Andrew Fausak

Current

• Senior Director of Product Architecture at DemiEnergy/Asoka USA
• Chief Applications Architect, Co-founder and Acting CEO at VendingTechnology

Past

• Chief Applications Architect and Principal Engineer at Wyse Technology
• Director of Engineering at Kleer Industries
• Director Terminal Hardware and ASIC Engineering at Wyse Technology

• Senior ASIC Engineer at Wyse Technology
• Senior Firmware Development and Hardware Design Engineer at Wyse Technology
• Senior Firmware Development Engineer at Wyse Technology
• Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder at American Insurance Computers

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Education

• San Jose State University
• San Jose State University

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Industry

Computer Software

Andrew Fausak’s Summary

Chief Technologist, Principal Engineer and Chief Architect has longstanding, progressive experience leading technology-driven international project teams using strategies and technologies designed to achieve positive, measurable business outcomes. Possesses in-depth global expertise in the areas of capital fundraising, R&D, patent application, and Directorship of high-visibility product development and rollout initiatives. Successfully delivers mission-critical leadership, team building, and program management functions. Has a significant record of accomplishments in advanced planning, scheduling, cross-functional management, and enterprise resource planning. As Principal Engineer, maintains "hands-on" role and personally delivers and drives engineering solutions.

Andrew Fausak’s Specialties:

'Green Tech', C, C++, Intel PXE, UEFI, HTML, PHP, MySQL, VHDL, Verilog, NAS, FAS, USB, SAS, SATA

Andrew Fausak’s Experience

• Senior Director of Product Architecture

  DemiEnergy/Asoka USA

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

  • Raise venture capital through presentations to venture capital firms to fund the design and production of “green” computing architectures.
  • Conceive new energy monitoring, management and control methods using power-line modem technologies to communicate across power-line network, optimizing energy savings and efficiency.
  • Apply for three patents, guide internal and external development processes, and deliver solutions to market within one year.
  • Lead and provide vision to international engineering teams during the definition of technological requirements, product development, and rollout of beta and release phases:
  o Define, architect, and develop Green Energy Management (GEM) power meters.
  o Create Specifications, Design Examples, Theory and Architectures.
  o Author “bring-up” software and develop specialized tools that operate in various environments from UEFI BIOS to OS.

• Chief Applications Architect, Co-founder and Acting CEO

  VendingTechnology

  (Medical Devices industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

  • Directed technical operations of a manufacturer of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Cabinets for establishing remote warehouses at point-of-sale, using IP tracking of high-cost inventories.
  o Designed initial embedded Linux OS embodiment and applications using ARM, x86 and Broadcom appliances.
  o Established development tool-chains
  o Differentiated between in-house resource developments, acquisitions, and out-sourcing requirements.
  o Created metrics for application resource requirements/health monitoring and developed manufacturing processes, self-test and diagnostics.

• Chief Applications Architect and Principal Engineer

  Wyse Technology

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2005 (7 years)

  World Leading Terminal and Thin Client Hardware and Enterprise Software Management Company. Develops Enterprise Managed solutions in client/server embodiments utilizing Internet Protocols ranging from point-of-sale to mobile tracking of packages.
  > Responsible for establishing new technology opportunities, vision and business cases/plans.
  > Differentiated between in-house resource developments, acquisitions and out-sourcing requirements.
  > Performed due diligence related to acquisitions including evaluation of competencies.
  > Responsible for technology captures and transfers to off-shore teams.
  > Personally responsible for architecture, design and implementation of enterprise client imaging system.
  > Developed encoding specifications and methods extensible to client cloning, buddy cloning and backup.
  > Applied for over 18 data streaming, booting and transporting patents.
  > Deep knowledge of Imaging, Cloning, Transports, Delayed-Transports, Booting and Preboot Architectures.

• Director of Engineering

  Kleer Industries

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

  Display Supplier funded by multi-billion-dollar-corporation to design, manufacture, market and sell displays to consumer and business markets. Design centers in USA, Taiwan and India with manufacturing in India. Sold to strategic partner in 1999.
  > Managed Engineers World-Wide.
  > Developed displays including firmware, software tools, analog, digital and firmware designs.
  > Created Total-Life-Cycle processes for all products.
  > Designed, architected and developed onslaught of high-precision, table-driven controller firmware.
  > Wrote high-precision embedded firmware for switching modes and maintaining dynamic lookup tables.

• Director Terminal Hardware and ASIC Engineering

  Wyse Technology

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

  World Leading Terminal and Thin Client Hardware and Enterprise Software Management Company. Develops Enterprise Managed solutions in client/server embodiments utilizing Internet Protocols ranging from point-of-sale to mobile package tracking.
  > Responsible for new Terminal designs and supporting technologies
  > Directed and contributed to Terminal ASIC Development
  > Synergized engineering functions and minimized redundancies
  > Documented designs, Trained personnel and communicated technologies throughout engineering groups.
  > Worked closely with Marketing Group to provide leading edge technologies.
  > Converted existing device technologies to Hardware Description Languages.

• Senior ASIC Engineer

  Wyse Technology

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1991 — 1993 (2 years)

  > Responsible for 2nd and 3rd generation ASICs required for 70% of production of nearly 1M units/year.
  > Developed simulation software to graphically examine results before targeting silicon.
  > Personally developed color graphic ASICs.
  > Personally designed most successful terminal the Wy55 with productions in millions of units.

• Senior Firmware Development and Hardware Design Engineer

  Wyse Technology

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years)

  > Created POS firmware for use with credit transactions as plug-in to existing firmware.
  > Architected and Designed closed-loop automated design validation, capture and test devices.
  > Designed protocol capture and replicate devices to displace competitive offerings.

• Senior Firmware Development Engineer

  Wyse Technology

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years)

  > OEM Group responsible for creating custom solutions.
  > Developed multi-session terminal f/w.

• Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder

  American Insurance Computers

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1981 — 1987 (6 years)

  Developer of Insurance Rating Systems utilizing micro-computers translating ISO data to calculate insurance rates. Developed insurance-rating-systems for insurance agents to increase sales volumes. Sold company to Farmers Insurance in 1983.
  > Customized hardware for Insurance Rating Systems.
  > Developed entire hardware and maintenance organization with substantial recurring income.
  > Sold to Farmers Insurance Company

Andrew Fausak’s Education

• San Jose State University

  BAMA , Bachelor of Arts Mathematics

  Graduated with Distinction

  Activities and Societies:

  Golden Key Honor Society

• San Jose State University

  BSCS , Bachelor of Science Computer Science

  Concentration in Discrete Analysis

  Activities and Societies:

  Golden Key Honor Society

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