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California, United States

Palo Alto, California, US

Responsibilities:Lead AI and AR Product Development StrategyOversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to commercialization.Build and lead a high-performing team of AI and AR developers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Define and manage the product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements.

Palo Alto, California, US

Advise on profitable growth, operations, products and marketing

Costa Mesa, California, US

Early stage technology investment global fund focused on Cyber Security, AI, Fintech and Healthcare tech, principally, start ups in the Business to Business Enterprise space.

Source transformative technologies for investment. Invested in 7 companies, reviewed 41 deals.

Irving, Texas, US

Advise and analyze portfolio, assist in M&A

Lead and analyze generative AI, predictive models for various industries for overall efficiency in IT infrastructure, cyber security, product design, etc. Technology Evaluation & Deployment for IT, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Semiconductor Platforms and Telecom. Competitive analysis, market dynamics, differentiation, current/future trend analysis..

Identifying and acquiring transformative technology businesses that are shaping the digital future and creating a new paradigm of communications and computing

• Enterprise software companyManage end-to-end capability from R&D, new product introduction, infrastructure management, IT. Set standards for technology development. Direct sourcing, training, building & leading.
• Achieved 25% savings on development time / resources when established partnership with a cloud provider securing lower time for development on cloud.
• Developed hardware / cloud provider-agnostic cloud & client side architecture.
• Established cloud partnerships with leading cloud providers & device makers / hardware providers (HTC, Intel, AMD).
• Leading architecture for Enterprise Immersive Management Enterprise Software.
• Enable rapid SAS product development on new product definition.

• Led development of statistical models such as, linear regression, decision trees and naive Bayes, model training, model optimization and tuning, clustering,
• Identified revenue potential with formulation of product strategy/plan & key verticals
• Facilitated engagement with customers in financial, pharmaceutical, genetics and research that resulted in up to 40% improvements. - Financial industry fraud detection and prevention. - Genetics model to pinpoint.
• Oversaw technology validation, product launch, deployment and funding to generate revenues of $3M.

• Captured new revenue opportunities, enabling share price growth of up to 40%, by leading new product development of 1st-of-its-kind, small form factor indoor wireless coverage device.
• Ensured delivery of device demos at MWC (2014) when directed product development in 9 months (record time).
• Hired team of digital/analog/RF & software design engineers / team of offshore engineers & contracted with industrial design firm, to develop mechanical & industrial design.
• Increased yield (for total cost at 20% of budget) when devised High volume device manufacturing plan.
• Reduced cost of 3D printing of enclosures, metal housings, circuit boards, components and assembly in Partnership with high volume manufacturing partner, Flextronics.

• Advised Sibeam with a strategy and plan to expand applications for mmWave technology, markets and customers in Virtual/Augmented Reality, 3D Robotics, medical imaging, gestures, backhaul/access, 5G, Datacenter.
• Identified key partners and customers (telecom operators, infrastructure providers, OEMs, content providers and semiconductor companies).
• Conducted chipset characterization, validation, developed architectures for modules and trials for Datacenter connectivity, medical video imaging, backhaul/access and Virtual/Augmented Reality.
• Developed applications and chipset roadmap for lower power and cost in deep sub-micron CMOS and FDSOI.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Advise and make recommendations to senior management of the Company about:
• Development of strategic technical priorities/directions
• Identification of potential new markets and product opportunities;
• Recommendations for product, service and/or technology program initiatives; and
• Additional technology matters where the Council has experience and expertise, as the Company may request from time to time.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Directed $7.7M Budget to oversee multi-media projects (4K video), wireless cellular (4G/5G) & short range. Led 4 cross-functional teams in video compression, cellular wireless, strategy, short range wireless.
• Developed and led company’s technology strategy and roadmap, established and managed university and industry relationships, and provided guidance on technology investments and ROI.
• Developed new technology portfolio in video compression, video delivery over wireless networks, wideband sensing using compressed sensing, mobile cloud computing and network virtualization.
• Created Technical Advisory Council with key technology industry executives which helped shaped the company strategy and technology portfolio.
• Launched programs to source inorganic innovation.Results: Video delivery that improves user experience at 2-3X lower bandwidth and power consumption and compressed sensing reduces power consumption by 50%.

Wilmington, DE, US

Oversee the company's technology strategy and roadmap, manage university and industry relationships and provide guidance merger and acquisition opportunities as well as new research and development initiatives.Championed new technologies & initiatives manifesting in new programs & essential R&D steering activities.Results: A balanced technology portfolio.

Provide innovative service development platforms and product strategies to carriers, OEMs and technology platform providers.

Developed and validated company and product strategy, product management and engagement with key OEMs and carriers

Shibuyaku, Tokyo, JP

Advise company on technology platforms, optimizations for mobile, technology partners

FR

Drove doubling of revenues by managing $3M budget to devise & execute vision, long-term technology / product roadmap. Directed team of 31: 4 directors, 1 Chief Scientist & 26 software engineers in 5 cross-functional teams to deliver $500K to $3M projects in workbench, client, server, research and device engineering.Product Management:Elevated overall.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Directed $14M Budget to develop mobile platform product. Directed cross-functional teams to deliver 30, $1M - $3M projects by managing team of 180: 4 directors, 2 fellows, financial controller / staff in Finland.
• Created added market value of $150M by achieving 30% cost advantage differentiation.
• Ensured ownership of key platform interfaces when devised Mobile platform product for Mobile market.
• Conducted Subsystem module development & specification with external vendors, including dominant / future proof standard by MIPI.
• Contributed to development of mobile version of Linux with support to mobility & low-power.
• Reduced by $50M (30%) R&D costs & cut design cycle time by 30 - 50% by streamlining to 5 key technology clusters from 30 key projects.

Geneva, Switzerland, CH

• Managed $10M budget to serve global businesses, i.e. Cisco, Ford, Apple, LG, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola in Europe & Asia. Drove 5, $1.5M to $3M projects by leading up to 3 cross-functional teams in systems architecture.
• Generated $100M in revenues (2005) from design wins with major OEMs, when led end-to-end new platform design & development with Nokia and Texas Instruments.
• Reduced by 40% overall design / testing costs on complete platform (hardware & software) by creation with Nokia of joint design center.
• Funded engineering costs with development of incentives for mobile handset OEMs.Product Development Processes
• Increased systems performance by 30% & design time by 50% when developed automatic synthesis methodology using domino logic gates.
• Reduced by 4.5X cost & power consumption when developed systems architecture leveraging "processor inline lookup", rather than Content Addressable Memory.

• Developed microprocessor architectures for PDA applications and cellular protocol processing.
• Created an embedded processor architecture for GSM cellular protocol processing, including design, specification and verification;Developed a system-on-a-chip solution that included digital peripherals and A/D and D/A.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed various subsystems and architecture for a multi-chip, multi-processor high performance PowerPC microprocessor.
• Developed PC-based systems and software for manufacturing automation; used Six Sigma and Zero Defect methodologies that increased throughput by 30% and yields by 20%.

Msee, Computer Engineering

Innovation Management

Advanced Management Studies

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Technology Management

Technology Management

Technology Management

Technology Project Management