• Developed and executed technology roadmap for next generation virtual reality optics,

including prioritization of work-streams across organization through thorough evaluation of

technologies, leading to booking critical technologies into next generation systems.

• Developed New Technology Development Process to guide teams for incorporating new

technologies into systems, ensuring technology maturity is met.

• Led technology introduction for step change cost reductions in viewing optics costs, reducing

cost by >50%.

• Led commercialization of "new-to-world" virtual reality optics, leveraging IP from internal R&D

teams to develop and scale component manufacturing for a high volume consumer product.

• Drove optics category strategy through ecosystem analysis, partnership development,

managing and influencing partner roadmaps and building business cases for investments in

key technologies.

• Built processes and frameworks for should costing, capacity management and supply planning

to scale a world class development organization.

• Led sourcing activities for ODM and OEM hyper-scale datacenter hardware products, including

market analysis, technology roadmap alignment, RFP, vendor selection, cost/contract

negotiation and vendor performance management.

• Managed vendor operations, including design for supply chain, factory capacity, vendor

resource staffing, forecasts, build plans, material management and contingency plans.

• First hire to specialize in new product introduction on small team responsible for >$B annual

spend, developed new business processes to scale the organization.

• Responsible for supply chain design and implementation for multiple new server products used in high volume data centers.

• Lead internal 5-8 person supply chain teams and external manufacturing partners to complete all product development and mass production readiness activities, meeting and exceeding schedule, cost, quality and customer delivery goals.

• Collaborate with hardware, software, product marketing and other functional groups to proactively mitigate risks, balance competing priorities and remove any barriers to successful programs.

• Responsible for reporting and forecasting worldwide factory production and resolving operational issues to achieve weekly, monthly and quarterly corporate financial goals across all Cisco products.

• Defined and managed customer delivery metrics, including calculations and root cause analysis on exception events.

• Championed data-driven analysis of key operational trends impacting revenue and delivery metrics, including root cause analysis and recovery plans that were presented to executives of a Fortune 50 customer.