Chris A. Ciufo Email & Phone Number

Rancho Cucamonga, California, US

Responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy, product ownership, all worldwide sales channels, program management, technical content creation, media/public interface, technical partnerships and the 3 year technology roadmap.

Rancho Cucamonga, California, US

Joining entrepreneur Ben Sharfi and his team to help set technology direction and move GMS to its next strategic position in the rugged MIL/COTS market. So excited to get my hands back into the manufacturing and defense industry while still working closely with partners like Intel and AMD. And, I'll still be writing the occasional piece and.

The Custom Content Services Group, which I run, is new at Extension Media. It was formed to meet the out-of-the-box requirements of key clients who need more focused engagement with their prospects--our readers--and more granular analytics and ROI. I work with clients and their agencies creating or repurposing content in new and unique ways: from webinars.

Finally a chance to work with my friend and colleague John Blyler, Editorial Director at Extension Media.I'm responsible for bringing additional embedded technology experience and working closely with expert editor Cheryl Coupe. Although Extension Media has many vertical editions of its "EECatalog" series, the plan is deeper staff-written content and.

Strategic business development and market strategy consultancy. I offer technical product advice to individual clients helping to value companies' IP and product differentiation, while recommending possible market niches or technology positioning strategies. I've performed extensive market and competitive studies and always invest time in learning the.

I assist Barr Group customers with strategic business development marketing/technology analyses and studies. I'm an expert in identifying and evaluating embedded market technology trends and strategic directions, providing technical product advice while helping to value company IP and product differentiation. With nearly 30 years in embedded and a constant.

London, England, GB

I joined UBM Electronics to head the "embedded franchise", which included Embedded Systems Design magazine (formerly Embedded Systems Programming), embedded.com, and the content for the Embedded Systems Conferences (Boston and San Jose).UBMe has a start-up like culture inside the global UBM publishing continuum, with the mission of using various forms of.

2010: What a year of change, professionally and personally. On the business side, OSM continues to out-innovate our competition, with virtual educational events, deeply technical webcasts ("E-casts"), microsites called TechChannels, and amazingly detailed digital e-flip magazines. But all of that has landed heavily on my editorial staff, so we're staying.

San Clemente, CA, US

I helped launch RTC's COTS Journal at inception (reviewed the late-night faxed business plan in a DC hotel during AUSA), wrote an article on PC/104 in the first issue, and then later came aboard as Senior Editor in 1999. Progressed to Executive Editor and finally Editor-in-Chief where I ran the magazine for many years and grew it from bi-monthly to.

Montvale, NJ, US

I started out at Sharp Microelectronics Technology (SMT) as Marketing Manger for SRAM, FIFO and (Butterfly) DSP product lines and was promoted by Sharp's president John Manning to Director. SMT was re-organized and absorbed by the Sharp sales company Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) which is the current organization.At SMA I obsoleted the SRAM.

Made the not-obvious decision to abandon company's bread-and-butter 680xx Motorola-based products in favor of the unproven PowerPC architecture. Lead a team that created a way to reliably use pure commercial ICs in high-rel applications, changing the industry paradigm away from MIL-SPEC components.This was hands down my favorite assignment for two reasons.

I increased sales of networking and CPU products to government, military/aerospace, systems integrators, and flight/power grid simulation facilities. I established six (6) strategic partnerships, expanded product line and channels into non-traditional markets. Provided direction and focus to then-random "engineering-driven" products and created new.

Re-vitalized and focused the networking product line TAXI (transparent asynchronous transceiver interface) and optics to market-driven P&L realities by focusing on Fibre Channel and SONET. Product line achieved first ever profit since inception. Provided collaborative market direction to an extremely independent and highly technical entrepreneurial.

Created the LA-based "DAP" Distributor Account Program, a way of quantitatively tracking and rewarding Disti Reps and FAEs for design wins, not just monthly revenue or turns business. This focused behavior on the longer term over the traditional "turn and burn" mentality. Today, of course, this is standard practice - but it wasn't in 1986.

I managed emerging small and large corporate customers including Hughes, TRW, Micropolis, Fibermux, Fadel, Data Products in industries from military, aerospace, to disk drives, printers, and machine tools. I managed the distributor Wyle Labs and invented AMD's "DAP Training" (Distributor Account Program) that focused on design wins, not just monthly turns.

This was a series of summer jobs plus a 6-month co-op position during college. I was first responsible for evaluating and recommending purchase of the company's first word processing system in an era prior to PCs and facsimile machines. We chose an NBI over IBM and Dictaphone.I was later jointly responsible for updating the company's catalog of DC torque.

Bsee/Matsci, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics

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