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Provided management and guidance to multi-functional global project teams that designed, developed, manufactured and delivered low latency OCP cloud server architectures optimized for Fintech customers worldwide, including developing complex SOW, business proposals, supply chain planning and contingencies, project schedule tasks & milestones, and financial planning & tracking.▪ Delivered Intel-based cloud server on time (12 mo.) with high quality meeting budget ($3.96M), accommodating a demanding litany of design & config change customer requests throughout the development phase, necessitating quick-turn assessments and engineering quotes to preserve customer relationship▪ Resulted in repeat production business on same platform with config changes for new technology.

San Diego, Ca & Myrtle Beach, Sc

Recruited to assist in the building and ramp up of this Android device startup company’s engineering, program management and funding.▪ Guided engineers to develop an Android smartphone with an embedded pico-projector (LED-based). Assisted in the 2nd product launch, upgrading the projector to LASER-based.This handset enables instant projection of digital content with it's embedded LASER pico projector, with a 4-hour runtime on a single charge.▪ Developed the product requirements doc (PRD), product development plan, detailed release schedule and 5-year product roadmap▪ Fund raise: Wrote the 64-page Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) for a $15M first round, plus supporting docs: Executive Summary deck, Presentation/ Business Pitch deck, and detailed 10-tab Excel financial spreadsheet & charts

San Diego

Managed SW program development for a portfolio of ~20 cellular device SoC chipsets, pre- and post-silicon.Tracked and audited a weekly roll-up of 25 functional areas’ development and test teams’ linked MS Project Server plans into 6 closely driven plans of feature deliverables.Developed, presented and drove improvements of 6 weekly PMO dashboard Quality Metrics Reviews and Risks & Issues Reports to the Engineering, Integration, Test, and Senior Mgmt teams.▪ Managed Development and Test teams using Virtio SW and RUMI HW simulators for each SoC ahead of silicon fabrication - all first silicon was 100% successful▪ Used and improved business intelligence analytics systems under development (Atlas, Qlik)▪ Improved and automated macro-driven multi-disciplined MS Project schedules; web-based performance metrics including schedule variances, defect arrival & closure, risks & issues

Carlsbad, Ca

Managed HW, FW and Mechanical attributes of new product development programs (M2M embedded automotive modules) in a master MS Project schedule and dashboard presentations.Managed carrier certification and mass production NPI rollout; Tier-1 customer relationship improvements; RMA failure analysis team on volume production units; Quality issues, resolution and reporting. ▪ Reduced manufacturing line failure rate from 1200 to 200 parts per million, exceeding goal by 50%, 4 months early, resolving a Japan customer relationship crisis▪ Passed customer-initiated audit at Flextronics at our production partner’s factory onsite in Shanghai▪ Worked on 3 sets of pre-production M2M modules controlling: car telematics, cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth radios, GPS, and supporting one module in high-volume production▪ Was final auditor/editor/signature for highly sensitive customer-bound technical RMA resolution proposal documents (36 unique reports)▪ Created and implemented PMO reporting systems – tools, metrics, customer defect resolution reports, multi-disciplined MS Project schedules for HW, FW and SDLC, and weekly senior management dashboard reports

La Jolla, Ca

Managed a team of hardware, software, test, and broadcast engineers for a satellite-based nation-wide automated TV and cable content distribution system network – with program, movie, and geographically-appropriate commercial spot delivery - covering 800 US stations.▪ Ran all operations - customer meetings, field support and training, hardware and full software development lifecycle, including test and deployment, and customer invoicing, while founder traveled to EU for funding▪ Delivered 2 software upgrades to the field – 1 major and 1 incremental, improving functionality and stability▪ Devised and coordinated a field-wide hard drive recall campaign and documented field replacement procedures in a RAID 5 configuration

San Diego

Led the Program Management Office. Chaired Customer and weekly Project Status Exception meetings involving the onsite and overseas engineering and test teams.Scheduled and managed software applications development, test, regulatory compliance and carrier certification.The team developed, ported, tested and certified BREW and J2ME gaming, mobile banking and radio applications for use by wireless carriers in their existing field handset populations and in support of new device launches.▪ Developed business proposals/Statements of Work for over 20 customers. Negotiated pricing and scheduling▪ Evaluated, introduced, modeled and deployed project scheduling software▪ Developed and managed the master SDLC schedule for all projects, enabling accurate delivery forecasting, what-if? scenarios, and resource capacity planning▪ Led development and Visio mapping of critical business processes - Customer Proposal/Bid, Invoicing, Project Tracking and Control; improving operational efficiency and accelerating customer response time

Greater San Diego Area

Managed project teams located across the USA and Romania developing cellular network Streaming Server releases. Chaired weekly Project Team meetings, managing issues related to feature content, software builds, field support, commitment and resource re-planning and schedule optimization, development tools, training, and software configuration management.▪ Delivered 4 SDLC releases of the Streaming Server, progressively increasing complexity, reducing defects, improving stability for 80M European cellular subscribers▪ Drove the redesign of ClearQuest database schema and added automated project quality metrics to match business workflow practices and processes, trained users, tested and cut over to new system and server▪ Redesigned the Project Management processes – optimized for efficiency and improved customer satisfaction

Arlington Heights, Il

Cellular Infrastructure HW/SW rollouts in early-adopter Japan followed by other countries.Managed global teams of up to 300 individuals in 30 functional areas including a team of 12 direct reports - engineers developing code in 5 platform functional areas to:▪ manage and optimize the Radio Access Network▪ code in C++, Perl shell scripting, design and develop APIs, GUIs and object oriented databases▪ Design and develop Unix network applications using the TCP/IP suite. Managed their work across the full SDLC in an integrated master schedule. Led the team to additionally support the Motorola Global Call Center as technical subject matter experts.▪ By planning and re-engineering, saved $1.6M in annual OpEx costs to our largest customer KDDI by reducing operator-attended OS, Applications, Database, and Config SW install time from 12 hours to 5 minutes▪ Awarded Cellular Infrastructure Group’s Quality Award for Excellence (twice)▪ Achieved CMM SEI Level 3 rating in an external assessment, exceeding expectations of a Level 2 rating▪ In one HW/SW release, realized 5X to 8X performance improvements across key parameters, increasing system capacity and allowing aggressive customer field expansion and revenue growth▪ R16.5 recognized as best quality release to date by major Japan customer - KDDI▪ Disqualified the contracted Systems Integrator due to performance and schedule execution issues. Identified replacement and won senior management approval to make a late-in-program switchover. Ramped up the teams to execute, fully recovering the schedule timeline

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Certified Pmp Project Management Professional