• Design authority responsible for design guidelines, templates and review criteria for the global hardware organization.• Responsible for enforcing and performing design reviews according to guidelines.• Responsible for global harmonization of eCAD system, libraries and processes globally.• Established a knowledge sharing infrastructure and regionalized champions to support the GPT goals.

Responsible for the development of communications reference designs and proof of concept platforms for global engineering including cellular, proprietary mesh, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and GPS radios as well as microprocessor, power supply and antenna implementations.Manage a team of 8 hardware developers located both locally and remotely.

Technical leader and resource for the Global Communication Devices hardware development group.Responsible for supporting management of product cost targets, corrective actions for project delays, harmonization of engineering tools and processes, platform strategy execution, and improving manufacturing and sourcing quality.

I am a successful builder and leader of engineering teams experienced in developing new products for mass production and in product failure analysis engineering with root cause analysis. I am a Design for Six Sigma Black Belt (DFSS) with an electronic hardware design background ranging from embedded to microwave circuits in both commercial and consumer equipment.Currently directing engineering teams which are developing firmware and hardware for AMI/AMR Smart Grid products utilizing Proprietary RF mesh, 802.15.4, PLC and cellular technologies for North America, South America and Asia.Developed the products for the largest Smart Grid network deployment in the world.

Advanced Cable TV Receiver Design Management and Development- Established and led Field Failure Analysis Engineering Lab sampling, diagnosing and driving the upper percentile failures to root cause while feeding corrective actions back into the organizational units (supply chain, manufacturing, hardware development, software development, mechanical engineering and repair engineering).- Manager of team of developers that design high volume consumer electronics cable TV receivers for North America. This team was responsible for reviewing requirements, developing hardware in concert with the software developers, working with our Asian factory to build prototypes and get the product to mass production- Manager of geographically separated cable set top development engineering department responsible for working with product marketing to develop international cable TV receiver requirements documents, design, prototypes and introduce them to mass production in our Asian factory.- Led a DFSS Six Sigma project to evaluate display and IR reception designs on a key mass production product. This effort led to significant changes in the direction of the design and overall outcome of the product performance.- Chief Hardware Architect for DVi international cable TV set top development engineering department responsible for overseeing the hardware developers and solving technical problems.- Collaborated with our Asian factory to debug prototypes designed in our team-Mentor junior engineers and consulted internally with other engineering groups to solve broad ranges complex technical issues.- Reduce repair costs by developing new processes, designs and code which was incorporated at the various levels of the organization- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt Certified.- Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Vacuum Fluorescent displays, Infra-red (IR) receiver interference performance, Aluminum Electrolytic capacitors, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage mitigation.

Developed cable TV head-end equipment for the CATV industry. Designed audio, video, VHF, UHF and microwave electrical circuits. Worked with the factory to build and test products.- Developed 20 GHz local oscillator frequency multiplier for VSAT application.- Developed various microstripline filters and circuits.- Developed hardware configuration and software for various complex electro-mechanical automated test stations.- Developed wide band tunable output converter for analog video modulator.- Developed integrated L-band dual conversion tuner for satellite receiver.- Developed analog FM radio agile modulator.- Developed agile up-converter module for head end application.- Developed high performance 16 bit digitizer card for baseband composite video multiplexer.