SUMMARY

• Experienced R&D project manager with outstanding organizational skills dat thrives in highly technical, fast paced development environments. Accomplished in managing development projects utilizing both agile and waterfall development methodologies. Detailed understanding of both software and hardware development life cycles from inception to end - of-life.
• Exceptional multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Broad technical experience of complex hardware and software systems, enabling quick and accurate risk assessment and resolution management. Skilled at working with cross functional teams to deliver comprehensive plans to meet complex business objectives. Knowledgeable in best practices, a change advocate for streamlined development, leading to quality deliverables in a timely and cost TEMPeffective manner.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Engineering and Project Management
• Agile Development Processes
• Scalable & High Availability Architectures
• Process Improvement
• MS Tool Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Project, Visio)
• Sharepoint
• VersionOne / Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Berwyn, PA

Senior Director, Embedded Hardware & Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Drove all aspects from conception, planning and development of a 16 port high speed optical mux. Efforts included establishing scrum teams, assuming product ownership and managing external partners to develop custom SFPs. $10M project with an aggressive 12 month development plan.
• Responsible for managing a $25M research program to validate mobile device location accuracy based upon triangulation of TV signals transmissions. Drove the development of a comprehensive project plan including development of mobile test device and field sensors. Development efforts were achieved on-time, leading to a regional deployment to validate accuracy in a larger urban area.
• Led the planning, project management and development efforts to achieve 30% reduction in cost of goods of the LMU (Location Measurement Unit). Re-architected the embedded software and FPGA designs, improving LMU throughput by 10X. Hardware and software efforts we executed concurrently leading to successful integration and launch.
• Managed release, enhancements and maintenance of a highly reliable, 18 channel Software Defined Radio (SDR) used to locate mobile phones on GSM / UMTS / CDMA and LTE wireless networks, resulting in successful release and addition of UMTS and LTE to our location product line.
• Instituted agile design methodologies resulting in a 50% improvement in on-time delivery and a 25% reduction in bug discovery during system test.

Confidential

Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Increased margins 5X by altering methods to price product features.
• Interacted with major customer Senior Technical and Business Management teams on daily basis ensuring product continued to meet business needs.
• Strengtaned customer relationships by providing technical guidance on use and application of our Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (UTDOA) location technology.
• Expanded our partnerships and product portfolio by writing and executing RFPs, SOWs, partnership agreements and business contracts.
• Evaluated wireless technology companies for acquisition by participating in Technical Advisory Board.

Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accelerated national product rollout by leading a cross functional team to define, deploy, integrate and test our Wireless Location products within AT&T and T-Mobile’s Interoperability Test Labs and initial field installations.
• Developed the plan, managed the deployment and coordinated customer acceptance of the 1st UTDOA solution in the T-Mobile USA network enabling T-Mobile to move forward with nationwide network rollout and avoid further FCC fines.
• Led the effort to reduce AT&T’s network operating cost in excess of $30M annually by managing the development, qualification and deployment of a multi-company operation to deliver the 1st SS7 and SIGTRAN UTDOA communication network.
• Improved customer satisfaction on product introduction by working with TruePositon leadership to establish corporate test guidelines and product readiness objectives.

Confidential

Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Achieved 1st nationwide launch of cellular location system by driving development of test methodologies, plans and procedures to validate a product which included various client / server applications and a multi-channel RF receiver device.
• Ensured system throughput performance by leading the team to develop simulators to drive 10K+ location requests per second while collecting and post processing performance statistics.
• Expanded staff by 2X and established policies and procedures, ensuring proper testing of requirements and providing on-time delivery of the solution to Cingular Wireless.
• Managed the contract manufacturing of application specific test equipment and directed the expansion of the corporate test facility, increasing coverage and decreasing duration of system testing cycles.
• Established the 1st Highly Accelerated Life Cycle Testing (HALT) program within the company, resulting in delivery of hardware dat exceeded 100K hours MTBF (Mean to Between Failures).