I am a Silicon Valley veteran with a career-long history of fixing staffing and technology roadblocks that prevent concepts from being realized into products that can be monetized. I have achieved my lifelong career goals of achieving commercial success in high performance digital and mixed signal printed circuit boards, chips (FPGAs, ASICs, SOCs), motherboards, add-in cards, consumer products, and systems from 1RU to three telco rack in size. I am also adept with enterprise-grade privacy and security, and software (firmware, platforms, websites, and mobile apps). I like to think of myself as a what a Renaissance engineer would be today, and I draw inspiration from Leonardo DaVinci. I am lucky. I got to design professional audio equipment and hear Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks at Berkeley’s Greek Theater on the Digidesign Venue system that I brought to market from certain architectural failure. I took over a busted MPEG2 Encoder ASIC project and finished with two chips that went to production on first silicon. I took a troubled MEMS-mirror optical switch prototype to a $3.25B acquisition by Nortel Networks. I am complete as a designer, a very lucky man, and yet I can’t help but want to do it again.I am at my best leading multi-disciplinary teams of ten to forty, where 35 years of management experience and broad technical background allow me to quickly focus on causes and determine and implement effective courses of action. My experience as Head of Product coupled with a lifetime of design engineering allows me to make excellent cost/quality/schedule tradeoffs and to know what to do to get the most out of each part of the product line.I am highly effective at staffing, project management, specification writing, presentations (created over 1,000 PPTX decks and 500 Excel models). I host cross-department/company meetings and webinars. I have a unique and successful methodology for hiring technical staff that I have developed from managing engineers and techs at eleven companies. I am surprisingly gregarious for an engineer, but then again, my mom was an English teacher, so its not a surprise that I write well. No ChatGPT ghostwriting for me, thank you, but I have engineered a two-level chatgpt4 prompt library to automate customer workflows.After a career in Silicon Valley and with both kids now out of our home, I am available immediately for new opportunities as a CTO, CIO, VP or Director Engineering for in-office/hybrid work relocatable outside of the Bay Area.