Hands on technical manager for international team of firmware engineers. System solutions for the Embedded Mixed Signal group (MCU, Wireless, Human Interface). Pre-PG simulation, ROM/RAM based SOCs, post PG FLASH, OTP and RAM based development. Programmable reference designs, fixed function devices and derivitive chips. Low level FW drivers to high level protocol stacks. System design, architecture, development, verification and delivery to production. Managed FW for PRO2 line of ISM radio SoCs. Developed the following fixed function devices: Si4012 and Si4014 ISM SoC, CP2114 USB-Audio, CP2108 USB-Quad-UART. ARM CM3 and 8051 MCUs. Delivered Apple MFi external accessory for Lightning connector. Developed associated iOS App and EA protocol. Developed Coldplay Wristband firmware. USB-IF product certification company representative.

Established US division in Colorado Springs and built a team of 16 engineers, managers and technicians. Responsible for product development. Managed a diverse engineering team and international partners to deliver world class miniature projection systems and projected image touch technology to various applications.

Managed a multi-disciplinary group of 26 engineers, managers and technicians in a fast paced and demanding development environment. Worked together with international partners to deliver world class optical disk drive systems from concept, through design and development and into production. Managed budgets from $5M-$10M per year. Delivered the world’s highest capacity optical disk drive, UDO2 (Ultra Density Optical 2) into production in Feb 2007 and General Availability in April 2007.

Managed both the software and firmware development groups. Software group supplied all internal development and production applications using primarily Windows Visual development environment. Firmware group supported all optical disk drive and automation library products including 32bit CPU with real time operating systems and low level DSP based firmware platforms.

Taught Computer Science courses as part of PhD assistantship program.

Senior Electrical Engineer designing product for 3 years and manufacturing tooling and test equipment for 4 years.