Eduardo Martinez

Current

Director at Interdisciplinary Music Research Association
Owner & Creative Producer at EM Media Ventures LLC

Past

QA Manager, Offshore Team Consultant at Iron Mountain Digital
Quality Assurance Manager at Mirror Image Internet
Quality Assurance Advanced Products Manager at Dragon Systems

International Senior QA Analyst at Dragon Systems
Research Consultant at Dragon Systems
Sales & Marketing Consultant at The Center for Wellness & Sound Advice
Customer Marketing Manager at Sun Microsystems
Strategic Marketing Manager at VLSI Technology
Product Marketing Manager at Performance Semiconductor Corp.
Product Marketing Engineer at Honeywell (Microelectronics Div.)
Systems Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments

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Education

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Parsons Center for Audio Studies, Wellesley, MA
SQE Associates, Waltham, MA

Prudential Preferred Financial Services, Salem, NH
Don Campbell & The Institute of Music, Health & Education, Boulder, CO
T'ai Chi Chih, Joy Through Movement
Covey Leadership Center, Provo, Utah
Jonathan Goldman's Sound Healing School
Just for Your Health, College of Massage, San Jose, CA
De Anza College
Universidad de Puerto Rico

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Eduardo Martinez’s Summary

I am passionate about music/audio, video, multimedia & the internet. My other passion is for positive social change via music, the arts, & cultural understanding. Culture & music are ideal vehicles to do this via peaceful, life-affirming, harmonious means. I have owned an audio & video project studio since the early 1990s. My previous corporate work has given me the experience & maturity needed to perform in settings with deadlines & budgets.

I enjoy being a hands-on leader with extensive product & strategic marketing, business, & technical program/project management experience. I enjoy doing creative & strategic work the most. My additional experience includes software quality assurance, hardware design, contract negotiations, budget creation, training & team building, especially outsourced/offshore teams, including internationalization & localization teams. I have the ability to lead multiple teams simultaneously to meet & surpass cost, quality & project schedule objectives. Motivating & systematically increasing the responsibilities of those working with & for me are the keys.

I am also multi-cultural, born in Lima, Peru, raised in Puerto Rico & the USA, as well as multi-language: English & Spanish. It is this multi-cultural perspective that has proven very effective in helping others excel under my management, independent of their backgrounds or ethnicity. This also allows me the opportunity to forge genuine connections with those I work with as people with real interests, dreams & goals, no matter where they reside in the globe. I would like to join a progressive, creative, fun & forward-thinking organization that needs my extensive business & technical expertise to achieve their goals, wherever the resources are in the world. I am willing to consider relocation or traveling for the right opportunity, including outside of the USA. I have dual citizenships: USA citizen (with valid USA passport), Peruvian citizen (with Peruvian passport in process).

Eduardo Martinez’s Specialties:

music & video production, original music composition, music studio creation & management, offshore/outsourced engineering team creation & training, computer software internationalization, translation & localization, contract negotiations, software quality assurance, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, bilingual: Spanish, English, multicultural

Eduardo Martinez’s Experience

Director

Interdisciplinary Music Research Association

(Music industry)

January 2006 — Present (4 years )

• Director of this non-profit organization focused on creating music & doing interdisciplinary research. This is achieved through grant-programs & community-based outreach.
• I participate & organize activities jointly with the other three directors.
Owner & Creative Producer

EM Media Ventures LLC

(Music industry)

January 1994 — Present (16 years )

I create soundscapes, music & art for relaxation, personal growth & entertainment. There exists inside each of us a place of complete harmony & beauty. It is in this place that we stand in complete balance. My music & artwork are my contribution to help us reach that place more often.

Music has always been my main focus in life. Creating it, listening to it, sharing it with others, savoring it. I feel blessed in being able to share sounds & notes that once were just thoughts & feelings inside my mind & heart.

• Music & video production, content generation, & music/content studio management (all aspects).
• Compose, record & publish original music & soundscapes.
• I have owned & managed various private music studios on a part-time basis from 1994 to 2001; full-time between 2001 - 2004, & again full-time from 2007 to the present day.
• Lead public & private sound & drum circles, as well as T'ai Chi classes, in Massachusetts & New Hampshire. I also perform my own music compositions live. Samples of my work at:
1) www.EduardoMartinez.com
2) www.MySpace.com/EduardoMartinezMusic
• Voice over work for various media, in Spanish & English. I can record professionally in my own project studio or the client's studio.
QA Manager, Offshore Team Consultant

Iron Mountain Digital

(Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 6 months)

• Helped to create & managed the very first successful software quality assurance offshore team in India for Connected Corp. (acquired by Iron Mountain).
• Responsible for all contract negotiations, statements of work & budgets.
• Subsequently created, trained & managed various engineering teams in both our offshore locations: Pune, India, & Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Helped other engineering & business teams get started with their own offshore team efforts.
• Implemented the work methodology & managed successfully our localization & internationalization partner, Welocalize. This team was responsible for all our localization work, & QA, in eleven languages (& counting). This support entails the creation of a team of around eighty people, spread out over smaller sub-teams in eleven countries, working together for 3-4 months at a time. All this work effort then comes together at the QA testing facility in Oregon.
Quality Assurance Manager

Mirror Image Internet

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)

• Led & managed all functional testing efforts for a team of 10 people.
• Services/products: instaContent (web content delivery), instaStream (streaming), & instaSpeed (caching).
• Successfully released two new versions of instaContent (including secure content capability), & updates to instaSpeed/Booster & instaStream, in a five month period.
• Established the use of automation (WinRunner, TestDirector).
• Introduced monthly report to summarize project milestones, deliverables, & resource planning. This monthly report template became the standard of the greater Quality Operations organization.
• Organized weekly internal training sessions for the QA team members.
• Developed a master Microsoft Project template for all QA functional & capacity/performance testing processes.
• Refined a QA process template in Visio for the new Quality Assurance group within our Operations group.
• Wrote the functional job descriptions for all roles within Quality Operations.
Quality Assurance Advanced Products Manager

Dragon Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 1999 — January 2000 (1 year )

• Key management position responsible for software QA for all ‘advanced’ products.
• Led the fourteen-person test team for the award-winning NaturallySpeaking Mobile Organizer, in English, German & French (desktop speech recognition software & a handheld recorder).
• Managed the Audio Mining/Call Center indexing product test team.
• Managed the test team for our PDA/handheld speech recognition product (desktop software & a hardware-based electronic personal digital assistant). Oversaw the successful integration of this product’s testing with Lernout & Hauspie’s own PDA-based product after the acquisition of Dragon by L & H.
• Managed the successful team for the Lotus Notes Compatibility Module.
• Managed the team testing DragonSpeech Partner, Select & Mobile 4.05, all award winning Japanese versions of our products.
• Trained all project leads to complete for each project a QA Validation Plan, a Test Plan, & comprehensive test scripts to do both positive & negative testing.
International Senior QA Analyst

Dragon Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 1998 — February 1999 (1 year 1 month)

• Led all Spanish testing efforts & was responsible for one contractor.
• Released two full versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking – Spanish in one year. Responsible for resource allocation & schedules, writing the QA Validation Plan & a Test Plan, as well as all test scripts.
• Led cross-functional team through bug triage meetings.
• Responsibilities also included: localization of technical & marketing information into Spanish.
Research Consultant

Dragon Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 1997 — February 1998 (7 months)

• Created, collected & edited both text data & acoustic/recording data for over 100 hours of Spanish recordings for Dragon’s continuous speech recognition product, NaturallySpeaking - Spanish.
Sales & Marketing Consultant

The Center for Wellness & Sound Advice

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 8 months)

• Worked with businesses in formulating marketing & sales strategies, as well as generating business & marketing plans.
• Designed & taught marketing courses in Lawrence, MA, through the Small Business Development Center in Salem State University (associated with the SBA), The Lawrence Minority Business Council, & the Catholic Charities.
• Coached individuals & groups in the use of relaxation techniques, including stress reduction, correct breathing, life balance, & overall health improvement. Also help individuals with chronic illnesses, like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - fibromyalgia, from which I have personally made a full recovery.
• Designed, created & delivered a stress reduction workshop for the ESL (English as a Second Language) Parents Association, Nashua, NH in 1997, utilizing movement (T'ai Chi), sound, music & breathing exercises.
• Taught T’ai Chi classes at the community centers of the following towns: Northborough, Southborough, Westford, MA, & Newark, CA.
• Taught T’ai Chi classes at the work place, including VLSI Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA, 1994), & Dragon Systems (Newton, MA, 1999).
• Authored & published various health-related articles including: Joy Through Breath, Movement & Sound (Spirit of Change magazine, March/April 1997), Mental Health Group Homes (The Natick TAB 12/10/96), Preventing
Back Injuries (The Natick TAB 01/07/97), Summer Camps (The Natick TAB 01/96).
Customer Marketing Manager

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — November 1995 (11 months)

• High-profile tactical management position with responsibility for customer interaction in all business & technical issues, as well as revenue & profit targets.
• Worked with the Western USA region’s customers to license & sell Sun’s catalog of computer chips, including the Sparc chips & the Solaris OS.
• Helped expand Western USA territory revenue by 20%, to $10M, & managed the largest US account/partner, Cray Business Systems.
Strategic Marketing Manager

VLSI Technology

(Semiconductors industry)

January 1989 — December 1994 (6 years )

1) Strategic Marketing Manager:
• High-profile product management position with responsibility for product definition, business plan creation, & project management. Products included semi-custom (gate arrays & standard cells) & full-custom IC’s (handcrafted & silicon compilation).
• Wrote & implemented business plan that resulted in over $10M in incremental revenue in 1995-96, while achieving profit margin goal of 50% or higher.
2) Customer Marketing Manager:
• Responsible for tactical marketing issues in the Eastern USA region. Managed $20M in revenue & met all profitability goals.
• Identified & instituted organizational process improvements at the project team level that reduced product development cycles by 20%. These improvements consisted of a team structure & meetings where information was freely exchanged on a timely basis, project templates consistently updated & used for high-level management meetings, & detailed meeting minutes with all action items assigned & timeframes clearly established.
• Other experience included request for quote reviews, project & price quotations, forecasting, project/program management, budgeting, customer presentations at all organizational levels, including executive management, & post-sales support.
3) Training Manager:
• Provided training across the organization as a certified trainer & facilitator of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, as well as a certified team leader & facilitator.
Product Marketing Manager

Performance Semiconductor Corp.

(Semiconductors industry)

January 1987 — January 1989 (2 years 1 month)

• Executed marketing strategy for the microprocessor product line.
• Assigned as the company contact to help carry out the licensing agreement between MIPS & Performance for the MIPS RISC processor product line. Responsibilities included setting up pricing strategies, marketing plans, & the resolution of all technical issues.
• Authored User’s Manuals & literature for all processor products, including the MIPS processors, as well as the 1750A military processor product line.
Product Marketing Engineer

Honeywell (Microelectronics Div.)

(Semiconductors industry)

May 1985 — January 1987 (1 year 9 months)

• Responsible for all pre-sales support activities for the Southwestern USA region. Products included semi-custom (gate arrays & standard cells) & full-custom IC’s (handcrafted & silicon compilation).
• Wrote User’s Manuals for Gate Array Product Line, including the use of Honeywell's proprietary design software.
• Co-designed two gate array chips for Intergraph with first pass success.
Systems Applications Engineer

Texas Instruments

(Public Company; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

June 1984 — May 1985 (1 year )

• Responsible for systems applications support for designated geographical area, as well as all business issues.
• Participated in over twelve trade shows demonstrating & instructing customers on the use of LISP/Artificial Intelligence & Expert Knowledge systems.
• Responsible for all facets of pre-sales support, including customer presentations, request for quote reviews, pricing proposals & contract negotiations.

Eduardo Martinez’s Education

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Certificate , Music Recording & Engineering , 2001 — 2001

• Understanding the Mixer, Parts I & II
• Essential EQ Theory
• Dynamics Processors
Parsons Center for Audio Studies, Wellesley, MA

Certificate , Music Recording & Engineering , 1998 — 2001

Dave Moulton courses:
• Principles of Audio Recording
• Total Recording
• Golden Ears
SQE Associates, Waltham, MA

Certificate , Testing Web-Based Applications , 2000 — 2000
Prudential Preferred Financial Services, Salem, NH

Series 6, 63 , Life, Health & Disability Insurance, Investment Products (Mutual Funds) , 1996 — 1996

Licensed to sell Insurance & Investment Products in New Hampshire & Massachusetts.
Don Campbell & The Institute of Music, Health & Education, Boulder, CO

Certificate , Music & Sound Healing Practitioner , 1995 — 1995
T'ai Chi Chih, Joy Through Movement

Certificate , T'ai Chi Chih & Seijaku Instructor , 1994 — 1995

• Certified Instructor of T'ai Chi Chih
• Certified Instructor of Seijaku, the advanced form of T'ai Chi Chih.
Covey Leadership Center, Provo, Utah

Certified Trainer , The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , 1994 — 1994
Jonathan Goldman's Sound Healing School

Certificate , Music & Sound Healing Practitioner , 1994 — 1994

Certified practitioner on the use of sound, chanting & music for education, health enhancement & therapy.
Just for Your Health, College of Massage, San Jose, CA

Certified Massage Therapist , Massage Therapy , 1994 — 1994

Trained in traditional Swedish massage, Tui Na Chinese massage, principles of herbal & Chinese Medicine.
De Anza College

Psychology, Music, Business Management 1993 — 1994

• Completed undergraduate requisite courses for entering a graduate psychology program of study. Was accepted (but I declined) to a master's & Ph.D. psychology program at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, in Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• Completed various music courses in performance, theory & appreciation of music.
• Completed various business management courses.
Universidad de Puerto Rico

B.S.E.E. , Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics (major), Math (minor) , 1978 — 1984

Activities and Societies:

Academic Dean's list

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Eduardo Martinez’s Interests:

sound, music, composing & recording music, offshore teams, outsourced teams, virtual software engineering & high technology teams, mobile technology, social networking, social justice, peaceful-means (non-violence)

Eduardo Martinez’s Groups:

• eBay Power Seller
• Apple Developer Connection member, including iPhone development
• Healing Music Organization
• Sound Healing Network
• Audio Engineering Society (past member),
• IEEE (past member)

Music & Marketing
Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
Media Professionals Worldwide
Digital Artist Outsourcing Group (InArtists)
Music and Entertainment Professionals
Music Industry Forum
Hooray for Hollyworld!
MusicBiz
The Film & Music Connection
Music Industry Network
Current and Former Iron Mountain Employee Group
Ex Dragons
Corporate Yoga & Meditation Teachers Global Network
iPhone & Android Applications: Marketing & Outsourcing