* New Venture Discovery, teaching 2017 - 2025 - Avg. Instructor Rating 5.8/6.0, 97%. Avg. Course Rating 5.7/6.0, 95% (all scoring by students) - Teaching in associated executive programs: KHUST (Hong Kong), Sasin (Thailand)* Executive MBA, Early-Stage Investing & Fundraising, taaching 2023 - 2025* MBAi (AI-focused degree), Advanced Product Management, teaching 2022 - 2025* Invited Lectures: fundraising, product management, startup strategy, entrepreneurship, corporate intrapreneurship* Article: 5 Ways Established Companies Can Overcome Internal Hurdles to Innovation (Kellogg Insight Manazine: https://bit.ly/3W91ub7)

* Lead contact for students and alumni of Kellogg Executive/EMBA and E&W programs seeking support for their new ventures.* For Kellogg-founded startup companies, provide mentoring and connections to appropriate resources.* Develop relationships with key organizations, especially within the Chicago ecosystem, to support Kellogg students and alumni with entrepreneurial ventures.

Faculty advisor/mentor for Kellogg teams, including the 2024 and 2021 Grand Prize winners.Global VCIC is the world's premier MBA venture capital competition with over 120 university and graduate school teams competing. Students function as VCs to evaluate real startups throughout the year-long competition. https://www.vcic.org/Kellogg 2021 Global Winners: https://bit.ly/3WgO8ut

Completed over 90 investments as of 2024.Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV) invests in early-stage startup companies, with a particular focus on Chicago-based entities.We consider seed-stage investments in almost any sector, demographic and geography, but a majority of our portfolio companies have Chicago ties or founders from Chicago-based higher education institutions (Northwestern, University of Chicago, Loyola, etc.) Though investment is our primary purpose, we also seek to build and develop relationships among our investors, other investor organizations, and with founders, entrepreneurs and educational institutions in Chicago.www.chicagoearly.com

Successful exit from Page Vault in the summer of 2022. Grew the company from concept to an Inc. 5000 company.---PAGE VAULT captures web-based content for legal use. Our software captures webpages exactly as they appear online, includes key metadata, and provides easy-to-print PDF output files. Page Vault offers both do-it-yourself software and vendor services to archive websites and social media profiles of any volume or complexity. Affidavits are also available that attest to the preserved chain of custody and content authenticity.Learn more at www.page-vault.com.

COMMON TOPICS- Applying Lean Startup Methodologies for Corporate Innovation- Digital Tech Bootcamp for Non-Tech/Business Professionals: Internet & networking, 5G & wireless, computer architecture, software/code/programming, world wide web, encryption, cloud computing, and more.

COMMON TOPICS - Fundraising & Pitch Decks - Practical Advice and Strategies - So You're NOT Steve Jobs? Startup Strategies that Work for the Rest of Us - Failing Fast / Lessons Learned from the Startup World - Early stage Operations and Team Formation - Growing from 1 Employee to 10+

"Thinkers. Doers. Leaders." That’s the common thread that ties the 2,400 Economic Club of Chicago members together – and its north star for nearly 100 years. Top business and civic leaders, with an unrelenting drive to learn more, discuss more and connect more with a diverse set of peers across every industry. The ECC strongly believes that leaders benefit from hearing both sides of an issue – from people they may or may not agree with. For this reason, the Club provides a forum for discussion and debate but remains an independent non-partisan voice.https://econclubchi.org

Board Member, 2022 - 2024: "The Stuart School of Business Board of Advisors offers vital perspectives on aligning the school’s research programs, educational goals, and professional and development activities with the needs of the business community. Board members strengthen the curricula, expand faculty linkages to the business community, enrich the student learning experience, develop financial resources, and assist with the advancement activities of Stuart."

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Coordinated between engineering and customer-facing teams to address clients’ largest pain points. Emphasis on customer feedback to identify key areas for long-term tech innovation.---* Senior System/Product Lead, Mission Critical Systems: Led hand-picked team of 6+ engineers over 14 months in redesigning Motorola’s ASTRO networking solution for public safety systems – the division’s highest revenue product for state and federal customers. Coordinated between engineering, marketing & sales teams to deliver fault-tolerant solutions for disaster scenario communications. Directly engaged customers and business teams to prioritize key requirements. Patents filed for high-reliability multicast delivery across nationwide systems.* Senior System/Product Lead, Meshed Infrastructure: Guided engineering and business teams to develop a “meshed” connectivity option for nation-wide systems. This new feature enables flexible, dynamic routing between sites, but still meets stringent timing for mission critical applications. Successfully delivered solution in v7.9 release of ASTRO. Patent filing on rapid network restructuring to circumvent failures.* Product Strategy Team Liaison: Defined product positioning for Motorola’s mission critical transport offering. Crafted value propositions emphasizing simplified system configurations and overall performance. Strategy adopted by marketing/sales, enabling a clear differentiation of our product vs. competitors..

Coordinated between engineering and customer-facing teams to address clients’ largest pain points. Produced innovative tech solutions to meet critical business needs. ---* Managed matrixed team of 10+ senior architects to create new features for WiMAX system releases. Responsible for team requirements creation, feature validation, and customer issue resolution. Successful launch of WiMAX 2.5 and WiMAX 3.0 releases.* Drove the product release processes, including requirements creation, test validation and customer support. Led matrixed teams to define customer requirements for WiMAX products. Teams spanned multiple departments, including Product Management, Systems Engineering, System Test and Development.* Coordinated end-to-end QoS solutions for mobile WiMAX applications/use cases (VoIP, streaming media, differentiated customer service levels)..

Developed systems requirements for Canvas Access Points & Subscribers (transmitters & receivers) based on customer inputs. Coordinated product development with tech & business teams.-----* Led rapid creation of first-gen WiMAX Access Points. Motorola sold its first nationwide WiMAX system to Wateen Telecom (Pakistan), but development teams were behind schedule on an Access Point product – senior management requested a critical, stop-gap alternative. Coordinated a “tiger-team” of engineering and sales experts to meet complex requirements within aggressive delivery schedules. Achieved successful, on-time deployment of an alternate solution. Promoted to Senior R&D Solutions Manager.* Direct interaction with customers, Product Management, Business Development and Marketing teams to determine actual market needs, prioritize solution approaches and establish a development roadmap. * Front End Planning: Developed and coordinated a front-end planning process for TL9000 approval, including gated reviews of marketing requests and proposed technical solutions.* WiMAX Technical Solutions: Managed implementation of technical solutions needed in new WiMAX/802.16e Canvas systems: layer 2 VPNs using L2TPv3 protocols; efficient VoIP schemes to support external ATA telephony devices; hybrid authentication mechanisms based on EAP-TTLS..

Gained end-to-end experience in the NPI life-cycle, including new product development, manufacturing, and sales. -----* New Product Introduction (NPI) Manufacturing Lead, Mexico:Managed a Lean Manufacturing team in Nogales, Mexico to devise a “kanban” system to reduce plant inventory. Solution tested across several new product launches, and then adopted company-wide. Digital Six Sigma (DSS) Greenbelt awarded for $300k+ inventory reduction. * Product Manager, RFID Incubator:Product Manager within an internal startup team for new RFID solutions. Defined products for Motorola’s first RFID-based vehicle tracking solution. Crafted key business cases and marketing requirements.* Product Manager, Mobile Devices: PM for newly developed dual-mode phone, enabling calls over both cellular and WiFi networks. Responsible for pre-sales process, including visits to customers (AT&T, Cingular) for product feedback. Guided product positioning and drove requirements up to launch.* Solution Strategist, Corporate Strategy: Devised portions of Motorola’s corporate go-to-market strategy for next-generation IP-based communication systems. Included competitive environment scans and acquisition analysis. Strategy approved by the C-Suite and deployed company-wide, driving team consolidations and new sector goals..

Manager of multiple research projects, responsible for direct reports and team deliverables.-----* Led teams of 5+ software developers & engineers, directing research projects with TCP/IP, multicast, Mobile IP and database technologies. Responsible for multiple tech transfers into launched products.* Developed intelligent multimedia distribution schemes, enabling first responders (firefighters, police, federal agents) to receive key information, at the right time, in the best format for their environment. Research enabled transmission of only the most critical broadband video/multimedia feeds to handsets.* Created a services-based software architecture to dynamically redirect real-time video/multimedia content in public safety networks based upon context (location of people, triggered events, etc.)* Designed augmented reality solutions for Public Safety command and control. Pioneered the first corporate Internet2 Access Grid Node to test delivery of augmented streaming media to handhelds..

* Developed User Interface applications in C to configure Fast Ethernet products. Required knowledge of system level PC architecture and Japanese encoding techniques.* Created documentation to explain product line capabilities and benefits to non-technical customers. Supported switches, hubs, network cards, etc.

* Resolved clocking issues specific to mobile chipset layouts (signal timings and clock synchronization). Focused on mobile chipset integration into a docking station platform. * Designed and constructed a prototype board to interface Flash memory with a VESA local bus.* Received technical writing award for a white-paper describing chip layout requirements.

* Designed and tested a chip for data flow control and timing of a modem.* Modified previous chip designs and implemented the logic within Actel and Xilinx FPGAs.