David Kumar Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Consultant and Advisor to clients focused on advanced manufacturing and market development in India. Our customers are in Aerospace, Medical Electronics, AR/VR and Semiconductor Manufacturing (OSAT). We have brought several advanced manufacturing projects to partners in India from our customers is The US and Europe. The projects are in: Augmented reality.

San Francisco Bay Area

Please visit my Youtube presentations below.I work with the Executive team at Digilens to democratize and deploy XR Smart Glasses at an affordable cost. I focus on creating partnerships for manufacturing, content creation and concept development for new types of products utilizing mixed reality. I have created partnerships in India for manufacturing.

Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Kaynes Technology is a thirty-year-old publicly traded India based Contract Manufacturer.  Technology investments and partnerships Manufacturing partnerships  International business development Semiconductor OSAT strategy and business development for Kaynes Semi-Con

Los Angeles County, California, United States

We own over 200 movies in our catalog along with the entire collection of Atlas Comics. We are developing short format experiences suitable for AR and VR platforms. We are working with hardware partners using waveguide and micro display technologies for creating new entertainment experiences.

Mountain View, CA

Responsible for creating new opportunities, partnerships and markets for AliveCor personal ECG devices and technology.  Created a new type of ECG for bicycles and exercise bikes building the electrodes within the handlebar. This application allows users to monitor their cardiac performance through any cardio activity.  Worked with the Government of India.

Santa Clara

 Responsible for developing new verticals for Alexa Voice Services. Innovated a bicycle computer with Alexa Built In using Android OS on a MediaTek SOC. Lead the technology development for integrating wind noise reduction algorithms for outdoor use. The product was launched during CES 2019 and was selected as one of the top ten most innovative products..

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Developed the business plan for launching a set of Amazon backed mobile phones in India under the 10. OR brand. Developed the necessary business relationships with ODM partners in China as well as with Amazon.in. Successfully launched three models and achieved sales of 1.5 million units in one Diwali season. Lead the team to develop Alexa application on a.

Santa Clara

Accel North America is a subsidiary of CAC Holdings Corporation (Japan). We are an IT Consulting and Engineering services company with over six thousand employees world wide.

Fremont, California, United States

Joined the company to drive the transition from R&D organization to manufacturing company. Responsibilities were to source materials in, set up the supply chain for injection molding of high precision plastic wave-guide optics, glass lens, special purpose solar cell and contract manufacturing partnerships.  Lead customer acquisition and successfully.

• ALTIERRE CORP, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Industry: Wireless Electronic Shelf Tags - Internet Of Things (IOT)Vice President of Operations and Manufacturing Joined Altierre as Director of Operations and was promoted to VP.
• New Product Introduction: Wholly responsible for introducing an end-to-end Electronic Shelf Label solution to top tier retail stores in the US. The system consists of proprietary Server, Access Points and Display.
• Operations Management: Production control functions including BOM development, Cost Modeling and Management, Managing the Industrial Design Team, Prototype development, Test Engineering, Quality Control, Specification.
• Manufacturing and supply Chain Management: Selecting suppliers for IC manufacturing, Display manufacturing, Custom Battery development and final assembly of Box Build involving metal parts, PCBA and plastic housings..

San Jose

• Wholly responsible for day-to-day operations including Supply Chain Management, Production Planning, Quality Control, Budgeting, Revenue Forecasting and order fulfillment for five product lines with 100K+ unit.
• Organized and implemented the transition of operations and manufacturing without interruption to customers as the company spun off from parent company.
• Designed and implemented operational systems (e.g. Procurement, weekly production planning, quality control, ROHS compliance) for five product lines with over 100K shipments per month.
• Achieved 100% on time delivery from less than sixty percent by streamlining customer demands with factory capacity and allocation plans.
• Developed world class supply chain for manufacturing SIP (System In Package) radio modules involving companies such as Amkor, SIIX Corp etc.

Cupertino

• VMXTREME, CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA (2002-2005)Founder and President Animation studio to serve the emerging Internet media markets. Customers were Cartoon Networks, Adobe Systems, Panasonic, Long Tale, Disney Studios.
• Raised $5 Million investment
• Built the studio in Chennai, India with 300 animators, artists and modelers.
• Acquired customers and delivered products on time and on cost.
• Company was acquired by Accel Animation Studios.

ZOWIE ENTERTAINMENT, SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA Industry: Consumer electronics – Video game/Toy Platform. Held total responsibility for all aspects of operations from startup stage to mass production of a set of Smart Toys. Specific responsibilities includes supply chain selection, Management for ASIC device manufacturing (Wafer foundry, Assembly and test).

ELECTRIC PLANET, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA Industry: Consumer Electronics/Game Platform Managed the manufacturing and development alliances for a PC Camera based video game platform. Set up the manufacturing process for a CMOS image sensor toy camera with manufacturers.

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Managed the Purchasing, Contract manufacturing and Facilities management functions. Responsibilities includes all aspects of  Purchasing management including direct materials such as silicon wafer Assembly and test services, capital equipment procurement Development and procurement of Load Boards, Probe Cards and test boards PCB assemblies and box.

Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Mba, Business

Ma, Economics

Ba, Economics

Puc, Pre University Science

Sslc, High School