Matt Nelson

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ABOUT MATT NELSON

Experienced Product Development Leader with over twenty years experience in the consumer product industry, with an emphasis on successfully defining and delivering highly technical HW/SW product solutions to market needs, driving multidisciplinary teams, problem solving, and operating with a creative approach in design and development to make something Great!•Lead multi-disciplinary teams in focus and delivery of consumer electronics products and subsystems•PRD/Product Spec definition and creation•User Experience and User Interface definition •ODM/JDM and CM model product development experience•Drive technical tradeoff decisions, and communicate, issues, risks, and status to the larger organization•Voice of the development team for the entire company•Deliver and implement phase gate processes for product development to align with all other organizational departments•Extensive Asian factory and vendor relations experience•Relentless ownership of managing schedules, issues, and risks•Lead teams through technical problem solving using out-of-the-box approachesSpecialties: Product development and architecture. Product line definition and feature/customer benefit ideation. Consumer electronic product design, mechanical and electrical. Acoustic/audio design experience. Product marketing exposure.Proven competency in the successful launch of numerous programs and products on budget and schedule through the disciplined implementation of New Product Development phase gates and cross functional team leadership involving technical and creative ability.