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.• Lead up front product architecture and definition discussions with customers.• Lead preparation of technical "RFQ/RFI" responses.• Lead Manufacturing efforts to include MFG Engineering, Test and Process Improvements.• Lead overall Quality for Viking products; including design and manufacturing quality. • Led product architecture and development efforts from concept through production release on multiple products. • Won multiple Tier 1 OEM product designs.• Drive execution of products development efforts across multiple sites and customers.• Collaborate with Sales team to provide technical sales support throughout the business development process; reducing sales cycle and increasing customer wins.• Represent Viking on industry panels at the Flash Memory Summit conferences.• Lead patent review and submission panel. • Implemented multiple training and development programs; increasing employee engagement. • Technical oversight, resulting in innovative designs and multiple patents awarded and filed.• Detailed technical oversight, including detailed design reviews (schematic, PCB layout, MFG readiness, mechanical design, FW architecture and behavior) resulting in reduced errors in the design process.• Lead continuous improvement efforts within the organization.• Other responsibilities include: Field Applications Engineering, Agile Administration, Systems Test Lab and Customer Support.

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 enclosures. Lead a worldwide, level 3 support organization. Provide technical guidance on multiple development projects.• 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.• Developed a Value Engineering team; >15% cost reductions on our highest running product.• Managed third party contract manufacturer of our products.• Managed our internal factory that was responsible for channel product fulfillment.• Optimized operations footprint, reduced inventory by >60% without impacting shipment dates.• Developed a Sustaining Engineering function, transferred 6 production products to its control.• Developed improved and meaningful support, value engineering and operations metrics that were presented to the GM of the Business Unit.• Worked closely with Sales team to provide technical support within the Sales cycle, resulting in increased sales and shorter sales cycles.

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.• Led product architecture and development efforts from concept through production release on more than a dozen products. • Launched more than 6 storage controller products based on Intel x86 chipsets. • Launched an innovative, market leading, high density storage product, providing storage for the Oak Ridge National Labs Summit super computer (World’s Fastest Super Computer). • Value Engineering, directly improved product margins by 5% or more on multiple products. • Led training and process improvements, reduced development schedules and NRE. • Business development, more than 6 customer product wins. • R&D initiatives and strategic planning to include future product concepts and detailed product architectures in conjunction with CTO and Product Management. • Technical oversight, resulting in innovative designs and multiple patents awarded and filed.• Detailed technical oversight, including detailed design reviews (schematic, PCB layout, MFG readiness, mechanical design, FW architecture and behavior) resulting in reduced errors in the design process.• Led technical supplier selection process with development team.

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.

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.

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.• Led up front product architecture and definition discussions with customers.• Collaborated with Product Management to define product roadmap.• Led engineering efforts to execute 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.• Led product architecture and development efforts from concept through production release on more than a dozen products.• Detailed technical oversight, including detailed design reviews (schematic, PCB layout, MFG readiness, mechanical design, FW architecture and behavior) resulting in reduced errors in the design process.

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. • Improved program execution, reduced program schedules and NRE by 30%.

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.

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.

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. • Designed and tested high speed digital, FPGA and RF circuits for use in GPS receivers.