Brandon Y.

Responsible for evaluating and implementing new solutions, and delivering new proof-of-concept projects at Staples for both employees and customers. Conduit between the Technology team and the lines of business. Translating the requirements from the business teams, and executing from a technology perspective. Building relationships and liaising with various stakeholders, internal and external, to understand the impact of any changes to products or services on our employee processes and customer engagement.

Project manager for new product development. I managed all aspects globally regarding warranty, support, and services. Utilizing and participating in both waterfall and agile (with sprint cycles) for developing hardware products, software products, appliances, reference architectures, and collaborative products with external enterprises and vendors. Worked with external software companies, and multiple cross-functional teams to ensure world-wide product readiness and ship support (sales execs, hardware devs, software engineers, manufacturing, procurement, etc).

Portfolio manager and analyst for high-volume servers, storage, and software services portfolio globally; while managing and implementing unique side-projects. Analyzed marketing data to create competitive price points for services portfolios. Utilized relational enterprise datasets to create sales reports for business partners and local sales teams to increase sales. Created and programmed custom targeted email campaigns to business partners.

Managed and enabled services portfolio for high-volume machines with a high focus on utilizing relational modelling to drive data-based decisions making.

Designed 3D models of new products. Drafts were created and sent for production and manufacturing in China.