Tom Kees Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Board Director and Treasurer for 114-unit condominium complex.♦ HOA point of contact for project to repair and repaint exteriors of complex's 21 buildings♦ Create annual budget ($500k+), approve and track all spending, ensure sufficient reserves funding♦ Review and approve all landscaping projects, work with vendors to schedule work and contain costs

Greater San Diego Area

Drive End of Life and standards verification sustaining projects for the Alaris™ line of infusion pumps. These projects include:♦ Project schedule development/management♦ Plan/manage project resources♦ Cross-functional core team management♦ Project deliverables management♦ Budget planning and monitoring♦ Task and deliverable prioritization♦ Presentations to senior management♦ DHF maintenance

Greater San Diego Area

Engineering Project Manager for new product development and maintenance of legacy products.Scrummaster for 11-person, geographically-distributed firmware team.♦ Brought structure and order to four different telematics product development efforts after department had experienced 18 month EPM absence.♦ Implemented several improvements in the group's Scrum processes to increase task completion reliability, reduce churn, and manage release contents.♦ Plan and execute device certification for 4G (LTE) and 3G (CDMA, HSPA) devices.♦ Use Jira, Confluence, MS Project, and Smartsheet to plan and track all firmware-specific and overall project tasks.

Greater San Diego Area

Hardware Manager, Project Engineer, and Program Manager for video encoding/multiplexing systems.♦ Project Engineer for all MPEG2 products, managing ~35 releases across 4 products and 12 years, resulting in sales of hundreds of digital video delivery systems and $30M revenue.♦ Critical member of team that achieved initial TL-9000 certification of Motorola’s modular encoder, leading to sustained sales with Verizon and other telcos.♦ Liaison between San Diego and Monterrey, Mexico design teams, prioritized and directed Monterrey’s efforts, while maintaining team synchronization.♦ Managed parts obsolescence and board re-designs to keep products in production for many years, allowing customers to significantly extend the life of their video encoding systems.

San Diego, Ca

{Motorola acquired General Instrument in January, 2000}Hardware Manager, Project Engineer, and Project Manager for video encoding/multiplexing systems.♦ Core team leader for 6 products: held weekly cross-functional meetings with heads of marketing, systems, hardware, firmware, software, operations…, ensuring cohesive teams with clear direction.♦ Solved engineering issues arising from 4 factory transitions for 6 products, minimizing production ramp-up time at each new factory.♦ Managed technically diverse group of hardware/FPGA design/test engineers, mechanical designers, and technicians.♦ Lab manager for ~5000 sq. ft. development lab: performed space/equipment planning, annual equipment calibration, TL9000 compliance audits, capital equipment forecasts.

San Diego, Ca

Project engineering, FPGA and board-level design, simulation and verification for video compression systems.♦ Project Engineer for DigiCipher® II single channel video encoding (compression) system.♦ Board lead for GI's first MPEG2-compliant video/audio compressor, multiplexer, encryptor board - 18 unique FPGAs, 5 DSPs, general-purpose processor.♦ Led project to reduce FPGA costs by over 50% for DigiCipher® II video compression system.

Bs, Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honors society), Eta Kappa Nu (local engineering honors society)

Bs, Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honors society)

Core Program For Management Development

Completed three-week program for new managers covering a wide range of topics: finance, effective presentations, conflict resolution.