Craig Walrath Email & Phone Number

Spring, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas Area

Launched company to provide consulting services to companies and individuals looking for executive and/or technical leadership in key areas:- Development of new technology strategies, key industry trends and initiatives, investigations, assessments, and/or recommendations. Consultant and mentor to senior management and engineering staff providing technical leadership on innovation, technical strategy, mentoring/development of technical talent, and career development.- Also Intellectual Property strategy assessment/development, IP management, generation of IP, Search, Analysis, Licensing, Assertion and Litigation. Currently Principal Consultant/Founding Member for Assess-IoT and in parallel, providing consulting services for additional companies.

Houston, Texas Area

Principal Consultant/Founding Member: As a founder member of Assess-IoT, Craig works with a team of Ex CxOs, SVPs, Fellows and Directors to help develop IoT strategies and implementation plans for Mid-range companies seeking to harness IoT for new product and services. As a Founding member, worked to form/establish Assess-IOT and continuing it's growth. As a Principal Consultant, working with companies to assess the impacts of IoT on their current business, help them assess and establish new strategies, products and services, as well as possible new revenue and/or cost reductions. Assess-IoT partners with companies looking to harness the power of IoT in order to enhance their business through focused strategic planning, alignment to new roadmaps and development of a solid deployment plan. By applying its deep business leadership and ecosystem expertise, Assess-IoT helps companies position themselves for the future.

Houston, Texas Area

Led Systems/Core Technology Group in HP Emerging Compute lab (April’15 – July 2016)CTO Office - Personal Systems - PS (Sept’12-April’15) Strategic processor/system-on-a-chip (SoCs) Technical Leado Led Systems/Core Technology Group, working with major semi-conductor manufacturers on future processor/chipset development. o Key Core team member for HP Compute Strategy development– overall effort led to 60% reduction in SoC suppliers, improved supply chain purchasing power, unified engineering support model, & gained business unit alignmento Led SoC Landscape team analysis/recommendations for numerous x86 & ARM SoC providers for products ranging from smartphones - workstationsDevelopment of new technology strategies, key technology trends/investigations/recommendationso Initiated/led HPI new memory/NVM technology analysis, Strategy, and Research project. Numerous developments, findings, 10+ patent filings, and multiple internal papers.o PS lead for initial efforts regarding cross-company large confidential projects and also multiple new technology areas and trends (hybrid storage, I/O strategy across product lines, Thunderbolt, etc. Initiated/led initial USB.next (now USB 3.1) industry standards effortsCross-Personal Systems Intellectual Property leado Co-led development of initial HP Corporate/PS IP Strategy Framework; Key participant for overall HP IP Strategy development; PS Patent development & strategy lead, IP licensing/sales strategy, analysis, recommendations, supporting HP/PS IP Licensing, Cross licensing, acquisition, patent sales, defensive efforts, & IP related agreement development efforts w/Intel, AMD, Microsoft, …o Innovative technologist demonstrated by patent filings & creative solutions.Employee developmento Increased depth and diversity of technical talent through coaching and mentoring, leading to successful promotions; HP Corporate & PS Board member for Technical Career Path programLed multiple cross-group technology initiatives

Houston, Texas Area

Houston

Houston

Syracuse, New York Area

During this seven year period, developed excellent technical architectural/design expertise and managerial skills in both hardware and software architecture and development. Experience in digital and microprocessor hardware architecture and design for single and multiprocessor (MP) systems, along with experience in software development for all levels of software for multi-tasking and multiprocessor systems. Job positions went from hardware design engineer, to Project Leader, to Lead Architect for hardware development of all new systems. In a parallel path, roles went from software design engineer, to Project Leader, to Manager. Typical development scenarios included hardware design and development with a parallel effort in the design and development of the related software.

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering