Product Manager Resumes in US-Ohio-Cincinnati: Jeff

Product Manager Resume

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Name:

Jeff

Location:

US-Ohio-Cincinnati

Experience:

5-10 yrs

Willing to Relocate:

Willing to Travel:

Yes

Most Recent Job Title:

Product Manager

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Objective:

Product Manager - Technical Marketing Professional. Experienced problem solver in new product development, research & product development, market research, and new business development. My strengths include developing product and business opportunities through a detailed understanding of the key customers, markets, industry trends and competitive strategies, along with knowledge of the technical and financial aspects. I am a creative, innovative, self-motivated team player, consistently advanced to positions of increasing responsibility and complexity.

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TIMBERTECH (Wilmington, Ohio) 2003-2008
Second largest wood plastic composite decking and railing company in North America, with national distribution and an international presence in the market.

Product Manager
Product Manager for new and existing decking products, as well as lead new product development efforts

• Managed new and existing products, with over 250 SKU’s in the product line
 Implemented Stagegate new product development process, which helped launch new products, with new product sales over 50% and first year sales over 25% for the entire business.
 Obtained and analyzed marketing information to understand customer needs, develop new products and improve existing products.
• Developed detailed cost models to understand financial information for new products, as well as cost saving programs.
 Developed cost for all new products, and entire product line which showed lower margin items that could be phased out with higher margin new products
• Developed business model with our parent company, Crane Plastics, to help integrate extrusion of products at their facility, which helped TimberTech from purchasing additional extrusion equipment and a new building.
• Within three months of starting, developed interface with Technical Team from parent company, and led the packaging team as well as joined the R&D Team to help integrate marketing with technical resources which helped with long range new product development efforts.
• Supported marketing efforts by writing technical literature, installation instructions, troubleshooting guides, and features & benefits of new products and existing products.
• Conducted packaging study which lead to a change in packaging with savings of over $350,000 per year
• Attend trade shows as well as field visits with sales personnel to visit the channel partners to help grow sales, as well as discuss new products and investigate new product opportunities.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CORPORATION (West Chicago, Illinois & Loveland, Ohio) 2000-2002
$26.4 billion international paper and forest products company, with operations in nearly 50 countries, more than 117,000 people, and exports to more than 130 nations.

Product Manager (New Product Development Engineer)
New Product Manager in Building Materials Business for new products as well as existing products.

• Supervised New Product Development for Panels & Engineered Wood Technology $30MM Capital Project.
 Redesigned and implemented Stagegate new product development process and analyzed new products/business ventures to increase the business by $5MM/year, with EBIT over 20%.
 Championed preliminary and detailed market, competitive, consumer, technical and financial analysis for Wood Polymer Composite (WPC) products and new product concepts for the business, resulting in development of five SKU’s for WPC products, four for molded Orientated Strand Board products, and spearheaded three new to the business concepts.
 Gathered product information for the Advertising programs, such as warranty information, packaging studies, and information needed for sales brochures and web site.
 Participated in and organized ideas/projects from Ideation Session for the Decorative Products Division and led three projects within my first month.
• Obtained and analyzed marketing information to understand customer needs, develop new products and improve existing products in the New Business Development Group (Marketing and Product Development).
• Presented ten new product development concepts to the Director of Marketing for the strategic business plan for 2002 for developing new market niches.
• Applied voice of the customer initiatives and trend analysis to continuously have a creative flow of customer focused initiatives and ideas for new product development.
 Prepared monthly report for the Director of New Business Development & Technology.

FORT JAMES CORPORATION – now Georgia Pacific Paper (Neenah, Wisconsin) 1990-1999
$25 billion international consumer products company, and one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, packaging, paper, building products, pulp and related chemicals.

Product Development Project Leader (Associate Scientist) (1996-1999)
Managed new and existing commercial tissue product lines throughout the product development life cycle

• Planned, attended, and documented pilot plant and scale up paper machine and converting trials.
• Recommended technical and mechanical changes to the process streams to improve quality and productivity resulting in reduced costs for major commercial product line by over $1MM.
• Conducted market research benchmarking studies and developed database for all commercial tissue products resulting in cost/performance studies for new products and for product improvements.
• Collaborated with other members of commercial tissue team to formulate product strategies and formally presented them to upper management and customers during team meetings.
• Invented and patented five emboss patterns for tissue, towel and napkin products, one being on Soft n’ Gentle Bathroom Tissue, and presented to senior management in the US and Europe.
• Recommended for temporary assignment in Product Supply, at Connecticut Marketing Headquarters, by Director of Commercial Personal Care.

Senior Technical Specialist, Technical Specialist (1990-1996)
Supervised test method development lab and promoted into retail Tissue Brand Development sector.

• Implemented line extension for Fort James Quilted Northern® Double Roll Bathroom Tissue.
• Experienced in Voice of the Consumer for translating consumer needs into product physical attributes for towel, tissue, and napkin product lines. Wrote Product Definition/Specifications for many product lines.
• Reduced consumer complaints for bathroom tissue by 50% through data research and analysis that resulted in major restage of Quilted Northern Bathroom Tissue and increased market share for the brand.
• Trained R&D and manufacturing personnel on new softness and absorbency testing procedures for Quilted Northern Bathroom Tissue and Brawny® Paper Towel improvement projects.
• Contributed to the development and success of several test methods for towel, tissue, and napkin product lines. Wrote test procedures and standard operating procedures for these test methods. In addition, developed and wrote Train-The-Trainer documents for each procedure.
• Supervised research and development Test Method Development Laboratory. Utilized tensile testers, friction testers, absorbency testers, bulk testers and image analysis systems, as well as conducted and maintained Quality Control for the lab.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2003
To increase the understanding of neuronal systems involved in psychotic disorders, with long-term aim of developing treatment approaches for prevention of psychosis.

Senior Research Assistant – Department of Psychiatry
Study behavioral plasticity of neuronal systems directly relevant to psychosis at both the behavioral and molecular levels.
• Organized Behavioral Research Laboratory, as well as conducted data analysis on the experiments

MARSHFIELD MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Marshfield, Wisconsin) 1987-1990
One of the ten largest private medical research complexes in the United States, with more than 150 employees and an annual budget of over $12 million.

Research Associate, Research Assistant – Protein Chemistry Laboratory
Performed quality control analysis, as well as protein isolation and characterization, utilizing multiple techniques for hypertensive pregnant women.

• Participated in writing technical papers based on research conducted for hypertensive pregnant women.
• Developed test methods for characterizing proteins, as well as for quality control.
• Maintained instruments in laboratory based on quality control data analysis.
• Participated in the isolation of angiotensinogen for research use as well as for sale to vendors.

EDUCATION

BS, Zoology
University of Wisconsin - Madison

SKILLS & TRAINING

Microsoft Office, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, WordPerfect, StatGraphics, SAS JMP, Quality Function Deployment, Freelance Graphics, Kepner-Tregoe Project Management Training and Problem Solving Skills

CONTINUING EDUCATION

DISC Assessment/Myers Briggs Seminar 2005, Values Added Leadership Training 2004, Product Warranty and Patents 2004, New Product Development Seminar 2000, Planning and Developing New Products and Markets 2000, Costing for Product Developers 1998, Creative Thinking Seminar 1997, Design of Experiments 1995, Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists 1994, Fiber and Paper Physics Seminar 1993, Wet-end Chemistry Seminar 1992, Introduction to Synectics 1992, Zeiss/Vidas Image Analysis Training Course 1991, Tecan Training Course 1989, Survey of Biochemistry – University of Wisconsin Marshfield – Wood County Campus 1988

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Decking Industry Association (DIA), American Marketing Association (AMA), Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), and Job Search Focus Group Volunteer

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