Expert Profile
Pioneering and Patented, Industry-Recognized, Technically Savvy Leader
in Marketing, Sales, & Design Valued for Delivering Information
Technology Applications for Startups and Established Global Enterprises
with up to $16 Billion in Revenue and 96 Million Annual Shipping Units
A true pioneer in the creation of mobile device applications, laying the groundwork for today’s Multibillion-dollar Worldwide Wireless Industry
Publicly recognized for creating a patent pending system to establish cell phone quiet zones
Pioneered an industry-wide system that estimates the impact of customer wireless applications on new sales, facilitating better business decisions in new product development, sales, marketing, and cost containment
15+ years experience of extensive accomplishments and optimizing the customer experience with business plans and modeling, marketing initiatives, and customizing groundbreaking software for mobile telecommunication products
Readily builds relationships across international business cultures and boundaries, in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Thailand
Record of forging strategic partnerships to spur new revenue opportunities, optimize profits, and develop joint solutions to ensure best-of-breed offerings
A Respected Leader who …
• Is happy to take on greater challenges to meet objectives
• Eyes the complete picture and builds a direct link between technology and business
• Leverages Social Network Media to brand and market products and bolster market positions
• Fosters corporate compliance with customers to bolster satisfaction and relations
• Empowers and inspires people to rise above and reach beyond their own expectations
Select Milestones & Metrics
Controlled $1 billion in inventory in positioning products throughout Europe’s fertile mobile market
Designed a modular phone application update system forecast to generate more than $1 billion in annual day-to-day savings and decrease traditional lead times for embedded software development
Successfully launched an independent Bluetooth wireless startup and invented a patent-pending system to automatically regulate cell phone silent mode upon entering and leaving designated public spaces, marketed to ATT, Ericsson, Nokia, and Verizon
Created an incremental margin of $75 million from a software development budget of $3 million by creating localized custom software propositions
Managed the project that defined the open standard for joint device management of European and American handset manufacturers
Earned $2 million in net pre-tax income over a three-year period from conceiving new projects and development roadmaps for the IBM Investment Review Board
Dramatically shortened time to build and deliver mobile devices from 24 to 4 months, making the company more decisive, competitive, and current
Procured international legal brand licensing and technical agreements with social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, Spotify, and Sony Entertainment, for win-win mobile application propositions
Launched the first Sony Ericsson UMA/GAN variant critical to a key product within the France Telecom Orange markets
Other Notable Experience
• Significantly improved prioritization time and new application development of mobile companies by designing a system to estimate actual consumer usage and effect and analyze or measure the payback from investments
• Built compelling new application propositions for Sony Ericsson Europe mobile devices using outsourced software development and effectively managing people of different cultures in 4 countries
• Designed and developed a customized marketing analytics client-server system to monitor worldwide application usage
• Delivered large complex software solutions for communication service providers
• Introduced Sony Ericsson products in retail shops throughout the France Telecom Orange networks
• Co-managed CX marketing campaigns for T-Mobile Europe mobile devices
• Contracted international licensing agreements with major handset manufacturers and wireless carriers
• Successfully negotiated high impact service issues with C-Level Executive Management for France Telecom Orange
• Developed joint business opportunities and solutions, and oversaw project engagements with 3rd party partners and vendors
• Effectively managed long-term technical and commercial partnerships for France Telecom Orange
• Prepared Statements of Work reports for large scale software rollouts for customer engagements and partnership projects
• Conducted training of a substantial field sales force in wireless products, technologies, and sales strategies
• Instructed software engineers in embedded software development techniques
• Appointed to the Java Community Process Executive Committee (J2ME) as the Sony Ericsson Representative
• Represented Sony Ericsson Develop World at media events, including press conferences, tradeshows, and announcements
• Chaired the TeleManagement Forum Mobile Terminal Equipment Management Group which focused on defining interoperability standards for BSS/OSS device management systems