SUMMARY:

• Results - focused technical professional with years of experience driving strategic solutions and quality initiatives in products and programs. Demonstrated strength in integrating
• IT system advancements, streamlining programs, innovating development, and spearheading deployment for $MM corporations in the service, manufacturing, media and high tech sectors. Proven expertise in secure application development, pre-sales client consulting, and customer requirements definition. Experienced in translating complex data and technical analysis for technical and non-technical staff, clients and stakeholders. Accomplished in taking products from concept to launch both on site and in remote team environments. Extensive background managing project dependencies between cross-organizational and cross-cultural teams. Credited with strong ability to identify trends and develop competitive strategies for execution. Technical proficiency in agile, waterfall and scrum methodologies. Thought leadership and subject matter expertise in a multitude of key areas, such as:
• ed technical patents for drive-thru payment and optical keypad security and single-handedly designed several signature product design/style elements and iconic UX & industrial design features on myriad Confidential products.
• Achieved $MM development initiatives by integrating research, redefining strategies and assimilating solutions for market-leading RFID industrial & commercial applications at Confidential & cutting-edge payment devices at Confidential .
• Established product life cycle process, championed Solidworks excellence, and delivered global EPDM for Confidential .
• Conceived and incubated new vertical businesses while developing customer awareness and stakeholder buy-in at Confidential, trailblazing new growth areas such as secure payment & media content delivery in fuel dispensers & taxis.
• Developed & managed large telecom network infrastructure design & data center projects as a top IT consultant.
• Drove adoption and led customization of Oracle & Agile PLM software across Confidential ’s enterprise and chaired CCB.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Payment Systems: mobile payment & cloud-based security, EMV & PCI hardware/software, POS devices

Manufacturing & Sustaining: NPI engineering, tooling development, BOM/COGS analysis, ECOs/change management

Materials: molded plastics, machined/extruded/stamped/sheet/cast metals, finishes/coatings, glasses/films, adhesives

Quality Engineering: HQA/SQA testing, MIL-STD, TQM, DOE, CMM, Cp/CpK, FMEA, forensics, process development

Regulatory & s: UL safety, IFSF petroleum/c-store, ADA, NHTSA, RoHS2 & WEEE, ISO9000, CE, FCC

Software: AutoCAD, Solidworks, Pro/E, Agile PLM, SharePoint, SQL Server, VMware, Confluence/JIRA, MS Project

Network Engineering: large scale telecom, bank networks, wireless, data centers, SANs, SaaS, & digital media servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Data Center, Cyber Security, & PMO

Responsibilities:

• Healthcare IT PM for Health Net, PCI Security for Confidential, Data Center HVAC & Cable Design, and PMO at DXC.

Confidential

Vice President of Product & Security

Responsibilities:

• Leading an innovative and diverse team developing next generation payment products and solutions for several key markets, including outdoor/unattended, petroleum, hospitality, banking, taxi, QSR, and retail vertical channels.
• Creating new organizational structure, redefined product development process, and established new PMO function.
• Developing innovative new payment technologies, defining product requirements, and designing for HIPPA & PCI.

Confidential

Senior Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed secure encryption technology for global EMV & PCI payment product and cyber security.
• Set-up automated test capabilities for wireless device payment security, EMV Level 1 & 2, and side channel attacks.
• Redefined project sizing process & templates, enhanced key customer relationships, and published white papers.

Confidential

Western Region Field Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded leadership of a dynamic team supporting fuel payment solutions deployment on aggressive timelines.
• Increased throughput by encouraging better transparency and communication throughout the project while managing the scope of deliverables, tracking deviations from targets and integrating metrics/analytics & reporting.
• Enhanced results by mentoring and the team to develop the necessary success skills for data analysis, testing, error tracking, measured deliverables, and implementation, while utilizing Share Point, JIRA, & MS Project.
• Strengthened business client and partner relationships by completing ahead of schedule and under budget.

Confidential

Manager, Engineering Projects

Responsibilities:

• Boosted the competitive positioning of the product by designing innovative features and subsystems for tamper security, touchscreens, keypads, styluses, card readers and contactless NFC to service diverse market needs.
• Conceived, designed, & patented key enabling technologies & signature styling features of many payment products.
• Expanded market reach for products through development of custom payment hardware and system solutions for the petroleum/c-store, unattended, multi-lane/retail, quick-service restaurant, ATM/kiosk, taxi, and mobile markets.
• Enabled new business by developing media content delivery network & ruggedized outdoor digital display products.
• Optimized engineering quality by defining DF(x) guidelines, design review process, & change control best practices.
• Forged innovative new business practices by working with ODM/JDM resources to deliver high quality products.
• Led creation of PMO & helped to define product development process lifecycle & project management best practices.

Confidential, Concord, CA

Sr. Telecom Program Manager/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Advanced consistency, recoverability and accessibility of data by leveraging the skills of teams with 18 members, managing time-critical data/voice cutovers and engineering multi-tier networks projects.
• Achieved seamless design of data center reliability and client network infrastructures for large-scale data network initiatives and provisioned bank network hardware configurations for migration to cloud-based systems.
• Defined test plans and regression tests to improve efficiencies and maintain industry competitiveness with data collection, analysis, risk assessment and controlled responses.
• Organized & facilitated all communications with teams, vendors & key stakeholders for the Corp. Real Estate entity.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Improved the error margin while designing pioneering RFID products and solutions, including access control systems, smartcard manufacturing and industrial applications with refined quality and process techniques.
• Leveraged the expertise and skill strength of the hardware engineering team while growing in size to complete projects with decreased cycle times, and co-developed game changing contactless smartcard technology.
• Pushed projects through the pipeline by fostering teamwork and communication across functional and matrix counterparties while simultaneously nurturing critical relationships with key customers and suppliers.