Rick Sheridan Email & Phone Number

Kenya, Singapore

Growing what's good... [Sunny Irrigation markets solar powered irrigation systems to smallholder farmers across emerging markets. With a laser focus on increasing smallholder farmer incomes through irrigation-amplified crop yields, we apply best-in-class analytics and bespoke advisory to maximize the success of farmers and the distributor organizations.

Singapore; San Francisco, CA; Shenzhen, China

• Own-brand consultancy: RST provides hardware-informed product management for highly effective tech-oriented organizations Client: DriptechBottom-of-Pyramid Technology Industry
• Sourced and characterized vendors of accessory hosing product.
• Applied six-sigma principles to identify several root causes of a key product failure mode.
• Implemented solution for shipping defects for primary product.
• Created and internally promoted customer complaint servicing… Show more Own-brand consultancy: RST provides hardware-informed product management for highly effective tech-oriented organizations Client.
• Created and internally promoted customer complaint servicing process.Client: SRECTrade Solar Financing IndustryIn-Sourced Management Role: Product Manager

San Francisco, CA And Nairobi, Kenya

• Held product manager, engineering manager, and enterprise technical sales roles concurrently.
• Led a team of 2 hardware engineers and an intern to develop and sell 3 new products to 7 enterprise customers.
• Following an organizational history of product recalls, developed and committed to practice a QA process that saw zero recallsfollowing implementation.
• Unlocked additional 30% of company annual revenue by driving technical negotiation of grant agreement to completion.
• … Show more Held product manager, engineering manager, and enterprise technical sales roles concurrently.
• Scoped and led the development of a new high-margin IoT offering and sold it to two of Angaza’s most important customers. Show less

San Jose

• Led operations execution on Flextronics' behafl for 10 startups – on-boarding, resource-finding and execution, and taking escalation of issues.
• Structured and closed an investment deal, manufacturing 5000 units for an innovative consumer grocery-scanner.
• Restructured a deficient investment deal ensuring successful continuity of client’s design for a connected home lighting product.

San Jose, CA

• Developed and internally promoted a telecom industry model, serving to make more efficient my groups’ lead acquisition.
• Opened discussions and achieved engagement with Apple, leading to our warmly received high-value proposal to them.
• Led my company’s hosting at GMIC conference in Moscone, gaining introduction to the CEO of Coursera, leading to partnershipdiscussions for bringing their content to the high-demand China market.
• Competitively selected to participate in coveted… Show more Developed and internally promoted a telecom industry model, serving to make more efficient my groups’ lead acquisition.
• Competitively selected to participate in coveted internal enterprise sales training program in Shanghai. Show less

Singapore, India, China, San Francisco, Silicon Valley

• Startup in off-grid technology solutions for phone battery recharging in emerging markets
• Marketed and set up functioning India microbusiness
• Designed and led market study that determined pricepoint and product positioning
• Led a team of MBAs collecting product usage data from several users in Indian communities,
• Directed graphic design efforts for generating print, web, and outdoor display marketing materials
• Delivered frequent pitches and… Show more Startup in off-grid technology solutions for phone battery recharging in emerging markets

Sunnyvale, California, USA And Ipoh, Malaysia

• Characterized cutting-edge MEMS and mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuit products.
• Brought up several lines of automated test hardware through to mature production implementation.
• Frequently sent to Malaysia for extended periods to set up and upgrade manufacturing.
• Selected to be part of critical path for production success of flagship product.

Mountain View, CA

• Clients and end-customers include Huawei, ZTE, NTT/Hitachi, and more.
• Developed, maintained, and tested firmware for 6 clients in telecom, medical device, and biotech industries.
• Tested, debugged, and did board-level rework for more than 1000 circuit boards.

Irvine, CA

• Coordinated actuator driver controller board development for an unmanned helicopter.
• Dealt extensively with electromechanical systems consultants.
• Led bringing $100,000 value defunct 5-axis manufacturing machinery to production status.
• Wrote dynamics simulation in MATLAB for aircraft touchdown analysis and visualization.

Mba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Emerging Markets Club

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace With Information Technology (Xvi-2)