Highly technical, passionate, and dedicated Vice President of Engineering, a leader with broad experience delivering commercially successful products for very recognizable brands in consumer electronics (including an innovative AI/ML enabled AWS IOT BLE/Wifi product that won CES Innovation Award), industrial and medical markets (including Proton Therapy Treatment and Cold Compression Therapy products). Expert at scaling up start-up cultures into sustainable organizations that can support multiple customers and products. Business and technical acumen in cultivating customer relationships, leading, communicating, and influencing cross-functional geographically distributed teams. Member of the Executive Team, responsible for the entire global engineering division, working in conjunction with our factory, operations, finance, program management, sales and marketing. Entrepreneurial approach and urgency, leading multi-disciplinary teams to create and deliver best-in-class consumer experiences. Full product lifecycle including concept, ID, hardware, firmware/embedded software, mechanical, IOT cloud and mobile interfaces, PCBA test fixture and end of line testing for mass production. Goals-driven and collaborative leadership style, with a focus on delivering results, continuous improvement and mentorship.Product Examples:CES Innovation Award: Outdoor connected IoT product (www.mybirdbuddy.com) which won the CES Innovation Award is an innovative battery powered AI / ML IoT AWS cloud video streaming bird feeder. Technologies included Wifi / BLE, video camera + SoC (H.264/H.265), microphone, time-of-flight sensor, capacitive sensor, hall effect, fuel gauge, Li-Ion battery and MPPT solar charger using AWS FreeRTOS on MCU and Linux on MPU. System includes Linux & FreeRTOS AWS IoT Core for telemetry (MPTT, Shadow) for cloud, AWS Kinesis for ingesting real-time video and audio, machine learning and analytics, fleet management, device provisioning, device security and mobile application.IoT: Gateway that enabled Amazon Alexa to automate smart shades, Construction Access and Power Tools Access Controls, Thermostats, Water Meters, Energy Monitoring, Irrigation Controllers, HVAC / Refrigeration GUI HMI deviceBLE: Outdoor speaker with touch screen GUI and remote control, Remote control & HMIs with touch screen GUIMedical: Cold Compression Therapy product consisting of motor controllers, stepper motors, pumps, pressure transducers, A/D conversion, keypad, and user interfaceDesign of Li-Ion battery pack including BMS circuit used in IoT connected motorized shades.
Listed skills include Firmware, Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, Wireless, and 24 others.