Don Kennel
Delighting people daily with a vision on technology, arts & fun ... creating ideas and teams that deliver, with a dash of curiosity along the way
- Role
- Sprits Champion at Maine Craft Distilling
- Location
- Cape Elizabeth, ME, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Don Kennel
A passion for addressing peoples needs with the right solutions that deliver, satisfy and engage for more. Leadership in Engineering for product creation and growth. Excels at tactical initiatives for product initiation & development, process and team management, and strategic initiatives in the areas of software enterprise architecture, design and development environments. Provides technical leadership to longer-term, technology and product roadmaps and business opportunities. COO and CTO experience with several small businesses (Bach to Rock Wellesley, Historic Map Works). Driving technologies in Engineering, Health Care information, Life sciences, Arts and People to achieve amazing results,\"Making positive, unforgettable difference in Every Interaction\". Proven track record by creating and enhancing high value products. most recently at IDEXX helped drive VetLab business with products and services to ~$500M annual business in 6 years, adding 12 new products. o Created and nurtured a cohesive, diverse and dynamic culture, with excellent retention. This included the hiring of many high potentials, with key high performance behaviors, managing team to personal and professional objectives o An Agile advocate, practicing SCRUM every day o Prudently managed annual departmental budgets over $10 Million o Led cross-functional project teams at IDEXX and Bayer integrating the best talent in electronics, software and user experience releasing very successful products o Led several technology transfers of major platforms at Bayer (including a plant relocation from Oberlin Ohio to Tarrytown New York), supporting full development life cycle. o Quality Systems: ISO QSRs, FDA, IVDD, AAMI SW68, SEI CMM Level 2, GDPR
Experience
Sprits Champion
Mar 2014 — Present
Education
Penn State University
M.S., BioEngineering
Scrum Alliance.org
Certified Scrum Master, bigVisible.com
2012 — 2012
Android Certificate Program, UBM Electronics
Embedded Android Developer
2011 — 2012
Penn State University
B.S., BioPhysics
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