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Woodinville, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, United States

Redmond, WA

• Design and execute market and user research plan to inform the design of a new to market product.
• Define vision and strategy for new to market product. Build consensus and alignment to product vision with org leadership and product partners.
• Coordinate a project with a diverse and distributed set of full time employees, contract employees, and prospective customers across four worldwide locations.
• Define scope and schedule for product private preview and lead execution of the process.
• Drive product compliance review process.
• Lead customer engagement efforts and pipeline for private preview customer acquisition.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Own spatial and 3D focused features in unreleased HoloLens first party product and partner with platform team to implement beta features into application.
• Manage preview customer relationship from recruitment to private preview ship.
• Work closely with customers and users to identify pain points, define solutions, and integrate feedback into the private preview product.

Redmond, Washington

• Collaborate with first party Mixed Reality app teams to develop new software scenarios based on capabilities of next generation Windows Mixed Reality services and HoloLens devices.
• Identify and define end user needs to support HoloLens core team in the definition of the future software and hardware roadmap for the HoloLens and MR Services portfolios.
• Create experiential prototypes showcasing the potential impact of new features in user centered scenarios.

Redmond, Washington

• Collaborate with HoloLens core team to develop features that can be used to create engaging customer experiences and validate the value and usability of new features developed by Cognition to support Mixed Reality app.
• Manage sustained engineering work for games and applications on Microsoft HoloLens 1.
• Manage the port of the HoloLens app, HoloTour, to Windows Mixed Reality.
• Launch the first Windows Mixed Reality app, HoloTour, to the Windows Store.
• Create the Mixed Reality component for the View 3D Windows desktop application.
• Manage the localization of the HoloTour and View 3D MR applications.

Greater Seattle Area

• Conduct primary research and synthesis for strategic planning and lead quantitative and qualitative data synthesis to produce guidance for Fluke LT
• Identify growth opportunities in adjacent markets by analyzing customer and market data
• Identify target markets, customers, competitive strengths, and competition strategy for new products
• Position planned products relative to competitive products and identify what will differentiate or distinguish these products from the competition
• Conduct focus group research for new product concept exploration and validation

Everett, Washington

• Launch first Fluke industrial IoT solution, Fluke Connect
• Lead daily Scrum meetings with software development teams
• Manage the bug backlog of mobile, web, desktop, and web services deployments and collaborate with product owners on combined backlog weekly
• Manage a global team of 10 QA engineers and coordinate, prioritize, and schedule all Fluke enterprise mobile, web, desktop, and back end software testing needs
• Generate an automated and manual testing strategy following Agile development methodology
• Execute user research to determine business requirements for the web app, Android, iOS and PC desktop applications

Everett, WA

• Work directly with customers and sales account managers to develop a product solution
• Document customer needs and share information widely among various internal teams: engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support engineering
• Support the field sales force and/or customers with application, technical and competitive information and technical training
• Assist in new product introduction and training, as well as initial installation or training on recently sold products
• Respond to telephone requests for information and support
• Study technical and product-related material and practice using our products in constant effort to keep up to date with new releases

Bellevue, WA

• Analyze and quantify performance data of retail employees for evaluation purposes
• Work with customers facilitating interactions with hardware and software
• Evangelize Microsoft products and services to customers
• Troubleshoot and repair software and hardware in the retail environment
• Administrate the repair program for the retail community team PCs

Seattle, WA

• Researched locomotion theory, supporting team efforts to develop a methodology for measuring and categorizing amputee motions
• Developed LabView program to analyze data collected using accelerometers and rate gyroscopes, strengthening research efforts

Rochester, MN

• Conducted extensive competitive research, analyzing features, services and pricing structures and communicating comparisons between companies
• Provided technical support for customer contact centers, enhancing client relationships, resolving customer issues while selling in new services
• Managed technical training for new representatives, ensuring adherence to processes and enabling marketing of additional products

Brookings, SD

• Instructed professors in D2L operations, resolving technical problems and identifying preventative measures
• Maintained engineering website and provided computer troubleshooting
• Prepared engineering lecture materials

Rochester, MN

• Developed LabView program to analyze quantitative data collected using strength testing devices, advancing laboratory research
• Performed technical tests on muscle tissue samples, analyzed results and created technical documentation, communicating research findings
• Conducted needs assessments, reviewed competitive offerings and selected devices, methodologies and programs best suited to each research project

Masters Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

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Bachelors Of Science, Mechanical Engineering