Tom Strader Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Leading the ideation, development and launch of generative AI projects including RAG, vectorization, prompt development, model development and application of AI to provide substantial value for Seismic's products• Catalyst for the Seismic Aura brand and the majority of AI products shipped by Seismic• Spearheading strategic innovation projects and evaluation of strategic partners and acquisition targets through rapid discovery and development• Researching long term investment options to meet new business challenges with innovative solutions• Accelerating highly complex project delivery through focused management practices and effective decision making and rapid iteration methodologies • Driving focused research projects to help converge business concepts and technical capabilities quickly and efficiently in order to get products to market more quickly, maintain an innovative competitive edge, and drive increased company growth

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Driver of product data strategy delivering advanced in-product analytics and robust data products and services to customers and our partner ecosystem• Driver of major innovation projects in AI and ML (statistics, trends, cohorts, next-in-sequence, NLP, etc..) to keep Seismic on the leading edge• Leader of ecosystem strategy and breadth of Seismic's presence in a wide variety of related SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Dynamics, Outlook, Gmail, Outreach, Salesloft, and others.• Cross-functional leader, driving organizational improvement and thought leadership• Repeat public speaker for major SaaS companies including Snowflake, Microsoft, Fivetran, Sisense, and others

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Launched revamped Salesforce app which is well regarded as best-in-industry by analysts and customers• Launched Slack, Teams, Outreach, Chrome Extension, MS Power Automate• Drove key initiatives to take Seismic to the next level in interactive content• Spearheaded and launched developer portal for data and integrations including all related APIs

San Jose, Ca, Us

Part of a core leadership team driving product definition and next generation architectures and system design.• Developed product roadmaps and facilitated discussions of next generation architectures with strategically targeted customers throughout the world including: Ericsson, Cisco, Huawei, Samsung, Juniper, ALU, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Harris, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Harman Becker, Qualcomm, and many other industry leaders• Drove requirements management and execution processes, increasing organizational efficiencies and ensuring product deliverable alignment with customer requirements• Core member of cross functional predictive competitive analysis team, responsible for in depth business analysis, product teardown, and portfolio projections • Drove cross functional teams to align and execute on product requirements for silicon, IP, tools, embedded software, reference designs, and development platforms• Designed and developed a comprehensive set of web based applications for data analytics, requirements management, competitive analysis, and portfolio management• Filed several patents related to innovations in the Xilinx commercial product portfolio

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for solving customer’s most challenging problems in FPGA design and integration.• System level design partitioning including HW/SW partitioning and design• Board level design and debug including component specification and selection• High speed FPGA timing closure and analysis on 10 million ASIC gate equivalent netlists• Embedded system development with Microblaze and PowerPC in Xilinx FPGAs• System architecture and design for fault tolerance and mitigation, including radiation hardening design techniques such as triple mode redundancy• Implementation and debug of PCIe Gen 2, SGMII, DisplayPort, DAC and ADC interfacing, DDR3 Controller and PHY

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for creation of complete systems targeted at specific market segments and applications, showcasing the abilities of FPGA systems for emerging markets.• Developed complete reference design systems including hardware, software, IP, and documentation• CPU + FPGA system integration with CPU offload and acceleration, Linux bringup including custom drivers and applications for FPGA based peripherals• Managed third party partnerships and integrated systems from multiple vendors to create comprehensive demonstration platforms• Filed several patents related to innovations in the Xilinx Spartan-6 design and architecture, specifically related to embedded memory controller

Mba, Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Bs, Computer Engineering