Michael Hutton Email & Phone Number

Cedar Park, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Responsibilities: Manage, either directly or through team of direct reports, all programs within the Aerospace and Defense Business Unit. These include the development of software and hardware used for building complex test systems for testing electromechanical and RF software and hardware systems. Project management using agile and waterfall practices, CI/CD software delivery using Azure DevOps. New Product Introduction and New System Introduction expertise

Austin, Texas Area

Create business plan and roadmaps for accelerated invested in embedded software test products. Work with customers and partners to develop systems including hardware and software. Launch new products and manage partner ecosystem. Run customer advisory boards. Notable achievement: key person in the invention and launch of a new National Instruments Platform (NI SLSC).

Austin, Texas Area

Evaluate and qualify sales opportunities, gather detailed customer requirements and specifications, build a business case based on ROI and strategic alignment for execution of custom engineering requests by National Instruments R&D. Track pipeline of all custom requests and report metrics to R&D and Sales VP’s and Directors quarterly. Create customer proposals, memorandum of understanding (MoU) and Statement of Work (SoW).

Austin, Texas Area

Manage team of hardware, software and technicians in product development. Manage all phases of NPI from concept through product release. Notable achievements: released first National Instrument EtherCAT product for Industrial and Embedded Control with FPGA programmability.

Midrand South Africa

Manage team of sales, marketing and operations to establish a National Instruments branch office in Southern Africa. Sales opportunity management, account management, sales visits, onsite product demonstrations, establish partner channel. Notable achievement: Branch revenue grew 10 times during 6-year tenure.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Design embedded systems for use in diamond recovery machines and diamond mining plants. Design of microcontroller and FPGA based systems for high speed data acquisition and image analysis. Notable achievement: designed a novel microcontroller-based instrument for the measurement of fluid density for diamond separation (DMC gauge)

Engineer'S Degree, Digital Electronics And Control Systems

Full academic scholarship from De Beers Diamond Mining Company

National Diploma Electronic Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Full academic scholarship from De Beers Diamond Mining Company