Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Contact Details - Phone: (970) 692-1931 Email: [email protected] Expert at delivering cross-functional engineering, supply chain, IT and service solutions that exceed expectations. Known for anticipating and mitigating potential issues and delivering projects ahead of schedule and under budget. Broad Life Cycle Management proficiency in various hardware, software and service release methodologies and passionate about clearly defining projects and building teams that deliver exceptional bottom line financial results. ► Expert at leading Life Cycle development and release processes using Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodologies. ► Experienced managing remote teams and adapting plans to evolving requirements through proactive engagement and consistent communication ► Adept at providing succinct and relevant status to executives and stakeholders
Lead IT delivery teams in the identification of solution development and implementation for precision agriculture industry. Designed and deployed company's first remote control automated greenhouse using 3rd party IoT hardware and cloud-based software. Solution will decrease new seed product development and time to market by 20%. Led secure corporate IoT solution strategy and Control Network management with broader company adoption planned. Currently leading development of corporate IoT strategy to automate tank inventory management and reporting for field, customers and staging sites to resolve customer order fulfillment issues. Creating solution using PI backbone which will integrate data with SAP ERP to improve customer satisfaction for North America region.
Global Services PM for HP’s Page Wide Web Press business. Defined global service and spares strategy including delivery model for new products. Formed and managed worldwide service delivery team, defined scope and schedule, managed budget and provided ongoing status to executives and stakeholders. Created and led Product Life Cycle and Release Processes for hardware, software and services. Created business Program Management Office (PMO), Plan of Record (POR) process, product road map, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Expert at transforming broad objectives into clearly defined deliverables. Led design for serviceability, business profitability analysis and WW inventory strategy. Redesigned the software release process resulting in a tripling of upgrade revenue. Generated design for serviceability criteria, tiered hardware and software escalation process, consolidated six different support models for owned and 3rd party products into single configurable product release model.
Led worldwide cross-functional IT teams in the development and release of critical infrastructure information technology solutions. Developed and managed project scope, schedule and resources, acted as escalation point for issues. Successfully completed the integration of recently acquired companies' supply chain and life cycle management processes and tools into HP infrastructure. Created metrics program for configuration tools, resulting in significantly reduced time to identify and resolve errors. Reduced online order complexity by 90% through simplification of ordering tool maintenance.
Managed materials and lab organizations for new product development, strategic planning and procurement. Planned and managed individual and team performance for high complexity commodities. Created and aligned technology road maps with design lab and suppliers. Developed and implemented numerous technology and cost management processes. Led geographically distributed product development and sourcing team with members in US, Europe and Asia. Increased storage team qualifications by 100%, negotiated and recovered $1.2M in field costs due to a defective power system. Developed and maintained competitive commodity product road map. Led business process outsourcing for an HP divested organization, relocated supply chain operation and all associated processes from West to East coast, reducing inventory by 25%. Experienced leading projects in regulated industries including FAA, FDA, CATCA, DoD, VPAT 508 and Telecommunications.