Daniel Davies Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Built the company from an idea to a highly capable cross-functional team where Software, Firmware, Hardware, Mechanical, Industrial Design, Marketing, and Product/Project Management are all working together• Successfully led the engineering team to launch 3 products (six SKUs), along with a comprehensive control application within 2 years of founding the company• Initiated, evaluated, and managed relationships with global manufacturing partners• Negotiated pricing and payment terms with manufacturing partners• Ensured product compliance with international regulations and established procedures for testing, QC, and assembly to minimize product failure• Developed and managed sophisticated cash flow and budgetary models to map out costs, inventory buys, and investment and sales income• Maintained an intense focus on optimizing business value and development time to market• Played a key role in pitching to investors, helping to raise over $8 million to date

Victoria, Bc Canada

• Manage a cross discipline team of software/firmware and hardware engineers• In charge of all staffing decisions for the product vertical.• Responsible for driving software/hardware projects from ideation, through design, to public launch.• Accountable for software/hardware development and NPI manufacturing schedules. • Collaborate with global team including our manufacturer in China. • Work at the intersection of business, engineering, and UX to develop successful products.• Interim operations manager of the Victoria development office June 2017-June 2018.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Project manager for all TC-Helicon branded hardware products.• Central hub of communication between teams both in office and around the world.• Scheduling and management of new product development.• Point of contact for new product integration team and manufacturing.• Coordinated hardware manufacturing and software development timelines.• Directly responsible for eight employees in both the industrial and hardware design teams.• Involved in projects from ideation, through design, to public launch.• Continued to be involved with embedded C programming.• Involved with bringing 30 different vocal processing products to market in both project management and software development roles.

• Worked with many different microcontrollers and specialized in low-level drivers written in C (USB, SPI, I2C, I2S, and USART).• Designed real-time audio signal path using both C and Assembly (used for optimization).• Trusted as the lead and sometime sole software engineer on many products.• Developed the first revision of TC-Helicon’s VoiceSupport application using C++ and the JUCE library.• Modified and released stand-alone product update applications using C++ and the JUCE library.• Completed my third and fourth co-op placements at TC-Helicon in 2006-2007.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

• Graduated with Distinction. • Specialized in Digital Signal Processing. • Computer Music Option.

Masters Certificate In Project Management

• Graduated with the top score in class. • Won the project simulation/competition at the end of the program.