Post Job Free
Sign in

Customer Service Engineer

Location:
Pflugerville, TX, 78660
Posted:
April 22, 2010

Contact this candidate

Resume:

Rene Quarshie

***** ********* ****** ****

Pflugerville, TX 78660

512-***-****

**********@*******.***

Product Marketing Manager

Turnaround / Market Sensing / Market Problems / Opportunity Analysis / Feature Definition /

Roadmapping / LEAN / Market Requirements / Product Launch Planning / Cost Control /

Market Segmentation / Agile Pragmatic Marketing / Margin and Profit Growth / Training /

Competitive Analysis / Change Adoption / Brand Ownership /

Customer Service / CRM / Pre & Post Support

An engineer and a product professional who consistently balances market value against

schedule, competencies, resources, and investment constraints to define the most

competitive product possible. I monitor and increase overall customer endorsement of

products and services to secure significant market share. In an environment of continuous

change, I increase competitive advantage through sound and profitable product initiatives.

I use solid leadership capabilities to socialize new product initiatives, perform

customer visits, call reports, and win/loss analysis in a collaborative environment to

identify new innovation opportunities, institutionalize product vision to increase

idea conversion, and provide the personal ownership to see it to completion.

* Maintaining a holistic/systems view of product strategy; coordinating market demand,

customer needs, engineering constraints with business opportunity

* Increasing competitive advantage through product initiatives

* Collaborating across products and product-lines to leverage core assets effectively

* Unifying teams within a culture of constant change to create an environment of high

performance and standards of excellence.

Key Characteristics: Highly resourceful, versatile and analytical. Accepts personal

responsibility for product success and failure. Exceptional team motivator with

strong leadership skills. Turns complex liabilities into strong assets. Bridges

tactical action and strategic thinking. Demands results from a strong process focus.

I received my MBA in International Business with distinction from the Keller School of

Management in 2009. My BS in Computer Engineering is from the University of Delaware

in 2001.

Career History

Senior Design Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor, (a $5B manufacturer producing

integrated circuit products focused on the automotive, embedded and communications

markets), 2001 to Present. Led a team of up to five. Provided comprehensive engineering and

product definition support. Gathered market evidence, developed problem statements,

analyzed business opportunities, defined product features, created competitive

roadmaps, developed market requirements, and planned product launches. Consistently

delivered product on time and within budget according to my product roadmap.

Customer Service Advocate, Risk & Fraud Analyst, MBNA America, 1997 to 2001. While a

fulltime student, sold credit card products and provided assistance to customer with

credit card inquiries. Researched credit cards to determine any fraudulent activities.

Research Assistant, University of Delaware, 1997 to 2001. Conducted research to

investigate different methods of reducing the computational time required to process and

manipulate digital images. Reduced the computational time required from days to hours

using MPI resulting in a 400% improvement.



Contact this candidate