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Mar
5

Smart Meters Recruiting Director Product Portfolio Management, Boston

by Charles Moore

The Company had a background in building telecom and wireless RF components.  Two years prior to this retained recruiting search, this publicly traded company in the Northeast opened a new division to penetrate the smart energy and smart meters market with M2M communications modules for Automated Metering Infrastructure.

Smart Meters recruiting  a retained search case study

They had added several partners in manufacturing and systems integration, but felt the vendor relationships needed a primary management role in order to deliver on the smart meters business strategy into the highly competitive smart grids marketplace and needed a Director of Product Portfolio Management for their growing business.

Smart Meters Director Retained Search Strategy

Smart Meters recruiting for AMI Smart Grid M2M Wireless Data Radios

The Director of Portfolio Product Management would be tasked with developing relationships and projects that would define and lead the integration of the company’s smart meters products into a diverse and broad range of domestic and international smart energy and smart grid 3.0 M2M, communications, utilities regulatory bodies, and metering systems and subsystems partners’ platforms.

In order to meet the Performance Objectives as defined, the ideal candidate needed a background in the utilities metering markets and wireless data radios, preferably M2M for power management and remote monitoring.

The candidate also needed relationships with smart meters and energy vendors and regulatory bodies in North America and Europe.  A proven track record in growing product portfolios and increasing market share against strong competition was essential.

Result of Retained Search for Smart Meters Director

Within 4 months of the candidate hired from NextGen Global Executive Search, the new Director for smart meters had strengthened 3 existing partnerships resulting in contract bids of $184M and grew the team by adding a KEY Senior Solutions Engineer to work directly on customer requirements and defining smart meters strategies for the customers.  The client has initiated a new retained search assignment with us for a VP role.

0 Categories : Smart Meters - Smart Grids
Feb
23

Mobile OS Navigation Application – Test and Benchmark Android, Blackberry, iOS

by Moe Tanabian

Project Objectives: Benchmark and outline strengths and weaknesses of the customer’s mobile OS navigation application against its competitors and recommend areas for improvement across all their smartphones including mobile OS Android, Blackberry, and iOS

Project Description: Benchmark customers navigation application again competitors’ navigation apps and against Google Maps; benchmark usability, battery consumption, and data usage.

Recent Project case study of mobile OS navigation application by testing and benchmarking smartphones using Android, Blackberry, and iOS.  Project led by Moe Tanabian, Practice Lead for NextGen TechDNA Engineering Services.

 

0 Categories : Engineering Services
Feb
23

Quality Improvement Program – reduce supply chain costs

by Steve Caballero - SPHR, CQF

Client:  Mobile Devices Distributor

Project Objective:  Develop a strategy to design and implement a Quality Improvement Program designed to reduce supply chain operating costs and improve internal distribution (warehouse and retail operations, finance, procurement, and a supplier) times.

 

Sustainability Solution:  Identified redundant and wasteful issues with supply chain processes and implemented within 3 weeks a new process that reduced costs in two operations by 34% and 37% and improved Quality Assurance methods.

0 Categories : Talent - Business Sustainability
Feb
2

iPhone and iPad Hybrid iOS application for VoD portal

by Charles Moore

Project Objectives: Deliver excellent user experience (similar or surpassing Hulu) for a Video-on-Demand (VoD) portal using HTML5 as much as possible to maintain portability and native code when performance is compromised by HTML

Project Description:  Developing Hybrid client application under iOS for a VoD site with engineering the main UI, user management in HTML5, content navigation (image carousel) in native code, and media player in native code.

Project:  iPhone and iPad Hybrid iOS application for Video on Demand portal

Recent Project case study of  Apple iPhone and iPad iOS hybrid application for VoD (video-on-demand) portal led by Moe Tanabian, Practice Lead for NextGen TechDNA Engineering Services Smartphone and Wireless Consulting

0 Categories : Engineering Services
Feb
2

Director Network Systems Software – Future Battle Management

by Craig Hufford

future battle management applicationsObjective: NextGen Global Executive Search was retained to fill a Director of Network System Software for Future Battle Management Applications.  The search was critical in that this client was bringing this person on board to head up a new system software division.   This person would be responsible for exploring new technology and building a team in an industry that is known for its difficulty in doing so.   The client came to NextGen GES because of our reputation in the market for similar searches, as well as the client’s confidence in our ability to deliver the right candidates quickly.

 Search Strategy: NextGen GES conducted a thorough search for candidates in the geographical areas stated by the customer which included key competitors and parallel industries. Our focus was on candidates that were currently employed making significant contributions to their companies. We interviewed more than 20 candidates in an industry where candidates at this level must possess high level clearance in an effort to find the one individual who would meet or exceed the skill level, culture and leadership fit.

Results: The search resulted in NextGen GES finding four candidates from the client’s direct competitors who were performing similar responsibilities and ready for a new challenge. Feedback from the client showed that the chosen candidate had not only met but exceeded their own expectation. The client was particularly pleased with our search method and immediately moved to make an offer of employment.  In addition, they were quite satisfied with how our team kept them informed throughout the process, the speed in which we executed, and the quality of the selected candidates.

Client: Defense Systems Subcontractor

Case study of retained search led by Craig Hufford, Practice Lead for NextGen Global Executive Search in recruiting a Director of Network Systems Software for Future Battle Management Applications for a major defense subcontractor.

0 Categories : Aerospace - Defense
Jan
31

Director Product Portfolio Management Plasma Technologies

by Craig Hufford

plasma sugical medical device nextgen global executive search Objective: NextGen Global Executive Search was retained to fill a Director of Program, Product and Portfolio Management for Blood Collection  in Plasma Surgical Medical Devices R&D.  Reporting to the VP of Advanced Development this highly visible position was to provide a significant influence to the product portfolio of a growing, $500 million business and was to offer professional growth that included daily interaction with the Executive Management Team. This client, who had used us before, came to NextGen GES because of our reputation in the market for similar searches, as well as the client’s confidence in our ability to deliver the right candidates quickly based on our previous track record with them.

Search Strategy: NextGen GES conducted a thorough search for candidates throughout United States and Canada which included key competitors in parallel and similar industries. Our customer had instructed NextGen start our search at the local level before standing nationally. Our focus was on candidates that were currently employed making significant contributions to their companies. Having interviewed more than 12 candidates at the local level, NextGen GES was able to distill those candidate profiles into 3 outstanding candidates presented in a “short list” to the overwhelming satisfaction of the customer. All candidates presented on the short list were local to the area.

Results: The search resulted in NextGen GES finding a candidate from one of the client’s direct competitors who were performing similar responsibilities and ready for a new challenge. Feedback from the client showed that the candidate had not only met but exceeded their own expectation. The client was particularly pleased with our search methods and exhaustive research and immediately moved to make an offer of employment. In addition, they were quite satisfied with how our team kept them informed throughout the process, the speed in which we executed, the quality of the selected candidates and the fact that NextGen had saved them considerable relocation costs by finding a local candidate. This client continues to use us for many additional and ongoing high level searches.

Client: Major Medical Device Manufacturer of surgical plasma devices for Director Product Portfolio Management

Case study of retained search

0 Categories : Surgical | Medical Devices
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