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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

• Leading effort to design and build prototype next-generation enhanced re-transmission device (ERD)
• Managing Aegis R51 product improvements, bug fixes and sales
• Supporting research and development of new ultra-secure smartphone

Austin, Texas Area

• Lead group of Product Managers, Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers in delivering more than a dozen Enterprise-focused Android applications to market
• Designed and manage the company’s first paid SaaS offering launched in April 2019 – “Sonim Scan”
• Spearhead pre-sales engineering/solution definition in support of frontline Sales team

Greater Boston Area

• Reported directly to the CEO as senior strategist and business development lead
• Managed team of three in developing partnerships with Android application developers
• Led efforts in defining software solutions for next generation ultra-rugged Android smartphones

San Mateo, CA

• Created strategy and BD group to address short- and long-term business needs, specifically identifying opportunities to move from being solely a mobile phone OEM to being a full solution provider
• Led effort to raise private equity round of funding
• Managed company’s first large-scale effort to do in-depth market sizing, vertical prioritization and identification of new channels to market
• Supported Sales team in using a data-driven approach to identify geographic and industry strengths and by extension opportunities for growth

Palo Alto, CA

• Strategy
• Identified more than 40 possible research opportunities for commercialization for a major academic medical center including prioritizing key opportunities and building full business models for the top three.
• Developed new product and go-to-market strategies for an ophthalmic medical device company to capture >$40M in potential incremental revenueOperations
• Designed and executed the pilot of a new claims processing approach for one of the largest US auto insurers, including implementing traditional Lean principles
• Implemented a multichannel customer service strategy for a major US utility resulting in more than $10M in annual savings and significant improvement in customer satisfactionOrganizational effectiveness
• Organized a conference for CEOs of top global semiconductor companies, including all logistics and development of new knowledge on uncertainty and risk in the semi industry

Phd, Genetics

Graduate Advisor: Andrew Z. Fire • Characterized the Caenorhabditis elegans RNA-directed RNA Polymerase EGO-1 and its role in RNA.

Bs, Genetics

Research Advisor: Philip Anderson • Identified previously unknown natural targets of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway in.