Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States
Engineering Vice President with 25+ years of experience within the embedded/PC software industry. Strengths are in team leadership, project management, designing, developing and problem solving. Over 15 years in the Enterprise SSD/HDD and Data Center Firmware development and deployment (NVMe/PCIe/SAS/SATA). Successful in leading a highly technical team of firmware engineers to roll out a new architecture to be used for multiple SAS/SATA data center products. In addition, built a strong Customer Firmware Engineering team for eSSD organization to manage customer interactions, gap analysis, concept and design reviews, customer escalation, and product support over the past 6 years.
Responsible for the engineering process from development thru release ‘cradle to grave’ Build and mentor a team of Hardware, Firmware, Test, Application, Deployment, and Customer Engineers
Responsible for all firmware focused customer engagements eSSD product ownership cradle to grave Built a highly technical team of engineers to represent each of the tier 1 customers Responsible for preparing and driving all customer technical, concept, design, and gap analysis reviews Dedicated team to develop and support all customer required features per product highly skilled team to provide product support for all eSSD products worlwide
Managed an organization with multiple managers and a very skilled team of firmware engineers Responsible for deploying all eHDD products Managing all enterprise customer qualifications Product ownership from inception till succesfully transitioned to sustaining phase
Responsible for project management, schedules, and resource allocation Serve as a technical consultant for the rest of the department
Responsible for project management, schedules, and resource allocation Serve as a technical consultant for the rest of the department Provide design and technical support for the company’s two largest customers Responsible for a Cisco Router design on the Cat6500 Responsible for project schedules and resources Take on a consulting role within the organization Involved in the initial design process for new chipsets Team lead on projects with 3 to 4 engineers Project leadership role for a notebook design Provide design feedback for many organizations within the company Take on a technical lead role for multiple projects at the same time Custom ACPI platform implementation Technical project leadership role for a Pentium II design Power Management development for a Pentium Pro design Complete customer interface for the life of a design Custom DMI/SMBIOS platform implementation Customized Power Management per customer requirements
Advanced Structured System Analysis and Design Introduction to C Programming Computer Applications Project Management MS Office2000 Applications