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Lead the System Architecture, Integrations, and Development of the Multifamily products and features and oversees the Quality Assurance team.Our Smart Home Product offering includes: Access Control, Property Management Systems integration, Security, AI/ML, Mobile applications and an IoT gateway supported by Z Wave and Zigbee protocols.

Using my expertise in IoT to build an industry leading team for cutting edge solutions that make homes smarter and more efficient.

• Oversee 4 teams comprised of 70+ engineers in 7 geographic locations under 4 engineering managers. Areas include: Mobile applications, IoT Cloud Hub, Devices and Satellite Modems.• Motivate, guide and mentor the career path of team members. This has been switched to all remote over the past year, adding a new facet to leading a team.• Provide strategic and technical leadership across ORBCOMM’s many software products and end-to-end solutions.• Liaison to internal and external customers and departments.

Commands superior strategic management through voice of customer, business development, engineering, marketing, finance and quality.Manage a cross functional member team of software, mobile application, and UI developers, responsible for Orbcomm’s product portfolio, divided among five international geographic locations.

Serve as the Software technical program manager of ORBCOMM’s mobile application suite. Responsible for gathering voice of the customer and business needs and turning them into collateral in the form of wireframes, presentations or requirements for engineering, marketing or operations.Served as the Hardware technical program manager for Orbcomm’s solar powered location tracking product for logistics shipping firms, interpreted their needs and lead the team to the appropriate technology to meet customer specifications. The components of this product consist of a location hub that communicates to a SaaS platform for the customer to track their goods. Manage a cross functional member team of software, mobile application, and UI developers, responsible for Orbcomm’s product portfolio, divided among five international geographic locations.Elevated solar powered portfolio by managing new product roadmap utilizing systems and sensors that support diverse technologies, including Video, AWS, RFID, LTE, iOS, Android, TCP/IP, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), serial communications, optical sensors, light and ultrasonic sensors, and GPS.Work with key partners to ensure roadmaps and deliverables remain in sync for dependent products.

• Valued as trusted strategic and tactical leader, skillfully managing/mentoring 6-member embedded hardware and software engineering team, and developing collaborative relationships with customers, vendors and senior management.• Drove product innovation and development and improved processes by streamlining codes and defining/implementing best practices over entire SDLC utilizing aspect-oriented programming. Managed daily operations and budgets.• Provided expert architectural oversight and devised highly-effective business and operational solutions by determining business needs and conceptualizing, designing and developing marketable products. Interfaced with customers.• Promoted new business development and fueled revenue growth exceeding $6 MM per year by leading design and development of 300 series of products. Reported to President of LMS.

• Excelled as Program Manager/Technical Lead developing hardware and software to execute multiple projects, including: tire pressure monitor using GPS/cellular, ultrasonic cargo sensors, remote temperature monitor, RFID, accelerometer.• Increased bandwidth by 30% by designing 2 new communications protocols: an over-the-air protocol for data transfer (migrated to GPRS with no character limit) and low-level protocol with external RAM storage.• Achieved a 75% reduction in production costs for Refrigeration Tracking System through development of workarounds to eliminate the need for costly third-party devices. Led CAN development.

• Led design/development of hardware and firmware for up-based telematics system maximized for power management.