Chandler, Arizona, United States
Foodbank Truck Driver
Box Truck driver for multiple foodbanks in Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert AZ. Use pallet jacks to retrieve and tightly pack truck while carefully balancing payload and maximizing load. Deliver and pickup pallets of food and clothing over the entire Phoenix valley area. Operate fork lift for warehouse and dock bays. Keen sense of safety with situational awareness.
Southwest Generalist Field Applications Engineer (GFAE) covering Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque and Las Vegas. Provide all technical support for tier 1 customers including General Dynamics, Raytheon, Nikola, Axon Taser, Technologic Systems, and Fender. Excellent time management skills balancing 6 Account Managers, daily account calls, weekly training and reporting in Sales Force and Design Registration Management System (DRMS). Due to strong background in processors, assigned top processor suppliers: Renesas, NXP, Infineon/Cypress, Microchip and Intel. Quota metrics per month: 160 registrations and 20 design wins. • Led President’s club standings 5 out of 6 months for Renesas for Fiscal Year 2021. • Solution Sell win with Avid Design Services at Omco resulting in $250K revenue thus far. Also won Manufacturing Services for production. • Solution Sell win with for Technologic Systems and General Dynamics resulting in $50K NRE for PCB layout consulting services • Exceeded the Fiscal Year 2021 design win goal by 175%
Hired by president to revamp manufacturing and correct critical engineering and operational issues. Turned dysfunctional, under-performing teams around in one year, boosting moral and engagement. • Released first official Firmware/Software version 1.1 for the Titan platform for both Football and Crew (Pro-Audio) markets within 6 months of hire. Projects of this magnitude previously took the company 36 months to release. • Released 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 quarterly in first 18 months adding new features and fixing untold number of bugs that could not be resolved under previous leadership. • Hired to resolve on-going issues with high profile clients threatening to take business elsewhere. Examples include WWE: resolved on-site issues with radio packs and system lockups, allowing shows to continue as scheduled, resulting in the continuation of a $4 million annual contract; NBC 30 Rock: created algorithm for unique customer needs allowing for roaming between hallways, resulting in additional purchases in excess of $2 million dollars. • Overhauled the Engineering department by creating job descriptions and hiring new talent. Provide coaching and mentorship to develop new and current team members, resulting in a more functional and productive team. • Hands-on technology leader providing pro-audio experience for entry into new markets under Pliant Technologies. Implemented Agile Scrum processes while leading team by example, encouraging engagement and teamwork. • Researched, vetted and managed CMs, OEMs and ODMs. o CMs include Tongrun International, China and Tongrun USA, PTA Plastics, CT, Procoaters Inc., GA, Protolabs, MN, XP Power, Vietnam. o OEMs include Vocal Technologies, NY, Marturian Electronics ltd., Ireland. o ODMs include Maytel, South Korea and Murata, GA. • Proposed and established new Engineering office in Huntsville, AL, allowing for the hiring of expert engineers in new talent market.
Led multi-disciplinary team of nine Engineers overseeing two international design locations. Managed a budget in excess of $1.7M consistently achieving production release dates with near zero defects in manufacturing for first 90 days. Provided all program/project/people management. Overseer of specialized DSP team that supported all company programs 2013-2016. Mentored and trained successor. Day to day tools included Tableau dashboard, Slack/Microsoft Teams, JIRA, Agile (Scrum) Development, Phase-Gate Process and Microsoft Surface Hubs for multi-site collaboration. Drove decisions weekly with the executives using velocity and burn-down charts with a heavy focus on continuous integration, improvement and validation. • Designed four beam forming microphones: Devio Table, Devio Ceiling, Microcone, and Goliathon. Served as the Principal Engineer and Architect for all projects. • Researched, vetted and managed CMs, OEMs and ODMs o CMs include Designworks Hong Kong, Devio plastic housing manufacturing o ODMs include Designworks Australia, Industrial Design, microphone and Devio project o OEMs include Audinate, Australia, x86 software Dante project ,Attero Tech, ID, UC&C Devio project, Cardinal Peak, CO, UC&C hardware design projects, Elegant Audio Solutions, TX, class D amplifier project, Vocal Technologies, NY, POTS project and Lab.gruppen, Sweden, 20KW amp project • Led the Unified Communications Program and DSP team to design and manufacture 5 products in 4 years garnering new revenue in a new market ($6M in 2017 and $12M in 2018): o Devio project - Designed first of kind beamforming microphone and conferencing solution. Resulted in 3 new products in 3 years generating $40M in new revenue in 2 years. o Tesira 2.0 project - Led largest project in history of company consisting of 20+ Engineers in porting the existing Tesira platform from card-based DSP to off-the-shelf x86 Dell Server/GPU.
Hired as change agent on contract to fix critical engineering and operational issues, reporting directly to the CEO for both companies. Symetrix: Took a less-than-functional prototype to full-scale production in six months, garnering $20 million in new revenue via the development of revolutionary Edge product. COMM/NET: Led company through critical six-month transition period by streamlining their manufacturing and engineering processes by authoring and implementing new policies for product releases, created eight new, multi-disciplinary, engineering positions, thereby setting the engineering department up for success and growth revenue. Architected and designed new processing platform for products released over the next 5 years. • Delivered the Edge, digital rack-mount mixer on schedule and on budget with extra features that extended past the initial project scope. o Skillfully researched, sourced and managed third-party developers such as Vocal Technologies VOIP card, AEC card, AEC setup wizard, and ARM Cortex A8/A9 qualifications. • Special Projects hardware/firmware developer at Symetrix o Audinate Dante “audio over Ethernet” test and validation o Redesigned switch-mode/LDO power supplies o Performed all EMI/EMC testing and product compliance o Debugged and fixed a Spartan III Xilinx FPGA timing issues • As Interim Director of Operations at COMM/NET, wrote and introduced RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) and ECO (Engineering Change Order) practices in engineering and manufacturing and implemented team-driven project management, utilizing Liquid Planner. • Supervised and managed a total of fourteen engineering staff including mechanical, electrical, firmware, industrial designer, and technician. • As Special Projects Designer at COMM/NET, developed firmware for key systems: cross-product CAN protocol, I2C field-upgradeable bootloader over Ethernet TCP/IP, emWin Graphics Library and ISM wireless radio.