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Leading team of Product Managers and Applications Engineers focused on bringing to market innovative T&M solutions for high performance applications. Serving customers in Datacenter, Aerospace & Defense, High Energy Physics and more.Passionate about creating beautiful products that improve our customers’ lives.

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Owner of vision, roadmap and definition of product architectures for an RF product line strategic to NI's success in the RF Semiconductor Test market. Core project leader on new developments within the product line, providing product development objectives, milestone plans and critical technology and feature requirements. Guide a team of technical design leaders across functional domains in product architecture definition to ensure product design matches customer requirements. Finally, acting as a change agent for advancing new development philosophies and processes to better meet the needs of fast moving strategic markets.

Austin, Texas, United States

Led a team of product managers in developing product strategy and roadmap plans for the next generation RF test portfolio, aligning to the needs and capabilities of multiple Business Units and Product R&D functions. Provided coaching, strategy guidance and process development to the team, growing collective proficiency and autonomy. Prior to that, led product and market strategy for the development of a new product line for 5G mmWave Test. Managed and launched NI's first mmWave Test product line (PXIe-5831). Worked with cross-functional global team of strategic sellers, hardware services and and R&D to engage early strategic customers during product development to pioneer market solutions, validate go-to-market strategy, timing and product capability prior to full market release. Defined product value proposition and outbound marketing plan, guiding product marketing team on collateral development and delivery.

Austin, Texas Area

Manage all aspects of hardware and software product lifecycle for a leading RF test instrument product line, including market and customer development in the RF semiconductor industry. Driving growth in new markets with new product exploration and introduction.Activities include market and product strategy, market research, customer relationship management, product requirements gathering, new product ideation, project planning and execution, product marketing and launch strategy, sales enablement, application specific content development and delivery, product release through end of life planning and execution.

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

- Manage new RF product design projects.- Drive and oversee continuous improvement of test, V&V and manufacturing processes for recently released high volume RF product. - Manage prototype module production of a strategic radio frequency (RF) product.- Design and implement validation/verification (V&V) tests to ensure product specifications of new RF products.- Manage process improvement efforts to improve product quality for the RF group.- Maintain product health for selected RF products.

Austin, Texas Area

- Created and managed technical support strategy for RF product line producing externally available technical resources and increased product usability.- Designed and implemented automated test system to verify test platform for top RF customer in China. Traveled onsite to integrate test into system deployment process resulting in ~10% improvement of onsite failure rate.- Directly interfaced with top RF customers to ensure product quality and user satisfaction.- Lead product reliability and manufacturability improvement efforts through design enhancement analysis and cost saving efforts via new component evaluation.- Facilitated top RF customer sales through customized application development and hardware/software integration into existing system designs.- Managed multi-million dollar, direct to R&D, support requests for RF product line.- Supported manufacturing and RMA groups providing low level failure analysis of RF hardware for improvement projects increasing product reliability.

- Maintained 95% satisfaction rating, while consulting with customers to develop, test and integrate NI hardware and software into specialized customer applications.- Wrote software application programming interface (API) to expose hidden functionality of an integrated circuit (IC) populated on a stagnant product. Resulted in approximately 100% increase in adoption the following year. - Developed and taught technical training courses internally and across the US to numerous groups of up to 25 NI employees and customers.--> RF Fundamentals and Application Development--> LabVIEW FPGA and Real-Time App Development--> Advanced Data Acquisition Development--> LabVIEW Programming--> LabVIEW DAQ and Signal Conditioning + Instrument Control

Federal Way, Washington, United States

Contributed to control instrumentation designs for expansion of electrical grid at US Oil and Refining in Tacoma, WA.

Federal Way, Washington, United States

Designed a computerized control panel to replace the existing analog control instrumentation at Boardman Coal Plant in Boardman, Oregon.Architected software Human Machine Interface (HMI) and updated back end PLC ladder logic to interface with HMI as well as newly integrated wireless radio comms system

Seattle, Washington, United States

Surveyed 70 miles of 230kV power lines and created upgrade designs using PLS-CADD design software.Interpreted and analyzed data from an energy efficiency study for Snohomish County PUD.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Summa Cum Laude

Bsee, Electrical Engineering