Leading engineering for all Meta Quest products.

Leading engineering for all Portal devices, including Portal Go, Portal Plus, Portal TV and Portal for Work products.

Built and led 250+ person global digital product management, design, and SW/HW engineering team to transform the standard in-car experience by merging traditional automotive functions with innovative consumer electronics technologies to create the smart vehicle of the future. Responsible for the entire in-vehicle digital connected experience. Our teams work on:Product Management-Define all digital software and hardware features and roadmap for in-car experience-Business/partnership developmentProgram Management-Coordination for all software release and hardware build schedules-Cross functional reporting with rest of vehicle programSoftware Development- Instrument cluster and vehicle controls- Infotainment (maps/navigation, streaming music, radio and video and other apps)- Embedded firmware and OS (QNX, Android)- Voice recognition to control vehicle and infotainment- Cloud services for over-the-air updates, user profiles, diagnostics, configuration management- iOS and Android mobile appsUI/UX Design- Design of all production vehicle user facing digital content and interaction methods- Simulation and user testing to ensure safety and to minimize driver distractionHardware and Mechanical Design- Infotainment controllers, communications gateway, telematics and audio (speakers, mics)Imaging Technologies- In-vehicle cameras including RGB cameras, ToF gesture sensor and IR driver monitoring camera- Computer vision/image processing for facial recognition, eye tracking and hand gesturesDisplay and Touch Technologies- 48” shared experience display, 7” driver touch display, and other 5”, 8”, and 10” touch displays.Machine Learning/AI- All machine learning for Byton which covers vehicle, corporate, and manufacturing initiativesQuality Engineering- Test Automation, QA, Build/Release

Led multiple system engineering teams developing next generation Mac products.- iMac Pro (2017, 1st generation) - the highest performing Apple computer ever- Mac mini (2018, 4th generation)

Head of global engineering who grew the team to 120 engineers, managers and directors in the US and EMEA which includes Product Architecture, Hardware, FPGA, Mechanical, Optics, Core Software, UI/UX, Data Science/Analytics, QE/QA, DevOps and Program Management groups.Led development for all product lines including VirtualWisdom software, Analytics subscription software and SAN/NAS Network Performance Hardware. Drove development and production release of world’s first 16G Fibre Channel SAN and 10G Ethernet NAS Performance Probe hardware products which monitors, analyzes and resolves storage network performance issues in real time. Probe system hardware consist of chassis, FPGA based high speed boards, optical SFP, motherboards with CPU, DRAM, PCIe, SSD, power supply, fans and LCD. Software consists of custom Linux drivers, data processing layer, system monitor and configuration, network configuration, and Java probe server running on SUSE Linux. Spearheaded research and development (FPGA and Software) in the areas of 8G/16G Fibre Channel, 10G Ethernet, NFS, SMB, TCP/IP, iSCSI, and 10G FCoE network performance.Delivered the company’s flagship software platform, VirtualWisdom, an enterprise scale analytics engine which ingests real time wire data to provide actionable performance improvement recommendations for application, virtualization, network, storage and cloud environments. Released to market big data performance analytics based on ingress data from software integrations with VMware vCenter, IBM PowerVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Brocade BNA, Cisco DCNM and NetApp ONTAP.Guided the software team’s evolution from an on-prem only server product to deploying a parallel SaaS/Cloud offering running on Amazon AWS. Drove predictable development schedules by deploying Agile/Scrum for software, Waterfall for hardware and hybrid development model where software and hardware intersect.

Promoted to lead global hardware engineering and manufacturing operations. Grew design team to 5 managers with over 30 engineers in the US, Europe and Asia in the areas of board design, FPGA design, layout, firmware, embedded software, mechanical, optics, image quality, CAD and program management.Drove strategy, architecture and development for USB 3.0 webcam, 3D video camera, 802.11 wireless video camera, automotive stereo camera for lane departure/collision detection, disposable mobile blood/water tester and 1080p60 video camera with flash storage.Led camera system design and architecture using CMOS image sensors, image signal processors, FPGA (Altera and Xilinx), USB2, USB3, HDMI, LVDS, I2C, SPI, PCIe, Flash memory, DDR memory, LCD, microcontrollers, Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, analog/mixed signal components, DAC, ADC, power systems, MIPI, HiSPi, CCP, Cameralink, optical lenses, and auto-focus.Forged technology partnerships with Altera, Xilinx, Cypress, Lattice, Ambarella, and multiple universities for joint development and promotion, IP exchange, early access to new products, and special partner pricing.Delivered a plan and budget proposal to executive management for setting up a low cost design center in Singapore. After plan was approved, hired the seed team who were fully contributing within 6 months. Took over production board manufacturing responsibilities from the operations department. Setup program management, forecasting, and supply chain management.  Identified and qualified Asia contract manufacturing partners to reduce board fabrication and assembly costs by over 50% within 6 months.  Deployed engineering processes to increase global department productivity to support 60 board and 30 FPGA designs annually by reducing design time and minimizing design revisions while keeping high performance and quality standards.Aptina acquired by On Semiconductor.

First hardware person hired in San Jose. Grew design team from 1 to 20 engineers in multiple US cities in the areas of board design, FPGA design, layout, firmware and embedded software.Drove strategy, architecture and development for USB 2.0 webcam, automotive backup camera and camera modules, which were vital in winning designs in hundreds of cell phones including Apple iPhone and Moto Razr.Architected and developed an ASIC emulation platform for SOC and chip development.Increased product development output by creating a platform strategy which reused parts of proven designs to reduce time to market. New design concepts are prototyped separately from product line commitments which increased working products on the first revision. Division spun out to become Aptina Imaging.