Keith McConnell

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About Keith McConnell

I lead teams to improve or invent new products & business processes. Career highlights: • Drove over $10 billion dollars in revenue for Motorola by leading teams of product designers to invent breakthrough new products such as the Motorola RAZR cell phone. • Delivered $80 million dollars in profit for Hewlett Packard Enterprise by leading large cross functional teams to improve communications between product designers, sales & supply chain.The key component of my success: Effectively managing and mentoring people. My unique leadership strength is in quickly identifying the skills needed to solve unique complex problems, recognizing & leverage those skills from each team member, mentoring to strengthen their skills and supplementing with outside talent as needed. Specialties: Product Strategy | User Driven Innovation | Design Thinking | User Experience (UX)| User Experience Design (UED)| Experience Design | Usability | Voice of Customer | Observational Research | Market Research Analysis | KJ Affinity Analysis | Kano Analysis | Concept Engineering | Quality Function Deployment | QFD | Brainstorming | Ideation | Pugh Concept Selection | Design for Six Sigma | DFSS | DMADV | CDOV | User Interface Design | Interaction Design | Human Computer Interaction | Product Marketing | Product Development Process | Lean | Six Sigma | DMAIC | Process Improvement | Transformation | Program Management | Project Management | Agile | Team Leadership | Mentoring | Motivating My personal passions include practical and relationship philosophies - I lead the Greater Houston Stoic Philosophy Group and also a local Men's group providing mutual support to overcome life's many challenges.I also enjoy writing, recording & performing new music in the classic rock style. You can find my work on Spotify, iTunes and YouTube under the name of my band -"Texas Blackdirt Overdrive".