Paul T. Rygaard Email & Phone Number

Anywhere

Santa Clara CA

Santa Clara CA

President of a local wood-turning club. Silicon Valley Woodturners is a club dedicated to the advancement of the art of wood-turning. We have monthly meetings, numerous training activities, and several outreach programs. In this role I had several duties:* Board Chairman.* Organized and Ran all monthly club meetings* Coordinated relationship between the.

Primary Role: Management Consultant:* Coaching and training C-level management on how to transition from development/research mode to shipping product.* Develop strategic and tactical plans for driving company forward.* Prioritize projects and features to match strategic and tactical plans with available budget.Secondary Role: Engineering Management.

A Nevada Company

Santa Clara CA.

I volunteer at the Santa Clara High School wood shop teaching students wood shop skills. In addition I do shop improvements and maintenance as well as coordinate other volunteers

Sunnyvale, CA

• Experience Summary: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA Managed a globally distributed Agile development team of 5 Project Managers and over 40 Engineers across India, China, and the U.S. Led the development of.
• Led HP PC registration efforts, achieving an unprecedented 65% registration rate.
• Developed registration strategies worth up to $40M in support cost reduction and direct marketing revenue.
• Successfully revitalized and re-structured the Chinese Development Center.
• Built the worldwide HP Connected Photo line of software for Windows 8 and Android with an installed user base of well over 1 Million users. This software was integrated into the HP Snapfish photo printing cloud service.
• Built a business intelligence system that significantly improved the decision making process.

• Built and lead the teams managing development or acquisition of all SW modules shipped on the HP Consumer Desktop PCs. Built tools and processes for the integration and deployment of the build images for all HP.
• Successfully delivered worldwide Consumer Desktop PC build images to manufacturing for 4 years without ever missing a retailer commitment.
• Revamped the consumer Desktop HP Factory image build tools resulting in innovations that were adopted throughout the company.
• Managed the organization’s relationship with Microsoft to help ensure successful on-time release of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 based products.
• Delivered the award-winning TouchSmart All-In-One Platform two years before Windows 7 introduced touch.

Cupertino, CA

• Beyond-the-Box Project Manager (2001- 2005)
• Built and led a team of engineers in the development, deployment and ongoing enhancement of a sophisticated Client server ISP offer presentation tool that presents customers with value added offerings world-wide
• Earned a team reputation of being extremely flexible and responsive while delivering components on time and with high quality.
• Partnered with IT on the specification, development and deployment of the IT back-end infrastructure for Easy Internet Signup and the Consumer Redirector service. This infrastructure has since been leveraged for use by.
• Managed the collection, testing and deployment of partner software and marketing content for over 35 partners world-wide.
• Coordinated with Marketing and Business Development on the tactical and strategic planning of the value-added software business.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Student Union

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