David Schneider

About David Schneider

Summary: Innovative Global Leader, successful at driving strategic growth in highly technical businesses, focused on people-centric outcomes, delighting customers and consumers, and resulting in exponential, profitable, revenue growth. Ready to transform critical strategic business objectives into results. Executive geared to take calculated risk to permanently increase business and financial upsides Cultivate entrepreneurial culture & values while driving Fortune 500 level business success Lead C-level multi-division strategy, product portfolio management, and business reinventionSpecialize in discovering Unique Selling Propositions (USPs), and inventing new product and operational solutions, through deep and active listening to the Voice of Customers [internal and external VOC]. Work through amazing teams to leverage AI classification, process, and generative models, to enhance current products and invent new ones. Guide those teams to merge marketing strategies, product roadmaps, commercial business models, operational efficiency initiatives, and product development processes into long-term, profitable customer partnerships. Inspire those same teams to unleash their creativity, realize product marketing differentiation, simultaneously increase cost competitiveness, and win profitable business of unprecedented scope. Expertise: Strategy - Hardware & Software Portfolio Strategy- Go To Market Product & Bundle Strategy - People-Centric Leadership- Service Based Leadership - Business Model DevelopmentManagement - AI-based Product and Process Development- Hardware & Software Product Management- Program Execution Optimization - System Architecture Optimization - Small and large team building- Change Agent Mindset

Experience

1. Vice President of Product Portfolio Management

   HARMAN International

   May 2023 — Present · Novi, MI, US

   Lead talented teams of product managers, engineers, AI specialists, technicians, and analysts driving the Car Audio multi-product portfolio. Assets include our audio framework and tools, sound generation, road, and noise management software products, transducers, amplifiers, microphones, sensors, and unique experience product bundles melding Cockpit IVI, ADAS, and Audio Software. Manage overall product planning and business metrics for the multi-billion dollar portfolio of products Create consumer-centric new product lines and market spaces to transform the business Develop new business models, processes, and best practices to drive stability and growth Develop AI and generative AI-based products to increase “wow” factor and improve performance Leverage AI in code and test Software development to increase speed, efficiency, and quality

Education

• Purdue University

  Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering

  1994 — 1998

• Purdue University

  Engineering

• Purdue University

  Mechanical Engineering

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  MBA, Functional and Program Management

  2002 — 2008

Skills

• Automotive
• Six Sigma
• Layout
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Performance Tuning
• Income Statement
• Manufacturing
• Financial Risk
• Gd&T
• Apqp
• Engineering Management
• Strategy
• New Business Development
• Team Leadership
• Ppap
• Vehicles
• Lean Manufacturing
• Program Management
• Acoustics
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Purchasing
• Product Design
• Product Development
• Systems Engineering
• Dfmea
• Engineering
• Product Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Project Planning
• Fmea
• Electronics
• Testing
• Continuous Improvement
• Components
• Consumer Electronics
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Spc
• Automotive Engineering
• Management
• Design for Manufacturing