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Designing and architecting next-generation Amazon consumer electronics products. Focus areas include mobile phones, machine learning, object recognition, algorithms, signal processing, wireless communications, and hardware accelerators.
Founded Samplify Systems, a venture-backed high-speed compression start-up. Named on 50+ granted Samplify patents. Developed the real-time compression technology, wrote compress/decompress software in C, managed the development of the FPGA hardware prototype, raised a $300k seed round from Charles River Ventures, and attracted a world-class engineering, sales, and marketing team to bring the Samplify vision to market. Raised $23M from Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, IDT, and Schlumberger. Visited 50+ customers in US, Europe, and Asia, selling benefits of real-time compression for medical imaging (CT, ultrasound, MRI), seismic (wireline, RTM), wireless (CPRI, LTE, remote radio heads, WiMax), and data conveter (A/D, D/A) applications. Active in recruiting and hiring talented staff of 18+ employees. Quarterly Technical Advisory Board (Stanford, Xilinx, and Graychip/TI members). Awards: Frost & Sullivan Global Systems Product Differentiation Award (2009) EE Times “Innovator of the Year” ACE Award Finalist (2009) EDN Innovations Award for SAM1600 (ADC / DAC category) (2009) EDN Magazine “Hot 100 Products” for SAM1600 16-chan, 65 Msps A/D (2009) Elec Design "Best Medical Technology" Award for AutoFocus Ultrasound Beamforming (2010) Electronic Products “Product of the Year” for SAM1600 16-chan, 65 Msps A/D (2008)
I manage a group of 15 engineers that develop TI's line of digital up- and downconverters. This group includes the principals of the former start-up called Graychip. I am also responsible for the design, specs, and roll-out of the GC1115 crest factor reduction processor. In my present role, I specify many of the new products that TI Palo Alto develops for Wireless Infrastructure (base stations), and then manage the development, fabrication, testing, and market release of these products.
Responsible for architectural definition, specification, management, design, test, production, and market development for TI's wireless infrastructure radio products (formerly the start-up called Graychip). Project manager and lead systems engineer for the GC1115 crest factor reduction (CFR) processor. Gave many customer presentations of GC1115 performance results. Coordinated with DMOS5 (Dallas) fab during first article development. Responsible for chip bring-up in the lab (EVM). Coordinated GC1115 release to production.
Managed a group of five applications engineers that supported Morphics' customer base in Europe and Asia. Gave technical presentations to customers to explain Morphics' reconfigurable 3G baseband processors. Coordinated engineering and marketing tasks to reflect customer requirements. Wrote data sheets and application notes describing many aspects of the 3G (UMTS) air interface standard, and how that standard was implemented in Morphics' CBME processor.