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Advancing prosumer photography skills and exploring computational photography. Software development for mobile and small form factor platforms, focusing on home automation, smart home, connected home and IoT. Personal financial portfolio management using tools at Schwab and Quicken. Travel, Food & Wine. We are also "aquaholics".

Houston, Texas, Us

• Responsible for overseeing all hardware and firmware engineering activities associated with the development of NOV's InTerra Sensors and Systems, downhole eTools used in the drilling process. Products included Tolteq’s MWD Systems, BlackStar EM MWD, FloDrift Real-Time Drift Tool, FloSurvey Real-Time Survey Tool, BlackBox Tools and Optimized Solutions, and BlackStream Tools and Automation Solutions.• Put heavy emphasis on developing the next generation of leaders and managers in the engineering organization.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Responsible for all engineering activities associated with the development of downhole survey tools and surface based instrumentation, monitoring & control systems for oil & gas drilling operations. Managing a team of electrical and mechanical engineers, designers, and technicians.• Managed development and sustaining of NOV's suite of survey tools: e-Totco, FloDrift(www.flodrift.com) and the new FloSurvey.• Oversee development of NOV's next generation data acquisition system (System 10 DAQ) used for real time monitoring and control on drilling rigs.• Built a team responsible for development of NOV's Drilling Optimization (auto driller) products (e.g. e-WIldcat).• Brought a blend of 23 years of prior development engineering experience in oil & gas from Schlumberger, and 7 years of product development process rigors from Dell. Focused on Excellence in Hiring to create the strongest NOV Cedar Park Engineering team ever.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Platform/Electrical Engineering (EE) Functional Manager for Business Client Latitude and Consumer Inspiron/XPS portable computers. Managed platform EE team through development and launch of four generations of portable computers, involving over two dozen models ranging in complexity and size from 12” notebooks to a 20” luggable, plus docking devices and other associated peripherals.• Instituted numerous design process and metric improvements over the period to significantly enhance the engineering rigor, increase the product quality, and ensure on time delivery. Examples include:o Clear, complete and concise product definition with stringent change control after launcho Robust functional plans with clear inter team dependencies, along with comprehensive risk analysis and mitigation stepso Strict product milestone gates with precise expectations at each phaseo Various metrics to facilitate health monitoring throughout the development effort• Led team through multiple iterations of the evolving engagement and execution model with OEM partners. Worked closely with technology partners to ramp their capabilities to meet Dell’s changing needs. Supported Biz Client efforts to shift org focus and momentum from design execution to detailed specification and product innovation. This allowed the team to both increase its efficiency (more products with fewer personnel), and concentrate efforts on higher value add functions (expanding the business).

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Global Engineering Management responsibility for all shipping Dell notebook computers.• Performed technical and personnel management of Development Managers and EE’s responsible for all post launch activities. Coordinated efforts with other functional EM’s, both development and sustaining, and ODM’s, to ensure all notebook computer issues were addressed, and projects were executed, in a timely and thorough manner. Team efforts included Continuity of Supply, Quality Improvements, Feature Adds, and Cost Reductions. Factories never went lines down during this period, and platforms met all post launch savings targets.• Planned and executed transition of notebook sustaining engineering responsibility from Austin team to Shanghai team. This effort significantly enhanced manufacturing efficiency by putting competent support personnel in the same locale as the ODM’s and factories.

Houston, Texas, Us

Spearheaded global manufacturing operations and development of ruggedized industrial computer systems. Managed $42M annual revenue P&L for supplying capital equipment and supplies (computer systems) to worldwide field organization. Second line manager responsible for all hardware design and development, purchasing, planning, warehousing, production, testing, quality, customer service and shipping functions.• Led team of electrical and mechanical engineers, mechanical designers, and electrical/electronic technicians accountable for design and development of custom rack mount PC’s and workstation class machines, associated notebook computers, all display, input and multimedia devices, computer interfaces, LAN/WAN/WLAN networking equipment, satellite communication systems, and rack mounting fixtures.• Functions included design, fabrication, component selection, compatibility and performance testing, reliability/environmental qualification, HALT testing, CE certification, field testing, commercialization, and manufacturing ramp.• Led manufacturing team responsible for purchase and worldwide distribution of custom and Dell corporate notebooks, desktops and servers. Systems spanned the range from individual productivity applications to custom high-speed oilfield data processing and data delivery functions.• Team consistently met development and customer ship schedules during the period. Both the design and manufacturing operations achieved and maintained ISO 9001:2000 certification.• Developed and executed a plan to transition Engineering and Manufacturing responsibility to Schlumberger's Paris center as part of APC shutdown.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed software development for PC/Windows based data acquisition systems.• Initiated and managed feasibility phase of next generation acquisition software framework for Schlumberger Wireline. This project grew into a $100M+ global SW development program.• Directed development and commercialization of fit for purpose software system for data acquisition in oilfield perforating market; significantly improved job site efficiency.• Supervised system software development team responsible for 5MLOC Windows XP based field acquisition system that generated a significant portion of company revenue.

Houston, Texas, Us

Manager for numerous data acquisition projects involving both hardware and software development.• Defined strategic direction for segment’s software and communications systems. Initiated new hardware, software and UI standards, which were adopted broadly in the corporation.• Led feasibility effort into successful launch for migrating existing well services design software system from VAX/VMS/Ada environment to PC/Windows/C++.• Managed hardware and software development for company’s next generation real-time embedded well-site data acquisition system.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed custom embedded electronics, software and networks for advanced real-time process control systems for stimulation equipment. Sole electronic and computer software engineer for the very first generation POD Blender (see below for current version). Software project lead for O&G fracturing industry's first commercial production well-site data acquisition system. The combination of equipment automation and data monitoring revolutionized well treatment and provided superior customer advantage.

Small business owner focused on micro computer hardware sales and software development for specialized customers. Developed the first computerized race horse staking software for a client in upstate New York. Created a water utility management and billing system for a city in central New York. From scratch, created, delivered, installed and supported a comprehensive data acquisition and reporting system for Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC).

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Enlisted - Nuclear Weapons Specialist at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD• Awarded entry into AECP (Airman Education and Commissioning Program) for Study at Purdue• Officer - R&D Engineer at Rome Air Development Center, Rome, NY - Research and development into high performance and fault tolerant computer architectures for military requirements demanding data processing systems with unusual characteristics to perform specialized jobs. Opportunity to work with and program a Goodyear Aerospace STARAN Content Addressable Parallel Processor and a Nandata QM-1. The QM-1 used a combination of vertical and horizontal microinstructions in a two-level scheme called nanoprogramming.