Rick Schwartz

Current

• Product Manager at PacketVideo

Past

• Director of Consumer Direct & Professional Desktop Product Marketing at Gateway
• Senior Product Manager at Gateway
• Director of Product Development at Liquid Audio

• Market Manager at Avid Technology/digidesign

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Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Industry

Telecommunications

Rick Schwartz’s Summary

Energetic product manager with over ten years experience launching successful products and services. With a proven ability to develop concepts into successful products. Excellent writing, communication and organizational skills.

Rick Schwartz’s Experience

• Product Manager

  PacketVideo

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; WAVE; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Currently working on a DLNA-complaint Media Manager for Mobile Phones and PCs. PV is a leading provider of embedded multimedia software for mobile phones. Over 200 million phones have shipped that include our technologies.

• Director of Consumer Direct & Professional Desktop Product Marketing

  Gateway

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GWY; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 6 months)

  Responsible for the pricing & configuration of all Gateway Consumer Direct & Professional desktops. Gateway is #3 in sales and the fastest growing PC company in the U.S. according to IDC.
  
  Made changes to our most popular line of desktops that resulted in a month over month unit growth of 86% and margin dollar growth of 115%.
  
  Responsible for dramatic product line simplification that resulted in a 57% reduction in the number of desktops, improved customer experience and significant operational savings.
  
  Helped successfully launch more than 150 desktop PCs. Worked closely with our Supply Planning group to achieve some of the cleanest product transitions in the history of the company.
  
  Provided Gateway executives and the Direct Business Unit with a detailed weekly competitive analysis

• Senior Product Manager

  Gateway

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GTW; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  Managed an award-winning line of Gateway-branded digital cameras and helped Gateway become the fastest growing brand of digital cameras in the U.S. and 13th largest CE retailer with $2.1B in sales.
  
  Helped the Digital Solutions group achieve year-over-year revenue growth of 269% and produce almost $100M in revenue in a single quarter.
  
  Launched more than a hundred unique products and services – including Gateway Digital Cameras, Gateway's MP3 Jukebox, the Gateway Rhapsody Music Service and Gateway Music Vault – an innovative, industry-first program that preloaded thousands of songs on every Gateway PC.
  
  Made changes to Gateway’s line of gaming PCs that resulted in a 120% increase in sales. Represented Gateway on all Consumer Desktop and gaming-related media coverage.

• Director of Product Development

  Liquid Audio

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; LQID; Computer Software industry)

  June 1996 — December 2001 (5 years 7 months)

  Designed and helped create product and technology demonstrations that helped the company raise more than $200M in financing and go public on the NASDAQ exchange.
  
  Served as program manager of the team that launched commercial digital music downloads for BMG, EMI and Warner Bros. Records.
  
  Responsible for the creation of detailed market requirement documents for the first four major releases of the Liquid Music Player and Liquifier authoring software. Managed the entire product life cycle for many of Liquid Audio’s most successful products.
  
  Supported our Sales group by creating an Intranet site containing product demos, FAQs, White Papers, product literature and competitive summaries.
  
  Worked closely with corporate marketing to develop key product positioning, packaging, data sheets and other marketing materials.

• Market Manager

  Avid Technology/digidesign

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AVID; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 1993 — June 1996 (3 years 5 months)

  Helped establish Avid’s audio and video editing systems as the standard for both film and television post production. Responsible for placing Avid audio products in top Hollywood post- production facilities including 20th Century Fox, ABC, NBC, Disney, Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures and Universal.
  
  Managed all Avid West Coast Application Editors and the AudioVision Assistant Product Manager. Market Manager for all Digidesign post-production products (AudioVision, Post Conform, USD and Post View).
  
  Responsible for the creation of all AudioVision product requirement documents, business plans and product collateral. Key presenter at trade shows and company-wide sales events.

Rick Schwartz’s Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Electrical Engineering

Additional Information

Rick Schwartz’s Honors:

- PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award Gateway FX510XT (Sept. 2006)
- [H]ardOCP Editors' Choice Silver Award – Gateway DX310X (Sept. 2006)
- PC Magazine – Editors’ Choice – Gateway Profile 6SB (August 2006)
- Consumer Reports' Windows Workhorse – Gateway FX510X 87/100 rating (June 2006)
- PC World – Best Buy Award – Gateway 5200XL (March 2005)
- PC World – Best Buy Award – Gateway 510XL (Sept. 2004)
- Computer Gaming World – Editors’ Choice Gateway 710G (June 2004)
- Electronic Musician – Editors Choice – Liquid Audio Liquifier (1998)
- EQ Blue Ribbon Award – Liquid Audio Liquifier (1997)
- Mix Magazine – TEC Award Nominee for Liquifier (1997)
- Mix Magazine – TEC Award Winner for AudioVision (1996)
- Telly Award – Music Engineering – Digital Discovery Series (1998)
- MPSE – Motion Picture Sound Editor

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