Consultant
Smart Solutions
Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months
Smart provides Interactive and collaborative solutions to Corporate, Fortune 500, SMBs, Higher Education, Healthcare and government organizations globally. At Smart Solutions it’s all about the customer and we take pride in listening to our customer needs.
Pioneers in the workplace interactive collaboration business and through the use of proven methodologies, tools and recommendations have significant experience designing and implementing collaboration solutions for Fortune 500 and other customers.
SMART Technologies, Houston, TX 2006 - 2011
Global Leader (# 1 in revenue $700 million) in Visual Collaboration solutions with more than 60% market share and over a million whiteboards sold in more than 150 countries.
Global Corporate Development (2008 - 2011)
Advised C-Level and Senior Management on corporate market entry strategies and developing corporate solutions. Established relationships and sold into Fortune & Global 100 customers.
Customers included— Oil & Gas, Management Consulting, Telecom / IT and Consumer vertical segments: Shell Oil, Exxon Mobil, British Petroleum, Ernst & Young, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Cisco, StatOil, British Telecom, Nokia, Unilever, Nestle, GE, Coca Cola and others.
• Landed a Fortune 100 pioneer account by introducing “new ways of working”, which increased employee productivity by 50% and reduced company cost by 30%.
• Led discussions to form a strategic alliance with NEC, which abetted the company in developing a fully integrated, multi touch flat panel display collaboration solution.
• Worked with ‘early adopters’ to establish Innovation Centers in North & South America, and Europe and interactive collaboration meeting spaces in US, UK, Netherlands and Germany.
Product Manager (2006 - 2008)
• Managed two product lines of ten products representing in excess of $100 M in revenues.
• Launched SMART Hub, first standalone whiteboard and collaboration appliance for business solutions which helped penetrate the Fortune 500, Global 2000 and Enterprise market.
• Eliminated the poorly performing product line, which improved financial performance, helped focus on core competency and reaffirm large interactive whiteboard leadership.
Minor in Mathematics