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 around Linux and RTOS platforms* Expanded scope in 2012 to include Global Linux R&D Management* Negotiated Freescale founding membership of Arm Linaro under assignment from Lisa Su (then Networking EVP)* Founder member of Linaro Networking Group in 2013 with customers Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson

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, and targeted embedded RTOSs* Initiate/drive executive-level relationships within Google, Microsoft, and Adobe* Architect reference platforms for target markets including Auto, Smart Books, E-Readers, and Embedded

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* Chaired cross-Freescale Software Strategy team delivering multi-million dollars in cost savings over 2 years* (2008) Added Ops Management, Corporate Standards, Patents (Austin), and IP Reuse (India/Munich) teams (45 h/c)* Represented Motorola Inc at the induction of Linus Torvalds to the San Jose Computer Museum Hall Of Fame

* 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* Architected/built next generation ATCA/AMC telecom systems for customers such as Ericsson, Motorola , Nokia* Drove successful negotiations with 3rd parties for technology cooperation/sharing (eg: MontaVista, Schroff)* Regular participation at Conference keynotes such as FTF (Dallas, Paris, Japan), various global ATCA Venues

* 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 working group JSR135 (pJava)* Developed, a spinoff proposal with Motorola Inc (Chicago) and BT (London) to license/manufacture the technology* Program was acquired by Motorola Inc, Software Group in 2002, Seconded for 4 months during the transition* Nominated/appointed to the position of Motorola Software Fellow

* 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 including Nokia and Philips* Drove design/development of the 1stcommercial COFDM Digital Terrestrial demodulation chipset in the world* Delivered major design win with broadcaster ‘OnDigital’ in the UK to launch first commercial Digital TV service