~ Innovative Technologies Product Development Manager eager to contribute technical expertise as well as dynamic project management and competitive market leveraging skills toward supporting a progressive organization in boosting performance. ~

 

 

         Proficiency in strategy planning, trend analysis, and directing the full product development lifecycle.

         Proactively expedite projects to accomplish company s financial, strategic and operational goals.

         First-rate organizational abilities; effectively balance competing demands, facilitate unified efforts among multiple departments, and customize marketing tactics to varying consumer segments.

         Proven performance in new product launch initiatives, optimizing product positioning, administering budgets, and managing business activities and operations. 

         Merge polished leadership and team-building talents to motivate, mentor and manage highly-productive and cross-functional personnel.     

         Quickly adapt to new roles, responsibilities, markets, technologies and environments.

 

 

University of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 2001 to Present

Executive Vice President

         Championed efforts to establish private university from the ground up to currently employing 15 full-time staff and 12 part-time faculty, serving 150 students, and generating $12M annually.

         Formulated business plan and executed extensive market research to establish College of Business Administration and successfully proposed foundation to Trustees.

         Gained international awareness and interest by launching Global Leadership MBA Program.

         Applied dynamic analytical, organizational and leadership expertise to design, coordinate and implement Asian Study Experience in Manila for Global Leadership MBA.

         Critically determined and led strategic planning, market research and analysis, and competitor intelligence to optimize school s fiscal performance, sustainability, and growth potential.

 

Lexis-Nexis/Martindale-Hubbell, New Providence, NJ, 1997 to 2001

Vice President, Electronic Publishing

• Played an integral role in driving company growth through proficiency in directing 40 personnel in development of internet, intranet, CD-ROM, and editorial systems and solutions.

         Spearheaded development and deployment of innovative B2C website, lawyers.com, playing instrumental role in expanding and diversifying strategic market leveraging.

• Orchestrated $7M project to create a new editorial system for Martindale-Hubbell and led development and deployment of B2B Lawyer Locator search tool and website.

 

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Professional Experience continued

 

Disclosure, Inc., Bethesda, MD, 1995 to 1997

Director, Product R & D

• Charged with directing four Product Managers in planning, development and launch of innovative web-based financial application, Global Access and aggressively penetrated UK and Asian markets.
• Devised comprehensive strategic plan, defined functional specifications, coordinated software development, and steered stringent quality control and assurance.
• Proactively called on financial services firms to drive product awareness and secure business; captured first-year sales revenues of over $2.5M.
• Explored, pursued, negotiated and established strategic alliances with third-party vendors.

 

SkyTel, Washington, DC, 1994 to 1995

Product Manager

• Piloted product development, enhancements, and promotion of two-way paging applications.
• Exercised strong communication and interpersonal skills to deliver compelling and persuasive product presentations to key decision makers at FedEx and HP.
• Participated in development of PCMCIA paging products and created launch materials for direct sales force.
• Decisively assembled in-depth marketing plan for Lotus Notes Pager Gateway and oversaw market launch and development of associated training materials.

 

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1991 to 1994

Senior Technology Manager C New Products

• Introduced mobile technology (i.e. laptops) to research staff, resulting in enhanced productivity and accessibility.
• Directed team in planning, development and deployment of strategic plan to achieve Internet connectivity among 1,200 workstations, and seamlessly partnered with technical staff in network installation.

 

Additional Experience:

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

Assistant Registrar for Computer Applications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

 

Doctor of Philosophy, Education, Columbia University, graduated 1995

Dissertation: Engineering entrepreneurship: The organizational dimensions of technology transfer.

 

Master of Business Administration, Market Research, Pace University, graduated 1988

 

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Rochester, graduated Cum Laude 1985