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California, United States

Stratham, New Hampshire, Us

Leading SW and HW product development of automated package delivery systems in residential, commercial, and retail venues. Position Imaging, Inc. is an established R&D leader combining RF tracking, advanced computer vision, and AI modeling to identify, track, and streamline package delivery for multi-family dwellings, fast-delivery couriers order pick-up, and "touch-less" transactions for retail order pick-up, drop-off, and exchange, both in-store and curbside. PI has brilliant people, an awesome culture, and huge opportunities ahead. Come join us!

Mountain View, California, Us

Designed and delivered first iteration of an affordable self-driving system to be installed after-market. All custom sensors, RF modules, mesh compute nodes, interconnects, steering, acceleration, and brake controls delivered within one year. Built HW team from three to eleven, ramped several manufacturing partners, delivered hundreds of development units.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Drove all EE, ME, ID, and FW design, development, validation, and mass production for the market leader in personal asset trackers. Produced over 24M devices that help find more than 2M items every day. Selected JDM partners and delivered the “Tile Pro” series with 2x the range and 2x the loudness with a new premium look and feel. Reduced COGS 35% on previous products by ramping new suppliers. Led failure analysis to eliminate the top reliability issue. Researched LPWAN technology and built prototypes for wide-area asset tracking solutions.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Drove product development and industry leadership in energy savings and big data analytics for offices, warehouses, factories, and other commercial buildings. Built the team that improved SW quality, network operations, device firmware, and power electronics. Delivered two new generations of wireless sensors, power controllers, infrastructure servers, and cloud-hosted energy management applications, making Enlighted, Inc. the clear technology leader in the "smart building" marketplace.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Led researchers, scientists, and engineers to develop and demonstrate working prototypes of a highly secure and efficient network technology called Content-Centric Networking (CCNx). Assembled two laboratories and brought online a large test infrastructure with more than 36 router prototypes, some capable of 12 terabit-per-second throughput. Demonstrated "fast-path" delivery of HD video streams through these routers at the CCNx industry conference in May, 2015. Also proved CCNx can run on very low cost video clients using widely available SBCs (BeagleBone and RaspberryPi). Drove invention submissions, patent reviews, and USPTO filings as lab representative to PARC's Intellectual Property Working Group.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Assembled and led a diverse set of designers, engineers, and partners to create the world's first cloud-hosted game service capable of delivering highly interactive HD video games over consumer-grade networks. Developed ultra-low-latency human input and video streaming technology to and from the private cloud. Selected and managed global development partners to design, build, and manufacture radical new consumer electronics gaming devices. Planned, budgeted, and executed on very aggressive timelines to deliver award-winning products in time for the holidays.

Cupertino, California, Us

Led systems engineering in the design, development, validation, and off-shore manufacturing ramp of Apple TV, several generations of Mac mini, Magic mouse, wireless keyboards, and other human input devices. Also directed advanced development teams conducting research on a variety of tactile, tracking, and image sensors for downstream generations of wireless embedded systems.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led a team of 25 researchers and developers to deliver Sun's first large-scale, high-availability, low cost storage array (Project Honeycomb). Also investigated, designed, and licensed to manufacture broadband video delivery systems including consumer premises equipment and ultra-low-cost, intelligent set-top-boxes.

Led systems engineering team that developed the world's fastest cryptographic accelerator for E-Commerce applications. Delivered VLSI-based embedded network appliances and custom server blades for various OEMs. Also responsible for Contract Manufacturing operations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led systems engineering of advanced set top boxes that brought Internet content to the television for the first time. Established methodology and drove architecture, electrical design and verification, qualification, regulatory compliance, diagnostics, and sustaining for 18 unique consumer products that shipped in million-unit volumes in Direct Broadcast Satellite, digital cable, and common carrier networks. Wrote specs and negotiated with over ten OEMs to deliver fully qualified, high-volume designs at the motherboard, system box, and reference kit levels.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Invited as Charter Member of Sun Laboratories. Investigated promising ideas and technologies, led HW and SW teams to develop working prototypes, and presented results to senior management and tech transfer product teams. Achievements: First dual-band wireless data networking interface, charter member of IEEE 802.11 committee, first touch-based, wirelessly networked tablet, and advanced remote client software.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, Minor In Business Administration

Graduate Studies In Electrical Engineering

Graduate Studies In Electrical Engineering