Experienced Professional Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
Experienced Professional Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
A problem solving professional especially effective working across organizational boundaries to rapidly solve customer problems. Brings enthusiasm, creativity and experienced judgement to marketing, program management, and process improvement.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ACTL; Semiconductors industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
o Managed geographically dispersed cross functional project teams developing complex multi-disciplinary Reference Design products incorporating custom HDL, IP, hardware and software components from conception through development, test and integration phases to successful rollout.
o Supported customer engagements directly, managing communications to enhance customer satisfaction and empower sales.
o Working closely with corporate legal counsel, drove contract negotiations with corporate partners through complex negotiations to successful and timely conclusion.
o Performed market assessments, defined product development roadmaps, implemented cross functional development efforts using a combination of internal and external development resources, and delivered completed products that enabled Actel’s successful entry into a standards driven $4 billion telecommunications equipment market.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ACTL; Semiconductors industry)
June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)
o Managed operations team delivering direct customer support, maintaining operational infrastructure and supporting corporate applications engineering efforts.
o Created and tracked new operational metrics. Managed results oriented reporting to internal audiences at all levels.
o Worked across organizational boundaries to build corrective action plans, and managed schedules and deliverables quality. Performed in depth investigations, wrote lessons learned reports, and presented results to operational and executive levels. Served on corporate Technical Steering Committee.
o Worked with corporate counsel to establish and document effective ITAR handling guidelines for both Actel and customer ITAR materials. Conducted training for front line applications engineers to build solid ITAR processes and procedures. Participated in cross functional teams to regularize ITAR restricted access controls across the corporation.
o Performed ISO9001 audits as an internal auditor.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LSI; Semiconductors industry)
January 1988 — May 2003 (15 years 5 months)
Manager, Engineering Services 1997-2003
o Led a group of technical, development, infrastructure and operations professionals, building an agile technically adept team able to quickly resolve critical path issues.
o Managed software and intellectual property integration, test, and signoff flows, managing to commit dates and durations for minor and major software releases.
o Managed software development organization, supporting complex SQL database-based systems totaling over three million lines of code.
o Managed customer training as second level manager, overseeing live and internet delivery course development.
o Built, staffed, and managed contract license management group, bringing company wide visibility to third party software licenses spread out across the global corporation, bringing over $50 million in dispersed contracts under consolidated corporate level management and control.
Engineering Production Planning Supervisor 1993-1997
Engineering Services Planner 1988-1993
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
November 1985 — August 1987 (1 year 10 months)
BS, Aeronautics, 1980 — 1985
1977 — 1980
IEEE, SAE, AAAS, USNI, AOPA, EAA