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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

The Design Discovery and Development Foundation exists to assist people in discovering, developing, and fulfilling their God-given design.

Houston, Texas Area

Teaching algebra-based physics online to students around the globeCreated and now teaching a new course helping students assess their fit for an engineering career!https://www.letu.edu/academics/arts-and-sciences/faculty.html

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Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Homeschool product development, sales and marketing consultant.Created and executed the go-to-market strategy for the home school market.

Houston, Texas Area

• Worked with R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing, Customer Support, Service, Fraud, Senior Management, Sales, and Partners to collect and review product safety performance data• Assessed failure mechanisms to determine and implement long term solutions to improve customer safety and satisfaction

Houston, Texas Area

Managed all product marketing and go-to-market activities for the HP Blade PC (hardware), Session Allocation Manager (software), Remote Graphics Software, and CE-based thin clients, Zero Clients, and mobile thin clients, worldwide.• Successfully brought over a dozen new mobile and desktop thin clients to market including directing the creation of marketing collateral, creating and delivering sales training, as well as tracking and reporting sales performance of those products o Developed product requirements and established pricing o Worked with R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing, Customer Support, Senior Management, Sales and Partners o These products have generated over $240,000,000 in revenue• One member of a three-person team to re-engineer and streamline the product development process

Houston, Texas Area

Managed all aspects of launching all PSG products (commercial desktops, notebooks, workstations, handhelds, accessories, consumer desktops, notebooks, handhelds, gaming PCs, displays, TVs, personal storage, accessories) through established relationships with all PSG business unit and regional marketing teams. Coordinated launch activities with HP IPG and HP TSG, as appropriate.• Managed PSG’s 2008 Megalaunch in Berlin, 9 Jun 2008 o Launched over 50 new products, both commercial and consumer o Leveraged regional resources to execute the event o Managed budget over $1M o This event was a finalist at the HP 2009 Circle Awards• Managed PSG’s largest, most successful launch, “Your Life is the Show”, in 2007 o see http://hpcorp.feedroom.com/?fr_story=eae22ce6f4455168fc208dc3ef7f481fc1baf1c3&rf=bm for a 3 minute video summary o Managed budget over $1M o This event was a finalist at the HP 2007 Circle Awards• Participated in the integration of Neoware as part of the HP acquisition• Managed the launch of Windows Vista Launch for PSG in coordination with Microsoft, HP TSG, and HP IPG in late 2006 and early 2007• Managed the Compaq Brand re-Launch in 2007• Neoware Launch (post-acquisition by HP) in 2007• Each launch required management of: o Marcomm creation o Messaging creation o Event planning, budgeting, and execution o Intra-business unit planning, resourcing, funding, and execution

Houston, Texas Area

Managed all go-to-market activities for the HP Client Management Solutions, worldwide, through established relationships with product managers, marketing managers, and sales managers in the desktop, notebook, and workstation global business units and all three geographic regions.• Conducted meetings with Industry Analysts• Coordinated messages with Public Relations• Developed and distributed printed and multimedia collateral• Development and delivered static and dynamic product training materials• Developed and maintained HP Client Management Solutions web site• Developed and participated in demand generation and tradeshow events• Managed marketing programs with key business alliance (Altiris)• Established and leveraged cross-divisional relationships with ISS, SGBU, HPS, and CTO• Established and leveraged relationships in all Regions and sub regions• Participated in product launch planning activities• Regularly requested to delivery customer briefings on campus and at customer sitesDeveloped, marketed, and maintained web-based change management services for commercial PCs by controlling the budget and leading 24 member cross-functional team consisting of members from marketing, hardware and software engineering, procurement, manufacturing, technical writing, and subcontractors. 2001 – 2003.• Saved Compaq a minimum of $3.9M annually by reducing the number of calls made to customer support. Accomplished by implementing necessary web-based components to automatically deliver customer advisories to registered customers via email.• Directly influenced customer to purchase $4M worth of Compaq PCs and cease purchasing competitors products based on the free, above-the-box, value-added services of the Product Change Management Program.

Houston, Texas Area

Owner, designer, craftsman, accountant, fulfiller of orders, supply chain manager, regulatory compliance officer, marketing lead, business developer, and customer service representative for the 2-man business making and selling wooden swords and shields shipped all around the globe.

Houston, Texas Area

Led 20 people in the Configuration/Documentation Control, Printed Circuit Board Design, and Technical Publications departments supporting the electrical, mechanical, software, and sustaining engineering departments and the project management, purchasing, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service departments. Managed the Engineering Change System and Process.• Successfully transitioned product data (bills of material, components, technical publications, and printed circuit board design files) for all products from Telxon data systems to Symbol Technologies.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Directed four product engineers, two CAD engineers, two technical writers, one test engineer, one engineering technician and one project control administrator supporting four electrical engineering R&D departments and the customer support, marketing, production, and sales departments.• Developed, implemented, and improved ISO-9001 policies and procedures, including a rigorous configuration control procedure for 50 person engineering department. Re-engineered the Engineering Change Order process and created the Engineering Change Order database in Microsoft Access, reducing processing time and required paperwork by 67%.• Ensured all engineering tools (hardware, software, & test equipment valued at over $1M) needed by the engineering, production, and technical support departments were always available, current, functioning properly, and Y2K compliant.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Directed two-shift fabrication team producing brake shoes and vacuum booster housings. Managed payroll, production records, and inventories.• Led manufacturing team daily producing 28,000 brake shoes and 12,000 vacuum booster housings averaging 98% efficiency. Never idled a customer’s assembly line.• Demonstrated initiative and response to challenge by learning to manage in a labor-management environment – manufacturing products, coordinating JIT requirements with suppliers, satisfying customers, and scheduling resources in an efficient manner. All accomplished in less than two months without prior manufacturing training or experience. Achieved one of the lowest grievance levels in the entire plant.• Acknowledged by work force of 28 first shift and 28 second shift employees for nurturing supervisory manner, especially in apprising them of respective responsibilities, providing the required resources, and giving positive feedback on inspections.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Evaluated organizations using Malcolm Baldrige Quality standards.• Evaluated more than 20 Air Force organizations using the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Criteria.• Increased employee productivity by training them in use of standard software suites. Reduced performance time on one task from two hours to five minutes.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Instructed courses in statics, strength of materials, dynamics, and aircraft design.• Taught undergraduate engineering mechanics for six semesters including four different courses one semester.• Designated by senior management to coordinate all aspects of a one-week visit to the United States Air Force Academy by officers from Thailand’s Air Force Academy.• Doubled the computational ability of department by assuming control of $300K in computer equipment, acquiring new hardware, and providing 27-member staff access to educational and administrative software through local area network.• Strengthened community relations by organizing and supervising five 14-person student teams designing, building, testing, and delivering equipment and other support for a variety of community service projects. All programs completed on schedule with a $100 budget.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Assessed system reliability; reviewed and approved contractor designs; developed program milestone database.• Directed 50 engineers developing reliability and maintainability processes and assessing R&M performance of $500M of B-2 stealth bomber systems.

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Studied systems theory, analysis, and design including operations research, probability and statistics, and cost analysis. • Completed group design thesis. • Completed additional quarter of study in reliability and maintainability.

Edwards Air Force Base, California

Tested and evaluated new and modified systems.• Managed a 20-person task force completing testing of an aircraft ground flotation system ahead of schedule and within 50% of budget.• Accumulated 35 flight hours in the F-4 and one hour in the F-16 supporting flight test operations

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering Mechanics

Activities and Societies: Parachuting Soaring Swimming Cadet Chorale Cheerleading

M.S., Systems Engineering

Master Of Arts - Ma, Bible/Biblical Studies

M.S. Systems Engineering