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Natick, Ma, Us

• Directed strategy and execution for the Fixed-Point Designer automation product and Deep Learning Quantization.• Managed four Engineering Development teams of 25+ and coordinated the objectives of cross-functional partners. • Managed the re-positioning of Fixed-Point Designer as a unified premium product, developed strategy for increased value propositions, and integrated features from two products, which produced 130% revenue growth and over 50% growth in revenue per developer over a five-year span.• Coordinated teams of 50 across the organization for the delivery of the product, met with the Marketing team to establish messaging, and trained a worldwide salesforce on product knowledge. • Directed enhancements to the Fixed-Point Designer product utilizing JavaScript and D3.js, including a simplified user interface, Visualizer dashboards, and Histogram plots for color coded data comparisons.• Led innovations to apply optimization technologies, including gradient descent and simulated annealing, which minimized embedded system cost objectives and ensured compliance with behavioral constraints.• Led close partnerships with Quality Engineering, Documentation, User Experience, Program Management, and Marketing departments, and established a productive team-oriented culture, which increased elimination of market bugs, improved productivity, and improved coordination with clients.• Oversaw team initiatives to improve automation for all C++11, JavaScript, and MATLAB commits, which resulted in bug backlogs that were 50% smaller than the company average.

Natick, Ma, Us

• Managed 17 staff across three software development teams to expand model-based design and secure competitive wins with three major automotive clients worth over $10M. • Coordinated with software development staff and quality engineering partners to develop automated processes and internal tools to eliminate inefficiencies and conduct code changes, which reduced the inflow of bugs by 67% and led to the removal of a five-step manual process. • Delivered a presentation on new automated tools and processes at a companywide development meeting with over 1K attendees.• Coordinated with the sales team to avert a critical issue with two customer accounts worth $100M, conducted an in-depth review of MBD generated C code to ensure compliance with safety designs, and presented results to customer engineering teams.

Natick, Ma, Us

• Managed 11 software engineering staff across two teams to increase the usage of model based design in existing automotive markets and achieve penetration into new communication markets, which included writing compiler transformers to convert high-level mathematics into lower level C operations.• Managed an engagement with Toyota and DENSO and demonstrated the capability of MBD to automatically generate production C code within minutes, which matched the quality of manual production and led to mass adoption across 200+ software engineers. • Led team engagements with BOSCH, BMW, and Hyundai, supported MathWorks sales wins generating over $15M in annual revenue, and expanded use of MBD generated code in production automobiles.• Oversaw the development of C/C++ code generation to leverage multi-word integers and improve support for 3K users, which extended the benefits of accelerated simulations to 33+ bits and improved service for signal processing and HDL markets.

Natick, Ma, Us

• Managed, hired, and trained a Simulink Blocks and Fixed-Point Development team of six, which supported MBD expansion for early adopters by delivering improved software quality and functionality.• Reduced bug loads from over 40 bugs per developer to three by identifying latent bugs in an outdated code base and resolved issues with product gaps and incomplete data type support for users.• Partnered with the Signal Processing and Communications Department to deliver fixed-point capabilities in SPC products, which allowed users to craft designs on low cost microprocessors and FPGAs.• Designed and prototyped a data type assistant interface to improve user functionality, which provided a learnable interface for novice users and was mass adopted across all MBD products. • Simplified sales and highlighted the advantages of an integrated solution, which included transitioning Fixed-Point Blockset into Simulink Fixed-Point. • Led a team of 12 developers in unifying blocks of the Simulink library with the Fixed-Point library, which satisfied requirements for 100+ customers, streamlined workflows, and expanded functionality.• Led the delivery of two key drivers for the MBD 2002 release, which improved capabilities, increased value proposition, and created an advantage over a top competitor. • Introduced Fixed-Point data types, mathematics, and code generation into the Stateflow product utilizing compiler technologies and implemented 65% of the lowering transforms and 95% of all numeric regression tests.• Served as Product Lead for the Fixed-Point Blockset product, conducted back-end and front-end design, wrote software and tests, validated design, and championed the introduction of Slope and Bias scaling to secure wins from blue-chip accounts in the automotive sector.• Received promotions from Team Lead and Product Lead in April 2003, Principal Software Engineer and Product Lead in September 2002, and Senior Software Engineer and Product Lead in April 1999.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Angel investing in Boston-area early stage companies with technology-based products. Recruit, screen, and select founders of promising startups to present at monthly Walnut Ventures meeting. Participate in or lead due diligence examinations of customer need, technology, sales traction, go to market plans, business plans, and exit opportunities. Invest capital and time.

London, England, Gb

Dearborn, Mi, Us

Koeln / Cologne, De

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering

Master Of Engineering (M.E.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering