Christopher Long Email & Phone Number

South Florida

Boca Raton, FL

Mentor- FAU Tech Runway. Provide business and technology development guidance to entrepreneurial new start-up tech companies in a incubator hosted by Florida Atlantic University. The goal of FAU Tech Runway is to establish a formal program for mentoring entrepreneurs and their ventures based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Venture.

Delray Beach, Florida

Lumitec is an industry leader in the conceptualization, design, and manufacture of innovative, high quality LED lighting systems for the marine industry and other extreme environments. Lumitec’s products are designed and built in the USA and can be found on recreational boats from day cruisers to super yachts and on fire/emergency and commercial vehicles.

Bonita Springs, FL

Shaw Development is a global fluids management specialist providing innovative component and system level solutions to OEM’s within the commercial and military heavy duty ground vehicle markets. Shaw Development specializes in custom engineering, prototyping and short-run production verification of our customer’s fuel system, hydraulic fluid line.

• Developed new cellular phones and processes utilizing Asia based OEM design partners for sales in global markets. Serve as Technical Director for Go to Market deployment worldwide.
• Launched first mass market Android smart phone in over 40 countries with over 1 million sold in first 6 months.
• Introduced over 15 products from 9 different ODM suppliers to global customers with total sales of over 9 million units and $675M.
• Collaborated with Asian ODM partners to review designs, negotiate schedules, and drive defect resolution which ensured product launches were on time.

Plantation, FL

• Supervised cellular handset product introduction across Latin America. Led Go to Market NPI organization of 151 people in 11 countries to support $3B business.
• Led business transformation that merged nine organizations into single team focused on total support of lifecycle from new product introduction to end of life while maintaining lowest global field failure rate.
• Drove eight Six Sigma projects to reduce product introduction cycle time by over 60% while reducing over $5M in costs. Released over 290 new handset models to Latin America market.

Plantation, FL

• Managed Product Operations and Program Management for all new cellular phones sold into Latin America. Responsibilities included all regional product launch activities from schedule planning to ship acceptance in 38.
• Created organization and processes to grow from 8 to 36 million phones annually while expanding new product launches from 18 to 70 per year.
• Transformed business to web based systems for schedule synchronization and sales model management. Established processes which dramatically improved Time to Market and quality of products from ODM partners.

Boynton Beach, FL

• Managed combined business and engineering organization responsible for hardware and software design of cutting edge cell phones for global customers. Led development of product design and business cases, technical.
• Hardware Director for Motorola GSM Triplets phones (V300/V500/V600) family of products with special focus on displays and imaging. Led part design and sourcing of three new Asian Thin Film Transistor (TFT) color.
• Resolved supply chain quality and production issues by working onsite in Korea and China to ship over 1 million phones in 3 months in time for holiday product launch.

Boynton Beach, FL

• Managed global team of 130 technical professionals including Engineers, Industrial Designers, Process Engineers, and Marketing Specialists. Oversaw simultaneous worldwide development programs with budgets up to $12M..
• Negotiated Joint Development Agreement with UK based computer company for Symbian smart phone.
• Developed V100/101 and V200, Motorola’s first groundbreaking GSM and CDMA cell phones with QWERTY keyboard sold domestically and in Western Europe.

Bse, Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football, Army ROTC

Executive Education, Leading Product Development

Masters In Business Administration (Mba), General Management