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West Linn, Or, Us

Fremont, Ca, Us

Formulated and delivered electrical and control systems for semiconductor wafer processing products. Leveraged engineering personnel from engineering technician to director level located in Oregon, California, Colorado and India. Engage with customers during engineering reviews, negotiations and business development activities to achieve customer needs. Drive strategic capability aligned with corporate initiatives.• Oversaw electrical / control product engineering for Deposition Products Group, supporting $4B+ in revenue per year.• Realized +60% improvement in on time product deliveries, driving prioritized program planning partnering with business units and product management.• Drove 70% reduction in problem reports through design review process improvement and margin analysis.• Increased team capacity by over 40% through growth and development of engineering ecosystem.• Released 100+ product development projects across multiple locations, balancing key results, driving electrical system architecture, and maintaining performance parameters, schedule, budget and cost for product release.• Saved $20M+ of bottom line on design optimization through solid structured problem-solving process and risk / margin analysis.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Spearheaded radio frequency and RF / digital control system roadmap focused on strategic technologies, aligning with product management needs for Deposition Products Group. Enhanced product development process to ensure coverage for robust designs.• Strengthened product commonality and cost reductions for company, exceeding $4M.• Supplied more than double control resolution for deposition through plasma control on wafer uniformity.• Organized radio frequency and RF / digital control system roadmap focused on strategic technologies, aligning with product management needs.• Coordinated introduction of innovative RF matching products, contributing to $200M+ in revenue growth.• Championed RF metering product creation, saving +60% in cost and boosting performance and capability by +50%.• Capitalized quality, reliability, efficiency and cost refinement through system engineering philosophy, establishing proper margin distribution.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Delivered cutting edge tactical radio, cellular and secure communication / network products. Supervised engineering personnel ranging from engineering technician to senior engineering manager level located in Melbourne, FL, Sunrise, FL, Columbia, MD and Rochester, NY. Led startup and operation of multiple remote design capabilities / facilities in partnership with human resources and executive team. Cultivated engineering approach in manufacturing, automated test and fabrication.• Released tactical, PSPC and EW handheld and ground / airborne vehicular based communications products for domestic and international customers focused on low cost and early cross-functional team involvement through concurrent engineering philosophy.• Delivered 30+ simultaneous airborne and ground-based projects and programs across multiple locations, balancing key results while maintaining key performance parameters.• Ran facilities and controlled staff budgets / finance $25M+, achieving +90% productivity within 3 months of design facility startup.• Served as technical reference and mentor for radio frequency, high speed digital processing, networking and environmental performance for various engineering disciplines of ruggedized communication products.• Led world class resource acquisition, facilitating team capability through structured interviewing and screening.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Reduced costs, and introduced wireless cellular base station products across multiple geographic locations overseeing teams of engineering personnel ranging from engineering technician to CMTS level. Program management and design / technical management of RF power amplifier and radio solutions utilizing high efficiency technologies for CDMA, UMTS, LTE and WiMAX while motivating teams in multiple geographic locations.• Supervised several programs contributing $270M+ in bottom line cost savings, including savings of $40M+ in 1 month.• Coordinated team and technical management of radio development using latest ASIC, FPGA, digital signal processor technologies coupled with direct conversion and heterodyne conversion architectures.• Mentored staff as technical leader, enriching performance for engineering disciplines on cellular communication products.• Drove 100% RF amplifier efficiency improvement with wireless system architecture innovations, saving $100M+ in OPEX costs.• Reduced manufacturing cost by +50% and maximized time reduction by crafting and executing platform strategies for Design Verification Testing and manufacturing Automated Test Equipment implementation.• Innovated radio front-end and power amplifier technology, driving high performance at low cost, small footprint and high efficacy.

Delivered base station RF amplifiers / systems for wireless internet and cellular products starting and managing a remote design center with a multi-disciplined staff of engineering personnel ranging from engineering technician to the principal engineer level.• Experienced in starting a remote design center from scratch. Worked with the corporate office to establish facility, hire on staff and start working on first program within 3 months. Within 6 months demonstrated working prototypes of work function predistortion correction.• Developed CDMA, UMTS and WLL RF power amplifier products utilizing predistortion and feedforward linearization from concept to product end of life.• Champion of radio frequency, high speed digital processing, networking and environmental performance for various engineering disciplines on amplification products.• Responsible for managing next generation UMTS product research and development.• Champion of low cost, low technical risk and high quality product development.• Provide technical leadership and mentoring through proper system engineering and margin analysis.• Champion of SPC and TQM feedback to development team at all phases of product life.• Presented budget and engineering status to the CEO and executive staff.• Managed multiple programs with greater than $1M budgets and across multiple locations.• Managed over $1M in facility budgets.• Experienced in working with domestic and international sales teams to work with the customer on specifications in Europe and Asia. Well versed in working directly with customers through the product cycle.• Experienced in transferring and supporting products in international production facility.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Designed TACAN, DME and Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) for commercial, corporate and military aerospace avionics products to the component level leveraging radio frequency, digital and analog circuit development.• Enhanced RF design and development of power amplifiers, low pass filters, analog control circuitry, diplexers, duplexers, phase locked loops, down conversion circuitry and logarithmic amps.• Experience in development of designs to DO-178 / DO-254 development process and DO-160 avionics and aerospace thermal and vibration environments.• Honed digital development skills through design of digital processing and FPGA circuitry.• Developed test equipment for the installation of the TCAS system on flight line.