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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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%.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.