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California, United States

Alameda, California, US

San Francisco`, CA, US

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Mountain View, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

Mountain View, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Beaverton, OR, US

• Nike, Inc. is the world's largest shoemaker and one of the most recognizable marketing brands on the planet.
• A key driver of Nike’s Digital Sport strategy and responsible for complete product life cycle.
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of all Nike digital sport products including the award winning Nike+ GPS SportWatch and Nike+ FuelBand.
• Managed a multidiscipline team including product marketing, industrial design, project management, engineering, and manufacturing.
• Built the the digital sport product team from seven to forty people increasing the ability of Nike to create and produce innovative new digital products.
• Drove the move for Nike from small contract manufacturers to first tier contract manufacturers enabling predictable delivery of ambitious high volume products.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Palm, Inc. is a leading mobile products company, creating instinctive yet powerful mobile products that enable people to better manage their lives on the go. The company’s products for consumers, mobile professionals.
• Actively built and managed a multi-national engineering team capable of delivering best in class smart phones.
• Responsible for product design, component process development and quality plans of all Palm products.
• Key decision maker for vendor selection of joint development partners, contract manufacturers, and suppliers of critical components including displays, touch panels, and enclosures.
• Personally drove solutions to critical design and quality issues in Asia to insure successful product ramps for the Pre and Pixi. Technically engaged on all projects.
• Owned products from conception through end of life including manufacturing and return logistics.

• Pioneering start-up developing end-to-end solutions for connected personal entertainment devices.
• Early member of management team developing company strategy and direction. Built vertically integrated mechanical design organization including internal employees, local contractors, and remote design and manufacturing.
• Architected the mechanical design for the CES 2007 Best of Show Sandisk Sansa Connect, the first portable Sirius satellite radio, the SL100, and it’s successor the SL2.
• Solved difficult thermal challenges from high power density and met aggressive cost targets, all with innovative industrial design.
• Participated in business negotiations and program presentations with all major partners and vendors.
• Leveraged vendors in Asia extensively for design and product testing. Manage multiple teams in Taiwan, China, and the U.S.

Austin, Texas, US

• Responsible for design revenue of over $12 million per year with follow-on manufacturing revenue estimated at over $500 million.
• Managed a team of over forty engineers, project managers, and support staff in the U.S. and Taiwan working on more than a dozen simultaneous projects.
• Doubled the size of mechanical engineering department while maintaining design quality and increasing average customer satisfaction over 25% (per survey)
• Drove multiple strategic initiatives to improve quality and consistency of design work performed by Flextronics Design. Successfully aligned individual contributor’s goals with division and corporate goals.
• Prepared quotes and proposals for design and manufacturing services for customers. Since taking responsibility for the design center rate of success for proposals has increased from 17% to 40%.

Cupertino, California, US

• Responsible for all mechanical aspects of the PowerMac G4 Tower, Apple’s professional desktop product line, and Apple’s server products, including product cost, schedule, manufacturability, EMC, human factors, thermal.
• Built and managed the team responsible for the Xserve and Xserve Raid Apple’s first rack mount server products creating over $40 million dollars of revenue for Apple in their first two years with very high margins.
• Allocated a multi-million dollar development budget. Product development costs for systems in my division were approximately 35% less than for other platforms while still meeting quality specifications and deadlines.
• Design lead for Apple’s G4Cube, winner of multiple design awards and the only computer in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.

California, 94086, US

• Leader in telesurgery products combining the flexibility of open surgery with minimally invasive surgery
• Managed internal and external mechanical engineers and industrial designers through the definition and design of the da Vinci Surgical System. My team defined system architecture, wrote all mechanical specifications.
• Responsible for the industrial design of the da Vinci Surgical system including human factors and user experience.
• Created full scale industrial design mock-ups to win $25 million in funding. Wrote documentation packages for FDA, manufacturing, and service.  Developed overall design and specified layout for the custom electronics.

IT

Ms, Mechanical Design

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

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