Richard G. Previte

RICHARD G. PREVITE

58 James Street 973-744-3381

Montclair, NJ 07042

TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT MANAGER

Process innovator, business analyst, and team leader with excellent education and industry credentials. Outstanding skill in analysis, problem solving, process management, and process improvement delivers bottom line results.

Process leadership experience includes / Systematic problem solving approach to:
management, analysis, and improvement of: / ·  Identify the root source of business issues,
·  Forecast
·  Product cost
·  Project schedule
·  Physical and staff resources / ·  Assemble available information,
·  Identify what additional data is needed,
·  Execute a process to collect this data, then
·  Discover and implement the best choices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SEQUENT LEARNING NETWORKS 2003 - 2004

A cross-industry Product Management training company

Director of Business Development

·  In my first Sales position, I was responsible for developing leads, contacting prospects by telephone and email, discovering the training challenges their teams were facing, and communicating the value of Sequent’s courses and professional development services in satisfying their needs.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 1995 – 2002

Senior Product Manager

Business Process Management and Leadership

·  Conceived and established the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Management Process which monitored and predicted product cost, established and maintained cost targets, tracked how well targets contributed to required margins, and published concise cost reports. Product cost was reduced by over $50 Million per year through all efforts organized by this process.

·  Developed Microsoft Access database applications to better manage COGS and forecast. Analysis using COGS database resulted in credits of $1 Million from suppliers in 2001.

·  Extracted order and shipment records from corporate information system and downloaded data into forecast database to match orders and shipments to forecast. This allowed tuning of factory build plan and less frequent, less severe shortage and excess inventory situations.

·  Maintained data in corporate systems to allow orders to properly flow through these systems, allowing prompt filling of customer orders and speedier billing and revenue recognition.

New Product Introduction

·  Managed new product introduction, cost, pricing, and forecast, investigated alternate vendors, and resolved miscellaneous issues for required power equipment.

·  Led multi-function, multi-company team to manage integration of vendor’s new power shelf into Lucent’s application, cutting cost and ending reliance on shelf that might be discontinued.

·  Overhauled and standardized Software Product Management, including creating, managing and/or approving order codes, documentation, artwork, administrative process, and internal web site.

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LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 1995 – 2002

Senior Product Manager (continued)

Strategic Planning

·  Coordinated, edited, and published the business unit’s Product Line Plan, its portfolio evolution statement and a framework for updating and monitoring the strategic plan.

·  Organized kickoff meeting for the AnyMedia Access System product team.

AT&T NETWORK SYSTEMS 1992 – 1995

Project Manager

Information Organization and Management

·  Tracked all key business metrics, including costs, project schedule, product fault data, and staff assignments.

·  Created process to extract business data from corporate financial reporting databases, organize it according to work project and department, and publish reports to the management team.

·  Designed and developed Microsoft Access application to manage the business unit’s staff assignments, allowing the organization to precisely plan which staff members would be associated with which projects, and how those assignments may be adjusted to allow new projects to be initiated while existing projects are continued, canceled, or delayed.

Project Management and Leadership

·  Managed prototype equipment program, including collection of customer request and supplier availability data followed by facilitation of customer and supplier negotiations to establish a plan that matched requirements and minimized expense.

·  Coordinated weekly Project Management meetings, tracked issues and analyzed their impact, and worked with the team to mitigate negative effects to schedule, budget, and features.

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES 1985 – 1992

Member of the Technical Staff

Software Engineering

·  Designed and developed Periodic Activity Manager, an object-oriented process scheduler.

·  Architected software for Non-Volatile Memory circuit pack.

·  Developed Functional Built-In-Test software subsystem, including requirements analysis, design, code, unit test, documentation, and presentation at internal and customer reviews.

EDUCATION

MBA, NYU Stern School of Business, 1992

Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 1987

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, 1985

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

·  Created and now teach “Wires, Bulbs, and Batteries” to 6-9 year old students at the Bergen Gifted Child Society’s Saturday Workshop.

·  Georg Goubau Memorial Prize in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1985