• Designing product specifications and marketing plans to bring products to market.• Analyzing, planning and coordinating with offshore teams to develop new consumer products- Developing market requirements and design documents to satisfy high level business and operational needs- Collaborating with Engineering to refine the Systems Requirement Specification to produce prototypes (R&D)- Producing Gantt charts to coordinate scope, time and budgets/costs for Marketing, Engineering and Manufacturing/Operations team.• Interfacing with the Engineering team to develop and test products to meet market expectations

Enterprise Collaboration• Evaluating and developing plans with internal teams to test and qualify new AV equipment for meeting and conference rooms.• Executing plans and ensuring external manufactures and internal cross-functional teams deliver on expected tasks and goals.• Managing and moderating manufacturer monthly forecast and quarterly business reviews.

• Planning and managing the development of hardware networking products from Design through Sustaining phases• Interfacing and managing contract manufacturers to produce prototypes and mass production units• Collaborating with Marketing, Engineering (SW, HW, Packaging), Test, Certification, NPI and Production teams to ensure corporate standards are met and gate reviews are approved by Executive Management.

• Designing product specifications and marketing plans to bring products to market.• Analyzing, planning and coordinating with offshore teams to develop new consumer products- Developing market requirements and design documents to satisfy high level business and operational needs- Collaborating with Engineering to refine the Systems Requirement Specification to produce prototypes (R&D)- Producing Gantt charts to coordinate scope, time and budgets/costs for Marketing, Engineering and Manufacturing/Operations team.• Interfacing with the Engineering team to develop and test products to meet market expectations• Building relations with internal and external organizations to initiate product delivery plans

Scientific Analyzers and Data Analytics Software (Cloud and On-Prem)• Evaluated and negotiated Product Marketing and Executive teams to clarify high-level business requirements • Managed Engineering and cross-functional teams within Agile/Scrum and hybrid development to deliver and support multiple software (cloud, on-prem and OS), and hardware products throughout the entire product lifecycle - Full lifecycle management (R&D through EOL) of product and partsDeveloped and trained multiple teams to transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies- Produced and executed overall project plans with functional teams to ensure product targets are met or exceeded- Tailored and integrated Rally and Jira Agile Scrum processes for Cloud and on-prem software to optimize development, testing and deployment.- Mitigated bugs and customer issues, risks and roadblocks through team and classic problem-solving techniques. • Leading lessons-learned and retrospective meetings to improve and achieve higher quality processes and product development

Networking Products • Management of cross functional teams (Marketing, SW & HW Engineering, Operations, Procurement / Supply Chain, Services, Finance, IT, Legal) to produce, release and maintain products from concept through end-of-life.• Evaluating requirements, team planning, execution and roll-out for special projects/programs • Developing and improving new and existing processes to increase efficiency, predictability and consistency.• Communicating information to all stakeholders, from individual contributors to Executive Management to ensure all team members are working towards the same goal.

TelePresence video conferencing and WebEx software development and test• Collaborating with cross-functional team leads to produce project plans and presenting the information to senior management and executives for approval.• Leading cross-functional operations teams (Product Management, Finance, SW Development, Dev Test, Alpha, EFT/Beta, Documentation, Translation, CS, Manufacturing) to execute and meet or exceed the planned goals of the project.• Evaluating current Trials processes and special projects with Management to plan to drive operational improvements• Tailoring process to implement best practices within the product development lifecycle (processes, templates, Rally)• Training and advising team members on Agile / Scrum practices, principles and values (framework, release planning, sprint/iteration planning, scrums/stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)

Cable EPON (Ethernet Passive Optical Network) & DePON (DOCSIS EPON) product developmentSr. Program Manager & Vendor Management• Led multiple core team members (Project Managers, PLM, HW Engineering, SW Engineering, Test, Operations, Tech Pubs, Support, Marketing/Sales & Quality Management) in the development of EPON & DePON hardware (ONU, OLT & OLC), firmware and application software products . Core teams were located in China and the US.• Managed the Original Design Manufacturer (ODM--Cybertan) in the development of single, dual, triple and quad play products, resulting in technology leadership within the cable EPON market space.• Developed & improved the Product Lifecycle Management processes and tools (risk management, FRP--feature roll-out plan, POR) to increase communications and efficiency by over 200%• Led status report meetings and exit phase gate reviews to update Sr. Management and to ensure 100% pass rate of ISO9001 & TL9000 standards.• Managed miscellaneous projects (10G EPON, facilities improvement, outings) to investigate new product feasibility, reduce equipment costs by $195,000 for a single project, and to reward and motivate employees for their efforts.

Storage Area Networking (SAN) products (Hardware, Firmware/OS, and Software)• Managed the development and Service and Sales Readiness of multiple new products (hardware, firmware/software (Fabric Operating Software) and management application software (Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise • Improved quality and processes with the PMO to achieve best practices • Developed and tracked schedules and budgets/costs, utilizing MS Project• Produced status reports and program gate reviews for management updates and acceptance• Ensured customer satisfaction through issue and bug resolutions.