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Carlsbad, California, US

San Diego, CA, US

• Audio Product Manager for Qualcomm's Mobile & Compute division responsible for audio post-processing, Secure Voice (audio biometrics), Qualcomm's audio tuning software (QACT), 3D audio plug-ins, MPEG-H encode/decode.
• Previously responsible for Qualcomm software tools including: App Tune-up Kit (Android app), Chromatix (camera tuning), Snapdragon Profiler, Symphony/MARE SDKs (heterogeneous computing), Trepn Profiler (Android.
• Managed all external Snapdragon reference design smartphones and tablets. These were the first mobile devices with 4K displays, Gigabit Wi-Fi (802.11ad), 3D fingerprint scanners and dual 3D infrared gesture cameras..
• Orchestrated the redesign of Qualcomm’s Android power profiling app, which resulted in a 40x increase in downloads and 740% increase in page views.
• Featured speaker at the following technical conferences: AnDevCon (Boston, San Francisco), CodeMobile (UK), Devoxx (London), GDC (San Francisco), UPLINQ (San Francisco) and XDA DevCon (Miami).
• Wrote over 16 articles for Qualcomm’s corporate and developer websites. Author of Qualcomm’s official audio newsletter.

San Diego, CA, US

• Managed an award-winning line of smartphone apps. Our first app was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Mobile Apps Showdown at CES and downloaded over two million times.
• Brought the first DLNA-compliant media management software to market. This software won a CES Innovations award in 2009 and was downloaded millions of times.
• Managed the creation of media manager software for Vodafone, which was deployed all over Europe.
• Featured speaker at the 2012 Connected Home Global Summit in London and 11 other technical conferences. Authored a best practices document that has been viewed over 500,000 times and wrote a popular article about.
• Managed the launches of seven different mobile apps over a 12-week period.
• Created a new product development process, which helped to bring a groundbreaking new product to market in only 92 days.

Irvine, CA, US

• Managed the pricing and configuration of all Gateway Consumer Direct and Professional Desktop PCs. During this period, Gateway was third in sales and the fastest growing PC company in the U.S. [Source: IDC]
• Made changes to our most popular line of desktops that resulted in a month over month unit growth of 86% and margin growth of 115%. Responsible for a significant reduction in the number of desktop PCs sold online.
• Responsible for the creation of a detailed competitive analysis on all popular Desktop PCs sold online. This report was presented to senior management weekly.
• Successfully launched more than one hundred desktop PCs. By working closely with our supply planning group, we were able to achieve some of the cleanest product transitions in the history of the company.
• Played an important role in the creation of product promotions, supply planning and product forecasting.

Irvine, CA, US

• Managed the award-winning line of Gateway-branded digital cameras and helped Gateway become the fastest growing brand of digital cameras in the U.S. and 13th largest CE retailer with $2.1B in sales.
• Helped the Digital Solutions group achieve year-over-year revenue growth of 269% and produce almost $100M in revenue in a single quarter.
• Launched more than one hundred unique products and services – including Gateway Digital Cameras, Gateway's MP3 Jukebox, the Gateway Rhapsody Music Service and Gateway Music Vault – an innovative, industry-first program.
• Made changes to Gateway’s line of gaming PCs that resulted in a 120% increase in sales.
• Represented Gateway on consumer desktop PC and all gaming-related media coverage.

• Cantametrix was a pioneer in audio fingerprinting and music recognition. Although they ran out of money shortly after the stock market crash, the technology we created was acquired by Gracenote and lives on today in.
• Worked with the worlds’ largest music publisher to create a system for tracking and enforcement of music licenses. As a result of this work, Cantametrix was a selected as a technology provider by both EMI Publishing.
• Managed the launch of Cantametrix’s million song fingerprint database.
• Key contributor to the RIAA’s RFI for audio fingerprinting technologies.
• Managed Gracenote technical due diligence of Cantametrix technologies that resulted in a signed contract (and later acquisition) between the two companies.
• Responsible for creation of all product requirement documents for the MusicDNA Client, Cantametrix SDK and Cantametrix Data Interchange.

US

• Designed and helped create product and technology demonstrations that helped the company raise more than $200M in financing and go public on the NASDAQ exchange.
• Served as program manager for the team that launched commercial digital music downloads for BMG, EMI and Warner Bros. Records.
• Responsible for the creation of detailed market requirement documents for the first four major releases of the Liquid Music Player and Liquifier content encoding software. Managed the entire product life cycle for many.
• Supported our sales group by creating an Intranet site containing product demos, FAQs, white papers, product literature and competitive summaries.
• Worked closely with corporate marketing to develop key product positioning, packaging, data sheets and other marketing materials.

Burlington, MA, US

• Helped establish Avid’s audio and video editing systems as the standard for both film and television post production.
• Product manager of AudioVision, which was the first digital audio workstation with integrated digital video playback, ADR recording and content interchange with the Avid Media Composer.
• Helped place Avid audio products in top Hollywood post- production facilities including 20th Century Fox, ABC, NBC, Disney, Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures and Universal.
• Managed all Avid West Coast Application Editors and the AudioVision Assistant Product Manager. Market Manager for all Digidesign post-production products (AudioVision, Post Conform, USD and Post View).
• Responsible for the creation of all AudioVision product requirement documents, business plans and product collateral. Key presenter at trade shows and company-wide sales events.