Rick Schwartz

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Senior Product Manager at HME @ HME
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Carlsbad, California, United States, United States
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About Rick Schwartz

Results-driven product management professional with a 20-year track record driving revenue growth from award-winning hardware, software and services. Able to quickly achieve results in fast-paced high pressure, environments. Has a long history developing first-of-their-kind products. A highly effective leader, who is respected by his team members, peers and senior management.Specialties: Voice UI (Alexa AVS, Google Assistant), Mobile devices and apps, Machine learning frameworks, Product demos and public speaking, Competitive analysis, Mobile power consumption, Mobile software profiling, Snapdragon processors and audio codecs, ECNS/ANC, VR/MPEG-H/Immersive audio, Audio post-production, Video editing and Social media-based marketing.

Rick Schwartz's Current Company Details
HME

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Senior Product Manager at HME
Rick Schwartz Work Experience Details
  • Hme
    Senior Product Manager
    Hme Apr 2018 - Present
    Carlsbad, California, Us
  • Qualcomm
    Senior Product Manager - Snapdragon Mobile & Compute Division
    Qualcomm Jan 2013 - Apr 2018
    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 SDKs, mobile speaker protection. Snapdragon Windows PC audio, Chrome audio and more.• 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 profiling), QDCM (display calibration), QEPM (power profiling) and QView (a suite of performance profiling tools used by all mobile OEMs).• 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. Managed the launch of the Snapdragon 820 and 835-based VR headsets. Responsible for changes to our BOMs and product line, which resulted in millions of dollars of savings each year.• 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.
  • Packetvideo
    Director Of Connected Home Software
    Packetvideo Oct 2007 - Dec 2012
    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 tablets for GigaOM, which was tweeted over 600 times in one week.• 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.• Social media expert responsible for our posts on Twitter and Facebook. Filmed and edited 28 different product demos, which have been viewed over 2 million times on YouTube.• Responsible for all product demos given at our corporate offices. After seeing one of these demos, Intel Capital asked to make a $20M investment. Played an important role in the NTT DOCOMO acquisition of PacketVideo in 2010.• Played an active sales support role, which helped establish our software as the premier embedded media server shipping on over 30 million devices from Cisco, Denon, HP, Iomega, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Teac, Verizon, Vodafone, Vizio, Western Digital and Yamaha.
  • Gateway
    Director Of Consumer Direct & Professional Desktop Product Marketing
    Gateway Jun 2004 - Oct 2007
    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, which resulted in an increase in sales, significant operational cost savings and a much improved shopping experience.• 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.
  • Gateway
    Senior Product Manager
    Gateway May 2002 - Jun 2004
    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 that preloaded thousands of songs on every Gateway PC.• 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
    Senior Product Manager
    Cantametrix Jan 2001 - Apr 2002
    • 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 many products including Apple iTunes. • 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 and EMI Records.• 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.
  • Liquid Audio
    Director Of Product Development
    Liquid Audio Jun 1996 - Jan 2001
    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 of Liquid Audio’s most successful products.• 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.
  • Avid Technology
    Market Manager
    Avid Technology Feb 1993 - Jun 1996
    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.

Rick Schwartz Skills

Mobile Devices Product Management Product Marketing Mobile Applications Competitive Analysis Mobile Technology Strategy Product Development Strategic Partnerships Embedded Systems Sound Go To Market Strategy Cross Functional Team Leadership Product Launch Software Streaming Media Wireless Android Product Lifecycle Management Consumer Electronics Software Project Management Dlna Cloud Computing Agile Project Management Computer Hardware Embedded Software Software Development Start Ups Swot Analysis Product Planning

Rick Schwartz Education Details

  • University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
    University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Electrical Engineering

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