Odie Killen Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, CO, US

San Jose, California, US

• Leadership of a multi-disciplined engineering team developing enterprise server and storage products.
• Provide technical management and oversight for a worldwide technical team, including off-shore design partners; successfully launching multiple Enterprise, HCI and cloud server and storage products.
• Chief product and system architect for Server and Storage products within the BU.
• Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Viking products.
• Chief Quality Officer for Viking products.
• Product management duties to include roadmap and product definition activities.

San Jose, CA, US

• Leadership of a worldwide operations team that included; Sustaining Engineering, Quality, Supplier Quality Engineering, NPI, Value & Cost Engineering, and Production Operations for enterprise server, storage and cloud.
• Improved support processes; reduced support case resolution times by 50%, driving increased customer satisfaction.
• Developed and implemented a Sales, FAE and support staff training program, resulting in improved customer experience and shorter sales cycles for channel product.
• Implemented closed-loop, corrective product improvements based on customer experience.
• Overhauled NPI processes resulting in more efficient product launches.
• Drove significant margin growth (>6%) for BU through Improved warranty & inventory processes.

Fremont, CA, US

• Managed a worldwide Hardware Design Team (USA, UK, Asia, India); system architecture and hardware design of enterprise storage, cloud and hyper-converged (HCI) enclosures.
• Technical management and oversight for a worldwide technical team, including multiple off-shore design partners; successfully launched over a dozen Enterprise, HCI and cloud server and storage products.
• Led up front product architecture and definition discussions with customers.
• Collaborated with Product Management to define and execute the product roadmap.
• Led technical business development efforts with customers, resulting in multiple new product design wins.
• Collaborated with Sales team to provide technical sales support throughout the business development process resulting in a reduced sales cycle and increased customer wins.

• Site leadership, staff management, technical oversight and business development for the storage engineering organization of over 50 staff.
• Implemented a staff training and development program.
• Technical product support, pre sales to end of life.
• CTO, developed several new product architectures currently shipping in mass production.
• Improved supply chain management and manufacturing processes, immediate margin improvement across all product lines of up to 15%.
• Technical lead for all new business development efforts.

Havant, Hampshire, GB

• Management and leadership to over 200 resources located in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
• Successfully delivered 2 storage controller and JBOD platforms.
• Technical and business development for RFQ requests, resulting in several product wins.
• Long term strategic product and organizational planning as part of CTO team.
• Created and implemented “Chinese Culture” training program; improved our engagement with a third party hardware design partner in Asia, reduced NRE and schedules up to 35%.
• Technical direction to design teams, innovative designs and multiple patents.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Provided direct and matrixed leadership to over 80 staff located in the US and China, successfully delivering multiple server and storage platforms.
• Led RFI/RFQ response teams resulting in multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 customer design wins.
• Technical business development efforts resulting in several design wins.
• Major Tier 1 account win based on my architecture and design concepts.
• Developed standardized warranty cost/price model for products.
• Developed standard pricing model for products.

St Petersburg, Florida, US

• Management and leadership of a multi-national design organization, spanning the US and China. Disciplines managed include HW, SW, Embedded FW, Power and System Integration.
• Developed 1, 3 and 5 year technology and product roadmap.
• Secured office space and opened a local design center in Colorado Springs.
• Top tier, storage OEM flagship product design win worth over $200M in revenue.
• Business development efforts, leading to over 9 wins for design and manufacturing of Server/Storage, Telecommunications and Medical business lines.
• Developed and implemented a cross cultural training program between US and China based teams resulting in the elimination of organizational barriers to success.

• Led a multi-disciplined (Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Test, Software and New Product Introduction) engineering team that delivered multiple generations of storage enclosures resulting in over $600M of revenue.
• Program and product manager for multiple platforms in conjunction with engineering duties.
• Architected and delivered Adaptec’s 3 Gbps SAS/SATA JBOD and RBOD.
• Architected and delivered Newisys’ first bulk storage product (4U-60).
• Architected and delivered Eurologic System’s first 2 Gb/sec, FC-AL storage enclosure.
• Delivered Adaptec’s first FC to Serial ATA storage enclosure, both JBOD and RAID.

Colorado Springs, CO, US

• Taught the Microwave Measurements Laboratory during the fall semester. Taught RF theory and practice to under-graduate students.
• Developed the course curriculum, course syllabus, labs and grading criteria.
• Received above average instructor evaluations all three semesters.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, US

• Continuing engineering support for the Signal Generator (SIGGEN) used in the Federal FAA WAAS program. WAAS is a GPS and ground station augmentation and accuracy improvement system.
• Managed the contract manufacturer building SIGGEN units
• Implemented a continuous design improvement program.
• Incorporated DFM and DFT changes resulting in an increase in manufacturing yield of 40%.
• Implemented cost reductions on the existing designs resulting in a margin increase of 75%.
• Implemented a configuration control procedure, placing all drawings under configuration control.

Master'S Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Of Science, Electrical Engineering