Ahmad Hares

Bringing people together to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Developing residential & commercial solar products based on user needs. Reporting to Vice President of Product. Doing my part to save our planet.

• Co-founded iHub to solve problems and develop product using human centered and agile methods. Grew team from secondary roles to team of 20 with $1M annual funding. • Launched internal crowdsourcing platform allowing iHub to scale to 4,000 active users across 11 countries, enabling diverse global perspectives for innovation. • Pioneered annual challenge, SYNAPSE, where employee teams are incubated and solve a sponsored business priority with leadership support up to CEO & Chairman, impacting product direction for autonomous and electric vehicles. • Coached incubated teams on customer desirability, commercialization and business model enabling hundreds of employee solutions to grow beyond just concepts. • Led growth and operations of iHub in business development, headcount and budget planning, as well as financial modeling of actuals vs. forecast to secure future funding. • Co-developed a vision for the future of Cadillac, sponsored by brand's President. Informed strategy to acquire luxury mobility customers beyond traditional ownership models.

-Developed performance management tool to increase teacher and administrative staff engagement, build management transparency, and reduce turnover at non-profit charter school system. -Conducted user interviews and balanced organizational constraints to create a solution built around Envision’s unique needs. -Built go-to-market strategy and launch plan for management to successfully implement program.

• Managed piece-cost and $20M capital budgets for lower body structure on the next-gen Cadillac CTS and released on time, on performance target, and on budget. • Integrated a one-piece main body wire harness by balancing Electrical, Interior, and Body product team requirements to save $6M of annual production piece cost.

• Developed a workload model tool, scrubbing data from multiple sources, that enabled a data-backed leadership decision to double the team’s headcount. • Launched a document management vb.net COM add-in for 186 engineers that saved time and increased program team transparency on emerging issues.

• Continuously improved a FDA regulated and ISO certified $7 million production line for safety, quality, and throughput. • Improved line production across diversified SKUs by leading a rotating staff of 6 operators to increase throughput by 58%.