Robert Crick Email & Phone Number

Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States

* Developing the FlowPacer pump, a specialized pump for endovascular stroke treatment. * Pump has the ability to treat both hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes. * Pump is reversible to provide both aspiration and perfusion.

Greater San Diego Area

• Developing innovative new products to advance the communications field.
• Enabling established companies to grow through high tech mergers and acquisitions.
• Mentoring start-up companies to develop an entrepreneurial organization with an aggressive product roadmap, and helping them to get funding.

San Diego, CA

• Telecom acquisitions and integrating those acquisitions.
• Joint ventures, strategic partnerships, new business strategy and future direction.
• Product Roadmap and new product strategy.

Vista, CA

• After Greenlee acquired Telefonix, Transitioned the ToneRanger into Greenlee Tempo manufacturing, training and sales.
• Directed the Tempo Product Roadmap process, produced a strategic plan to restore competitive leadership.
• Defined and specified two new products to make Tempo competitive in the Premise Technician market.

San Diego, CA

• Founded company specializing in Outside Plant test equipment for the Telephone Industry.
• Served as President and the visionary for the R&D operations of the company.
• Invented the Patented ToneRanger, a safe resistance fault tone locator for Telephone Cable that uses no high voltage.
• Managed ToneRanger through successful product approvals in all major US Telcos. Was designated as “Tool of Choice” of Project Lightspeed, for U-verse IPTV deployment at AT&T.
• Sold Telefonix to Greenlee Textron, and returned to the Tempo Vista, CA plant, the business I previously started.

Vista, CA

• Founded Tempo, based on voltage breakdown and cable fault tone locatiors, including the patented Tonearc.
• Invented all early products and set profit margin strategy to grow from startup without external funding. Maintained gross margins at 70%. Increased sales 30% to 50% per year.
• Invented and patented the “Stress Test” which is now the industry standard for pair qualification. Tempo grew quickly based on this new technology.
• Put the Stress Test into the “SIDEKICK” telephone line tester whose ability to detect “killer pairs” prior to install has revolutionized test and maintenance in telecom. It has dramatically reduced truck rolls, as.
• The Sidekick became the largest selling test instrument in the telephone industry, standardized by all major US telephone companies, and has sold over 200,000 units. It is still the largest contributor to Tempo revenue.
• Sold out of Tempo to investors who eventually sold it to Greenlee Textron.