A dynamic resume...

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• Innovation
• Learning
• Marketing
• Strategy and Management
• Leadership
• Communication
• Business Intelligence
• Process Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Intellectual Property

• Championed adoption of a new enterprise wide resource and project management tool, Planview.
• Established a continuous process improvement culture starting with the project management methodology.
• Worked with product and project teams to remove obstacles in process, tools, and organizational structure to allow them to deliver.

• Defined a business analytics reporting system that increased productivity by 300% by developing requirements, software development guidelines, layout standards, and improved the report development process.
• Established a XML/CSS/HTML framework that reduced implementation time while providing a consistent user experience (look and feel) for over 100 web 2.0 financial reports.
• Transitioned financial information to another firm reducing operating costs by creating optimized Oracle stored procedures to extract essential operational data and export into Microsoft Excel through an automated process.

• Stimulated 40% revenue growth in 1-year from new business strategy by working closely with small business owner to create financial models that uncovered opportunities for cost reduction and focused business development on high-profit projects.
• Trained 70 leaders in preparation to lead through mergers and new acquisitions. Facilitated leadership-training sessions that cultivated communication across the enterprise.
• Served as Director of Operational Excellence reporting to Vice President/General Manager (VP/GM) of a small manufacturing company. Over a 10-month period improved efficiency overhauling business processes. Improvements were made in marketing, lead-conversion, quality assurance, design and operations. Also lead the leadership team through a strategic planning process to reinvent the company including vision, organizational structure, and tactics.
• Authored a niche marketing training course that helped clients launch new businesses and grow established businesses. Developed go-to-market strategies and tactical marketing communication plans to generate revenue growth.

• Developed seven leaders to mentor others in business and life issues.
• Initiated, promoted, and facilitated weekly group meetings focused on leadership development, integrity, and personal discipline.
• Organized and promoted large group events on marriage-enrichment including evening events as well as weekend retreats. Inspired others to action through public speaking engagements to different types of audiences: business leaders, married couples, and teenagers.
• Established a support team that included a monthly newsletter to over 300 people. Utilized social media marketing to attract contacts, and developed relationships. Designed marketing content and graphical layout for paper and electronic newsletters.

• Developed Marketing Requirement Documents (MRD), roadmap, go-to-market strategy, product launch, and business case for a line of storage networking products with profit and loss (P&L) accountability yielding $17M in revenue. Led teams of 20+ people through the entire stage-gate driven product life cycle management process.
• Drove Intellectual Property (IP) strategy for $2B Corporation yielding over 60 new patents. Appointed to the Patent Filter to increase and manage the intellectual property of the firm. Established new training for engineers and streamlined the submission process resulting in significant increase issued patents; nearly doubling the rate of patent applications.
• Rescued software development project recovering 4 weeks of development time on an intelligent Storage Area Network (SAN) hub. Served as a turn-around consultant to save a failing project. Quickly assessed current situation, identified areas of critical focus, and identified key resources to accelerate the project to reclaim lost time.
• Championed Sales support through training, support materials, and focused marketing materials. Developed custom sales support strategies for different geographies for our global sales force.
• Proposed, pursued, and completed three partnerships that co-marketed our solution. Worked with key opinion leaders in other corporations to develop joint marketing messages, developed technical solutions that proved feasibility and customer value, trained sales force to be able to sell the combined solution.

• Produced breakthrough systems exceeding revenue goals in global sales. Product line has become a main source of revenue for the corporation. Actively involved in the Voice of the Customer process to uncover specific customer needs to craft Product Requirement Documents (PRD) and led teams through stage-gate process to bring a break-through product solution to market.
• Generated Intellectual Property (IP) personally by developing an innovative and patentable method for height measurement producing a new product and a defensible market position.
• Turn-around expert. Consistently called on to rescue failing software and hardware development projects. Quickly jumped into technical development environments to assess current development roadblocks, strategize possible solutions, and implement tactical plans to reclaim lost development time. Some solutions required reinventing technical architecture. Uncovered problems in ailing development project recovering 3 weeks of lost development time.
• Implemented a development infrastructure for customer electronic chips. The system included a new custom chip design process reducing costs and reducing average product development time by 30%. First five development projects that utilized the system resulted in electronics and firmware that were functional on the first revision; where the previous development system required one or two revisions.

• Implemented and established a stage-gate software development process utilizing automated revision control resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency for a team of 20.
• Worked with SQL RDBMS systems including Informix and Oracle to manage customer data when migrating to new versions of our software. Developed tools to ensure database integrity. Designed, coded, tested, and implemented extract translate and load (ETL) scripts to migrate customer data to new database layouts.
• Championed data modeling that produced automated solutions that would allow the software to be sold to customers utilizing different computer operating systems resulting in a larger market opportunity for the company.

• Designed, developed, documented, produced, and tested custom electronics and software generating revenue from new product sales.
• Implemented a custom solution automating the world-leading wire EDM machine shop increasing their machine utilization. Maintained customer site installations providing field service to keep manufacturing lines running.

• Operating Systems: Macintosh OSX, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
• Applications: Proficient in Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project. Proficient in graphics applications such as Photoshop, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Gimp, and Inkscape. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications.
• Internet: LAMP-stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP), HTML, XML, CSS, Java, Java Script, jQuery, CakePHP, WordPress
• Database: SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, and query optimization on Oracle, MySQL, Informix, and Microsoft Access. Business Objects Crystal Reports, LogiXML
• Development: fluent in numerous programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, scripting languages (VB, Perl, sed, awk, etc), VHDL, numerous assembly languages for microprocessors, digital signal processors, and parallel processors.
• Frameworks: Rational Rose, RUP, UML, Use-cases, Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• Electronics: Used embedded processors from AMD, Motorola, Intel, Texas Instruments as well developing custom field programmable chip solutions.