Experience

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  Cadence Design Systems

  • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • Sr. Sales Executive - Enterprise Automotive Solutions

    • Jan 2023 - Present
    • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

    With Cadence technology, computational software expertise, and collaboration, our customers turn great ideas into reality faster. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to complete systems for the most dynamic market applications including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial, and healthcare.

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  Dripowder, LLC (GreenLight Consulting Group)

  • Founder & Principal

    • Oct 2002 - Present

    DriPowder specializes in Strategic Management Consulting Services. Need to find a new gear for Growth or Optimized performance? Our team is comprised of industry leaders that offer; Strategic Planning, Market Research, Leadership & Organizational Development, Process & Quality Optimization, Advertising & Marketing, Sales Training, Sales Outsourcing, and Business Optimization.

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  PADT, Inc.

  • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • Executive Director, Enterprise Solutions & Alliances

    • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
    • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

    We Make Innovation Work. PADT is a leading provider Simulation, Product Development, and Rapid Prototyping solutions. Responsibilities include; leading the team charged with top line revenue growth and P&L for PADT's largest customers and strategic alliance partners.

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  ANSYS

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Director Strategic Programs, Federal Aerospace & Defense

    • 2013 - May 2020
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    I build strategic value-based partnerships that unlock significant business outcomes for ANSYS's largest customers in the areas of Digital Thread/Twin & Federal Government programs.ANSYS offers a comprehensive software suite that spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that a design process, manufacturing, or operational requires. Organizations around the world trust ANSYS to deliver the best value for their engineering simulation software investment.Simulation is pervasive, taking innovation to another level ― the unequalled depth and breadth of our software coupled with its unmatched engineered scalability, comprehensive multiphysics foundation and adaptive architecture set our technology apart from other CAE tools. These ANSYS Advantages add value to the engineering design process by delivering efficiency, driving innovation and reducing physical constraints, enabling simulated tests that might not be possible otherwise.

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  EARTH North Texas

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • SVP Ventures Group/Board of Directors

    • Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    EARTH NT is a non-profit innovation HUB for Clean Energy Technology and Sustainable Business focused on the commercialization process. EARTH NT provides a unique blend of public/private, for-profit/non-profit, physical campus with virtual tools for the launch and commercialization of sustainable products and services. EARTH NT is proving the economic case for sustainability in a collaborative and concentrated business ecosystem

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  Paradigm Engineering Ltd

  • VP Corporate Development

    • 2002 - 2007

    What began as a consulting engagement turned into an Executive Staff position with this emerging environmental services firm. We developed and executed an organic growth strategic which catapulted this firm to national prominence, yielding 8-fold growth in just 4 years.

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  Servigistics

  • Regional Vice President

    • 2001 - 2002

    Servigistics is the leading strategic service management solution provider, offering service parts management, workforce management, knowledge management and service parts pricing solutions that operate together on a single data model to enable companies to transform their global service operations by dramatically increasing profitability, cash flow, and customer loyalty. At the time, Servigistics was a start-up company operating with angel-level funding, a visionary leader and a solid product. I was brought on board to build a 7-state region as part of Servigistics first nation-wide sales organization.

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  SeeBeyond (now Sun Microsystems)

  • Regional Vice President

    • 1999 - 2001

    As part of the pre-IPO team for this leading EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and BPM (Business Process Management) software firm, I established a 4-state region in that led the nation in revenue in just one year. Our team executed a strategy that successfully penetrated global 2000 accounts, including the company’s number one revenue producer. SeeBeyond successfully went public and was later sold to Sun Microsystems.

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  SDRC (now Siemens)

  • Regional Vice President

    • 1993 - 1999

    SDRC (Now Siemens) is a leading provider of Mechanical Engineering and Data Management software including CAD/CAM/CAM and PLM. Promoted numerous times, I held a variety of direct sales and sales management positions in Cincinnati and Dallas, exceeding quota objectives at all levels of the organization.

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  Schlumberger Technologies (Applicon)

  • Sales

    • 1987 - 1993

    Applicon was a leader in CAD/CAM/CAE