Experience

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  Sharper Counsel LLC - Management Consulting, Fractional COO, Strategic Planning/Execution

  • Greater San Diego Area

  • President

    • 2010 - Present
    • Greater San Diego Area

    Client Successes: Sports Industry - Board of Directors support, strategic planning and strategic project execution for US Youth Soccer and several state organizations. Also, as an Interim Operations Executive for BoardWorks Surf, led the business in the midst of chaos to a stable organization and transitioned successfully to a new general manager on schedule. Music Industry - as an Interim CEO for ZT Amplifiers, Inc., I helped save the company from financial collapse and installed management mechanics to sustain international operations that eventually led to an asset sale of the businessPrinting Industry - as a executive consultant to Kodak Enterprise Inkjet Systems, I identified lynch pin issues disabling a strategic product development program and developed necessary and sufficient solutions leading to a successful market introduction.International Procurement - as a executive consultant to Barich, Inc., I performed business analyses and generated recommendations to address their key growth issues in sustainable fashion.Government and non-profit - I led multiple planning efforts for the Idaho Dept of Labor and the Eastern Idaho Economic Development group to create common strategic goals in a variety of situations and led strategic project activities towards meeting those goals.Start-ups: SAAS - I joined the eFinancial Communications leadership team and filled business development & executive sales roles. Also, at Proqured.com a fine arts online business - I developed an operations plan to build the company from the ground up.Sharper Counsel LLC is an interim executive company dedicated to the improvement of high potential businesses. I partner with you to help you accomplish current business assessments and find talent that can augment your team with experience finely tuned to take your business to a new level.

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  Loud Technologies, a $200M business in the Musical Instrument market

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • Chief Operating Officer (COO), Senior Operations Executive, and International Operations

    • 2008 - 2010
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Brought in as their Senior Operations Executive to correct deficiencies in their international operations and bring experience to the leadership team, I led the rebuilding of their supply chain after a contract manufacturer bankruptcy. We re-designed, re-documented, re-tooled, re-tested, re-released, and re-ramped 135 models of our products simultaneously to eight different suppliers around the world. I started with Loud during the recession and the CM collapse could not have been timed more poorly. Interruption in supply resulted in reduced revenue and we implemented staff reductions and other cost savings programs to survive. We (CEO, COO, and CFO) achieved a $30M reduction in the cash required to run the business and regained financial viability as the new supply chain came online. Part of our business improvements included significant enhancements to Loud's Oracle ERP installation and the development of sophisticated project management, inventory management and cash management tools.Due to intellectual property issues in the PRC, I drove a distribution re-design to provide late-point differentiation for our most popular products, as well as achieving significant changes and cost reductions in our overall global distribution processes. Loud Technologies is a professional music equipment company that brings cool products to market through the Mackie, Tapco, Ampeg, Crate, Alvarez, Blackheart, EAW, and Martin Audio brands. My COO role as their Senior Operations Executive was to facilitate company growth and profitability, oversee international operations and distribution, bring new products to market, manage their owned facilities, and drive their IT strategy and infrastructure.

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  Hewlett-Packard

  • Greater San Diego Area

  • Vice President/General Manager for a $400M Business; Senior Executive & International Sales

    • 1979 - 2007
    • Greater San Diego Area

    Vice President/General Manager 2001 - 2007Promoted to drive the business unit to achieve revenue and profit growth goals, resulting in a doubling of revenue and a quadrupling of profit. Morphed a USA based sales team into a international sales organization to drive growth and amped up the product generation process to expand the product offering by a factor of five and starting business in three new product markets.General Manager 2000 - 2001 Built a startup team focused on new business opportunities. Conglomerated multiple splintered new business efforts into a single team with a cohesive business plan and strategy, resulting in a doubling of revenue over eighteen months.Research & Development Director 1999 - 2000Re-engineered four engineering groups and built a new R&D organization. Achieved change management on schedule and at cost resulting in a state-of-the-art design and launch division. Manufacturing Director 1998 - 1999Promoted to the senior operations executive of a $3 billion printing products division. Implemented the reconfiguration of international operations to 100% outsourcing to achieve cost goals. Grew world-wide production to two million Deskjet products per month. Operations Manager – Printed Circuit Assembly factory 1994 - 1998 Engineering and Engineering Management 1979 - 1994