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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led medical business development efforts across all Maxim products; driving cost effective apps support to capture mass market growth from greenfield opportunities. Design Win LTR$ increased 50% YoY.

San Jose, Ca, Us

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San Jose, Ca, Us

Reshaped company to become a leader in sensor algorithm and firmware, established new value propositions, recruited new talents and achieved the first revenue by developing and selling algorithms and software IPs that control sensors in mobile devices. Authored invited papers and blog posts to steer industry discussions towards using sensors to better understand mobile device users by enabling contextual awareness in smart personal devices. Co-inventor in several key patent applications.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Recruited to create a startup enterprise around a promising technology. Formed applications, design, marketing, operations and sales teams. Defined a first product that presented a $70M+ revenue opportunity that exploits the company's disruptive technology to replace quartz crystals with advanced RF/analog CMOS circuits. Oversaw marketing and operation efforts. Company was recognized as a finalist for “Start-up Company to Watch” by the FSA

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Transformed the company's focus from 10-Gbit communications to consumer applications by adapting its core technology for HDMI applications and establishing new sales channels in Asia. The new business plan helped raise $15M in B round financing. Managed-cross functional product development efforts to deliver working HDMI receiver sample 12 months from conception and achieved first design-in at LG plasma TV group ($2M first year revenue). Established strategic partnership with ATI and Genesis Microchip to positioned Analogix as an expert partner to DisplayPort and became the first company to demonstrate DisplayPort capabilities. DisplayPort represents a 300% increase in total accessible market for the company.

Led startup team to create a camera adapter SoC targeting white-box cell phone makers in Japan, Taiwan and China and to enable a new price point for megapixel resolution. Completed HDL model and established relationship with Japanese cell phone manufacturers but progress was slowed by insufficient funding.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Assumed all marketing responsibilities for timing products and P&L for timing distribution products after IC Works was acquired by Cypress. Propelled Cypress to be the market share leader in timing products with strategic acquisition and portfolio expansions. Increased consumer segment revenue by 50% over 2 years. Enhanced Cypress brand equity in communications segment products to maintain ASP and margin over industry downturn. Used Chinese language webcasts resulting in overwhelming audience acclaim. Led a special research project to investigate the use of MEMS resonator to integrate a high quality time base with standard CMOS circuits.

Re-built and led marketing team at IC Works. Responsible for all marketing and strategic functions. Improved key customers' perceptions of IC Works and established the company as the technical leader for the timing industry. Exploited market discontinuity and the company’s superior EMI suppression spread spectrum clock products to take over 70% of PC motherboards based on the new 440BX chip set. Extended the EMI suppression market position to create Spread Aware™ products. “Spread Aware” was successfully branded and became industry standard terminology. Created company business plan in support of IPO filing.

Responsible for system hardware, system software, and applications engineering for Personal Systems Group. Reorganizing work load as a result of Cyrix merger and improved engineering productivity by re-engineering the company’s product development process to the dynamics of the PC market and align with key market windows.

Advised high-tech companies and investment bankers on technology trends. Published periodical reports and provided technical and product strategy consultation to semiconductor companies and financial analysts for high technology markets. Spoke and moderated expert panels at premier industry forums on trends and market strategies

Dallas, Tx, Us

Re-energized an engineering team to deliver the industry’s first PCI-integrated x86 processor and first PCI-to-PCMCIA bridge, achieving working prototype in 12 months. Took graphics card from prototype to final production, creating manufacturing test flow and attaining regulatory certifications, generating $4M revenue in the first year. Responsible for system architecture and technical roadmap for PC-related semiconductor products including graphics, networking, core logic chips, memory and x86 microprocessor. Served as the company spokesman on technology and visions on PC related semiconductor products. Managed a group of over 60 engineers.

Responsible for the design of high resolution video and graphics subsystems and managed field service, quality and applications software development. Established on-site maintenance support for computer installations by negotiating with and training third party contractors. Achieved design cycles of 90 days and devised a creative memory configuration to reduce video memory usage by 40%.

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