Mark Lane
Franklin,TN
Summary
With a proven track record at SPX Aids to Navigation, I excel in cross-functional team leadership and strategic planning, steering global engineering initiatives and driving market expansion. My expertise in project management and stakeholder engagement has catalyzed significant growth, showcasing my ability to blend technical acumen with dynamic leadership.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, Engineering Americas and Global AtoN Strategy
SPX Aids to Navigation
Franklin, USA
10.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Direct the Engineering efforts of the Americas’ portion of the newly formed SPX Aids to Navigation business
- Responsible for an Engineering staff of 22 Engineers and Engineer Managers that develop new hardware and software products for the telecom tower, wind turbine, airfield, and marine transportation industry
- Provide strategic vision for the global organization on organic and inorganic growth opportunities
- Contributor to M&A activities of evaluating acquisitions, providing due diligence, and supporting integration with strategic project management
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Completed a third SPX acquisition for the Aids to Navigation business, integrating product responsibilities and absorbing engineering staff from a local TN business
- Established a collaborative environment with other global Engineering departments to leverage expertise and capacity for comprehensive product support and development
Global Director of Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
04.2018 - 10.2021
- Provide insightful perspective on Product Management needs versus Engineering capabilities
- Develop the product roadmap for new and existing products
- Experience balancing Engineering procedure with commercial needs of the business
- Contributor to M&A activities of evaluating acquisitions, providing due diligence, and supporting integration with strategic project management
- Responsible for a staff of 22 covering Product Management, Sustaining Engineering, Marketing, Training, and Technical Support
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Effectively set the vision for growing product line through both organic and inorganic processes, resulting in the acquisition of two solar powered lighting companies based in Finland and Australia
- Successfully integrated new product lines from the acquisition and collaborated with remote product management and R&D engineering on new product development
Director of Product Management and Marketing
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
04.2011 - 04.2018
- Manage a staff consisting of a communications specialist, analyst, and product managers
- Manage all product line pricing, sales, and margin analysis
- Analyze and adjust product positioning in the marketplace
- Guide development and launch of new products
- Meet regularly with customers for insight on product enhancements and new development
- Market Development efforts from previous position
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Successfully launched a new flagship LED lighting product with innovative enhancements, including an industry first Wi-Fi connection accessible on-site for diagnostic access
- Successfully launched a new wireless monitoring product utilizing cellular technology to connect to remote sites throughout the country
Director of Market Development
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
10.2007 - 04.2011
- Meet with prospective customers and give presentations on products and services
- Perform site inspections to evaluate needs
- Prepare formal business proposals for prospective customers
- Perform site installs and conduct customer training
- Perform market research, SWOT analysis, and product strategy for growing market share
- Define value proposition for new products in new market space
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Successfully helped launch a new product line into Solar PV Monitoring consisting of wired and wireless sensor networks to monitor solar inverters and weather stations on production solar farms
- Successfully defined and launched a new product line for the wind turbine market for meteorological sensor towers and turbine lighting
- Assisted in the design and deployment of new marketing web site and customer portal
Director, Information Technology
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
06.2006 - 10.2007
- Manage a full staff of 5 IT professionals
- Support IT systems and software development
- Manage department budget and planning
- Sarbanes Oxley compliance
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Purchased and installed an EMC SAN and clustered SQL servers to improve processing speed and provide redundancy
- Disaster recovery implementation with installation of dual-fiber network and back-up generator
- Wrote custom .NET service application using web services and SQL transactions to publish ticket data to customer’s SQL server
Business Applications Manager
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
06.2003 - 06.2006
- Develop web portal software to provide information to customers
- Administer all call center software, BMC Remedy and Vignette portal
- Software development in BMC Remedy Action Request System
- Work with corporate IT to select a portal framework for the entire SPX Corporation
- Work with offshore development firm to design a customer facing portal
- Extensive experience with SQL Database Administration, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Acrobat Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/5, SAP implementation, BEA Weblogic Application servers on Linux, ORACLE application databases, and Apache web servers
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Directed consultant development of Adobe Flex web portal for customer
- Performed additional development on Vignette Customer Web Portal using JAVA apps
- Significant development of key Remedy workflow and forms to support call-center automation
- Migrated company over to corporate Active Directory and Domain
- Converted mail system from Microsoft Exchange to Lotus Notes
- Designed and managed project of Customer Web Portal development for Call Center using Vignette (offshore development)
Mechanical Engineer
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
Franklin, USA
02.2000 - 06.2003
- Designed new and re-designed old outdoor lighting and monitoring systems
- Electrical layout, sheet metal stampings and fabrications, component specifications, service manual documentation, prototyping, bill of material generation, and manufacturing support
- Photometric testing, working with testing laboratories such as UL, CSA, and ETL
- Use AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop, revise drawings and create 3D solid model designs
- Served as the IT administrator of the facility for both the computer network and phone systems
- Worked regularly with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and BMC Remedy
- Maintained the company’s public website, updating product information and manuals
- Flash Technology is now part of SPX Aids to Navigation which sells navigation lighting aids for the air and marine transportation industry, including cloud-based critical asset monitoring services
- SPX Technologies is a $1.5B multi-industry company with operations in 15 different countries and over 3,000 employees
- Designed and built a new underwater strobe light that would deter fish
- Designed layout, mounting, and wire harness for new monitoring system
- Prepared our empty warehouse for full-scale production after the closing of our manufacturing location in NH
- A $350,000 project that included HVAC, electrical, compressed air, manufacturing line work areas and conveyors, and a quality assurance test building
Product/Project Engineer
Federal Mogul / Cooper Automotive
Sparta, USA
06.1997 - 02.2000
- Company Overview: Federal-Mogul Corporation is an innovative and diversified $6.9 billion global supplier of quality products, trusted brands and creative solutions to the automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty truck, off-highway, agricultural, marine, rail and industrial markets
- Championed several projects for automotive lighting systems from design through production, serving as the design engineer as well as the project engineer
- Worked with injection mold equipment, progressive dies, staking dies, and cutting dies
- Managed project budget, vendors, and testing labs such as DTL and UL
- Worked with operations to implement new products into production
- Quoted new projects and developed new concept designs
- Onsite presentations to potential customers such as GM, Ford, and Chrysler
- Gained extensive knowledge of the QS9000 system, Automotive Quality Specifications
- Trained in Project Management, UNIX, IDEAS SDRC, and plastics design
- Federal-Mogul Corporation is an innovative and diversified $6.9 billion global supplier of quality products, trusted brands and creative solutions to the automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty truck, off-highway, agricultural, marine, rail and industrial markets
- Designed and produced new electronic dome lamp for Subaru
- Designed new side-view mirror lamp for Chevrolet
- Produced license plate lamp for Mercedes
Engineering Services Manager
Milliken
Marietta, USA
12.1995 - 06.1997
- Company Overview: Milliken is one of the largest privately held textile and chemical manufacturers in the world and is widely acknowledged as an international leader in research technology, innovation, and customer service
- Managed four technicians and was responsible for preventative and predictive maintenance dye machines and the plant’s lift trucks, as well as the department budget
- Extensive work with control systems on various platforms and PLCs
- Training in Project Management, Dale Carnegie, Manufacturing, SPC, and Leadership (Milliken University)
- Milliken is one of the largest privately held textile and chemical manufacturers in the world and is widely acknowledged as an international leader in research technology, innovation, and customer service
- Replaced the control system on an autoclave unit using a GE 9030 PLC
- Designed and installed a new condensate recovery system for the plant boiler
- Implementation of Kaizen and 5S practices into a manufacturing environment
Co-Op Engineer Intern
Milliken
Marietta, USA
08.1991 - 08.1994
- Worked in the Engineering Department as a Project Engineer for energy saving projects
- Milliken is one of the largest privately held textile and chemical manufacturers in the world and is widely acknowledged as an international leader in research technology, innovation, and customer service
- Implemented a Confined Space Entry Program to meet OSHA regulations
- Developed a calibration system for the Engineering Department for ISO 9000 certification
- Installed a pattern straightener on a tenter machine, requiring machine modifications and control panel relocation
- Installed a data acquisition system that monitored plant utilities
- Replaced an existing pneumatic water level controller on a pair of 30,000 gallon water tanks
Education
Masters of Business Administration -
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN12-2026
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN12.1995
Skills
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Business strategy
- Corporate communications
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team management
- Strategic planning
- Problem-solving
- Market analysis
- Project management
Timeline
Director, Engineering Americas and Global AtoN Strategy
SPX Aids to Navigation
10.2021 - Current
Global Director of Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
04.2018 - 10.2021
Director of Product Management and Marketing
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
04.2011 - 04.2018
Director of Market Development
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
10.2007 - 04.2011
Director, Information Technology
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
06.2006 - 10.2007
Business Applications Manager
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
06.2003 - 06.2006
Mechanical Engineer
Flash Technology, an SPX Technologies business
02.2000 - 06.2003
Product/Project Engineer
Federal Mogul / Cooper Automotive
06.1997 - 02.2000
Engineering Services Manager
Milliken
12.1995 - 06.1997
Co-Op Engineer Intern
Milliken
08.1991 - 08.1994
Masters of Business Administration -
Tennessee Technological University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Tennessee Technological University
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