Eric Thomas Email & Phone Number

Richardson, Tx, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Managing teams in the product development of Augmented Reality wearable products and AR Content Creation solutions (Spark AR) at Reality Labs. With these experiences we are creating ways to help people make more meaningful connections and engage beyond the limitations of 2D surfaces. At Meta, Technical Program Managers are the golden thread through product development, pulling cross-functional teams together, resolving technical blockers, and mitigating program risks. Come join us!

Dallas, Tx, Us

I design and deliver product solutions that help organizations enhance communications and gain operational insights. ►Instrumental in achieving $1B annual revenue and AT&T’s recognition as leader in worldwide IoT platforms. ►Lead cross-functional Agile product development, both onshore and offshore, in-house and external.►Enhance P&L performance by mentoring customer-obsessed teams managing full product lifecycle, business models, roadmaps, sales activation, channel enablement, and related budgets.►Design low-cost IoT sensors for indoor / outdoor positioning (BLE, WiFi, GPS, cellular) with LTE, NB-IoT mobility.►Streamline customer experience across IoT SaaS products providing API and IDM integration between Jasper Control Center, AI and Spark analytics solutions, and JavaScript + Kubernetes based data orchestration platform.►Manage joint GTM, strategy, and offer development with leading CSPs, SIs, and OEMs. ►Built AT&T’s IoT platform (PaaS) for cloud-hosted device management, data collection, analytics and visualization. ►Created portfolio of vertically marketed Asset Tracking applications (SaaS) and self-monitored IoT devices used by AT&T and other Fortune companies.

Dallas, Tx, Us

►Founding Director of startup organization that grew to $2B+, delivering $600M+ in annual free cash flow savings. ►Led team of ~25 program managers working cross functionality with enterprise IT architects and data scientists to build data lakes, collect AT&T’s data, and enable the deployment of data applications into production in support of various AT&T businesses. Team completed on-time delivery of over 250 programs annually. ►Directed of Big Data Center of Excellence program management office in establishing production data pipelines. Identified value creation opportunities applying AI and ML in business operations, fleet management, fraud detection, corporate finance, emergency response, customer retention and advertising. ►Managed $20M budget for data acquisition, software development, and establishment of Hadoop data lakes.

Seattle, Wa, Us

►Led the establishment of Amazon’s Fire TV Stick, managing the product development lifecycle and directing one of Amazon’s most successful branded devices in combined Program + Product + Engineering management role.►Aligned geographically dispersed Agile development teams to coordinate product subsystem delivery; software, hardware, cloud services, packaging, manufacturing. Approximately 10-15 teams on a weekly cadence.►Negotiated supplier chipset agreements for the core system-on-chip, BT, and WiFi components.►Authored business case, product scope, and working-backwards documents that defined the business value, schedule, risks, and development approach, achieving full executive-level approval for funding.

Dallas, Tx, Us

►Led software product line management and marketing activities for OMAP system-on-chip products that contributed over $500M annual chipset revenue from leading wireless mobile device manufacturers and flagship products. ►Founder/Chairman of TI’s open-source software review board; SME for open-source licensing and best practices.►Developed full feature phone reference design enabling Series 60 / Symbian wins of Nokia, Siemens, and Sendo.►Board representative at The Linux Foundation and Linaro industry consortia to accelerate adoption of Linux in embedded mobile computing, OMAP processors, OpenGL ES, and multi-core ARM Cortex architecture. ►Identified emerging trends and incorporated into TI products, including WiFi Display Miracast and OS virtualization.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

►Mobile handset development, led commercial successful enhancements to subsystems including cellular baseband, security, energy management, RTOS, and manufacturing verification for AMPS/DAMPS/GSM cellular handsets►Software research, Firmware engineer on advanced development team tasked with integrating emerging technologies, rapid prototyping, and competitive product analysis.►Involvement in multiple high-volume projects taken from concept to end-of-life► Technical representative to Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) industry specification for low-resource devices including Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). ►Top engineering contributor.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs, Electrical Engineering