Kevin Eby

Current

Customer Focused Process at Lexmark

Past

Engineering Manager at Lexmark
Project Manager at Lexmark
Product Engineering at Lexmark

Firmware Development Engineer at Lexmark
Firmware Team Lead at IBM
Firmware Development Engineer at IBM

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Education

Purdue University
NorthWood High School

Connections

225 connections

Industry

Printing

Websites

Kevin Eby’s Summary

Advocating differential value. Striving for rapid and multiple iterations wherever possible. Choosing the hard way.

Kevin Eby’s Specialties:

Measurement of results or activity. Practical application of experience.

Kevin Eby’s Experience

Customer Focused Process

Lexmark

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

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Expanding the pattern recognition, algorithm optimization and problem solving talents of our people beyond subsystems within the products we develop. Applying higher integration within the customer environment that creates positive customer experiences interacting with our products.
Engineering Manager

Lexmark

(Public Company; LXK; Computer Hardware industry)

March 2000 — October 2009 (9 years 8 months)

Develop a pipeline of talent for the company while delivering and supporting products.
Project Manager

Lexmark

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

May 1995 — May 2000 (5 years 1 month)

Project manager for various color laser products. Responsible for integration of a Lexmark controller into three acquisition engines. Each of the three engines were the first color lasers for three different manufacturers in Japan.
Product Engineering

Lexmark

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

October 1992 — May 1995 (2 years 8 months)

Product Engineering for color postscript products supplemented with project management of several simple acquisition products.
Firmware Development Engineer

Lexmark

(Public Company; LXK; Computer Hardware industry)

March 1991 — October 1992 (1 year 8 months)

Technical interface for joint development effort between Lexmark and vendor in Cambridge, MA. Wrote GUI and State code to a new specification and interfaced it to the vendors deliverables.
Firmware Team Lead

IBM

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

March 1990 — March 1991 (1 year 1 month)

Worked with team from IBM Japan in Yamato to specify firmware for partner to develop and manufacture a family of dot matrix products. Developed tools to port fonts to a different compression algorithm specified by partner.
Firmware Development Engineer

IBM

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

May 1988 — March 1990 (1 year 11 months)

Mechanism control firmware for two generations of 24 pin dot matrix products. IBM Proprinter x24 and x24L in 1988. IBM PS/1 Printer and X24P in 1990.

Kevin Eby’s Education

Purdue University

BSCEE , 1984 — 1988

Internship at Lafayette Instrument Company, prototyped an embedded system to drive an integrated thermal printhead chart recorder instead of moving arms with ink bottles.

Activities and Societies:

Small Group Worship and Bible Study, Freshman Engineering Teaching Assistant
NorthWood High School

1980 — 1984