Lead, oversee, organize, and manage multiple projects for cellular, wireless, and wired applications in industrial networking and automation environment. • Defined next generation hardware (HW) architecture, managing internal / external design project delivery and process. Delivered unified HW platform that supported 5 different new product lines, replacing aging products.• Directed and influenced remote teams and OEM and ODM partners (distributed geographical locations), driving expedited deadlines and satisfying delivery agreements. Streamlined communication and task tracking, cutting resolution time 75%.• Guided manufacturing, operations, and customer support teams on refining processes for time and cost effectiveness, decreasing existing product issue resolution response time 50%.

Directed Hardware and FPGA design teams on integrating existing and developing new technology for engineered data center systems, after Xsigo Systems acquisition. Led interdivision and JDM projects. • Headed delivery of 3 complex next-generation, high-performance / speed Ethernet Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand modules (100Gbps). Led design effort for family of Ethernet switches at 10G, 40G, 25G, 100G speeds. Guided CPU module definition and delivery by JDM partner.• Turned around and overhauled 2 projects in long-term distress. Determined root cause of problems, ensuring quality and timely project delivery by resolving previous design and process issues; saved at least $6M in HW material and redesign time while salvaging reputation for corporate division.• Provided timely and analytical information to executive team, enabling accurate business decisions.

Developed high-speed Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand HW platforms and modules. Owned complete hardware design and release process for IO virtualization and flexible IO interconnect data center platform with broad market application. • Increased leadership role to manage and integrate FPGA logic design and verification groups into larger HW team, including managing first-level managers.• Oversaw HW product portfolio transition after company acquisition, ensuring seamless technology transfer.• Engaged closely and efficiently with new contract manufacturing and production teams, continually driving releases of high-quality solutions.Director, HW Engineering (Xsigo Systems) 2006 to 2010Oversaw HW products that accounted for 90% of company revenue.• Defined and enforced best practices and processes; discovered / solved issues in early stage, enhancing quality and longevity. Repeatedly delivered first revision HW with shipping quality that required no design turns or added cost.• Managed project budgets, cost, time, risk, and challenges; introduced 3 new HW platforms to manufacturing, achieving planned budget and delivering products with lower future maintenance costs.• Released many complex systems into volume production with consistently high quality. Mentored and motivated design teams, decreasing cycle time to 3 to 6 months per platform, from inception to delivery.Founding HW Engineer / Senior HW Manager (Xsigo Systems) 2004 to 2006Hired, managed, and maintained productive HW, mechanical, and diagnostic teams, ranging between 6 and 21 members, as member of technical staff within start-up company.• Defined HW and mechanical architecture of IO virtualization data center appliance.• Led HW teams to deliver complex sever IO virtualization HW platform with 20 PCB modules, minimizing and almost completely eliminating field customer HW issues.• Managed HW, mechanical and diagnostic engineering teams, enhancing stability while minimizing turnover.

• SAN Valley Systems - Principal HW Engineer on a SAN Router project responsible for all aspects of the design.• Aasan - Supervised design effort on an Ethernet aggregation product in a start-up to ensure all the aspects of the design follow the specifications and best engineering practices for quality delivery.

• Joined a fast paced networking start-up company at a critical phase of development. Designed, tested , integrated and delivered a line card module comprised of many latest generation devices for a packet processing switch product.

• Technical lead in an optical networking start-up company. Solutions for optical metropolitan area network supporting multi-service access and transport. Joined company at the very early stage and made major contribution to product design and delivery. Designed a family of cards supporting ATM, POS, TDM and ESCON/SAN applications. Defined system and board architecture, defined design requirements at the system and module level. Successfully delivered more than 10 modules, contributed to programmable logic architecture and design, efficiently tested modules and system, integrated and delivered to volume production.

• Founding team member and system technical lead in a small start-up company. Architecture and product family definition for a family of networking silicon devices; WAN&LAN&Ethernet application.

• Lead HW engineer. Delivered complex line module for ATM switch. Designed and delivered a family of line cards for an Ethernet switch. Proposed architecture and design of the 4-way shared CPU and application memory sub-system. Responsible for many design aspects of a complex project containing multiple CPUs and large number of programmable devices. Designed ATM/LANE RX FPGA.

• Netopia, Alameda, CA - Lead HW engineer on a SOHO router project; medium size post start-up phase company• Verilink, Alameda, CA - Lead HW engineer, developed inverse multiplexing solution from scratch, implemented in multiple FPGAs, ensured solution was successful from first lab test• T-Com, Mountain View, CA - Lead HW engineer, delivered family of telecom test instruments, multiple modules, with multiple FPGAs• IRI - HW engineer, telecom switch project