Richard Blake Email & Phone Number

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsible for project managing the development of leading edge products necessary for the next generation of Artimi solutions. Management of programmes to bring new products to market.Coordinate project teams consisting of personnel from Artimi and key suppliers to ensure that projects achieve their goals and deliverables within the agreed budget, scope and schedule. Identify, monitor and manage issues, risks and quality.Work with cross department teams including hardware, software and logistics to ensure that new products are ready for release to the target markets and customers.Identify and evaluate project risks and ensure effective resolution and closure.Establish and maintain communication channels between project teams from multiple sites across several countries including UK, Europe and USA.Work with key suppliers in the development of production test solutions and to qualify products according to industry JEDEC standards.

Responsible for the project management of complex projects for key customers employing NEC’s advanced technology, successfully overseeing a number of programmes with a development budget in excess of €1M and with ongoing sales revenue in excess of €10M.Managed and coordinated project teams consisting of personnel from NEC and their customer. Identified, monitored and managed risk, quality and business case.Maintained day-to-day client relationships at all levels. Co-ordinated regular reviews with project teams and customer’s senior management.Developed technical and commercial proposals to meet customer’s project requirements. Presented bid document to customer’s management and co-ordinated technical and commercial negotiations.Managed the European Project Management team with responsibility for their line-management, coaching and career development. Management of virtual teams.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Responsible for the management of NEC’s advanced range of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) products in the UK.Developed sales strategies and marketing plans to meet company growth targets. Conducted presentations and demonstrations to existing and potential customers.Set, monitored and reported on sales budget and growth targets for UK product sales.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Presentations, demonstrations and training on NEC’s computer aided engineering solutions to existing and potential customers.On-site support at customers premises during the project lifetime.Installation and maintenance of design centre at NEC’s premises for internal and customer use.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Technical support to customers on NEC’s technology and design processes.Pre-sales technical support to NEC’s sales team.Design of ASIC devices to meet specific customer requirements.

London, United Kingdom

Design of full and semi-custom VLSI designs using CMOS and ECL technologies.

Bsc, Electronic Engineering & Computer Science

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