teleCalm phone service for dementia keeps seniors safely connected with family and friends. We combat problems commonly seen with Alzheimer’s and dementia – problems like caregiver fatigue, senior isolation, and elder fraud. We serve caregivers of seniors living at home, in assisted living, and in memory care communities. teleCalm stops problem calls, helps seniors stay connected with family and friends, and lets family members manage service preferences with a simple smartphone app.Learn more at https://www.telecalmprotects.com/

COTRO provides consulting services for product concepting, development and launch. Leverage unique expertise:• Concept exploration• Product and solution development• Program and engineering management• System integration• Go-to-market planning and executionCompleted projects include:• Concept exploration, prototyping and customer trials for WHRZT! Inc.• Commercial drone due diligence for an investment group and their startup

Aperio Insights is a market research company which helps clients understand what customers want and what they are willing to pay for it.• Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS): Provided customer foot traffic and crowd analytic insights.• In-Car Digital Ethnography: Developed in-car video capture and processing methodology.• Futures Study: Delivered product platform planning strategy for consumer telematics thru 2020.Gain insight to how consumers are interacting with the infotainment stack and other objects in their car. Check out our demo video, and our write-up in PC Mag: • http://youtu.be/rbCNk61vXpI• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457763,00.asp

WHRZT! was a location and data platform which enabled under-served and never served vertical markets to improve safety, security and workforce management.Delivered:• Solution development leadership--- spanning app, back-end and embedded device• An extremely rapid 5-month development cycle--- from "back-of-the-napkin" thru sales start including--- Conceptual architecture and REST API definition--- Hardware and software vendor selection--- Product and service development--- FCC and Carrier certification--- Production ramp

Delivered content and structure for a multi-year contract bid to manage mobile device development, system engineering and system integration.

TerreStar was a $1.3B, 100 employee startup which built a new handset, network, and geostationary satellite. TerreStar offered wholesale voice and data services with an all-IP SIP / IMS architecture, and provided coverage across the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.• Led key development teams for GENUS™ - a unique satellite & terrestrial connected smartphone - from initial design and implementation thru network integration and commercial sales with AT&T• Averted more than 3 months of launch delay and $6 M of overrun, accelerated development• Managed 11 engineering leads spanning 3 vendors, 4 countries and 60 resources on 12 projects • Delivered an automated cloud-based system yielding a 95% cycle time reduction and a 6x error rate reduction• Delivered end-to-end performance metrics systems and test plans, enabling identification, prioritization and resolution of many issues and opportunities

Nokia, Enterprise Solutions was a division responsible for mobile phone, network computing appliance and business mobility solution offerings.• Managed go-to-market activities delivering Wi-Fi/GSM/GPRS and BlackBerry® Connect™ products through AT&T and Cingular, and Nokia’s first Enterprise VoIP phone. • Delivered product program gap analysis, risk analysis, forecasts and action plans, enabling sales-start.• Orchestrated North American pilot trial, product demonstration, training and end-customer support benchmarks, leveraged by subsequent product programs.Corporate Training: Total Product Offering Design, Market Segmentation

Nokia, Mobile Phone R&D was a division responsible for mobile phone development.• Grew the North American software and hardware R&D engineering organization from 15 resources to over 110 resources and $22M annual budget in approximately 3 years • Exceeded or met goals in budgeting, hiring, resource allocation, target-setting, performance and compensation reviews, and best-practices deployment• Maintained resource productivity and morale through dramatic organizational changes• Managed hardware engineers spanning antenna, RF, baseband, PCB layout and production test• Managed software engineers developing protocol, UI, application and DSP stacks Corporate Training: Product Program Manager, Multiple Leadership & Management Workshops

Texas Instruments, Defense Systems & Electronics Group was a leading provider of weapons targeting systems.• Earned an exclusive Site Quality Award for Excellence, for outstanding contributions supporting TI quality objectives, including continuous improvement to products and engineering practices• Led cross-functional architecture, integration and verification for a DSP-based optical stabilization system• Designed, transitioned to production, and sustained a variety of mixed-signal circuits, systems and software, compliant with rigorous MIL-Spec requirements, for infra-red imaging and laser productsCorporate Training: Six-Sigma, Design of Experiments, Test and Maintainability.