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Campbell, CA, US

Berkeley, CA, US

Technology, tools and services for architects and builders to create sustainable homes at lower costs and more predictable profit margins.

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London, England, GB

• Led design and development of an NLP-enabled building products discovery and insights platform.
• Fostered strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders to drive collaboration and innovation.
• Empowered stakeholders to drive simplicity, transparency, and sustainability in the building industry.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Business owner for a global centralized services organization which develops AWS hosted business process automation and analytics solutions and provides global distribution/logistics and lab services.
• Led a multiyear effort to develop a resource model-based planning, allocation and analytics solution which enables scenario-based forecasting of headcount and prototype device needs.
• Partnered with Finance, EHS and Facilities leadership to reduce ongoing lab operations costs by $2M via centralization of core services, investments in automation and the development of a common asset management.
• Developed device logistics & lab services infrastructure/processes which enabled safe disruption free operation during the pandemic.
• Established partnerships with test equipment vendors and Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies to reduce lab operations HC/equipment costs by $1M annually and enable circular economy/sustainability.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led team of technical account managers and software developers responsible for integration of content, services & applications from ecosystem partners including Audible, Appstore, Amazon Instant Video/Music, AWS, Hulu, & Netflix.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Drove development and launch of a CEO driven initiative to scale devices and services business via a partnership with AT&T.

Spearheaded a CEO initiative which grew Asian market share from $10M to $30M via the buildout of contract distribution partnerships. * Worked closely with the executive team to develop and implement a plan to penetrate Asian markets including the development of a metrics dashboard used to identify, manage and monitor distribution partners.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led a global, multi-discipline team responsible for the specification and design of cellular handset platforms.
• Managed LTE chipset development including coordination of demos for prospective buyers of CPG business.
• Drove roadmap feasibility studies for new low tier 3G and LTE chipsets
• Led cross functional team of business development, finance, legal and procurement professionals which generated $5M+ in development cost saving by establishing risk/reward partnerships with suppliers.

Austin, Texas, US

Led a global cross functional team of business and technical leaders responsible for roadmap definition, market strategy and business development. Role reported to the Director of Strategy.

Austin, Texas, US

Led global engineering team responsible for validating CPG reference platforms with eco-system partners including infrastructure/test equipment vendors and cellular operators.

US

• Co-founder of a fabless semiconductor company which raised $700M and had $50M in annual revenues from eight global mobile handset companies/cellular operators.
• Led a global, multi-discipline organization responsible for integration of cellular platform into 15+ cellular devices accounting for 80% of annual chipset revenue.
• Led operator branded handset programs for Asian ODM partners including factory qualification/ramp and acceptance by major operators. Role included long-term onsite leadership assignment in South American and Korea.
• Managed joint UMTS 3G development partnerships with global operators, cellular infrastructure, data card and test equipment vendors which provided over $1M in R&D funding.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Held roles of increasing responsibility for the design and development of DSP firmware and RTL for cellular basebands chipsets. Selected to represent Motorola at TR45.3 (US TDMA) standards committee meetings.

B.S., Computer Science

Ms, Computer Science