Joel Miller
I am energized everyday by the opportunity to inspire and develop the next generation of innovators.
- Role
- Director, Product Strategy & Development at Xcel Energy
- Location
- Utica, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joel Miller
Innovation Leadership & Systems DesignerWith over 30 years of experience, the discovery, incubation and acceleration activities are continuously improved to achieve deeper integration. This enables a seamless flow from projects to platform to portfolios of opportunity by leveraging a wide variety of strategic innovation toolsets.In the absence of a clear articulated vision, challenging teams to engage in rapid iterative customer interactions to expose the market disrupting opportunities that will contribute to the earnings goals. This encourages being bold and mitigates the risk of the incremental mindset.Create a visionary portfolio of new business opportunities that are uniquely specific to support the business. Utilize a diversified field of knowledge across technology and markets and the ability to fine-tune the timing of the projects so they can be fully leveraged before their expiration date.Focus on leveraging a systems-view of the processes, tools, and teams that gain deep insight into customer behaviors, market potential, and the application of emerging technology to deliver an excellent stakeholder and customer experience.
Experience
Director, Product Strategy & Development
May 2023 — Present · Denver, CO, US
Leading the Advanced Grid Customer Solutions team to deliver new digital energy products and services enabled by the company’s investment in the Advanced Grid and maximizing the benefits for our customers from the deployment of the latest in AMI meters.
Education
Wayne State University
BET, Mechanical Engineering Technology
1982 — 1984
Xerox Corporate Lean Six Sigma
Certified Black & Green Belt, DMAIC & DMEDI Quality Improvement Methodology and Tools
2007 — 2008
Central Michigan University
MBA, Value Driven Organization
2008 — 2011
Macomb Community College
AAS, Special Machine Design
1979 — 1981
Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Root Cause Analysis
- Solution Architecture
- Black Belt
- Project Execution
- Process Improvement
- Process Mapping
- Outsourcing
- 5s
- Business Management
- Project Planning
- Dmaic
- Operational Excellence
- Design of Experiments
- Doe
- Business Architecture
- Quality Management
- Lean Initiatives
- Voice of the Process
- Project Delivery
- Continuous Improvement
- Change Management
- Management Consulting
- Lean Manufacturing
- Kaizen
- Data Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Program Management
- Systems Analysis
- Quality Companion
- Business Process Improvement
- Data Mining
- Requirements Analysis
- Consultancy
- Project Facilitation
- Quality Assurance
- Six Sigma
- Re-Engineering
- Lean Sigma
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