DELIA GRENVILLE PH.D.
DELIA GRENVILLE PH.D.
Visionary technologist with proven Fortune 100 track record providing leadership for large-scale technology change to drive revenue and enhance market share
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST
CHANGE AGENT
INNOVATOR
AUTHOR
SPEAKER
Involved in the community and external business world, Delia co-founded Designing Me, an organization that steers professional women into executive and leadership positions. Her Got Strategy workshop assists junior and mid-level professionals in setting and executing a career strategy.
A published author and public speaker, Delia has served as guest lecturer at Stanford MBA School, the Strategic Innovation Lab at Ontario College of Art, and MIT. She has written more than a dozen articles on project management, research practices, and the user experience. Delia is the inventor of six digital content technologies with patents pending – technologies that allow consumers to filter content streaming to their televisions via the Internet and provide the ecosystem to advertise and enhance the content viewing experience.
TRANSFER/INVENTION/INTEGRATION
STORYTELLING & BEST PRACTICES
RESEARCH & ENGINEERING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CONSUMER-CENTRIC
BIG DATA ANALYSIS
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL OPTIMIZATION
SENIOR MANAGEMENT ADVISOR
VENDOR/OEM PARTNERSHIPS
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC PLANNING
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Intel Corporation
October 2015 - April 2016
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST,
CHIEF OF STAFF’S OFFICE
Platform Engineering Group
Responsible for management, creation, and delivery of external keynotes for SVP of Platform Engineering group. Collaboration and coordination with senior staff members, their teams, external consultants, and creative agencies. Selection and development of narrative. Showcasing of best ideas and messages to share with customers, partners, and ecosystem. Topics include Intel products, industry standards, 5G, Internet of Things.
March 2014 - October 2015
STRATEGY PROGRAMS &
UX PROGRAM MANAGER
Corporate Strategy Office
Chartered on behalf of Intel President as member of Capabilities Access Team with highly strategic role to impact Intel’s business by identifying opportunities to accelerate innovation, enroll stakeholders organization-wide to enable product opportunities, and introduce market-disruptive technologies to advance Intel’s position. Chartered to devise first-ever framework for data collection and analysis surrounding $10B+ project portfolio, and lead team in driving execution Intel-wide. Team received an Intel Organizational Recognition Award.
2011 - March 2014
PROGRAM MANAGER, USER EXPERIENCE PROCESS & INTEGRATION
PCSO
Selected to develop corporate strategy and action plan for connecting consumer and end user research to usage and system requirements for Intel product and platform organizations, while leading Project Controls & Solutions Office’ (PCSO) UX Capability Core Team to establish/improve Intel’s standard lifecycle management capabilities in collaboration with business unit partners.
2011 - March 2014
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST |
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEER
Intel Labs
Chosen with select team to take on enterprise-wide versus divisional mandate. Applied structured processes to examine and analyze third party and internally gathered research insights, competitive factors, product roadmaps, and vision to discover disruptive business ideas, create new market opportunities, and develop preliminary business models. Proposed/managed multidisciplinary, cross-functional research programs to enhance Intel and collaborators’ product roadmap and vision.
Took on challenge eschewed by predecessors to drive cultural transformation and acceptance of collaborative research, enhancing understanding of what drives consumer behavior to help maintain market share.
2006 - 2010
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST |
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEER
Digital Home Group (DHG)
Led cross-divisional projects focused on Smart TV products to establish competitive advantage for Intel, identify new revenue models for user experience, and generate incremental revenue streams for DHG’s core business. Worked to unify user experience and consumer research with DHG and Intel’s strategic product planning and platform development cycles.
Established and managed repeatable processes and led key projects tightly coupling User Experience Group as core process within DHG and Intel, changing way Intel approaches acquisition, development, and marketing of software, and resulting in reduced time to market, millions in revenue and unit sales, and seven digital content technology patents pending.
Corporate Strategic Procurement,
Manufacturing Group
Responsible for cross-CSP, cross-GSM programs with multi-year objectives to transform Intel’s Indirect Procurement business. Stood up a successful strategy office in six months, including 2019 Strategy Office swim lanes. Reinvigorated external partner relationships. Established a POR driven culture in two of CSP’s showcase transformation efforts: Source-to-pay [Deloitte], Indirect Procurement Transformation [A.T. Kearney]. Excellent pacesetter for both programs, by fostering collaborative insight driven problem-solving, and providing strong leadership and management direction. Strong performance in program acceleration and improvement to key Strategy Office metrics. 360° Feedback: “We got done in a week, what usually takes a month.”
June 2018 - Present
DIRECTOR, STRATEGY OFFICE
Oracle Corporation
2001 - 2005
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Advanced User Interfaces
Recruited to strategic research role serving as principal investigator for multimodal, natural language, search, and map visualization mobile/desktop user interfaces, from exploratory research to prototyping and technology transfer to Oracle Development Teams. Championed technology change, consolidated cross-functional exploration efforts, and recommended technology for M&As. Reported to Director of research with 1 direct/4 indirect reports and $100K average project budgets.
Led team of researchers, developers, designers, academics, and interns in multi-year exploration of advanced interfaces for e-business applications and prototyping to serve business needs within larger usability and user interface research agenda
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY
1995 - 2000
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT | INTERN | GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
Advanced User Interfaces
Gained exposure to diverse industries and work cultures (NASA, Phillip Morris, and U.S. Navy). Grew ability to synthesize information from disparate sources into actionable, game-changing insights. Selected highlights:
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Benchmarked weapons acquisition and concurrent engineering practices, comparing processes/program methods with macroergonomic methodologies suitable for integration of large-scale information technology change ($90K budget).
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\Served on 4-person research team benchmarking Best Practices in NASA project management ($100K project).
April 2016 - June 2018
DIRECTOR, CHIEF OF STAFF
PATHFINDING AND INNOVATION
Global Software Enabling, Software Services Group
Designed, piloted, and established 9 months-long strategic worldwide initiative program later staffed by 4 people (Sr. Manager and 3 strategic senior technical engineers). Maximized effectiveness of VP. Ensured success of the organization. Responsible for development of process and strategy for GSE staff. Worked in conjunction with GSE Ops Director and in support of VP as strategic advisor and technical representative. Pathfinding and innovation to drive business decision-making processes and ensured compliance with financial, legal and corporate policies. Ownership of key programs in innovation, organizational development and metrics leading to new team in Global Strategy and Market Development. Worldwide travel as required.
2001
Ph.D.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia
Industrial Engineering, Human Factors
1997
Master of Science Degree
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Industrial Engineering, Management Systems Engineering
1989
Bachelor of Science Degree
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Mechanical Engineering, graduated with Honors
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AWARDS
October 2015
Intel Organizational Award
2008
Intel Group Recognition Award
2013
Women of Trafalgar
Scholars & Explorers Award
2007
Intel Division Recognition Award
HIGHLIGHTS
LEADING TRANSFORMATION
Created scalable framework to manage teams and consultants to attain best in class practices and processes. Piloted in product development, software enabling, and procurement transformation to enable new opportunities, and inform life-cycle planning through to execution.
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Introduced Intel’s first-ever Consumer Experience Enabling program using collaborative research model that on first effort generated more than one million units sold and $20M in revenue.
COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
Researched and recommended strategic M&A’s for Oracle to help create robust research environment and enhance competitive position, including competitor acquisition that brought in market-differentiating technology.