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Accomplished senior executive with 30 years’ experience in business and engineering management, focused on the development and production of multimedia consumer electronics, security, and subscriber management systems for the cable and wireless markets. Diverse background in business development, understanding market and customer needs, developing corporate strategic product development direction, intellectual property rights management, and engineering development into high-volume production for transaction-based services and products. Significant experience in managing large and geographically diverse teams in on-time product realization and high volume production. • President and CEO of a joint venture between Comcast Cable and Motorola’s Home Networks and Mobility Division (now Arris), responsible for product development of the conditional access and subscriber management systems along with intellectual property rights management for the MediaCipher® Digital Content Management System. • Proven management experience driving cross-functional teams of product management, engineering, operations, and customer support. • Implemented significant improvements in Comcast and Arris’ transaction-based operational systems used in content distribution across the Comcast and other MSO’s footprints.• Management of 500 software, electrical, and mechanical development engineers across multiple domestic and international development facilities at Kyocera Wireless Corporation, responsible for development of Kyocera’s CDMA handsets. • Management of business development functions for Qualcomm/Ericsson Wireless Infrastructure Division. Role included management of customer relationships in troubled deployments and providing direction into new product development process.