Background at a glance
25 years of software development and team formation/leadership for the development and
testing of custom products utilizing state of the art technology in the areas of:
25 years of software development and team formation/leadership for the development and
testing of custom products utilizing state of the art technology in the areas of:
- Technology
- High Quality Major Brand Consumer Electronics -
- Home Theater Systems - Bose
- Current generation Bose Wave Radio
- Ion Stream Printers for consumer use - Xerox
- DVD Players - Ravisent Technologies and Bose
- Cable Set Top Box software (legacy and OCAP) - GuideWorks (Comcast/Gemstar TV Guide JV)
- Biometrics - Iris recognition systems - Sensar/Sarnoff
- Massively parallel SIMD video servers - Sarnoff/Diva Systems
- Custom Fault Tolerant multi-processor database servers for Telephony applications - Nortel
Leadership - Proven Ability to:
- Quickly hire and organize new development teams
- Adapt methodology to company needs - experienced with agile (SCRUM and hybrids) and phased waterfall
- Form highly performing teams with high morale and low turnover
- Smoothly meld the development and QA/QC functions together to enhance quality, team interactions, and
ability to deliver - Establish necessary standards and policies as the situation warrants
- Bring under performing and/or low morale teams back on track through leadership
- Coordinate international partners and co-developers (India, Europe, Asia)
- Manage partners and contractors to meet schedule and quality requirements
- Rational make/buy decisions
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If you have product development or quality issues...
Your company has a great product idea and is striving to bring it to market.
It involves software or embedded firmware for a product focused on Consumer Electronics,
Biometrics, or Telecommunications. It may involve your own engineers, partners, suppliers,
and sub-contractors here or off-shore.
But, it is just not coming together!
There are schedule and/or quality problems that keep delaying it causing you to fear that
you will lose your market window or worse, put out a product that has problems in the field
damaging your hard earned reputation. Perhaps your in-house team is demoralized by
realizing what is at risk further hurting their performance. Perhaps your suppliers do not
have the same quality standards that you demand.
I can help you. I have 25 years experience in successfully turning teams and projects
around resulting in high quality deliverables that make customers happy. These projects have
involved custom server platforms and applications where I worked directly with customers as
well as high volume consumer electronics where we went from development to making
thousands of units per day such that defect escapes could not be tolerated.
If you are interested, please look through the rest of this website for a better idea of my
experience and philosophy.
Contact me at chet_smith@chetsweb.com if you would like to discuss possibilities.
Your company has a great product idea and is striving to bring it to market.
It involves software or embedded firmware for a product focused on Consumer Electronics,
Biometrics, or Telecommunications. It may involve your own engineers, partners, suppliers,
and sub-contractors here or off-shore.
But, it is just not coming together!
There are schedule and/or quality problems that keep delaying it causing you to fear that
you will lose your market window or worse, put out a product that has problems in the field
damaging your hard earned reputation. Perhaps your in-house team is demoralized by
realizing what is at risk further hurting their performance. Perhaps your suppliers do not
have the same quality standards that you demand.
I can help you. I have 25 years experience in successfully turning teams and projects
around resulting in high quality deliverables that make customers happy. These projects have
involved custom server platforms and applications where I worked directly with customers as
well as high volume consumer electronics where we went from development to making
thousands of units per day such that defect escapes could not be tolerated.
If you are interested, please look through the rest of this website for a better idea of my
experience and philosophy.
Contact me at chet_smith@chetsweb.com if you would like to discuss possibilities.
Bringing Products and Customers
together through engineering solutions
together through engineering solutions