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Responsible for ensuring that Pison's Fortune 100 customers successfully implement Pison's Gesture sense and control technology into their smartwatch platforms.

• Hands-on Engineering Leader with extensive experience in Analog, Mixed-Signal, and SoC development, in both CMOS and Bi-Polar technologies. Extensive track record of successfully achieving high analog performance in.
• Transistor level schematic design and verification of mixed signal circuits including high speed drivers and receivers, switched capacitor circuit design, timing verniers ADC design, Voltage/Current DAC’s, PLL’s.
• Layout floor-planning and layout supervision
• CAD tools selectionSILICON ARCHITECTURE
• Complex mixed-signal SoCs
• Sensor interface

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Oslo, NO

Promoted into this position to guide next gen silicon investment tradeoffs  First mover entry into $2 Billion market for Biometrics in Credit Cards. Digital Identity and security in Credit Cards and other payments systems. Synthesized inputs from systems, business development, silicon, firmware to develop product roadmap.  Understand the competitive.

Oslo, NO

Hired to build engineering team to execute silicon developments Worked with software, firmware, mechanical, systems, and customers to define product  Worked closely with a strategic partner to develop first generation silicon, supporting initial market entry. Focused the efforts of a large team of engineers, reduced schedule by 5-8 months, completing in.

Marlborough, MA, US

Hired to support growth of analog mixed signal line of business Successful customer engagements in multiple industries – Biometrics, MEMS Sensor interface, Data Communications, Barcode Scanners. Supervised a team of analog and mixed signal designers, in multiple locations. Created and tracked schedules, Drove architecture developments and detailed.

3/05 to presentVice President of Communications and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wharton Club of Boston (Local alumni association for the Wharton School of Business). Former Vice President of Programming. Over the last seven years, worked to drive membership from a low of 50 to ~ 250 today, by conceiving and running events, improving and.

Consultant on strategic planning, product marketing, design services, and project oversight. Identify factors, both business and technical, which drive commercial success. Clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Experience in the MEMS, Data-Communications and Automated Test Equipment spaces. Oversee all aspects of business including.

Created architecture for a family of digital to time converters (timing verniers). Worked with customers to close sales, determine requirements. Led several teams in development of 4 products, with cumulative sales of $63 million.

• Drove development of a state-of-the-art data-communications (T1) product line. Managed a team of engineers and support staff, conducted customer needs assessment and performed feature, time-to-market, bottom-line tradeoffs in product definition. Presented to customers in support of sales and to Board of Directors. • Coordinated development of a.

Austin, TX, US

Crystal Semiconductor ( see above ) was purchased by Cirrus Logic after I left.

Murray Hill, NJ, US

• Created a new process around existing CAD software resulting in product development efficiency gains of 25%.
• Implemented first DSL circuits

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering, Bio-Engineering