John Round Email & Phone Number

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

* Responsible for all Software and System related innovation projects in the CTO Group * Manage $xM budget/year for select longer-term R&D projects* Lead software architect for select customer projects managing global execution teams* Embedded systems domain expert, corporate strategy M&A, CEO/CTO, government initiatives

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

* Software Architecture Manager/Technical Lead for Microcontroller products* Technical focus areas include IoT, Industrial, Auto Infotainment/Autonomous Driving, Security, AI/ML, Zephyr RTOS Project Board Member, and RISC-V Corporate Lead* Technical career software coach/mentor and committee member* Nominated/Appointed as 1st NXP Software Fellow

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

* Software domain expert in the global NXP Automotive Group focused on ADAS technologies including Vision, Autonomous Driving, Zonal Architectures, and Radar/Sensors* Responsible for software strategy/architecture and customer program management* Industry focus on self-driving software platforms and external software standardization

Austin, Texas, US

* Founded and staffed the 1st global software architecture team in Freescale R&D* Architected/developed the software architecture for the new QorIQ MultiCore Communications processor family* Delivered an HD video conferencing reference platform for a major OEM based on DSP clusters* Drove division-level Operating System strategy realignment/methodology.

Austin, Texas, US

* Career Rotation opportunity to reorganize the Multimedia Software and Platforms team, 150 software engineers across US and China with direct report to the incoming VP/GM for the Multimedia Division.* Primary mission, develop enablement software platforms for the i.MX family of ARM-based processors including Linux, Android, Chrome, Genivi, WinCE, Symbian.

Austin, Texas, US

* International relocation UK-US to join the senior leadership team of Networking Developer Technologies* Drove strategy renewal process for 800-person global software team* Global technical lead for corporate core roadmap realignment for PowerPC/ARM* Developed/drove strategic justification for a centralized technology System Software and Services group*.

* Created a startup team to develop a next generation high performance telecom platform in partnership with customer Ericsson* Architected the complete hardware/software platform around next generation PowerQUICC/RapidIO and Linux* Planned/project managed and drove the system development to achieve on time, budget and specification delivery*.

* Led an industry consortium ‘startup’ team (Motorola/British Telecom/Unisys)* Lead Architect for a high performance “triple play” PowerPC Home Gateway platform, software and hardware* Managed the team to produce a prototype, completed ports of Linux, Java and TV/Server Applications software* Invited/served as Motorola Inc representative on Sun Java.

* Led the European Broadcast Division (Sales $120M/Year, 150 h/c)* Planned and executed corporate strategy to exit the Motorola Semiconductor ASIC business ($40M/Year)* Implemented a focused workforce realignment and talent upgrade strategy across Germany, France and the UK* Achieved major OEM PowerPC design wins with settop/web appliance manufacturers.