Jeffrey J. Phillips

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

Wentworth Institute of Technology
International School of Manila

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Industry

Computer Software

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Summary

Strategic Technology Executive; product planning and business development thought leader working at Fortune 50 and start-up companies, from AT&T Bell Labs, NEC, Sony, and Microsoft, to Pace, TransformTec, and Urocket. Strong technical background with field-proven financial, business, and commercial expertise. Bilingual English/Spanish.

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Specialties:

- Product Planning & Strategy
- New Product Development
- New Business Development
- Telecommunications
- Software / Hardware
- Consumer Electronics
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Project Management

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Experience

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

Wentworth Institute of Technology

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

HS , college preparatory

Additional Information

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Interests:

family, health, volleyball, basketball, soccer, travel, movies, alternative music, theater, metaphysics, philosophy

Jeffrey J. Phillips’s Groups:

AISAAM, AF&AM, AASR, AAONMS

Ex-Microsoft Employees
Wentworth Institute of Technology alumni
Ex-Bell Labs
CEO/ CIO/COE/COO/CFO/Head/VP/ Director/President Level - Senior Leadership Group
NEC Alumni
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