
Margarita B.
Senior Business Leader / Sr PM / Technology
Profile
Award-winning Senior Leader in the technology industry. Strong program management experience in digital transformation and innovative product delivery. Often recruited to solve problems that involve developing the strategy and clear deliverables that inspire and enable large, dispersed global teams of up to 150 employees to achieve business goals.
Key Skills & Competencies
• Strategic Prioritization: Prioritized 280+ strategic projects based on business impact, business value, and technical feasibility analysis enabling $500 Million on cost savings.
• Agile PM: SAFe & Scrum Product Owner expert with 4 years driving Agile transformation. Director-level experience managing strategic roadmaps, backlogs trade-off decisions, requirements definition, and KPI development
• Cross-Functional Leadership: 12+ years leading matrixed teams across engineering, DT, operations and quality functions. Director-level leadership of 150+ member global teams across multiple value streams
• Budget & Portfolio Management: Proven experience managing $1M-$250M budgets
• Change Management: expert in ADKAR methodology, successfully transforming processes for 6,000 mechanics and delivering $16M in annual savings.
• Quality & Compliance: Deep expertise in FAA certification, aerospace quality gates and regulatory compliance
TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Revenue Impact: Owned end-to-end product roadmaps delivering $86M incremental revenue over 5 years through strategic feature prioritization and market-driven development
• Product Transformation: Transformed product line from $8M loss to $4M profit through strategic priorization
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Directed global teams (150+ members) implementing technology solutions while managing complex cross-functional dependencies
• Data-Driven Results: Created data-driven dashboards and KPI tracking systems resulting in $6M cost savings through system optimization
• User Adoption Success: Led user adoption strategies for 6,000+ users ensuring product adoption
Professional Experience
OTIS ELEVATOR, Farmington, CT
Senior Manager, Innovation (Led 21 employees) | 1 year
o Defined 5-year product roadmap with integrated KPIs and experimentation framework to drive business outcomes. Effectively communicated product vision and strategic roadmap to senior leadership.
o Integrated new products into existing system architecture, collaborating with engineering on design and scalability.
Senior Manager, Skyrise - high-speed elevator system designed for the world's tallest buildings | 2 years
(managed: 1 PM, product owner, 3 managers, 15 engineers, 30 cross-functional team members)
o Led team that delivered products with incremental revenue of $86M over 5 years through strategic feature development and market positioning.
o Coordinated complex dependences across engineering, operations and field services teams ensuring timely, high-quality product delivery.
Senior Mgr, Gen3Core Program Mgr | 2 years
(Led 5 PMs, 150 engineers, 15 cross-functional members)
o As the Agile Product Owner, created the strategic roadmap with data-driven dashboards and KPI tracking, resulting in $6M cost savings through new cybersecure cloud based technology/architecture deployed across all Elevator products.
o Created the Go-to-Market Strategy for ensuring a safe and quality-driven installation that resulted in a reduction in safety incidents across a team of 6,000 field mechanics. Developed comprehensive change management strategy plans for field mechanic training, achieving successful process adoption and mitigation resistance.
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RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES (RTX)- (merged with UTC in 2020), CT, IL & Singapore
PRATT & WHITNEY (P&W) (A UTC COMPANY), East Hartford, CT | 2 years
Senior Mgr, Strategy Product Manager/Program Mgr (Led 55 employees)
• Conducted competitive analysis and market research to identify opportunities and inform product roadmap decisions.
• Partnered across 17 operation sites to create and prioritize 280 projects based on ROI analysis and technical feasibility assessments and KPIs enabling $500 Million in cost savings.
• Communicated product vision and strategic initiatives to senior leadership, securing buy-in through data-driven presentations.
PRATT & WHITNEY (P&W) (A UTC COMPANY), East Hartford, CT | 2 years
Senior Mgr, Business Product Manager/ Platform Program Manager (Led 72 employees)
• Managed complete product development from concept to launch, transforming product line from loss to profit through strategic backlog management and multimillion dollar budget optimization.
• Led team to deliver first product in less than 5 months of regulatory certification.
COLLINS AEROSPACE (A UTC COMPANY), Windsor Locks, CT | 2 years
Customer Product Quality Manager/Programs (Led 8 quality engineers and 5 engineering managers at global operations sites)
• Developed robust accountability across global cross-functional team (Supply chain, Operations, Engineering) earning Supplier Top Achievement Award from Customer at 2015 Paris Airshow.
• Defined end-to-end roadmap improving On Time Product Delivery by 9% through data-driven decisions.
• Co-led site evaluation for FAA audits and re-certification for Windsor Locks site (2,000 employees).
UTC HEADQUARTERS, Illinois, Singapore, Middletown, CT | 2 years
Selected for the prestigious Operations Leadership 2 year Program with 3 rotations in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality.
Operations and Quality Manager (Supervised 7 eng. and shop employees) - Singapore and Illinois
o Directed 5 Quality Clinic employees achieving inventory reduction of Millions of dollars
Materials Manager (Supervised 7 employees)
o Enhanced group effectiveness through digital tool implementation, optimizing 12.5 hours/week workload.
Strategic Supply Chain Manager (Led 5 employees)
o Negotiated $2.5M LTA with strategic supplier, completing project resulting in $1M savings
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OTIS ELEVATOR (A UTC COMPANY), Bloomfield, CT | 3 years
Software Engineer, OSC (Led 3 Engineers)
Led global SW test team (Field, Engineering) to launch 100% on time Hydro product.
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THE SIEMON COMPANY, Watertown, CT | 2 years
Electrical/Software Engineer
Reduced 93% time on parts inspection in global sites by deploying innovative software tool.
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UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, Mayagüez, PR (funded by NASA and NSF) | 2 years
Research Assistant
Built predictive weather model for Puerto Rico using data analytics and historical climate patterns
Community Experience
Education
EMBA - Management, Indiana University | IN, Bloomington, USA
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico | Mayagüez, PR, USA
B.S. Electronics Engineering, Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, COLOMBIA
Other Experience/Awards/Publications
• Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney Award Winner (Multi-years)
