Recruited to create a West Coast Innovation Lab to proactively develop new Tier 1 collaborations with major OEMs and influence product roadmaps through forward-looking engagements with silicon vendors, industry standards committees and key customers. Initiatives to uncover new opportunities, grow revenue and gain market share include:● Bringing StarTech into Google’s “Works with Chromebook” program as a launch partner with early access to new Chromebook/ChromeOS developments enabling a time-to-market advantage for StarTech products and ensuring certified interoperability.● Create new product development roadmaps based on early access silicon from Intel, Cypress (now Infineon), Texas Instruments, Realtek, Synaptics and many others for wireless, data, image-processing and biometric security, along with USB4, Thunderbolt 4, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth, Ethernet (1/2.5/5/10 GbE), MST (Multi-Stream Transport) and DisplayLink protocols, to intersect with launch of latest PCs and servers based on Intel and AMD processors.● New ARM IoT (Internet of Things) product development offering low-cost, low-power solutions to optimize IT resources and facilities management, productivity and corporate security through usage analytics and biometric security. Evaluated cloud (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) solutions for IoT data storage.● Design new 90-100W PoE (Power over Ethernet) products based on latest IEEE 802.3bt standard.● Collaborate with Asian ODMs to develop new product designs.● Data analysis of sales using Amazon, Google Analytics, industry market research and customer feedback to determine new product development priorities.

Grew PC and device ecosystem by recruiting and supporting new customers to deliver innovative peripheral connectivity designs based on Thunderbolt silicon (PCIe, USB, wireless and up to 100W Type-C power delivery). Engaged with engineering, sales and marketing groups to bring innovative solutions to market.● Increased device volume by 70% within one year of joining the group.● Ownership for 7 of the top 10 device accounts.● Delivered over 50% of the group’s device sales volume for 4 out of 5 years.● Delivered over 230 new and best-in-class Thunderbolt products to market: o Portable NVMe PCIe SSD storage drive at >2,600MB/s for Dell. o World’s first external Intel Optane SSD storage drive with >2,500MB/s performance. o First Thunderbolt 3 bus-powered docks designed for high-volume mass market and cost sensitive applications. o First bus-powered 10GbE adapter that brings server class networking to laptops. o First Thunderbolt-enabled high-speed image-processing cameras for industrial automation and surveillance. o First Thunderbolt product to win MacWorld Best of Show Award for portable RAID storage drive. o Panasonic’s first Thunderbolt 3 card reader for their line of broadcast cameras.● Proof-of-concept high-performance, low-latency RF sensor ingest and pre-processing engine with Altera FGPAs (now part of Intel).● Defined 802.11ax peripheral connectivity solution to enable high-performance Wi-Fi connectivity in RF congested areas (i.e. industrial, factory floors).● Conference speaker at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) – presented to large audience of engineers and decision-makers.● Created and delivered product webinars, technical trainings and blogs, some in conjunction with HP and Samsung.● Built marketing website and used Google AdWords and cross-referral links to grow traffic by 40x within 6 months.

Designed and developed high-performance computing (HPC), RF and embedded systems for low-latency, real-time applications such as UAV (drones), surveillance, security, data mining, signal processing, edge computing and automation. Customers included government agencies, mil-aero, and large-scale industrial manufacturers.● Defined product strategy and roadmaps, analyzed target markets and competitive threats, aligned supplier roadmaps, secured lead customers with sales and technical support, led cross-functional engineering development teams, created product specifications (MRD, PRD, datasheets), cradle-to-grave (EOL) product lifecycle management.● Created 12+ industry press/media product promotion opportunities to gain market leadership, including press releases, contributed magazine articles, product webinars and tradeshows. Interviewed by editors and quoted in industry journals as subject matter expert.● Established industry leadership position within 1 year and multi-year, multi-million dollar customer design-wins by delivering numerous first-to-market solutions including: o 1st to market with NVIDIA GPU + CUDA and AMD GPGPU + OpenCL embedded solutions for stream processing. o 1st GPU direct-memory write solution, improving performance by 50% while reducing solution cost by 25%. o 1st 23 GFLOP/W single-board solution delivering the highest performance per watt solution in the industry. o 1st CUDA and OpenCL imaging software toolkit for GPGPUs, reducing engineering development by months.● Initiated Mercury’s first strategic partnership and long-term supply agreement with NVIDIA for access to GPU silicon modules for high-performance computing.● Xilinx FPGA daughter-card solution to accelerate real-time edge sensor pre-processing to gather data intelligence prior to offload connectivity to the cloud. Modular interconnectivity through RF, optical 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet.