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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. is a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes through relentless innovation and revolutionary customer experience. The Company takes an innovative, user-centric approach to the design, development and commercialization of products for people with diabetes who use insulin.

San Diego, California, Us

Inseego is a leader in the development of 5G products and technology and I really enjoyed leading a world class 5G engineering team.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Francisco Partners acquired Qualcomm Life in February of 2019 and renamed the company Capsule Technologies. Capsule develops platforms and solutions to support the Internet of Things (IoT) for the medical devices serving the healthcare industry. When Francisco Partners acquired Qualcomm Life I was appointed to the role of General Manager of the 2net IoT Business where I was responsibile for all aspects of the business with full P&L responsibilities. I also continued to lead engineering and product development for the business. In a year I led the team to completely transform the business and position it for a successful exit from private equity.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

I led engineering for the 2net Business within Qualcomm Life including all software & hardware development, quality assurance, and engineering program management. During my tenure with Qualcomm Life, I led the transformation of the engineering function into a high-performing unit through restructuring the team, revamping the processes, and redesigning & rebuilding the products. The changes resulted in significant cost reductions and efficiency improvements and enabled the team to focus on bulding new and important technologies to pursue numerous new business opportunities.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led global team of 100+ engineers responsible for developing software for wireless carriers, cable operators, device OEMs, and large enterprises. Company develops device client applications and associated cloud-based management systems. Products include visual voicemail & voice-to-text applications, device management & updating applications, WiFi offload and network connectivity applications, data analytics applications, family safety applications, and graphics & animation applications. Device platforms include Smart Phones, Tablets, PCs, IoT Devices, and others. Operating systems include Windows, Android, iOS, OSX, and Linux.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led team of software and quality assurance engineers responsible for developing connection management, VPN, and device management software for all tier-1 US carriers and numerous fortune 500 enterprises.Inherited teams and products in my initial role within Smith Micro. My key accomplishments included:- Consolidated team that was disjointed and disorganized as the result of multiple acquisitions.- Defined and implemented standard processes for development and testing.- Consolidated all products from 5 disparate code bases into a single code base.- Significantly improved efficiency quality of products resulting in higher revenues and lower costs.

Initially built and managed team of over 50 software and firmware engineers responsible for developing protocol and diagnostics software for WiMAX chipsets.Ultimately assumed responsibility for system integration and test team responsible for all software and hardware testing for WiMAX chipsets.

Richmond, British Columbia, Ca

Joined Sierra Wireless through the acquisition of AirPrime in 2003. Continued leadership of software team from AirPrime with a focus on developing software and firmware for 2G/3G wireless modules embedded in early smartphones and PCs as well as external PC cards providing 3G wireless connectivity. Our products comprised the majority of Sierra's revenues in the first year after the acquisition.

Richmond, British Columbia, Ca

Took the gamble with two colleagues of mine to join a small startup that was struggling to successfully develop CDMA wireless modules and PC cards. Overhauled and rebuilt team of over 30 software and firmware engineers responsible for developing CDMA protocol software as well as all hardware control and diagnostics software. Successfully built multiple products for Sprint.Company received multiple rounds of venture funding based on the value of the products and the team and was ultimately acquired by Sierra Wireless in 2003.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Built and managed a team of 20 software and firmware engineers. Team was responsible for developing all protocol, diagnostics, and UI software for multiple CDMA handset models built for Sprint PCS.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led team of software engineers responsible for developing CDMA protocol and PC application software for Motorola's fixed wireless terminals.

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