Chris Klein Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca

Platform/Product Architect and Engineering Manager for DGX Station

Portland, Oregon Area

Founded a PCB/Platform design center for the chipset division.Recruited and managed an entire team across the spectrum: design engineers, CAD designers, thermal engineers, mechanical engineers, program managers, material procurement managers, validation engineers.Responsible for competitive analysis and maintained company roadmap.Responsible for customer engagement and enabled them through design collateral, reference schematics and board designs allowing the chipset division to grow to over $1B/year in revenue.Responsible for silicon bring up and validation vehicles to allow quick and accurate check out.For the past 3 years responsible for Tegra SOC pcb/platform designs, for Android, WinRT and others.

Portland, Oregon Area

Lead architect and design manager for the motherboard design of the original X-Box system from Microsoft. Included power architecture definition and design. Acted as chief liaison between Microsoft and NVIDIA design groups.Lead a team responsible for enabling graphics down solutions on Intel motherboards. Maintained relationships with all of the leading graphics chips companies of the time. Maintained roadmaps and made key IC selections. Also managed AGP4x and AGP8x industry enablement between the Intel chipset group and discrete graphics providers.Lead the power delivery team focused on enterprise client motherboards. Responsible for VR technology vision and enablement of a variety of VR IC companies to power Intel CPUs and chipsets.Design engineer on several dual processor motherboard designs, specializing in power delivery.

Kennewick, Wa

Responsible for a wide variety of embedded designs, both hardware and software.Most software work was in assembly with Forth using HC11, HC12 and various Microchip designs. Delivered several projects for use at the Hanford Nuclear Site, including a flammable gas monitoring system for pumping out waste tanks. Also designed and delivered a truck mounted safety system to monitor current draw of waste management pump trucks.Delivered several water control telemetry systems for various municipalities.Experience in instrumentation and control and building UL508/509 cabinets.