Mike Warren

Current

Managing Director at FirmLogix
Advisory Board Member at Stegosystems
Manufacturers' Representative at Epicenter, Inc.

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Past

VP Sales and Marketing at Intelligraphics
Business Development & Marketing Consultant at SigmaTel Inc.; Wyse Technology; etc.
Embedded PowerPC Product Line Manager at Motorola, Inc. - now Freescale

Director Business Development at Interactive Silicon, Inc.
3D Graphics 3rd Party Developer Relations at Cirrus Logic
Sun Microsystems Strategic Account Director at Ross Technology, Inc.
Director U.S. Central Area Sales at Digital Semiconductor (DEC)
Principal Systems Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
Design Engineer at Honeywell
Biomedical Engineer at Tufts New England Medical Center

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Education

Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Northeastern University

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Recommended

9 people have recommended Mike

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

Mike Warren’s Summary

A 26-year industry business prospectus that includes demonstrated accomplishments in the design and serviceability (of semiconductor components, motherboards and add-in cards), market and business development, and sales (for fab/fabless semiconductor merchants, system software engineering service companies, and intellectual property licensing companies) that span major blue chip giants to leading edge upstart companies.

Comprehension of hardware architectures, system software, firmware and device driver development, and active participation within industry standards trade associations and working groups enables direct effective communication with engineers, and simplifies translation of technical functionality into sales and marketing plans, technical proposals and contracts. A unique skill set to create and execute marketing strategies and match industry leading system software development expertise to real world customer needs.

Earned a B.S. degree in E.E., an M.S. in Engineering, and an M.S. in Engineering Management, all from Northeastern University in Boston.

Mike Warren’s Specialties:

- Executive Relationships - Strategic Partnerships
- Large Referral Base - Strategic Sales
- Client Needs Fulfillment
- Team Leadership
- Business Development - Strategic Marketing
- Semiconductor - Embedded - PC
- Open Standards - USB - PCI - UWB
- Wired - Wireless - Graphics - Video - Audio
- Firmware - System Software - Device Drivers
- MacOS X / 10 / 9
- Windows 7 / Vista / XP / CE - WHQL - DTM
- Linux - RTOS
- VMS
- Data Center Management - Security Software

Mike Warren’s Experience

Managing Director

FirmLogix

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

FirmLogix offers professional system level software design, kernel device custom driver development and porting, and firmware design services to companies that encompass a broad range of PC, embedded and consumer market segments. The FirmLogix client list consists of semiconductor companies, original equipment manufacturers and various service companies.

We offer test services including firmware utility and test development, certification (e.g., Microsoft ® Windows 7 ® / Windows Vista ® / Windows XP ® DTM (Driver Test Manager) and WHQL testing services) and QA testing.

FirmLogix is an “onshore” outsourcing design services firm comprised exclusively of senior developers located in North America, with headquarters in Austin, Texas. This allows us to provide immediate support by phone, email, or on-site for our clients. There are no “night-and-day” time zone or communication barriers. You have direct access to the veteran developer that you select to lead or assist your project.
Advisory Board Member

Stegosystems

(Computer & Network Security industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years)

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SECURITY

FirmLogix serves as a firmware, device driver, and hardware development center and as a silicon alliance partner for
Stegosystems.

Stegosystems is a Massachusetts company providing a software assurance service to eliminate malware and pirated software in virtualized environments.

Stegosystems' innovative approach to software assurance permanently watermarks application and system software to dynamically protect critical, high value information resources throughout execution. Using patented steganography techniques, our unique approach makes no change to the object code footprint, its execution topology or its performance. This powerful new capability is complementary to existing software assurance techniques and delivers greater software assurance.
Manufacturers' Representative

Epicenter, Inc.

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

FirmLogix is a manufacturers’ representative for Epicenter Inc., a privately held company based in San Clemente, CA, that furnishes market-leading solutions that optimize local and remote management of multi-system Data Centers. Since being founded in 1998, Epicenter technology has been installed at more than 1,000 enterprises in 15 countries, the largest data center installation being at Microsoft. FirmLogix markets Epicenter's Centerline and Centerpoint solutions in the Central U.S. area. Epicenter holds numerous patents for KVM technology innovation.

Local/Remote Control
- Infrastructure
- Power
- Servers
- Storage

Industries
- Software Development
- Financial
- Telecommunications
- Storage Providers
- Co-location houses

Major Customers
- Microsoft
- Nortel
- T-Mobile
- BT
- Fujitsu
VP Sales and Marketing

Intelligraphics

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 8 months)

DESIGN SERVICES

Intelligraphics was a private software development services startup company. Key customers had included Intel, NCR, SigmaTel and Spansion. Embedded operating systems software development was largely comprised of Linux and VxWorks, and for the PC market Linux and Windows were prominent. The device driver development markets largely served were wireless and graphics.
* Consistently grew month-to-month revenue by more than thirty percent for the entire two year tenure.
* Faced multiple challenges that included customer retention.
* Strategic planning, organizing, coordinating and managing sales and marketing.
* Developed market information including target customer profiles and competitor information.
* Ensured effective control of revenue and profit goals.
Business Development & Marketing Consultant

SigmaTel Inc.; Wyse Technology; etc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SGTL; Consumer Electronics industry)

May 2001 — January 2005 (3 years 9 months)

Consulted to Advanced Network Technologies, Ahura Technology Inc., Ceelox, DMFG, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, Electronic Arts, Equitar Super Broadband Inc., Gerson Lehrman Group, HF Industries LLC., Interactive Silicon Inc., Live Wave Inc., Lucas Film Games, Medpond LLC, Nintendo, nSys, Origin, Primary Global Research, Sercomm Corporation, SigmaTel Inc., SONY Computer Entertainment America, Tag Advisors LLC., THX, and Wyse Technology. Exemplar of consultancy performed included:

SIGMATEL, INC., MAR 2004 TO OCT 2004
AUSTIN, TX
Collaborated with design engineering to shape the mixed signal product Functional Requirements. Initiated relationship(s) with strategic handset providers NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, and HCT.

WYSE TECHNOLOGY, INC., MAR 2003 TO NOV 2003
CARROLLTON, TX
Solely responsible for identifying and securing the porting of embedded software agent targets to extend Rapport's array of device management to both the wired and wireless market segments.
Embedded PowerPC Product Line Manager

Motorola, Inc. - now Freescale

(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

April 1999 — March 2001 (2 years)

Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS)
Networking and Computing Systems Group (NCSG)
Austin, TX

Managed the embedded PowerPC product line, marketing team, technology roadmap and pricing.

Recruited third party hardware and software companies to provide supporting ASICs, firmware, drivers, design tool suites and reference designs for a variety of networking and embedded applications.

Co-founded the RapidIO Trade Association, a non-profit 501(c)(6) corporation, and set marketing strategy for this industry open standard initiative.

Authored RapidIO by-laws, membership agreement and articles of incorporation.

Recruited and persuaded Alcatel, Cisco, EMC, Ericsson, Nortel and Lucent to join the RapidIO Board of Directors (steering committee). Negotiated consensus among the RapidIO Trade Association steering committee and member candidate companies and their respective legal counsel.

Recipient of Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector BRAVO Award for this effort.
Director Business Development

Interactive Silicon, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Semiconductors industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
3D Graphics 3rd Party Developer Relations

Cirrus Logic

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CRUS; Semiconductors industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Sun Microsystems Strategic Account Director

Ross Technology, Inc.

(Semiconductors industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year)
Director U.S. Central Area Sales

Digital Semiconductor (DEC)

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Principal Systems Engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1982 — 1992 (10 years)
Design Engineer

Honeywell

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Computer Hardware industry)

July 1980 — January 1982 (1 year 7 months)
Biomedical Engineer

Tufts New England Medical Center

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

July 1976 — July 1980 (4 years 1 month)

Mike Warren’s Education

Northeastern University

M.S. , Engineering , 1986 — 1988
Northeastern University

M.S. , Engineering Management , 1986 — 1988
Northeastern University

B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1975 — 1982

Minor in Biomedical Engineering

Additional Information

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Mike Warren’s Interests:

family, friends and colleagues, running, swimming, skiing, kayaking, fishing, cycling, 2008 Olympics, college football, track, wireless, gadgets, gizmos, vacation travel

Mike Warren’s Groups:

Windows Embedded Program,USB-IF, Wi-Fi Alliance, Sun Partner Advantage, RMI Partner Program, Power.org, WiMedia Alliance, IEEE, 1394 Trade Association, T13, PCI-SIG ( PCI, PCI-X, PCIe ), PCMCIA, Cardbus, HyperTransport Consortium, RapidIO Trade Association, Austin Technology Council, ARCNET Trade Association