Karl Janowski Email & Phone Number

Niles, Il

• Responsible for the everything needed to get a new product from concept to shipping.• Manage a large budget; Work with finance, marketing, engineering, and operations to maximize the NPV of the project• Responsible for: product development plan, requirements, milestones, budget, product cost, ship date, global compliance, corporate compliance, supplier management, team communications, and decisions. Work closely with marketing and operations divisions• Launched Shure’s MXW audio system in 2013, PSM1000, UR5, P9RA and Shure’s first LI-battery system in 2011• Develop direct reports to functional excellence and on engineering best practices• Manage suppliers in Asia and engineers in Shure’s Suzhou (China) plant. Spend several weeks a year in China• Represent the development team and product, both through internal showings and at trade shows• Development process uses phase-gate approach with an Agile / SCRUM software methodology

Niles, Il

• Launched Shure’s PSM900 wireless system in January 2010, which was used by “The Who” at Super Bowl XLIV • History of doing things a new way; My team has a large “First-time-this-was-done-at-Shure” list• Launched Shure’s I2CM earphone in AT&T stores for the launch of the iPhone in the Summer of 2007

Niles, Il

• Engineering Leadership position, designed to help organize the engineering work at the beginning of a project and as a technical lead to Project Managers • Responsible for managing the product requirements, and working with marketing on product tradeoffs • Communicated product requirements with outside design partners • Involved with the startup of 12 new products within 3 years• Involved with several qualitative and quantitative marketing research projects; Lead a quantitative project for Shure as part of my Kellogg MBA program, using SPSS

Evanston And Niles, Il

• Lead embedded software engineer on Shure’s UHFR project, a three-year product development effort • Designed and implemented an object-oriented, multi-tasking application and network protocol• Designed Shure’s first Ethernet and USB enabled product • Product won design awards and was used by the Rolling Stones at Super Bowl XL• Used MatLab, .NET, IAR Tools

Evanston, Il

• Analog and Digital Circuitry development engineer on several Shure product development teams • Worked on Shure’s P4800, a DSP based audio processor • Worked with German engineering development team to develop Conference One system

8205 South Cass Avenue Suite 115, Darien Il

• Summer Intern for two years• Solved day-to-day networking and PC issues in a Corporate environment

Mba, International Business, Marketing, And Finance

One noteable experience was my GIM 2009 trip to Turkey and Dubai to study business in Muslim countries. My group studied Sovereign Wealth.

Electrical Engineering, Audio And Digital Circuitry