As a member of EM's executive team, I was responsible for corporate product strategy, development and go-to-market of all ICs, leading >150 FTEs across six sites on two continents. To prepare EM's engineering teams for the challenges of the future in a changing world and build a competitive organization, together with the Development leadership team we• Deployed Agile methodology across software, hardware, and engineering leadership teams, enabling the organization to adapt quickly to fast-changing market conditions• Built a cross-product-line SoC Platform and IP team serving multiple business lines, reducing engineering cost and accelerating time-to-market for new developments• Initiated dedicated Product Engineering and Product Management activities to support organizational growth, improving product quality and product definition• Proposed implementation of OKR methodology to provide visibility and alignment and focus change initiatives, improving organizational visibility and alignment

Leading the RFID organization with full P&L responsibility and ownership of strategy, product roadmap, partnership development, technical marketing, product management (including NPI/GTM) and R&D.Achievements• Market introduction of paradigm-shifting RAINFC dual-frequency em|echo product line, leading the market in consumer engagement and brand protection applications• Turned around the RFID business resulting in 15% CAGR• Received multiple prestigious product and innovation awards and a regular speaker at industry events

Technical leadership (20+ people across three sites in EU and US) for LF, UHF and dual-frequency HF/UHF RFID product lines including design, layout, project management, test engineering, product support and FAEs

Board of Directors for the RAIN Alliance

Lecturing on practical issues in wireless transceiver design

2014 - 2014 Senior Technical Manager RF Design2010 - 2013 Senior Staff RFIC Design EngineerProjects:• Transmit path design team leader for the Mediatek's first LTE-A R11 transceiver MT6176, supporting LTE FDD/TDD R11 Cat-6 with 2x CA, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, CDMA2000 1x/EVDO Rev. A (SRLTE)http://www.mediatek.com/en/products/mobile-communications/smartphone1/mt6750• Receiver design team leader for Mediatek's first 3.75G/HSPA+ transceiver MT6280, a single-chip DC-HSUPA thin-modem SoC with receive diversity• Receiver design & transceiver verification leader for 2G/TD-SCDMA transceiver MT6163

Design of analog baseband circuits and data converters for highly integrated wireless transceivers (WiFi/WiMax, FM, GPS) in advanced CMOS technologies. In particular contribution to Marvell's 55nm Avastar multi-radio connectivity product line including 88W8787, 88W8788 and 88W8790:http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.php?num=683

Ph.D. research on advanced CMOS fiber-optic receivers for short-distance communications.- Design of a high-speed optical receivers, including transimpedance amplifier, limiting amplifier, clock and data recovery- Development of a specification-driven top-down design approach using mathematical and behavioral modeling of high-speed optical receivers and clock recovery circuits in particular- Lab testing and characterization of all receiver building blocks. Experience in jitter testing, eye diagram and BER measurement.- Experience in chip assembly and foundry interaction. In-depth knowledge on design issues in sub-100nm CMOS processes- Teaching assistant for semester and master projectsFurthermore in charge of:- establishing a high-speed measurement lab environment- the foundry interface for process selection and tape-outs

Specification, design and test of low-power analog circuits for high-accuracy sensing and data acquisition applications- switched-capacitor circuit design- design, lab characterization and production transfer of sensor interface circuit for industrial data acquisition applicaitons- system-level verification of mixed-signal SoC- profound interaction with customers during all phases of the product development, from specification to the transfer to volume production