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Suzanne Ward
Portland, OR
currently: Job hunting
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Work history
Director, Product & Marketing Management
tags:
development
• product management
How would you describe your time at LifeSync?
-Direct the development, management and implementation of the corporate business and marketing plan. Responsible for the management of $1.1M marketing activities budget.
-Led corporate executive team through strategic marketing analysis, portfolio and road map development. Highly praised by senior executive team and board of directors.
-Provide product management and product development expertise to the R&D and Sustaining Operations groups. Develop design requirements and V&V requirements.
-Oversee product management and marketing management staff of 4.... 
Veris
May 2006 to March 2008
Sr Product Manager
tags:
international
• development
• product manager
• program manager
How would you describe your time at Veris?
-Managed P&L for growing $25M energy and power meters division. Serve as product and project manager on development projects. Responsible for life cycle management of product offering.
-Created dynamic lead time system. Created analysis tool for evaluating special project business case/feasibility analysis. Part of management team developing new product introduction staged gate system.
-Managed sustaining and test engineering departments, supervising 6 engineers.
-Business development activities and plan developed for growing international penetration. Worked with sales, business units, and product management teams to create product offerings, marketing campaigns, quality and regulatory needs for the international market. Set up regional office and distribution network....
Sr Product Manager, Asian Development Initiatives
tags:
asia
• international
• program manager
• product manager
How would you describe your time at WelchAllyn?
-Managed, monitored, implemented development projects. Generated detailed product specifications, drove development, strategic planning and refining market specifications and customer requirements. Created and participated in global market research activities. Research needs from key stakeholders and competitive trends, globally and by region for use in defining design inputs and future development activities.
-Responsible for product life cycle management of $6 Million OEM business. Worked to revitalize the business, from sales to operations to service to manufacturing to better support a growing business. Developed and executed global communication strategies. Increased revenues by 35%, in a business that was shrinking for the last 3 years. Created a new product line offering, private-labeled products, first year revenue $1Million with a limited market release.
-Managed the development of global business partners in compliance to FDA and international quality/regulatory standards including over-site of internal and supplier audits, training in QSIT, QSR, cGMP processes; CAPA closures; stage-gate, procedure development and process management. Trained/Certificate, AAMI Quality System Regulations; Design Controls; and as Internal/Supplier Auditor (ISO9001, ISO13485, QSIT/QSR/cGMP)...
Global Product Manager
tags:
design
• program manager
• development
• product manager
How would you describe your time at GE/Critikon/JnJ?
-Profit and loss responsibilities for managed products equating to $100 million in revenues. Led the 3-Year Planning and Analysis Cycle for the division including collecting and analyzing voice of customer, market research, new product design, budgeting and forecasting for $150 million business with $12 million base costs.
-Conduct new product feasibility analysis by performing competitive, customer and cost/benefit analysis. Work with R&D to assess feasibility. Advise and develop plans and strategies for introduction to corporate management on emerging market trends, which may lead to product innovation.
-Led product development and team, from market identification to product introduction launch, providing a new product introduction to open new/underdeveloped markets, 15% share growth. Duties included design goals and specifications, project management, vendor selection, consumer research/focus groups, industrial design, engineering architecture, software programming, prototype/simulation testing, and design for manufacture.
-Evaluated brand profitability. Implemented product line, SKU, and pricing rationalization strategy based on standard cost, volume, customers and competitors. Increased profitability 7% first year, additional 5% second year. Developed, recommended, and monitored the implementation of sourcing and cost improvement programs, leading to $1.2 million cost improvement in production, packaging and distribution....
Education
Systems Engineering
tags:
design
• product manager
• program manager
How would you describe your time at Portland State?
Specialization: Fuzzy Front End of Innovation; Additional coursework in Engineering & Technology Mgmt
Business Administration
tags:
program manager
• mba
• product manager
How would you describe your time at Drake University?
Specialization: Systems Analysis; Memberm Alpha Kappa Psi
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