Focused Product development activities across the company to successful launch of Kymeta’s first commercially available electronically scanned Ku band satellite antennaResponsible for Core Engineering Functional Teams and Program Management activities across Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Client SW and Cloud Software (managing ~90 full-time and contract employees) Restructured heavy POC and research-based organization to a V1 product launch-hired 56 new team members Designed, built and launched Kymeta’s first full satellite terminal around Kymeta’s new antenna. Built Kymeta’s cloud-based virtual network by abstracting traditional satellite HUB infrastructure and managing antenna data, users and GB data plans though various support portals.

Due Diligence activities related to successful acquisition by Inrix Inc. Product strategy, prioritization, & tracking of OpenCar Framework and the Insidetrack collaboration website Creation and implementation of new process for managing and tracking development resources, features and issues for costing, resource expenses and trace-ability

Responsible for post-acquisition Tweddle Group integration activitiesPartner and customer contract negotiations (legal, business and technical)Dragon Drive Product and Technical evangelismStrategic Business Development for Nuance Mobile Division (Automotive, Mobile Handset, TV & Wearables)

- Responsible for moving Tweddle Connected Car Platform from concept to PaaS production - Accountable for engineering activities related to Tweddle’s technology group: Development, Quality Assurance, PMO, Product Design and Product Development - Assembled an 87-person end-to-end engineering team and successfully launched a V1 telematics/automotive connected service offering in less than twenty months with a 100% on-time customer delivery track record- Lead role in customer contracts, negotiations and establishing Tweddle’s technology pricing guidelines- Responsible for establishing program’s financial viability, revenue projections, budgets and timelines- Key contributor in the preparation and due diligence that led Nuance Communications, Inc. to acquire Tweddle Group’s technology division - Responsible for the design, development and deployment of the underlying server and mobile handset technologies that drive the “Toyota Entune”, “Lexus Enform App Suite” and “Chrysler Uconnect” automotive programs which include: - Web-based portals for users, call centers, and reporting - Updatable, over-the-air architecture supporting the 60 mph use cases - Business Intelligence (BI) technologies which filter, normalize and track end-consumer information on multiple client device platforms across millions of devices and vehicles - Mobile device applications, mobile servers and connected vehicle technologies for iPhone and Android

Management & Technical Contributions- Managed several projects simultaneously; planning, staffing, costing, scheduling, tracking- Oversaw developers, testers and program managers to deliver exceptional products ahead of schedule - Created office infrastructure for job cost/time-tracking and customer invoicing - Performed various consulting roles with IHVs and Microsoft with regards to hardware bring-up, technology adoption and WHQLBusiness Development- Created a service organization from concept through profitability with long-term organic growth potential- Developed and implemented business plan, financial models and pricing sheets- Adapted business plan around market and economy flux to ensure that fiscal goals were accomplished - Created strategic partnerships and relationships to take advantage of market opportunitiesImproved visibility through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and - Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - Led all aspects of interfacing with the customer; marketing, sales, negotiation and supportBusiness Operations- Managed all facets of business operations; budgeting, forecasting, tracking, reporting, invoicing - Reached profitability by the second operational quarter Vendor Selection and management; accounting, legal, services, payroll

- Led an agile (scrum) software development team of 17 domestic and transcontinental engineers on “Web 3.0” relevance engine technology in order to deliver a software integration kit and deployment guide- Reported on project status, risk items and tradeoffs to senior leadership team Management and Tracking - Created design and stabilization milestones including extensive team wide use of Microsoft Project- Instituted and built formal task and bug tracking to the existing software development processes including state definition and user permission- Enforced individual status reporting in order to provide direction and prioritization to both the development and test teams - Designed a set of widgets to allow third parties to integrate more easily with existing web services - Successfully integrated xPatterns technology with the first customer including “How to” docs, deployment Guidelines and onsite supportDesign and Specification - Designed a set of cross-browser JavaScript components, built on the Object-Oriented Mootools JavaScript framework, that communicate with the Atigeo xRelevance engine using a JSONP protocol - Created user tracking functionality on top of the recommender system to provide a kick start and more relevant results to end users- Designed and led a team to build a set of relevance-based, internally-provisioned, iPhone application prototypes; application flow, application design and use cases

Worked with a small team to develop strategic roadmap for TV technology on Windows and in the Media Center Application for the Japan Market - leading to IHV selection and next generation of product offerings Worked with Hardware Venders and drove a focused team to integrate a new hardware into a Microsoft product team; including aligning product development, setting up joint development programs, partner selection, hardware deployment, scheduling work items and issue tracking Managed external development and delivery of Broadcast Receiver Program for the Windows Vista OSDeveloped Broadcast Receiver WHQL (Windows Logo) Program for Vista OS; including building a team, costing, resourcing, designing, scheduling and tracking

Front line Technical Liaison between Microsoft and Fiat Corporation in Turin ItalyResponsibilities included: Defined and reviewed requirements and specifications with customersDefined and built processes for Interim Releases, Issue Tracking and Discrepancies Interfaced with several companies in Europe to support the project: Marelli, KGR, 3Soft, Actia, Citec, CRFHelped Cost and Negotiate Design Change Requests Outsourced and managed vehicle integration qualification for the Project Helped define the process for returned devices, drawing lines between product support and product warrantyHelped reproduce, investigate and close issues for cars, phones and infrastructure in Italy and Europe.

Collaborated with Microsoft Product Development in Japan to incorporate them into our processesWorked with Customer Engineering, PSS and EAPG on QFE issues and helped plan future QFE strategies Build relationships with external suppliers to get hardware and support for testing to improve the customer experience when using our software (Hitachi, Silicon Motion Inc. and Yazaki) Revamped the team’s technical infrastructure; build system, source control, data archiving, documentation sharing and team websites, improving the robustness and reducing costs and head count.