Robert Milliken Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Managing the companies technical development and engagements, including promoting, defining, consulting, and designing battery management systems. Must secure strategic collaborations, partnerships, and agreements and develop core engineering process and procedure documentation and protocols.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Managed team to support automotive customers with integration of products including developing custom board level applications and defining IC system level functionality.
• Managed development of demo, evaluation, and custom PCB boards. This includes creation of application notes and product manuals.
• Created new product definitions and product lines including creation of functional safe (ASIL B) flyback converter product line for the automotive industry.
• Marketed the complete product line to key Automotive customers including writing product datasheets, creating and presenting marketing collateral, and running interference between customers and Elevation engineering.
• Managed, define, and mentor team of design engineers of the development of the first functionally safe, gate-drive bias flyback. Serve as functional safety manager and comply to stringent guidelines to complete work.
• Created company policies and procedures for application and system team tasks including datasheets, application notes, PCBs, and system and IC testing.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Developed new customer base in United States. This included covering half of the US for Richtek broad market base
• Fostered relationship with US sales rep firms to ignite new buying customers
• Managed key customer accounts. Generated several new opportunities within these accounts that have excellent projections. Each key account included > 5 concurrent product developments.
• Managed promotion and priority of our 4000 products portfolio. Became SME on several lines including Audio, USB PD, Vcore, and BLDC drivers.
• Created marketing and sales collateral to target US market.
• Generated and presented technical deep-dive presentations to several of our new and existing key customer design teams. Technical talks helped boost the use of Richtek products with our customers.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Ran multiple sprint teams to determine emerging markets and strategic marketing positioning for wide-bandgap technology in EV / battery storage systems
• Managed a hardware/software team based in the Philippines that is responsible for developing custom customer applications, demo systems, and new/strategic application systems for active balancing battery systems
• Active work in Active Cell Balancing, BMS, DC/AC conversion, 48V automotive systems, High voltage and kW systems.
• System architect and manager for complex joint study with automotive OEM involving long-term study and product development for battery management.
• Developed business cases for new and strategic product markets using market research and customer engagement to create new product definitions. Initiatives focused on high revenue markets of greater than $50M.
• Designed monolithic power IC product and continued backend responsibilities for product release. Responsible for architecting complex system solution and demo system. Product release end of 2022. Demo release for June.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Partnered with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs department of Electrical Engineer to explore the benefits of battery active cell balancing including cell longevity and extended SoC. Demonstrated complete.
• While managing two IC design engineers, one analog & one digital, was able to release complex power IC with microprocessor and state machine.
• Designed and individually released 4 products that included all new IP, 5th product to release end of 2022. Two monolithic flyback converters and 2 flyback controllers, all special function. Solely responsible for.
• Defined/Designed/Managed multi-resource, dual-die DC/AC Inverter with 3 new technology innovations. Secondary die was fabricated as best-in-class SiC driver. Developed new method to cancel input ripple by 80dB..
• Designed and fabricated complex flyback controller for 6 channel series super-cap application.
• Developed over 23 product definitions and roadmaps used within design group.

Master Of Science, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical And Electronics Engineering