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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 whose marketing efforts we support.]

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: 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 process.Client: SRECTrade Solar Financing IndustryIn-Sourced Management Role: Product Manager• Built consumer awareness of solar financing.• Led 7-person team in strategy study.Client: Greenlight PlanetOff-grid technology industry for village illumination in emerging marketsIn-Sourced Management Role: Country Head of Operations, China• Enabled manufacture of the first 500 solar powered lanterns for developing world consumers.• Instituted and executed six-sigma caliber testing standards for LEDs.• Selected factories and service vendors with due diligence paid to their quality control capabilitiesClient: SiTime, Inc. (Jan-Mar 2006)• Coded for automatic wafer-probing in MATLAB vastly increasing mission-critical yield analysis capability• Coded automated IC testing in 8-up parallel testing fixture especially for heat characterization.• Performance during contract led to hire (see rest of profile)Client: Asentio DesignIn-Sourced Management Role: Sales Partner• Pitched, closed, and implemented 2 customer contracts• Project #1: Research for China-based Cloud-enabled embedded sensors for energy efficiency• Project #2: Experience installation for entertainment industry. Show less

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.• 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.• 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.• 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 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• 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 presentations• Filed provisional patent in US citing several innovations.• Negotiated, and wrote exclusivity contracts with key China supplier and Indonesian customer. • Completed minimum-cost market experiments by successfully selling units in carefully targeted transactions. Show less

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)