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Chicago, Il, Us

Lead, manage, and develop SRAM's global electrical, embedded systems, and software design capabilities across 4 design centers in three different countries. Build the leading electrical engineering team in the cycling industry to meet the growing business demands of the company. Contribute to long-term strategic product plans and enable new concepts by growing electrical and software engineering within the organization. Create and execute plans for growth of the team's capabilities and evolution of design standards. Hire and mentor new staff within the discipline.• Supporting final product development and launch for introduction of SRAM RED eTAP wireless electronic drivetrain program.

Niles, Il, Us

Plan, execute, and oversee the development of new product platforms. Translate technical vision into long-term plans. Apply in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Influence product vision and requirements in collaboration with product management. Manage 7 direct reporting electrical engineers and lead architects. Continue prior Program Manager responsibilities.• Leading requirements elicitation, initial R&D, and architecture development for a new product line.• Managing complex software and hardware collaboration with vendor/partners such as Freescale Semiconductor and Texas Instruments.• Drove launch of 3 digital audio networking platforms within 1yr by coordinating feature definition and issue resolution across multiple teams adopting new Audinate Dante technology.

Niles, Il, Us

Created end-to-end development strategies and executed cross-functional projects for core pro audio products. Created program/portfolio plans for schedule, budget, and resourcing. Negotiated with managers, directors, and vice-presidents throughout the company to resolve issues, prioritize effectively, and meet project objectives. Identified process improvements and drove results through skilled change management and communication. Managed complex international business relationships through regular communication, negotiation, and relationship management. Oversaw contract electronics manufacturing, ODM engineering, industrial design, software engineering, and overseas manufacturing plant activities. Directly managed up to 8 engineering Project Managers and their projects / budgets.• Launched ULXD wireless system under budget, on time, and exceeded margin requirements. Managed R&D of 4 new platforms through hands-on leadership of industrial design, >10 Asian suppliers, and ~90 internal staff (incl. electrical, thermal, mechanical, software, & mfg.). • Led software feature development, defect fix prioritization, and change control using Agile / Scrum practices and Atlassian Jira toolset.• Team developed revolutionary “high density mode” feature by translating Japanese market need to generalized, globally relevant solution.• Increased category revenue and validated market acceptance of new technology direction with PGXD digital wireless launch.• Delivered new technology below budget & enabled early customer validation through prototype test & multi-disciplinary design review. • Reduced compliance test and filing costs by improving vendor accountability with new estimation and tracking tool. • Identified high-spend vendors for focused re-negotiation through detailed analysis of aggregate engineering division expense spending.• Completed CCL Leadership Development Program (2008) and MIT/Sloan Certificate in Management & Leadership (2010).

Niles, Il, Us

Led cross-functional projects for the personal and professional audio markets. Consistently met product quality, product cost, and project cycle time objectives. Guided technical activity for hardware, audio quality verification, firmware and GUI software, production test, and initial manufacturing ramp-up. Managed trade-offs between feature completeness, resource availability, and time-to-market to deliver the best product within business constraints.• Delivered flagship DSP audio mixer with >6 major new-to-Shure technologies by leading team of ~95 and managing substantial project budget. • Improved late-stage launch date estimate accuracy by applying new software defect tracking metrics and targeting resource additions. • Minimized schedule impact of requirements changes and team estimate requests by implementing new Change Control Board process.• Identified and executed process improvements by distilling feedback received from training >180 employees on NPD process.• Delivered on project objectives and helped retained staff despite difficult re-integration of spinoff division by managing organizational change.

Led NPD projects within 25-person spinoff for the personal audio and automotive telematics markets. Guided product vision, prioritized requirements, and managed problem solving. • Created new personal communications headset within new market category, using existing earphone IP to drive rapid development.• Achieved 25% cycle time reduction and kept expense spend 30% below budget on subsequent project by applying lessons learned.• Met challenging requirements and drove engineering decisions through creative end-user validation and concurrent prototyping. • Negotiated lead-time and cost concessions by building team relationships through travel to Mexican manufacturing and new Asian suppliers.• Engaged Sprint PCS as Shure’s first wireless carrier customer, represented engineering in customer-facing sales activity.

Managed a team of five software engineers at a 20-person startup. Multimodal applications platform used distributed speech recognition & audio streaming on 1st generation smart phones & networks. • Deployed system for European wireless carrier trial, integrating improvements throughout based on customer testing & feedback.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Investigated and invented new speech recognition algorithms, evaluated technologies in the context of Motorola business interests, and transferred technologies to product teams.• Developed voice-activated dialing technology deployed worldwide in most Motorola mobile handset models between 1998 and 2003. • Designed winning compression algorithm for European standards competition. Four utility patents issued.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering