Jeffrey J. Phillips

Current

Consultant at TransformTec LLC

Past

Director, Product Planning and Management at Pace Americas, Inc.
Founder and President at TransformTec, Inc.
Group Manager, MSTV at Microsoft Corporation

Vice President, Product Development at Urocket, Inc.
Various at Prior Professional Experience

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Education

Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University
Project Management Institute

Wentworth Institute of Technology
International School of Manila

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Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Summary

Jeffrey J. Phillips is a strategic technologist and development thought leader who has worked at Fortune 50 and start- up companies. Most recently, he spent four years as a key member of the Pace team that collaborated on the design, development, launch, and manufacture of the most innovative set top boxes. Earlier, he worked for four years at Microsoft's MSTV division leading Advanced Client software platform from the ground up. Prior to that, he worked at Sony where he pioneered and developed their hard disk image process while bringing the first generation of Sony's VAIO 505 laptop to market. Previously, he spent ten years in NEC's personal computer division implementing operating systems for their consumer, business, and server product lines. Jeff started his career in the early days of the UNIX operating system at AT&T Bell Labs. He has a strong technical background with field-proven commercial expertise, and translation-level fluency in English and Spanish. Presently he is updating his skillset with Six Sigma and PMP training at Florida Atlantic University.

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Specialties:

* Product Planning & Strategy
* New Product Development
* New Business Development
* Systems Integration
* Sales
* Account Management
* Product Management
* Program Management
* Project Management
* Telecommunications
* Software / Hardware
* Personal Computers
* Consumer Electronics

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Experience

Consultant

TransformTec LLC

(Management Consulting industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Transforming products, process, and solutions
Director, Product Planning and Management

Pace Americas, Inc.

(Public Company; PIC; Consumer Electronics industry)

2005 — 2009 (4 years )

• Generated over half a billion dollars in revenue for the company by developing and launching HR20, HR21, and HR23 HD MPEG-4 PVR satellite set-top boxes, partnering with Engineering, Finance, and Operations for bidding, planning, design, development, manufacturing, launch, and delivery.
• Envisioned strategic product roadmaps, developing the Americas satellite set top box business plan with a business case for each product derivative.
• Cultivated strong relationships at the VP, Director, and individual contributor level across the customer organizations in Engineering and Supply Chain Management.
• Partnered closely with US, UK, South American, and Asian Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Manufacturing for product development, resource utilization, project prioritization, and product delivery.
Founder and President

TransformTec, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

• Created product development and technology brokering company with a small but mighty team focused on transforming consumer electronics, multimedia, and telecommunications concepts into real products.
• Cultivated new business opportunities with a Korean fish camera inventor, a Chinese webcam inventor, a Taiwanese telecommunications inventor, and an American software innovator.
Group Manager, MSTV

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )

• Managed a team of 16 Program Managers - technical feature PMs, release PMs, OEM PMs, and showcase liaison PMs - leading the software development process and product releases, coordinating end-to-end integration points with internal and external software and hardware development partners.
• Wrote functional specifications describing APIs for Windows CE 2.12 and 3.0 operating system, broadcast services, DOCSIS, PVR, VOD, EPG, web browser, and UI.
• Released products included MSTV Advanced 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.0 Latin America.
• Received MSTV’s “Best Cast Award” (2003) for the accomplishments of my team in customizing MSTV Advanced 2.0 for the Latin America marketplace.
Vice President, Product Development

Urocket, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

• Built Engineering team of Packard Bell NEC spin-off to 15 people developing a MIPS VR4121 based internet music stereo appliance running Windows CE 2.12 and Urocket-developed application software.
• Negotiated strategic partner development contracts, software royalty licensing and contract manufacturing agreements with Tatung, NEC, MusicMatch, and Microsoft.
Various

Prior Professional Experience

(Computer Software industry)

1985 — 1999 (14 years )

Sony, NEC, Hager Telecommunications, Inc., AT&T Bell Laboratories, progressed through increasingly responsible roles.

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Education

Florida Atlantic University

Six Sigma Green Belt , Six Sigma Green Belt certification , 2009 — 2009
Florida Atlantic University

Project Management certificate , Executive Certificate in Project Management (in process) , 2009 — 2009
Project Management Institute

PMP certification (in process) 2009 — 2009
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , 1981 — 1985
International School of Manila

HS , college preparatory

Additional Information

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Websites:

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Interests:

futurology, business development best practices, product development best practices, project management best practices, metaphysics, philosophy

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Groups:

member, Project Management Institute

Global Project Management
Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
PMI South Florida Chapter
Project Manager Networking Group
Lean Six Sigma
Ex-Microsoft Employees
Workflow/Business Process Management
Wentworth Institute of Technology alumni
Social Media Marketing
Ex-Bell Labs
CEO/ CIO/COE/COO/CFO/Head/VP/ Director/President Level - Senior Leadership Group
Set-top Box & IDTV, Mediacenter DVB and IP / CI+
NEC Alumni
Future Trends
Microsoft Mediaroom Professional
Connected Home Networking
PM Community
Think Digital TV - www.thinkdigitaltv.com
Global Jobs Network
• New Products & Technologies
Global Leaders & Entrepreneurs Network
WIT.NYC