SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of overall professional experience and 8+ years leading complex technical projects to successful close - out. Able to instill a big-picture perspective and value/profit focus across project teams while prioritizing critical tasks and creating a sense of urgency to fulfill deliverables of large-scale projects on time, on scope, and on budget.
• Excellent communicator, adept at aligning goals and fostering buy-in from global cross-functional teams.
• Rich technical knowledge and an ability to adapt and learn new products, technologies, and solutions quickly.
• Continual learner willing to tackle new challenges and inspire others to do the same.
• Led 5 major projects and programs at Confidential that included Legacy Media Processor Product Line, new use case development for SoC products, middleware development, Satellite SD Zapper product transition, and platform release management.
• Engaged international partners, teams, vendors, and OEMsto drive programs to successful conclusion. product roadmap, software release, and progress reporting.
• Resource Management Change Management Project Planning/Strategy Risk Management Project Budgeting
• Cross-Functional Leadership Variance Management Coaching/Training Creative Problem Solving Negotiations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• JIRA, MS Project
• Microsoft Office, Access, Visio
• C, Perl, C Shell, Python, Pike
• VHDL,, System Verilog, Verilog, MIPS Assembly, UVM, OVM
• SCM, Subversion, Git, CVS
• Linux, Android, NDS-CDI Middleware
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Synopsys VCS, Design / Module Compiler, PathMill
• Cadence Verilog-XL Simulator, OPUS, AXIS Emulator
• Signalscan, Verilint, Verdi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Engineering Technology Manager

Responsibilities:

• Returned to the Confidential . to earn a Master’s in Engineering Technology Management with Graduate Certificates in Project Management and Business Intelligence& Analytics.
• Currently ona team conducting maturity analyses of the organizational and project management practices at Confidential .
• Managed stakeholder engagement, preparing and presenting recommendations to the Program Management Director.
• Benchmarked performance across 7 companies; delivered maturity gap remediation strategies focused on specific strengths and improvement recommendations for project and portfolio management.
• Served on project team to report the history of and applications for IoT plus an in-depth SWOT analysis, M&A and R&D roadmap for Confidential ’s pursuit of vertical integration of IoT solutions.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-functional resources of up to 25 from engineering, release, QA, and marketing in all phases of the product development and project management life cycle.
• Led Agile-based product development, SDK release management, testing, validation and integration, and production.
• Conducted a market survey in gated communities and smart cities for the IoT product.
• Led product roadmap development, scope/project planning, scheduling and requirements analysis.
• Regularly interacted with business and technical teams, identified risks, managed the risk register and mitigated risks before they become critical.
• Conducted buy vs make analysis for Analytics and machine learning IPs; collaborated with the management team in vital business decision making.
• Led prototype development and product demonstrations to customers, trade shows.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team of up to 35 global resources in all facets of a product line development program for media processing systems, including hardware, SoC, platform, and customer programs.
• Delivered commercially viable products, developed prototypes for new use cases, led full product development life cycle (PDLC), improved quality/speed of SDK releases, and implemented Agile practices into development.
• Led end-to-end transition from Confidential to Confidential successfully for global engineering teams and entire product line (4 items with ~$25M in revenue from 70+ customers) for DVR, NVR, PCI Video Capture, Audio Conferencing, and other Video/Audio Codec applications.
• Coordinated new product marketing, customer agreements, partner agreements, and licenses.
• Led requirements gathering, documentation, 3-month release cycle, vendor management, budget management, SoW development, and product training for global sales/distribution teams.
• Deliveredembedded product PNX100x into production, including development of new SoChardware reference board, reference application, and platform device driver.
• Worked with VP Marketing, Software, Confidential Architect, finance, legal, middleware, design partner, and other cross-functional teams to assess viability of using this product in media processing product line.
• Developed road map, presented to key customers, secured approval to develop, test, support reference board for multiple applications (media processing, DVR).
• Successfully managed SDK and Patch releases for demos, trade shows, and mass production. Partnered with OEM (Fulhan) to develop DVR products.
• Transitioned 20+ customers into production to fully replace Tri Media Processor product line.
• Brought collaborative customer and rapid releasestrategies using theAgile framework with embedded systems.
• Led 4 major releases of the generic OpenTV Core middleware integration program for set-top-box useSoC platform.Presented at customer demos and trade shows. Rolled out BCaM process for PRB reporting, tracked deliverables on S-Curve, and managed validation/maturity overview.
• Assigned by the VP to manage interaction 5 stakeholders and partners (SoC, middleware, content access system, hardware, and integrator) to successfully transition the Reliance India PNX833x H.264 Satellite SD Zapper from Confidential to Confidential across multiple international locations.
• Took over during pre-production to resolve major performance issues and bugs.
• Improved communications for product with 1M SoC orders at risk.
• Executed 3 major releases of Nevis platform for Handan, resolving core platform quality issues and meeting new requirements within customer time lines.
• Optimized team performance to meet quality and on-time/on-budget project goals.
• Identified and leveraged strengths of each team member.
• Tracked individual deliverables to provide continual feedback and performance metrics.
• Set new goals and facilitated skills training and development.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed highly technical projects and a team of 10 through requirements gathering, analysis, and solution development.
• Led testing and verification, including test plan preparation, test bench integration, and system-level test execution.
• Coordinated delivery of a low-cost set-top box Confidential decoder system-on-a-chip (SoC) with SD and HD capabilities for satellite, IP TV, and cable providers.
• Project managed a back-end decoder integrated circuit that met industry compliance standards for high-definition digital TV systems.