Aislin (pronounced Ash-lin) is Celtic for Dream or Vision.   Our goal is to help businesses achieve their vision and dream through guidance as well as hands-on assistance during implementation.  Through a process of Discovery and Assessment, we can then build a plan to move forward.

Located in Santa Clara, CA, Aislin Consulting was founded by Samantha Leach.  With over sixteen years of experience in a variety of verticals, Samantha is a visionary, action-driven management executive with a strong background in product development and launch, program management, strategic planning, marketing, sales support, and team leadership. Ms. Leach has a reputation as an efficiency expert for improved processes, products, and organizations. She has applied this experience to deliver tangible results that include expanded market share, increased brand awareness, alignment between products and market needs, faster time-to-market, and significantly improved profit margins.

Prior to founding Aislin Consulting,  Ms. Leach created a model for developing consulting programs from the ground up, engineered a standardized methodology for designing product offerings, launched practice-based knowledge-sharing communities, and established clear sales messaging frameworks for all products and services at Taos Inc.. Her efforts proved pivotal in repositioning Taos in the marketplace and achieving rapid market ramp-up with high profit margins for innovative new products.

While at the software startup Kanisa, Inc. (now Knova), Ms. Leach introduced best-in-class product processes and championed development of a market-driven, cross-organizational product management board. In a clear example of her ability to improve efficiency, she instituted SDLC best practices and standardized methodology to improve time-to-market and product quality by more than 50%. She also proved her skill in lifecycle project management with IT implementations for recognized Fortune 100 clients.

No stranger to high-level executive accountability, Ms. Leach managed a $7 million cost center and lifecycle projects with an average value of $1 million as Managing Director of the Client/Server Technology Group for Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. In similar success as Senior Project Manager for Verifone, Inc. / Hewlett Packard Company, she demonstrated keen leadership in managing a multi-national staff in a 2-year, $1.5 million project to migrate 40 sites worldwide to a new network infrastructure.

Ms. Leach launched her career in technology product development and project management as Project Lead / Developer for the National Science Foundation and Communications Engineer / Task Leader for both Frontier Engineering, Inc. and TRW, Inc. From here, she moved on to Project Manager, Relationship Manager, and Analyst for Charles Schwab, Inc., where she gained further skill in project lifecycle management, solution design, process improvement, and cross-functional team leadership.

Ms. Leach combines this exceptional track record of achievement with a solid educational background. She obtained an M.B.A. degree with honors  from the University of San Francisco and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Washington University.

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