Executive Management:

Now in early 2012 as a full-time Boeing employee (currently within Training at the Everett, Washington facility), the position follows two years of being an independent consultant as a Global Project Manager and consumer electronic, commercial precision hardware, digital imaging, and telecommunication Resource & Product Planning Manager. From 1990 - 2009 directly reported to Presidents at Eastman Kodak, Panasonic, and XOCECO and multiple Vice-Presidents and senior executives at Thomson.  Beginning as a Consumer Electronics sales team member covering the first U.S. billion-dollar account while at Kodak in 1990 his responsibilities have grown to managing international business partnerships and negotiations in a dozen countries from 1995-2010. 

His management crosses many segments including North American staffing and operations, product design and planning, sales and marketing, key client partnerships, and international sourcing and procurement. For more than 15 years his career has covered both consumer and commercial electronic products, including as a global Project Manager supervising product forecasting, corporate and Board legal liaison duties, government and industry trade affairs, Consumer Electronic Association technical standard setting representation, ISO 9000, 14000, Six Sigma and Lean end-to-end programs, advertising and media, international exposition planning, industry and trade legislation, and extensive public relations work.

Highlights:

- Assumed highest U.S.-based operations role, holding P&L accountability for $40-240 million in revenue and directing North American marketing and sales managers, logistics staff, public relations, regulatory compliance, and U.S. legal affairs (as corporate Board liaison to Perkins Coie) for a $1.7 billion manufacturer. Directly managed U.S. staff and key-account product development and procurement negotiations, and logged two million miles of global business travel throughout Asia on-site with key clients in seven countries.

- Interfaced with state and federal officials, gaining the first C-TPAT certification (and 28 state RoHS e-waste and environmental certifications from 2006-2009) for multiple China, Thailand, and Taiwan-based TV and electronics OEM-ODM producers.

- Averted millions of dollars in losses and financial liabilities by disposing of high-risk accounts; cut ODM channel costs 7% in 10 months by strengthening contracts, lowering risks, and establishing SOP across Asian manufacturing facilities. Supervised worldwide supplier and sourcing partnerships negotiating contractual agreements covering production compliance, on-site worker conditions, factory and materials inspection programs, and intellectual property protections covering production and inventories of licensed hardware designs, software integration, branding, and sanctioned (RoHS, ISO, RFQS, etc.) components.

- Directed product planning and product design for finished goods electronic projects, Asian sourcing and internal procurement, and hardware design and manufacturing on-site in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and China; lowered U.S. operational costs 6.2% by initiating international finished goods sourcing strategy under corporate consumer electronic brands RCA and G.E. Averaged $1.2 billion in annual product sales procurement from 2001 to 2005.

- Oversaw consumer electronic product sales and commercial electronic imaging hardware ($120,000 to $3.6 million per SKU product line) for seven U.S. offices and key accounts nationwide; managed company's first $1 billion account (Wal-Mart) for internal digital and imaging centers, and also retail films and digital mini-labs, computer diskettes, and Kodak video and optical disc products/systems.

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