SUMMARY:

• Accomplished in bringing hardware, software and systems technical innovations from concept to market.
• Experienced in both waterfall and Agile project frameworks.
• Veteran project manager with a proven track record of leading new product projects in collaboration with key stakeholders including customers, design, sales/marketing, finance, manufacturing, IT, HR and Confidential .
• Translates complex technology into a unified product direction by inspiring a shared vision, enabling teams to act, delivering operations excellence and driving continuous process improvement.
• Developed and released over 50 new software, hardware, systems and microprocessor products serving thousands of customers in computer information systems, telecom, medical systems and industrial and consumer electronics.
• Leads worldwide cross functional teams with strategic direction and high quality planning, execution and enthusiasm contributing over $400M in annual revenue while slashing release times 20%.
• Provides the single point liaison between IT and business partners for enterprise system software implementations such as PLM (Product Life Cycle Management).
• Awarded engineering and MBA degrees. PMI certified with PMP credential. Certified Agile SCRUM Manager (CSM). Formally trained Project Management Master and Six Sigma Green Belt.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Scopes product requirements, plans the project, assesses risks and monitors performance
• Builds, leads and mentors multicultural, international project teams
• Delivers timely and accurate communications, project reports and schedule/cost/quality status
• Creates and deploys project processes, tools and systems including change control, release checklists
• Waterfall/phase - gate or Agile Scrum or Kanban frameworks
• Selects vendors, creates contracts and statements of work and negotiates terms
• MS Project
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Development Process (PDP)
• MS Project
• Embedded systems, mechatronics, datacenter, server, computer, medical, semiconductor
• Product development process (PDP)
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Verification and Validation (V&V)
• Resource allocation
• Release to Production/New Product Introduction to manufacturing (RTP/NPI)
• DfXs
• PDR/CDR peer reviews
• Design specifications
• Product strategy, roadmaps, life cycle management, naming
• Business planning and P&L management
• Differentiated value proposition/positioning
• Product marketing mix
• Release-to-Market planning (RTM). Go-to-Market
• Competitive snake-plots
• Product presentations, press releases, brochures, ad content.
• MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Five-phase Product Development Process (PDP)
• Change Management process
• Products requirements ‘is, is-not” process
• Release-to-Production/New Product Introduction process (RTP/NPI)
• Product Lifecycle Management System (PLM)
• Project Labor, Cost and ROI Tracking System
• Corporate project portfolio priorities and resource allocation
• Presented with “Outstanding Service Award” by CEO

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned cross functional worldwide project team to Agile processes and conducted Agile training.
• Directed team through the user story creation and task level of effort processes.
• Established a progressive Agile validation process in lieu of their classic “big bang” validation at the end.
• Managed development of new architecture and applications (SSRS and .Net), new interfaces, new ETLs utilizing multiple data warehouses and a new user interface to the HP Support Center Portal.

Confidential, Houston TX

Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Authored detailed “is, is-not” product system requirements for hardware, software, mechanical, comm.
• Created marketing mix, sales and web collateral based on a consistent, differentiated value proposition including product presentations, advertisements, brochures, press releases and videos.
• Managed major announcement event at Underwater Intervention.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Engineering Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed next generation OR system for delivery to hospitals across North America adding multiple new features and improving system performance by 20%.
• Institutionalized product development life cycle processes including initiation, development, SIT/UAT and release-to-production/release to market/release to service. Used Agile for software and waterfall for hardware.
• Successfully planned and delivered a custom solution for Johns Hopkins Hospital deemed most stable ever resulting in millions in new revenue.
• Completed more than a dozen sustaining projects working with key vendors that cut field failure rates by 15% while significantly reducing material costs and field installation and repair times.

Confidential, Houston TX

Engineering Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for specifying design requirements, managing the engineering team, tracking costs and validating the system:
• Successfully created mechanical enclosures configurable for four, six or eight modular bays supporting a unique roll-in/roll-out of IT racks and in excess of 150KW of server load. Based on a HP proprietary patent.
• Achieved an integrated, intelligent, closed loop cooling system delivering over 11,000 CFM (cubic feet per minute) and maintaining 20-25C cold aisle temperature while saving energy.
• Directed electrical, mechanical, thermal and software team in development of system test software and instrumentation to validate performance objectives..
• Managed construction of the 900 sq ft cooling development lab to support R&D needs.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Product and Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Birthed the Confidential product line crafting telemedicine product requirements, positioning, pricing, roadmap, customer presentations and web content.
• Assessed competitive environment and managed key customer projects with Agile
• Created product development and Go-to-Market (GTM) processes.
• Co-authored venture capital business plans and presentations.
• Overhauled project management processes and authored checklists slashing customer release time by an average of 4 months per program while keeping cost under control.
• Improved project scope robustness and reduced scope creep and rework 25% through Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Agile-Scrum processes, scope control/acceptance processes and iterative integration.
• Streamlined project communications through project reviews, weeklies, issue logs and SharePoint based project notebooks tuned to stakeholder and key executive needs.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed first of kind system verification and validation tools and techniques saving $20M and reducing critical functional bugs 95%.
• Reduced customer system design errors 20% by revamping technical documentation flow, content and revision calendars pulling in schedules by 3-6 months.
• Grew new sources of revenue $80M by commissioning and staffing five new emerging market systems projects including Video Security IP Net Cam and DVR; HD Video Broadcasting; Automotive Vision and Software Defined Radio (SDR).
• Responsible for OEM service life cycle (strategy, design, operations).

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project 119 - The launch of two new Confidential cores for the C5000/C6000 lines. Asserted project planning across the marketing mix, restored confidence and achieved on-time execution. Hand crafted the technology storyboard for media, promotion and announcement day hosted by Confidential and CEO Tom Engibous. eXpressDSP - A software technology deployment to radically change real-time Confidential software from roll-your-own to open and reusable.
• The outcome was 220 new applications and a major expansion of the 3rd party application network.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• With an engineering and marketing team of 20, created and launched products that drove 56K modem demand during critical back to school and Christmas seasons. Gained approval from senior management to reprioritize manufacturing capacity on a major scale to address new demand.
• Commissioned and managed multi-channel innovations for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that reduced cost per channel by 50% making the internet affordable for the masses.

Confidential, Houston TX

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

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• Confidential Processors: Responsible for development contracts and detailed statements of work with Sun Microsystems for design and manufacture of Confidential Microprocessors. This venture achieved annual revenues in excess of $250M for years to come and birthed the high growth Unix Server market.
• X86 Processors: With a team of 20, executed regional specific marketing mixes for China and Latin America enabling #1 or #2 486 processor share in these emerging markets and growing revenues to over $130M. Authored business and product plans for a beyond Pentium class microprocessor praised as best ever at TI.