Area Manager at Siemens Wind Power
Houston, Texas Area
- Current
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- Area Manager at Siemens Wind Power
- Past
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- Finance/Operations at Texas Instruments
- Program Manager, Customer Operations at Inet Technologies (Now part of Tektronix)
- Electrical Engineer at Texas Instruments/Raytheon/Triquint
- Education
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- Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
- Tulane University
- Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts (LSMSA)
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- Industry
- Renewables & Environment
- Websites
Jennifer Dillon’s Summary
Management professional with over ten years of business experience in high-tech companies. Proven abilities include program management on multi-million dollar customer accounts, field sales trials, competitive market and product analyses, customer relationships, product plans, organizational skills, financial ROI analysis and cost reductions, operational analysis, renewable energy options analyses.
Interested in renewable energy and sustainable/clean tech projects to promote a better future. Featured blogger on www.cleantechcollective.com.
Jennifer Dillon’s Specialties:
Program management, Financial and Operational analyses, Sustainability analysis, LEED, Cost analysis
Jennifer Dillon’s Experience
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Area Manager
Siemens Wind Power
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
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Finance/Operations
Texas Instruments
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)
July 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 1 month)
•Analyze $100M in inventory for environmental RoHS compliance.
•Involved in cost/benefit analysis for environmental LEED retrofitting of existing TI buildings.
•Perform competitor analyses on ramping products and strategic market positioning.
•Present P&L and Balance Sheet reviews quarterly to leadership team.
•Led effort to take accounting team paperless while SOx complaint. Process is being deployed worldwide in 2008.
•One of two contract coordinators for $2B business. Train teams on business-specific contract process.
Finance/Operations Development Program, 2004 – 2006
•One of seven MBAs hired into respected 40-year-old leadership development program in 2004.
•Rotated between Marketing, Operations and Finance projects in four TI businesses; managed projects in six month assignments.
•Market product analyses used by investor relations and Washington lobbyists in G8 negotiations.
•Performed contract and budget review for TI media ad campaigns and for DLP Marketing. -
Program Manager, Customer Operations
Inet Technologies (Now part of Tektronix)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 1997 — July 2002 (4 years 9 months)
•Managed multiple multi-million dollar programs, leading to contractual milestone payments at KPN Telecom, Portugal Telecom, Telenor, Vodafone Portugal, Swisscom and more.
•Communicated daily with customers and engineering teams to ensure projects were on track for contractual deadlines.
•Traveled to customer locations approx. 25% for various executive and engineering meetings.
•Troubleshot customer issues and worked to minimize risks on contract schedules.
•Developed and presented kickoff packages, project plans and issue resolution plans to executive teams.
•Worked with sales and legal teams in the sizing and pricing of over twenty multi-million dollar contracts.
•With only six hours notice, assumed role of sales engineer on the TPSA field trial in Poland, leading to first GSM customer. -
Electrical Engineer
Texas Instruments/Raytheon/Triquint
(Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
June 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 6 months)
Designed Analog/RF circuits to defense contract specifications.
Jennifer Dillon’s Education
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Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
MBA, Finance and Marketing, 2002 — 2004
One of ten recipients of the merit-based, two-year, full-tuition Cox Distinguished MBA Scholarship.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude- Activities and Societies:
- Co-chair of the Cox MBA Honor Council, overseeing cases for all full-time, part-time and executive MBA students.
Cox Ambassador, recruiter for incoming students.
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Tulane University
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1992 — 1996
Recipient of the merit-based, four-year, full-tuition Dean's Honor Scholarship.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude- Activities and Societies:
- Recipient of an undergraduate Department of Energy grant for III-V semiconductor precursor (zintl) research: evaluating more environmentally-friendly processes to form semiconductors. Team’s work under Dr. Brent Koplitz published in Applied Physics Letters, April 24, 1995,Volume 66, Issue 17, pp. 2241-2243.
Research assistant on Loyola University project under Dr. Lynn Koplitz, measured the heavy metal content of sediment samples from Bayou Trepagnier and Barataria Bay.
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Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts (LSMSA)
1990 — 1992
Additional Information
Jennifer Dillon’s Websites:
Jennifer Dillon’s Interests:
Renewable energy, sustainable design, green technology, corporate sustainability strategies, project management, financial leadership.
Jennifer Dillon’s Groups:
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Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts (LSMSA)
Jennifer Dillon’s Contact Settings
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