Background at a glance
Recognized as an expert at turning around major programs (National and International), forming new technology
groups and taking actions that have dramatically increased customer satisfaction and revenue.
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:
Recognized as an expert at turning around major programs (National and International), forming new technology
groups and taking actions that have dramatically increased customer satisfaction and revenue.
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) and Oracle server technology - GuideWorks
(Comcast/Gemstar TV Guide JV)
- Biometrics - Iris recognition systems - Embedded S/W and bank network/server integration - Sensar/Sarnoff
- Massively parallel SIMD video servers - 1,000+ independent video streams - Sarnoff/Diva Systems
- Custom Fault Tolerant multi-processor database servers for Telephony applications - Nortel
Leadership - Proven Ability to:
- Successfully turn around large failed programs (100+ engineers)
- 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 on time - Establish necessary standards and policies as the situation warrants
- Bring under-performing and/or low morale teams back on track through leadership
- Coordinate and manage international partners and co-developers (India, Europe, Asia)
- Manage partners and contractors to meet schedule and quality requirements
- Rational make/buy decisions
| Chet Smith |
Thanks for visiting. Please take a few minutes to browse through the
links at the left of each page.
You will learn more about me and how you can use my experience
and skills to use in solving your company's problems!
I am passionate about my work in helping organizations grow, solving people and/or technical
program problems, and turning technology organizations around.
Should you wish to check my background and capabilities out further, I am confident that you will
find that I can help you with your problems and build an organization in the process that will keep
producing for you.
I have had a lot of fun turning around engineering programs in a number of companies and
industries. If you require a an executive level leader to:
- Get your program out of trouble (quality and/or delivery)
- Save a big customer
- Bring research to market
- Enhance your ability to produce more products (and revenue) through innovative software
architecture - Improve technology team morale and productivity
- Control costs
- Solve other problems with your technology team (one site or many, domestic or global)
Contact me to discuss what I can do for you at .
I am looking for a company from startup to Fortune 500 facing major challenges such as one or
more of the following:
- Teams that need to transform from research to product mode
- Failed programs
- Delivery issues
- Poor Product Quality
- Team Morale problems
- Issues surrounding growing technical teams in terms of size or technical capabilities
- Moving to an Agile methodology
- Productivity issues
- Partners/Suppliers who are not performing
I have 25 years experience in successfully turning teams and programs around resulting in high
quality deliverables that retain customers and increase revenue.
I have been hired multiple times by the same executives to turn teams around and/or bring research
to market.
I have a great deal of interest in Life Cycle definition and management and have been a Certified
ScrumMaster since 2005.
If you are interested, please click through the tabs at the top to look through the rest of this site for
a better idea of my experience and philosophy.
Contact me by clicking here for contact information if you would like to discuss possibilities.
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
Product Success Through Innovative
Engineering Solutions and Leadership
Engineering Solutions and Leadership
