Richard Ackerman Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Fully responsible for managing the development, manufacture, delivery and support of all Teseda Products. These responsibilities include managing contract design engineers, contract layout engineers, internal software and firmware engineers, contract manufacturing, product rollout and customer communications. • Manage roadmap for Teseda’s software and hardware products.• Work directly with customers and sales personnel to define and manage products that meet or exceed the customers’ requirements.• Develop and deliver training to new customers to enable them to achieve high levels of success using Teseda’s products. • Manage contract hardware designers to develop new components that add value to the Teseda V550 product offerings

Lake Oswego, Or

At Bizbuilt, I had the opportunity to establish the culture of quality and high coverage test from the very beginning. By challenging the team to write tests that cover every line of code, we accomplished two key benefits. First, we had very few regressions which led to more efficient development. Second, we had a more robust architecture because by making the product easier to test, they made it easier to maintain.• Managed content and quality of Bizbuilt web application releases.• Defined user experience for new business social media web application that met the needs for simplicity and capability for a wide range of customers.• Managed the test requirements to achieve high coverage of the code base for the Bizbuilt web application.• Managed and measured code against known best practices to ensure a high quality and maintainability of the code base to ensure a high pace of development can be maintained long term.

Portland, Or

• Facilitated communication between the engineering teams, field personnel, and customers to define new functionality or improve existing functionality for the users. • Defined new products that help customers solve customers’ problems and expand market presence. • Defined product roadmaps for Teseda Workbench and Diagnostic Manager products. • Build demonstrations that illustrate the value of our products to potential customers. • Built partnerships with companies who provide complimentary products to provide greater benefit to customers by leveraging the strengths of both companies.

Msee, Electrical Engineering

The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology merged with Oregon Health and Science University in 2003.

Bseet, Electronics