Allan Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, Ca, Us

Santa Rosa, California, United States

Meinberg is a global technology leader in network time synchronization with GPS/GNSS, NTP, and PTP (IEEE-1588) technologies. We serve broadcast, power grid, finance, datacenter, telecom, defense, and air traffic control markets.* Established US business entity (California C-corp), hired legal counsel, set up HR functions, hired staff, negotiated office lease, and set up IT and accounting system.* Restructured sales organization and grew revenue 3x, achieving a 45% 3-yr. CAGR.

Los Altos, California, United States

San Jose, Ca, Usa

Responsible for all electronic component product lines, including timing (kHz & MHz crystals, RTCs, XOs, VCXOs, SAW oscillators, VCSOs, TCXOs, OCXOs, atomic oscillators), ICs (microcontrollers, USB, display), and MEMS sensors (gyroscopes & IMUs).* Managed team of 14 marketing managers and application engineers.* Brought segment marketing approach to Epson, identifying growth opportunities in automotive, IoT, and 5G markets.* Leveraged market vision to lead Epson into new markets and improve gross and operating margins.* Led application projects in networking (synchronization, optical, datacenter, wireless) and automotive (rollover and stability, dead reckoning, LiDaR, radar, camera, vision processing).* Pursued IC design partners to co-promote Epson timing products in reference designs.* Established timing device applications laboratory.* Joined standards committees (ITU-T, OIF, PCI-SIG) to align R&D projects with evolving customer needs, grow Epson's network of partners, and gain visibility for our technology.* Steering group member of ITSF and WSTS conferences.

San Jose, Ca, Usa

Responsible for high-speed switches (USB, DP, HDMI, VGA, Thunderbolt, etc.) and power products (load switches, USB charging) targeting applications in computing (notebook, desktop, servers, mobile), networking, and automotive.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Usa

P&L responsibility for 4 product lines: signal integrity, digital video, clock synthesis, and clock synchronization.* Built clock synthesis product line from scratch, won new sockets at each of the top 6 communications infrastructure system vendors and 2 of the top 3 server vendors.* Initiated concept of frequency-domain linear equalizer to extend channel reach of decision-feedback equalizers (DFEs) integrated into ASIC PHYs.* Assessed acquisition targets.* Established high-speed signal integrity characterization laboratory.

South San Francisco, Ca, Usa

Market research & due diligence for public companies, startups, sell-side analysts, and venture capitalists* Built the industry's most in-depth communications semiconductor market research program covering WAN (optical networking + carrier routing), access (DSL, cable, PON), and LAN/SAN.* Created a demand-driven semiconductor forecast linked to carrier CAPEX.* Spoke at numerous industry conferences & quoted in the press including the Wall Street Journal.

Camarillo, Ca, Usa

Managed design engineering for a $90M division developing optical-to-electrical interface ICs in GaAs E/D MESFET, InP HBT, & SiGe BiCMOS processes* Managed 2 design centers (California & Florida) with 18 people total.* Introduced laser driver, optical modulator, transimpedance amplifier, and parallel optics ICs.* Developed the first 4 SiGe products (IBM foundry) at Vitesse, all 4 worked first time.

Camarillo, Ca, Usa

Managed marketing & applications engineering for a $50M ATE IC and ASIC business* Won 2 major timing generator design wins with a memory test manufacturer and a mixed-signal test manufacturer worth $10M/yr each.* Retargeted pin electronics development to focus on optoelectronics.

Santa Rosa & Santa Clara, Ca, Usa

Responsible for spectrum monitoring, frequency and time standards, GPS, and synchronization products for wireless applications

Santa Rosa, Ca

* Designed pulse amplifiers, frequency dividers, mux/demuxes, logarithmic amplifiers, and RF and IF amplifiers in GaAs MESFET, P-HEMT, and HBT processes.* Coordinated new circuit introductions which enabled HP to introduce new pulse generators, BERTs, RF signal generators, spectrum and network analyzers, and electrical and E-O oscilloscopes.* Pioneered pulse amplifier concept which allowed HP to dominate high-speed pulse generator market and enter digital ATE market.* Assessed technology and proposed IC developments for HP's first 12 Gbps bit error rate tester.* Guided technical development and business feasibility of HP's GaAs HBT technology.

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Activities and Societies: Water Polo, Zeta Beta Tau FraternityGPA 4.4/5.0 overall, 4.7/5.0 in major GRE 800/800/630 GMAT 760 Concentration.

Education record

"Building Market-Focused Organizations" from Prof. Lynn Phillips of GSB Classes on circuit design from Prof. Bruce Wooley and others