
The IC Coach
Phoenix, Arizona Area

The IC Coach
Phoenix, Arizona Area
Predictable and streamlined New Product Development (NPD) is my deliverable. Completion of this objective is accomplished through crisp leadership in planning and execution to the primary objective - new product revenue. I enable solutions where new product execution to revenue is failing to meet the needs of the business.
Areas of expertise include:
• NPD leadership style that enables predictable and streamlined product releases.
• Driver of positive change in new product team execution.
• Excellence in NPD workshops, webinars and speaker engagements.
• Ability to find what is not known; discover and solution project barriers that silently impact execution to revenue.
• Big picture view and leadership of all actions necessary for new product revenue.
• NPD team performance turnaround to get the results businesses require.
• Provides a super set of Project Management skills to truly tie the technical teams into the details of project execution.
• NPD process re-engineering.
• Multiple site NPD collaboration strategies.
• IC Design team leadership style that enables business objectives.
• Hands-on mixed signal design.
• 8 bit microcontroller design & software.
• Flat panel TCON and column driver design.
• All aspects of Windows 2003 server (IIS, DNS, Domain Controller, DHCP, XP clients, email hosting)
New product development (NPD), engineering process, engineering coaching, process discovery, engineering execution, program management, project management, organizational development, change management, semiconductor, IC design, small business IT, email newsletters, Windows 2003 server.
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Delivering solutions to the systemic challenges that impact a New Product Development teams ability to efficiently and predictably deliver to the business revenue objectives.
• New product revenue in a predictable, streamlined fashion.
• Marketing & business development.
• Collaborative environment development.
• Best practices development.
• Project Management.
• Technically strong in IC design practices for both digital and analog.
• Author NPD execution excellence newsletter and blog.
• Business process modifications in support of NPD teams success factors.
• New Product Development process improvement & re-engineering.
• Web based NPD/NPI workflow development.
• Workshops/Webinars to enable execution excllence.
• Support small business IT requirements.
Clients include Atmel GmbH, Freescale (2 engagements) and Texas Instruments.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)
• Leadership for product development activities at the Tempe Design Center.
• Embedded processor arrays chips.
• High speed serial PHY IP development (SATA, USB).
• Technical leadership.
• Leadership development.
• Product development process development.
(Public Company; NSM; Semiconductors industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
• Developed industry transforming flat panel system components.
• Hands-on analog design.
• Managed a design team responsible for FPD column drivers.
• Integrated design team into mainstream National process.
• Refined design process to produce quality, on time designs.
(Public Company; MOT; Semiconductors industry)
1994 — 2000 (6 years)
• Managed a design team in the development of 8 bit microcontrollers.
• Managed a remote design center facility for 5 years.
• Technical responsibility for development of industries first 8 bit micro with integrated motor drive capabilities.