General Manager for Industrial Communications business providing mission critical wireless and fiber optic communication networks for harsh industrial applications. Responsible for strategy, growth and operation of P&L.

Global responsibility for the management, success and direction of the product line including those acquired through a Chinese joint venture company. P&L responsible for all aspects of the products. Entrusted to develop and execute the global growth strategy for new market segment to GE. Responsible for nurturing acquired Chinese team into a disciplined functioning product unit of GE.

Chief Technology Officer responsible for directing technical architecture and rollout of an early stage spinoff targeting information management, health, safety and integration of commercial kitchen appliances in the quick serve restaurant market. Develop and refine strategy to automate wireless collection and management of restaurant production information supported by a remote ASP subscription business model.

Manage a new business area of software products focused in the area of asset management and optimization. Responsible for marketing, product management, product development and quality assurance for the business segment. Manage a distributed team of 18 people in USA and Europe representing a budget of $2.6 million. Migrated disparate products to a common architecture while maintaining regular product releases and feature enhancements. Ensured products maintained compatibility and synergy with other products offered by ABB.

Product Manager responsible for development for FOUNDATION Fieldbus based automation applications. Worked closely with early adopters of FOUNDATION Fieldbus automation solutions and ensured that the product being developed adequately met their expectations. Represented and communicated intense customer focus to the global development team. Ensured that product would satisfy customer expectations. Devised solution that directly led to successful factory acceptance test by customer. Quickly established leadership role in a well-established product team shortly after my relocation to Germany. Earned respect of peers by demonstrating ability to understand development constraints while at the same time consistently focusing on a successful customer adoption.

Product manage a portfolio of visual programming tools used to develop and maintain industrial process automation control strategies. Take products from concept to market. Synthesize product requirements; motivate development teams, own product development, product launch, product support and introduction training for global markets. Manage “big picture” product strategy and “detailed” product features. Bring direct market experience to advanced technology development group. Communicate product application knowledge to developers. Formulate global product requirements for new generation of products with a small team of international stakeholders. Conduct product research by leading a focus team of application specialists and strategic customers.

Managed a regional team of engineers. Devised a strategy to provide local consulting services to process engineering companies as a means of increasing sales of distributed control systems. Played key technical role in final stages of sales process for large orders. Managed business to business relationships from late stages of sales process through engineering, commissioning, training and final acceptance at customers' sites. Regarded as de-facto leader of regional office by peer managers and fostered entrepreneurial culture among direct reports.

Provide local technical support for a new generation of hardware and software industrial control system products. Support sales personnel in devising sales strategies that emphasize competitive advantages of new generation of control system. Entrusted with leading technical presentations given to customers and their consultants during competitive proposal evaluations. Design, implement, commission and support control systems in a geographic region consisting of the four western provinces of Canada. Transfer technical knowledge to service representatives to transition their skills from former technologies to new generation systems. Successfully led a site commissioning team consisting of customers, consultants and company service engineers to an on budget, on time start up of a $60 million pulp mill modernization project.

Global responsibility for the general management of a control retrofit business. Responsible for day-to-day business management, coordination of functional management teams and overall P&L performance.

I lead Product Management for the Enterprise Networking segment at Sierra Wireless. Sierra Wireless delivers secure, manageable, high performance cellular networking solutions for mission critical applications. Our LTE and 5G routers and gateways accelerate deployment of new applications with secure connectivity, location-based services and remote manageability. Previously, I held a number of product management and marketing leadership roles while at GE, ABB and Bailey Controls. My product management experiences have included IOT Edge, industrial cybersecurity, hardware, software and services products across heavy industries and in all regions of the world. I currently reside in Vancouver, BC.