Steven Willis

Current

• Program Manager at Eastman Kodak Company

Past

• Product Marketing Manager at Xynetix
• Senior Applications Engineer at Harris EDA
• Group Leader, Design Automation at Unisys

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Education

• Drexel University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Steven Willis’s Summary

Innovative engineering manager with over 15 years of experience combining vision, technical knowledge and business management expertise. With a demonstrated ability to grow an organization’s capabilities and productivity while managing cost effective methods to address aggressive budget goals. Problem solver with outstanding analytical skills; strategic thinker; excellent communicator; leader with keen vision.

Steven Willis’s Specialties:

> Mergers and Acquisitions
> Supervision & team leadership
> Project management
> Engineering tool deployment & process integration (include requirements management, configuration management, testing, issue tracking, design, etc.) - including tool evaluations, consulting, technical research
> Engineering tool support for product development and IT application

Steven Willis’s Experience

• Program Manager

  Eastman Kodak Company

  (Public Company; EK; Consumer Goods industry)

  1996 — Present (13 years )

  Program manager for the engineering organization as it expanded to a worldwide support model.
  
  • Key team member for multiple acquisition and divestiture of organizations. Responsible for transition of technologies and productivity of organizations.
  • Program management for Microsoft Business Intelligence tool roll-out across multiple internal businesses.
  • Budgetary responsibilities with targets to reduce overall corporate spend for tools and support, while continuing to provide high user satisfaction levels.
  • Negotiation of new corporate agreements for major tool vendors with international sites and subsidiaries.
  • Supervisory responsibilities for a diverse team of engineers that ranged from senior level to entry level experience.

• Product Marketing Manager

  Xynetix

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year )

  Delivered product marketing plan for suite of tools that were successfully released to the market.
  
  · Positioning, pricing, packaging, and promotion marketing plans were developed for the roll out of new integration and validation tools.
  · Key team member for process characterization efforts at Apple Computer, Bay Networks, and British Aerospace.
  · Developed comprehensive test environment to support the new client/server based integration tools

• Senior Applications Engineer

  Harris EDA

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1991 — 1995 (4 years )

• Group Leader, Design Automation

  Unisys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1984 — 1991 (7 years )

Steven Willis’s Education

• Drexel University

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