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Boca Raton, Fl, Us

Greater Palm Beach Area

Boca Raton, Florida

ATEC Group provides product development and engineering consulting services. We are highly skilled engineers who specialize in the Security Industry, Access Control and Intrusion, across multiple enterprises. Our engineers are highly innovative, have decades of experience and bring with them an abundance of excellent technical and domain knowledge. Many of our engineers have multiple patents and have held management positions in the security industry.We can help you to design, analyze and improve the reliability of your security system’s performance, as well as provide customized support. ATEC Group services are geared towards helping our clients improve their application outsourcing portfolio and help them achieve measurable ROI and improve operational efficiency.

Boca Raton, Florida

Fueled significant revenue growth of $100M over 5 years by leading development with 20 highly-effective engineers in development and building of Hardware and Firmware Platform to create multiple products. Managed all aspects of budget and resources. Reported to CTO.• Commanded leadership and program management success overseeing generation and delivery of over $1M yearly in manufacturing cost out. Led multi-function teams including manufacturing, sourcing, product management and engineering to generate ideas and plan projects. Recognized as effective and successful Value Engineering project leader.• Chosen to work with UTC research center to help lead innovative activities and define Mobile Credentialing use cases. Evaluated technologies considered by UTRC engineers to help bring research ideas to product development readiness level. Well known as technical expert.• Achieved >90% on-time schedule delivery of all strategic R&D initiatives including first combined Intrusion and Access Control panel in industry with all required FCC/UL/EN compliance requirements.• Refined product strategy to ensure clear linkage to specific customer needs and to medium-term sales and marketing objectives. Ensured all major new product investments were managed under passport system and that they deliver measurable organic growth.• Improved engineering processes utilized in project implementation resulting in greater quality and early delivery of projects. Spearheaded introduction of Model-Based design and automated testing and use of MathWorks tools.• Mentored and helped grow careers for multiple engineers in department which resulted in two engineers moving into management roles.• Managed director-level staff and leveraged low cost resource options in India and other locations around the world to ensure consistency, compliance and project success.

Boca Raton, Fl

• Managed $1M research budget working with GE research center engineers to evaluate new technologies and innovations. By using results and leading a global development team, created new products that fueled organic growth resulting in a number of granted patents• Increased revenue $110M over eight-year period by leading development / execution of highly-effective dual technology Transition Readers development. Created six readers with varying features and capacities. Managed all aspects of manufacturing including plastic housing tooling / potting and vendors supply coordination.• Led cross-functional global engineering teams to introduce Xilinx FPGA based controller platform. Effectively ported C code running under VRTX RTOS to uClinux. Launched six Access Control and Intrusion products, which fueled significant organic growth over eight years.• Served key role in global Center of Excellence (CoE) initiative where different engineering development centers and products were evaluated to determine best of class and be used across many GE Security groups. Results were number of products shared and used across many development teams.

Boca Raton, Florida

• Designed and successfully launched Ethernet Module to report alarms to Central Station over Internet. Responsible for design and manufacturing of IP line card for UL compliant Central Station receiver.• Chosen by Interlogix president to evaluate a number of small companies’ technologies and products to be considered for acquisition by Interlogix. Recognized technical expert and leader in Security industry.• In 2001, asked by the president of the Access Control business to come back and manage the hardware and firmware development group.

Boca Raton, Florida

• Lead Architect responsible for design for first Ethernet and Token Ring based Access Control Controllers (Micro/5) in Security Industry.• Promoted to be manager of Hardware and Firmware group, responsible for successful launch of first Ethernet and Token Ring Micro/5. Casi-Rusco experienced significant growth and delivered $14M profit on $56M in sales.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Business Administration And Management

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Computer Option