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San Diego, California, United States

Product Management Consultant: Wellness Platform Development* Spearheaded the development of a provider-centric platform enabling patient protocol tracking, appointment scheduling, and treatment planning.* Orchestrated seamless integration with Shopify e-commerce platform and third-party tools for scheduling, remote video appointments, and provider-patient communication.* Guided platform design tailored for providers through usability sessions from concept to implementation, iterating based on ongoing user feedback.* Directed global team in crafting web and mobile interfaces, cloud-based processing engine, and seamless integration of third-party services.

San Diego, California

Promoted to Director 04.2022.Product Lead directly reporting to Retail GM for Retail Home Networking Product portfolio.• Prioritized the Retail product portfolio with direct-to-consumer sales channels: DOCSIS Modem/Gateways, Mesh/Router, Mobile App and Cloud• Managed the Retail Product portfolio strategy and managed R&D budget for product and services portfolio.• Drove product and services development from concept, Beta testing, to commercial deployment; led design sessions, UX discussions with customers and establishing a feedback process from ongoing Beta users and customers from the field.• Led the development of Mobile App and cloud to increase customer engagement and ability to segment customer base for customized content marketing via email and dynamic App content. • Forward planning to drive future Retail roadmap for devices, home connectivity analytics, integration and services in Networking and IoT Smart Home.

Greater San Diego Area

Product ownership for flagship Mobile Devices and associated Health and Safety services portfolio. Responsible for product roadmap, Engineering development priorities and market deployment strategy. Focus on new feature set to increase subscriber traction and life time value while ensuring product reliability and quality.• Product development with highly sensitive margins based on services revenue, customer support impact and engineering development. • End-to-end product development and deployment of an Android-based device platform with server management; leveraging user analytics for product and business analysis

Greater San Diego Area

Product lead for early stage startup developing a Contract-based marketplace platform with a distinct referral based reward mechanism; Company had successful exit meeting outlined financial goals. • Key Product representative at investor and customer discussions.• Product launch within 4 months of development and testing including front and back end components to achieve MVP. Prioritization of Product features against limited resources to maximize value proposition.

Greater San Diego Area

Product Development, Sr. Manager (promoted from Manager Q2, ‘14) Corporate team focused on evaluation and commercialization of R&D projects extending Qualcomm’s core businesses into services market. Product portfolio focused on services enabled platforms with enhanced mobile device integration taking advantage of Qualcomm core technology portfolio. Team’s role is product evaluation and design from concept level to commercialization opportunity – including spin out, new internal business units, and/or further development funding via internal and external channels. Key contributions:• Drove resolution on high revenue potential projects in the areas of optimized device video content delivery, enhanced connected home (smart gateway), healthcare, smart cities and automotive; Presented strategic recommendations for continued investment and development in 3 projects that are part of new internal Business Units. • Presented analysis and recommendations directly to management at program review boards; reports included in-depth analysis and recommendations covering product/solution value proposition, eco-system, value chain, GTM strategy, and business outlook.• Led technical evaluation and market validation of inbound projects including end-to-end system capabilities; analysis included in-depth software, firmware and HW capabilities; cloud based hosted solution including extension to connect to partner solutions.• Created business models and financial outlook for products influencing prioritization, product and feature roadmap, schedule, GTM and commercialization strategies. • Primary contact to Engineering leads providing product requirements based on market and customer feedback; requirements used to define product design criteria, prioritization, schedule and feature-set roadmap.

Greater San Diego Area

Product Engineering, StaffRecruited (as part of first core product engineering group) to an emerging R&D and Product development team with a focus on providing differentiating features to Qualcomm chipset in the area of display, image post processing and touch technologies. Team focused on 2-year design cycles with oversight by Executive level leadership for direct impact to Qualcomm chipset division. Key contributions:• Provided 2-year roadmap plan for touch screen integration to current Qualcomm chipsets in order to promote large revenue opportunity displacing separate chipset; provided Technical and Business plan for highly complex integration effort, including calibration and support requirements• Team lead on product requirements to support 3D display roadmap feature; effort led to design and integration of 3D block elements within 6 months of project; worked with key industry solution providers for optimized design.• Led product analysis for integration of Pico Projectors to mobile devices. Provided comprehensive report and plan to high-level chipset leads to postpone roadmap effort of integration due to immaturity of technology and impact to devices (cost, power and form factor).

Greater San Diego Area

Systems Engineering, Senior (promoted from Engineer Q2 2007)Team focused on delivering Industry leading integrated image post processing core to chipset roadmap. Systems team provided design and worked closely with HW and SW teams to provide fully integrated solutions meeting feature requirements. • Design of algorithms and architecture to meet mobile requirements of high quality, low power and latency, and concurrent operations.• Image Processing algorithm development for high quality filtering, scaling and image enhancements.• Feature set ownership including promotion, design, implementation, testing, deployment and customer feedback

San Jose

Early engineering hire for Startup Company providing consulting services for end-to-end digital design. Company success relies on fast turn-around and sound engineering principles for high quality design output. • Lead Embedded Systems Engineer on several projects including healthcare (enhanced ultrasound algorithms), multi high-tier FPGAs for network solutions, and video delivery (home security video optimizations)• Direct client interface for requirements and trade-off discussions