Background
Background at a glance

Recognized as an expert at turning around major engineering
development programs (National and International), forming/buidling
new technology groups and turning around programs to dramatically
increase customer satisfaction and revenue.

25 years of software development and team formation/leadership for
the development and testing of technologically advanced products
utilizing state of the art methodologies in the areas of:

    Technology

  • High Quality Major Brand Consumer Electronics -
  • Home Entertainment and Theater products- Bose
  • Ion Stream Printers for consumer use - Xerox
  • Consumer product reference designs for Asian
    manufacturers - Ravisent Technologies and Bose
  • Cable Set Top Box software (legacy and OCAP/Tru2Way)
    and Oracle server technology - GuideWorks
    (Comcast/Gemstar TV Guide JV)
  • Biometrics - Iris recognition systems - Embedded S/W, ATM
    network/RDB server integration - Sensar/Sarnoff
  • Massively parallel SIMD video servers - 1,000+ independent video
    streams. 1st viable Cable TV VOD servers - 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
Engineering Solutions and Leadership