Currently producing a broad range of online courses at Cogswell University of Silicon Valley. To date, these include: U.S. Government, History of the Modern World, Contemporary Ethical Issues, and Architecture and World Societies. Composite student ratings (on a 5.00 scale) range from 4.56 to 4.95.Also generated an 18,000-word white paper for SAE (formerly, the Society of Automotive Engineers) on the technology of autonomous (self-driving) vehicles.

Provided strategic planning, competitive analysis, and product positioning/planning/marketing to help Telairity transition from a semiconductor IP company to a video compression systems company (building products based on its own TVP video processor). I researched target audiences and created product roll-out campaigns, including responsibility for AR & PR outreach, print and on-line advertising, drip email, social media, and trade shows. Investigated potential of cloud-based encoding (SaaS). Redesigned the company website, writing all copy. Also wrote white papers, product briefs, product manuals, and datasheets. Provided customer support. Developed and taught a week-long course in video compression.

Lead analyst during 2006, contributing up to 40% of Microprocessor Report content. Published articles on MRAM, the Sun-Fujitsu alliance, the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite, server processors (including Niagara 2, SPARC64 VI, and POWER6), storage processors, virtual machines, and other topics. During 2007-2010, worked as a consultant, contributing articles on processor performance.

Served in a variety of positions over 11 years in two tours of duty, 1994-1999 and 2001-2006.Senior Staff Engineer, Competitive Intelligence and Analysis (CIA), Strategic Systems GroupPrincipal analyst for tracking competitive performance and market trends, including early interest in Cloud-based computing solutions (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS). Helped shift selected Sun hardware/software technologies to the open source community. Supported sales, making presentations at the Briefing Center, conferences, roadshows, corporate events. Served as spokesperson for strategic Sun technologies.Strategic Marketing Manager, Enterprise Systems DivisionDeveloped Sun’s “Throughput Computing” campaign, helping restore company’s thought leadership in computer systems. Wrote executive presentations/scripts, white papers, technical articles, business articles, FAQs, field newsletter items, etc. Briefed customers, media, analysts on developments, responded to inquiries, questions.Group Manager of Architecture Marketing, Microelectronics DivisionPrincipal evangelist, traveling worldwide to promote Sun's distinctive hardware and software technologies, including SPARC, Java, Jini, Solaris, and system-level RAS (Reliability-Availability-Serviceability) features.Technical Marketing Manager for Volume Products, Microelectronics DivisionDid all positioning/messaging for new JavaChip lines, visiting customers with sales to close technology licensing agreements worth more than $20M. Developed presentations for executives, sales, marketing; wrote product planning documents, market requirements documents, business cases, application notes, datasheets, technical briefs, product brochures, etc.New Product Definition Manager, Microelectronics DivisionTracked technology trends, did roadmap and product planning, developed marketing requirements documents (MRDs) for new products, including the UltraSPARC II, UltraSPARC IIi, UltraSPARC III, microSPARC IIe, and UltraAX board product.

Developed the Comstellar name and logo as an original team member of this incubator company, specializing in early-stage guidance of startups developing innovative/disruptive technologies for wireless and optical networking. Managed website, documentation, marcom and AR/PR activities for Comstellar. Worked closely with client companies to develop distinctive and persuasive product positioning, messaging, and documentation. Guided their initial exposure at trade shows, technical conferences, and to analysts, press, and other media sources.

Hired to create the marketing department for this Internet startup developing the first feedback-driven search engine. Responsible for assembling a team to handled product launch, product documentation, product support and training, media relations, lead generation campaigns, and website development. Personally handled strategic planning. Wrote white papers, developed corporate presentation, overview, and other high-level documentation. Authored and evolved the company business plan, identifying opportunities, establishing profitability goals, planning product development, mapping roll-out campaigns, modeling financial growth, setting out debt/equity financing structure, and outlining product support policies.

Technical Marketing Manager responsible for competitive analysis, product documentation, technical sales support, customer demos/benchmarking, and all after-sale support. Setup a network of manufacturer's representatives to handle company products in North America and Europe. At different times, served as the Engineering Manager of three software development groups: for the UNIX Operating System, Performance Analysis, and Diagnostics & System Bring-up. Also served in the Architecture Group for a new VLIW processor, helping to specify its instruction set, creating functional block diagrams, writing the hardware and software architectural specifications, and editing patent applications.

1984: Project manager for UNIX System V development for National's pioneering 32-bit Series 32000 microprocessor. Brought the project in under budget and ahead of schedule, resulting in promotion to engineering manager for all Series 32000 software development.1985-88: Product Line Manager and Engineering Manager for all software developed for the Series 32000 processor. Managed group of 42 engineers, including 17 remotely based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Responsible for development of Unix operating systems (both BSD and System V), optimizing compilers and other programming tools, network protocol stacks, etc. Negotiated and oversaw major contracts with third-party software vendors (for Ada compiler, real-time OSs, math libraries, etc.)