Experience

Ventev

• United States
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • May 2021 - Present



Bel Fuse Inc.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Product Manager

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2020

  Led the technical management team for a global product line, including product management, R&D and operations management who were responsible for $120 million in annual revenue.Directed strategic development and product planning for the business, including new product development, marketing, factory load balance, gross margin and contribution margin management, along with direction for sales and distribution.Established pricing and cost objectives across new development projects and mature product lines for all customers and distribution partners throughout North America, Europe and Asia.Identified and developed new business and product opportunities that have synergy within the product line by attending industry standards meetings and collaboration with silicon supply partners Broadcom, Intel, Marvell and others.Recommended solutions and developed new products by assisting customer’s engineers with technical challenges including 10GBase-T cloud computing, storage data-centers, next generation Enterprise Networking solutions that support new WIFI standards, camera technology and LED lighting infrastructure, Automotive-Ethernet and OCP 3.0.Reported to executive management, quarterly and monthly development updates on business conditions, profit/loss, margin analysis and sales forecasts. Show less

• Product Manager

  • Oct 2002 - Jan 2013

  Managed MagJack® Integrated Connector product line with average annual sales of $65 million.Responsible for marketing strategy, product development objectives and working with engineering and manufacturing on product objectives such as Power over Ethernet and Multi-mode Ethernet.Liaison between customer service, sales, engineering, manufacturing and quality on behalf of customer’s technical needs and product line stability.Created product training manuals, release packages, and promotional activities.Attended IEEE802.3 standards meetings with voting status, editor of the PoETec standard, Working Group member of the HDBaseT standard and NBASET Alliance.Provided technical support and reviewed specifications from engineers at HPE, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Motorola on new product development and emerging technologies. Show less

• Principal Design Engineer

  • May 1996 - Oct 2002

  Cross-functional team leader of new product design, visited customers to discuss new product opportunities and designed complex connector systems. Principal engineer for 11 patents issued: including 6,196,879; 6,368,159; 6,398,591; 6,428,361; 6,554,638; and 6,579,127 among others.Designed MagJack Integrated Connector Product-Line, established a strategic partnership with California-based company to develop a leading-edge product, which lead to a merger of both companies in 2000. Show less



Fort Wayne Foundry Corporation

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Product Engineer

  • May 1994 - Dec 1995

  Investigate quality problems at Saturn Powertrain Divisions and Buick-GM Powertrain Divisions. Audit green-sand molding departments and created SOP’s for plant operations. Investigate quality problems at Saturn Powertrain Divisions and Buick-GM Powertrain Divisions. Audit green-sand molding departments and created SOP’s for plant operations.



Wickersham Construction & Engineering, Inc.

• United States
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Construction Laborer

  • Dec 1990 - Aug 1992

  Summer job helping to pay for college tuition Summer job helping to pay for college tuition



Walnut Hill Farms

• Millersville, Pennsylvania, United States

• Farm Hand

  • Nov 1982 - Jun 1991

  Family Farm - worked to help save for college tuition Family Farm - worked to help save for college tuition