Director of Vehicle SystemsAs the Director of Vehicle Systems, I am committed to propelling our hardware capabilitiesforward and ensuring the success of our driverless solutions as we shape the future oftransportation.Program/project manager who liaises with Partners, Software and Vehicleengineering teams, Operations, and Sales to define product requirements,architect, and produce systems to enable safe, driverless operations of lightelectric vehicle fleets.Manage partner and supplier relationshipsDevelop and coordinate milestones with field trials to drive customerengagement

Brocade was acquired by Broadcom. Going forward we will continue to develop market leading Fiber Channel SAN equipment.

Manager of the Mechanical Engineering Team for OEM SAN/IP and sustaining platforms while supporting programs in architecture and design capacity. 11years experience with SAN/IP enclosure design. Team Management: o Skilled at leading multi-disciplined and multinational teams. o Create and support opportunities for self-development and training. Budget management: o Platforms supported by Mechanical Engineering Team result in ~2.5Billion in company revenue. o Team Compensation in salary, bonus and RSU's o Manage Quarterly budget for thermal testing, outsourced engineering tasks and prototypes. o Tracked/Managed resources, aided architecture, thermal design, scheduled and expenses for 60+ projects o Managed engineering tools: Creo, Windchill, Solidworks, Flotherm, Ansys, and engineering data base.Managing Mechanical Design Verification Testing specification, vendor management, issue resolution and scheduling.

Developing environmental control for a leading edge DNA sequencing platform. Sub-systems include water cooled and thermo-electric cooled components, air conditioning, gas distribution, fluidics, humidification and purification. Also acting CAD administrator.

Senior Product Design Engineer•Member of new products design group for hi-end PC gaming platforms with responsibilities including but not limited to: outsource management of ODMs and mechanical project management, system architecture, thermal evaluations, mechanical integrity, system design and integration, industrial design, safety approval and conforming to EMI guidelines.•Responsible for developing new manufacturing capabilities to push the industrial design implications.

Team Lead and Senior Mechancical Engineer in the new products group.Developed Storage Area Network platforms from 1U to 14U, with midplane interconnects, mechanical PCBA layout, implement thermal/EMI/safety/acoustic evaluations, field replaceable units and much much more.

•Support the commercial efforts of Laird technologies by bridging the gaps between customer engineers and the outside sales force through strong technical skills, adept problem solving and thorough communications. •Resource management of San Jose’s Business Development, Form In Place (FIP) cell.•Supporting numerous markets from low volume military applications, mid level medical and high volume handset and computer applications.•Reporting to the Sales Team acting as an extension of the customer’s internal engineering departments by supporting their R&D and manufacturing concerns for EMI/Thermal and manufacturability.•Internal roles include: Project tracking and designating, development of tooling on and off shore, tracking builds, prototype/production quoting, resource allocation, adaptation of Laird’s global capabilities with the customers manufacturing requirements needs.•Board level design Patent submitted and currently in review.

•Responsible for development of platforms in director class market, ranging in port capacity of 512 ports in 22U to a 64 port 2U product. •Integral part of improving team efficiency for our department.

Pluris was a network start up that was trying to jump the gap to Terabyte levels of networking. The initial system was the TX-20: 23” rack, dual shelf, 45U, 32 slot, redundant power and blowers, DC system. It was followed with development of a 19” rack a 45U system and then a ½ capacity 23U system.•Supported all departments (SW, HW, Marketing, Sales, and Operations…) in any means possible.

•R&D for beginning to end system development•Up-front engineering used to expedite CAD development•Design For Manufacturing continuously practiced•CAD design supported with the use of Pro-Engineer modeling software.•Responsible for complete chassis development of Enterprise Edge 1000First chassis to be developed by department using ATX standardsFirst system to unite Bay Networks and Northern Telecom technologies