Jesse is a driven entrepreneur with over 18 years’ experience leading New Product Development, Manufacturing, Remanufacturing, Outsourcing Production, Procurement, International & Domestic Logistics, and Sales/Marketing organizations. He is passionate about helping people succeed by identifying and focusing on what is most important to them. His overarching aims are to align purpose and values and to implement processes to achieve common goals.
He believes in high integrity and a positive attitude in every form of personal service.
Education:
- B.E. – Bachelor of Engineering
- MBA/MIS
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- Provided directions to the operations and effective implementation of international projects.
- Successfully delivered a large-scale project of new, refurbished, and used mobile phones, electronic components, and overstock consumer electronics.
- Successfully managed end-to-end auctions and salvage reporting, customer contracts, procedures, and policies.
- Oversaw recycling services, including handset and accessory sales consignment, handset disassembly, parts reclamation, battery disposal, and raw material processing.
- Scheduled and managed offsite support, communication, trade shows (CTIA, CES, CAMEX, ASD, and ECRM) every year as well as customer events, vendor road shows, and internal meetings. Interfaced regularly with colleagues and stakeholders for various business issues.
- Obtained firsthand experience in working and negotiating with wireless OEM carriers, insurance providers, and scaled repair shops.
- Successfully established relationships with AT&T, T-Mobile, Alltel, Metro PCS, Motorola, Cellular South, and other Tier III carriers for Asset Management Inventory and their refurbishing projects.
- Established relationship with Motorola for Level III “OOW” Center.
- Effectively managed Samsung’s LCD reclamation project.
- Initiated, planned, executed, and enforced operational management procedures, project management methodologies, and production support infrastructure.
- Acquired experience working in Salesforce and QuickBooks.
- Successfully directed CRM team members to execute and support strategies for improving marketing effectiveness, increasing marketing ROI, and identifying new business.
- Developed supplier management relationships, supplier certification processes (certified by LG, Motorola, and Nokia), and communications practices with international vendors (China and Korea), OEMs, distributors, and aftermarket sources for handsets and accessories such as batteries, chargers, LCDs, plastic housings, keypads, and power cords.
- Collaborated with other supply management team members to improve fill rates, to determine best practice inventory management processes, to monitor supplier performance, and to reduce the total cost of the supply chain.
- Procured extensive knowledge of the Asian market as a Procurement Manager.
Business Management:
- Highly detail-oriented and organized with excellent analytic and problem-solving abilities.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- 15 years of Program/Project Management experience in areas directly tied to revenue generation.
- Played an integral role in complex new product launches involving significant cross-functional dependencies:
- Sales
- Legal
- Finance
- Billing
- IT
- Network
- Demonstrate understanding of how to own and drive projects to successful completion.
- Armed with the ability to think quickly and to assimilate diverse information to make sound business decisions.
- Possess excellent communication skills that enable clear understanding of project status, key issues, and actions.
- Exhibit emergent leadership characteristics:
- Taking on tasks voluntarily
- Helping others complete their tasks more thoroughly and efficiently
- Encouraging consensus among coworkers
- Ability to add value to projects through business experience.
- Experience in driving the delivery of large, complex ordering platforms.
- Enterprise business markets experience.
- Experience in managing complex organizations.
- Proactive attitude with clear demonstration of making things happen.
- Demonstration of creative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to interact with internal cross-functional resources at the peer, subordinate, and executive levels of the organization while tailoring communications appropriately to each audience.
- Capable of interacting with external partners, customers, or vendor resources as required to implement a project’s main objective.