Education
Sophia University
BA, Comparative Literature 1983-01-01 - 1985-01-01Colgate University
, Liberal Arts 1981-01-01 - 1983-01-01Work Experience
On Tap Consulting
Current
On Tap Consulting
Ubiquity Ventures
Current
Ubiquity Ventures
Multiple Startups
Current
Multiple Startups
Hubble Labs
2012-01-01 - 2013-12-01
Hubble Labs
Cisco
2009-05-01 - 2011-12-01
Cisco
Santur Corporation
2010-01-01 - 2011-10-01
Santur Corporation
Pure Digital Technologies
2004-06-01 - 2009-05-01
Pure Digital Technologies
KAA Partners
2000-06-01 - 2004-06-01
KAA Partners
AuctionWatch.com
1999-06-01 - 2000-03-01
AuctionWatch.com
Photo Access
1998-06-01 - 1999-06-01
Photo Access
Skills
Summary
With over 25 years of experience at the executive level, Andre provides Executive Coaching with a focus on increasing leadership effectiveness, teamwork, and personal development. Andre also consults for entrepreneurs and founders of venture-backed startups to develop operations and manufacturing strategies, accelerate product launches, navigate NPI (New Product Introduction) builds, and grow and manage teams. Andre draws from past professional experiences, including: * Operating at the VP level at two Fortune 500 companies * Working as a VP and then promoted to COO at three startups * Hiring, mentoring, and coaching managers who have risen to the highest executive levels * Running cross-functional product teams with P&L responsibility * Managing through rapid growth, high volume production, and industry downturns in the disk drive industry with over 50 product launches of these complex, electromechanical products * Working in factories in the U.S., Europe, and across Asia Prior to Cisco Systems where he served as VP of Engineering & Operations at Cisco Consumer Products, Andre built and led successful teams at Pure Digital Technologies (Flip Video; sold to Cisco Systems) where he was COO. Since founding On Tap Consulting in 2013, the company has grown to more than two dozen veteran executives with expertise, experience, resources and connections to help you succeed. Andre is a certified Executive Leadership Development Coach through Kaiser Leadership Solutions on their 360 Degree Leadership Versatility Index (LVI) feedback tool. http://www.ontap.consulting