Eric Wilbur Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Founded a private consulting company that offers both professional development and technical training designed for engineers, by engineers. Focus is teaching engineers how to communicate more effectively via technical presentations, instructional design and technical workshop facilitation.Developed a two-day live workshop that teaches engineers how to develop and deliver an effective technical presentation with targeted messaging that engages audiences and builds mindshare. Research-based, field-tested topics include “big idea” development, audience needs and context analysis, content framework, information hierarchy, use of pathos to engage audiences, storyboarding, slide creation and simplification, and content delivery techniques.Consult with clients who develop highly leveraged technical content for sales presentations, design reviews, product pitches and technical conferences. Help engineers design accessible, easy-to-follow live or online training that saves customers time and money by breaking down highly complex systems into bite-size pieces that build confidence as users walk through a “story” of how to use and interact with a product.Consult with technical conference organizers to help them identify development needs, train and coach presenters, assess live presentations and accurately measure speaker success.FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.MindshareAdvantage.com

Denver And Colorado Springs, Colorado

Designed and developed over 20 discrete one- to four-day technical hands-on workshops on topics including digital signal processors (DSP), microprocessors, microcontrollers, wireless, multi-core devices, custom DSP cores, video/audio processors and real-time operating systems (RTOS). Mastered architecture/tools, performed needs analysis, developed storyboards, wrote lab code/documents, and designed PowerPoint slides. Maintained workshops with regular updates over their life cycle, anywhere from two to 18 years.Taught over 300 live workshops totaling more than 1000 days to over 3000 customer engineers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore & Australia. Focused on content/skill retention and customer satisfaction through a highly interactive, dialog-driven classroom environment. Created 20 hours of online training for C6000 processors and 30 hours of online training for company’s RTOS that together received over 1,500,000 Wiki hits and were adopted by many universities across the globe for RTOS training in upper-level engineering courses.Collaborated with engineering and marketing teams across the U.S., Europe and Asia to create workshop themes, determine topics/outcomes, and develop confidence-building content/labs to address key customer needs. Consulted with numerous engineers to help them design workshops and technical presentations for their customers.Created and delivered half-day and three-day train-the-trainer sessions to hundreds of engineers worldwide to help them create and deliver compelling, profit-driven technical presentations and workshops. Taught essential workshop facilitation skills to 60+ instructors and application engineers who used and taught workshops across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Japan. Wrote application notes and delivered one- to three-hour presentations to both internal and external audiences at technical conferences worldwide, with highly positive feedback.

Denver, Colorado

Worked on-site at Maxtor for two years collaborating with engineering teams to design, write firmware and debug new 2.5" drive based on a custom DSP/ASIC device. Attended sales calls with local TSRs to consult and advise on DSP issues. Supported sales with product presentations and followed up on customer technical questions. Taught 14 DSP workshops to 150 Maxtor engineers on C25LP core.

Dallas, Texas, And Denver, Colorado

Connected and collaborated with engineers and engineering managers for companies such as HP, DEC, IBM, Maxtor and AT&T to determine the best fit of devices in end equipment. Top-ranked TSR in region who often attained highest sales bonuses and base increases due to number of design wins. Mentored new sales reps in local office, teaching them crucial steps for successful customer engagements.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S) Electrical Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering