation and delivery of business-critical security solutions protecting HP’s customers and brand.- Led world-leading secure microcontroller releases resulting in exponential security strength and hundreds of millions of revenue annually.- Drove strategic investment for all-new cloud authentication services creating the technology foundation for business transformation programs and regulatory market-access solutions worth an additional hundreds of millions.- Recognized for diversity advocacy by the local HP Women’s Resource Group; created new-hire and site-wide engagement programs as Young Employee Resource Group sponsor for eight years.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

Took ownership of two product development programs in critical status and drove to well-integrated, robust deliveries on-schedule. Built new governance structures, set competitive-intelligence based metrics, and accelerated progress with performance-based milestones. Strengthened subsystem and cross-organizational team integration.- Created new holistic, customer-centric metrics and quality processes resulting in groundbreaking serviceability leading to millions in new contractual and managed sales.- Led a large-format product team through a late-program manufacturing and integration challenge resulting in industry-leading performance-for-cost for a decade of products.Led technical asset teams of up to 30 employees in the development of subsystems, solutions, and integration across multiple Consumer, Commercial, and Graphics products and across the entire product development lifecycle.- Created novel technologies for reliability and print quality enabling HP’s decades-long market leadership in the home and small-business markets.- Created an Intellectual Property Strategist position resulting in hundreds of patents filed and serving HP Legal’s competitive landscaping efforts.

Corvallis, Or, Loveland, Co, Vancouver, Wa

Engineered innovative electromechanical systems for print quality and reliability. Researched and developed advanced printhead technologies.- Designed a motorless transmission saving hundreds of millions over decades of manufacturing.- Initiated and led a small-team investigation into printer reliability and grew it into a worldwide knowledge center, extending product life by years and saving millions of dollars in warranty cost.- Created boundary-pushing printhead fabrication and micromachining technologies adopted throughout HP’s entire inkjet portfolio contributing to HP’s decades-long market dominance.- Designed the hardware and mechatronics for a novel printer testbed, adopted across multiple sites.- Taught technology courses to hundreds of HP-Corvallis and -Vancouver employees.

Ames, Ia

Created instrument for the measurement of unburned carbon in powerplant fly ash using IR photoacoustics; received university-wide ISU Research Excellence Award and R&D Magazine Top 100 award for my research.- Performed a feasibility analysis of IR photoacoustics for mine air quality; recognized for responsible research by the US Bureau of Mines.

Ames, Ia

Developed hazardous contaminant collection system model for quantifying chemical groundwater pollution

Warren, Mi, Kettering, Oh

- Improved an advanced vehicle prototype and engineered sub-system test tools.- Earned driver certification for Milford Proving Grounds.- Received two years of full tuition as a GM Scholar recipient.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0

- Awarded Research Excellence Award by Iowa State University for outstanding graduate research in the College of Engineering - Awarded R&D.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi honor society tutor, officer; Pi Tau Sigma honor society president; campus tour guide; residence.