Aaron Fisher Email & Phone Number

Allentown, PA, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

An environmental construction and consulting company with an intense focus on air quality improvement in residential and commercial buildings. Our primary area of business activity is test and mitigation of radon gas. The company is the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania having designed and installed over 3000 mitigation systems over the past 12.

I served in a mentorship capacity working with YEI to help early stage startup companies with business, technical and financing strategy.http://yei.yale.edu/about

The Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP) provides assistance and resources for developers of renewable and clean energy technologies. By mentoring entrepreneurs CEBIP helps them establish successful enterprises to bring their technologies to market.

• COO-like role with particular concentration on upgrading product strategy and increasing organizational effectiveness for a diversified ~$400M fabless semiconductor company. P/L responsibility for all four of the.
• Conceptualized and executed growth strategies to expand the company's opportunities. Organized company into four business units focused on market expansion and share growth. Overall, launched initiatives that.
• Re-engineered much of the organization to improve Asian sales, improve execution, lower R&D costs, and improve business planning/forecasting.

• Responsible for building the company’s management and commercial competencies, all business planning, technology and market strategy, operational management, and investor relations.
• Created an ISO certified, Telcordia qualified manufacturing company with both wafer fab and assembly/test facilities, today shipping qualified optical transmitters to major OEM’s in N. America, Europe and China. Grew.
• Raised over $60M from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Greylock and T.L. Ventures, Intel, and Bluerun
• Company merged with ASIP, Inc. in July 2005 to create Apogee Photonics.

• Led the strategy and operational management for a $500M+ business unit addressing HDD storage IC market. Activities included acquisition integration, strategic planning, customer relationships, and P/L management..
• Grew market share by winning Seagate account via unique alliance with ST Microelectronics on storage System-on-a-Chip product.
• Championed the growth of the storage business into one of Agere’s (now LSI logic) most successful divisions, representing over 30% of the company’s total revenue when acquired.

• Strategic and operational management for 500 person worldwide wireless semiconductor business.
• Grew the business 80% to more than $500M. Specific activities include strategic market and technology planning, P&L management, long term factory forecast and planning, marketing and development project oversight and.
• Launched GSM chipset business in China and Korea. Drove acquisition of Munich-based Optimay Corp. to obtain software content. Won key design at Samsung.
• Agere’s wireless business was based on GSM chipset/Optimay software products and when sold to LSI Logic constituted over 25% of the company’s total revenue.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Built and managed worldwide engineering development organization of 100+ engineers responsible for all Wireless semiconductor and software products.

Managed design teams of 12-24 engineers developing integrated microprocessors

Lead engineer for a variety of microchip products

Masters Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Graduated with Distinction