Experience

Wondrous Roots Botanical Apothecary

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Business Development

  • May 2019 - Present

  Wondrous Roots employs the modalities of diet, holistic lifestyle management, nutritional supplements, bio-identical hormones, and organic botanical products to help bring healing and optimize health. Founded in 2005 and now headquartered in Keene, NH it has grown to serving over 2,000 customers & clients and a botanical apothecary of over 250 products.As Director of Business Development initiated a new strategic direction for Wondrous Roots by re-branding the company and establishing an already popular skincare product line with a tactical scaling initiative and operational capability that can achieve high volume product sales and maintain the highest levels of quality.Established new partnerships to ensure the best in-class for branding, packaging, graphic design, marketing and ecommerce platforms. Developed detailed audiences for the marketing campaign based directly on customer feedback for our products over the past 15 years. The audiences are used for driving social media outreach. Established an initiative to protect Wondrous Roots Intellectual Property. Initiated Trademark and Wordmark applications and have protected essential intellectual property as Trade Secrets.Responsible for marketing outreach and engagement with new customers through newly designed website and ecommerce store using BigCommerce SaaS model. Quality initiatives have been established to ensure product consistency and quality with documented production flows, work orders and detailed work travelers for the production line resulting in higher efficiency and lower production costs.



DomaniSystems Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Vice President of Operations

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2021

  DomaniSystems, Inc. is in the business of supplying cloud-based development tools and intellectual property (IP) to enterprises for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. DomaniSystems tools and IPs enable developers in these enterprises to deliver secure IoT solutions.• As VP of Operations I provide leadership and direction for the planning, strategic direction and operational effectiveness across the company.• Responsible for implementing a Software as a Service (SaaS) business model which is hosted with a cloud provider.• Responsible for developing strategic partnerships with companies and individuals.• Implementing and overseeing the company quality policies which are based on the ISO 9001 standard.• Building a cloud based IT infrastructure for the company’s development and release of products.• Extensive study and research of cloud based computing offerings from Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google.• Responsible for quality and final verification and regression testing of product releases.



TRAN Semiconductor

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering & Manufacturing

  • May 2014 - Jun 2017

  A private fabless semiconductor company which started operations by purchasing the telecommunication and consumer product business from TranSwitch Corporation for the continued marketing, manufacturing, selling and support of the TranSwitch products.• As Director of Engineering & Manufacturing, I was responsible for quality, manufacturing and engineering support for more than 25 products.• Direct customer interface for all hardware and software engineering support.• Managed final test, qualification, production, final inspection, packaging and shipping for the entire product line.• Managed a network of more than 20 consulting engineers for hardware and software development.• Responsible for IT infrastructure for engineering and operations activities.• Had a perfect on-time record for order fulfillment with telecom grade quality.



Transwitch

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Engineering and Operations

  • 1997 - 2013

  A fabless semiconductor company designing and manufacturing semiconductor components for the Telecommunications industry.• As VP of Engineering, responsible for all VLSI development including managing 10 global design centers and 300+ engineers located in the USA, Europe, Israel and India.• Successfully implemented more than 20 new VLSI products and brought them to mass production.• Developed and Managed a VLSI implementation team serving all design centers with physical design, packaging, DFT and production qualification.• Responsible for directing and managing a company-wide $10 million CAD tool budget.• As VP of Operations, responsible for all manufacturing, supply chain, strategic sourcing, sales operations and IT.• Direct responsibility and management of successful ISO 9001 certification.• Developed and implemented the TranSwitch Product Life Cycle methodology which governed product definition to production manufacturing including Marketing, Engineering, Product Engineering, Operations and Manufacturing.



Mentor Graphics

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager CoreAlliance & IC Design Center

  • 1993 - 1997

  • As Senior Manager of the Core Alliance Business unit, developed strategic partnerships with companies such as Analog Devices, Sarnoff Research Center, Sierra Research and others for intellectual property in the areas of RISC CPU, DSP, MPEG, ATM and Ethernet cores. • Directly responsible for Core Alliance intellectual property distribution, licensing and implementation for embedded IC designs.• Grew the Core IP business to $6 million in revenue over a one-year period.• As senior manager of the Microprocessor IC Design Center, responsible for staffing, engineering and support of worldwide business development and sales.• Successfully implemented agreements resulting in $3 million in revenue that included floating point units, graphics processor, embedded DSP and a servo engine for disk controllers.• Intensive world-wide travel to support Core Alliance activities within USA, Europe and Pacific Rim countries.



HP

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• VLSI Program Manager & Technical Contributor

  • 1989 - 1993

  • Responsible for VLSI activities within the Chelmsford, MA R&D Lab. This included release to manufacturing of four custom IC’s for the HP 700 memory sub-system which successfully went into production in 1993.• As Program Manager, responsible for technical leadership, business development, budget planning, CAD tool vendor development and interfacing, long term planning of future products, resource planning and team building.¬• As Technical Contributor, managed a 10-person team responsible for a memory controller that supported up to four processors.• Directly responsible for the structured custom design approach consisting of standard cell, datapath, customer macrocells all implemented with automated P&R and procedural techniques.• Responsible from concept to fabrication and test including initial resource planning, scheduling, team development, logic/circuit design, physical design and verification.



Kendall Square Research

• Senior IC Design Engineer

  • 1985 - 1989

  • Recruited by Henry Burkhardt, the founder of KSR, as the first Senor IC Design Engineer responsible for building a core team for the development of the KSR1 memory controller custom integrated circuit.• Responsible for design environment and new IC design methodologies using silicon compiler technologies. • Recruited by Henry Burkhardt, the founder of KSR, as the first Senor IC Design Engineer responsible for building a core team for the development of the KSR1 memory controller custom integrated circuit.• Responsible for design environment and new IC design methodologies using silicon compiler technologies.



Maze Technology, Raytheon, National Security Agency

• IC Design & Development Engineer

  • 1980 - 1986

  • Various IC Design and Development roles.• Responsible for implementation of an embedded microprocessor.• Design, development and test of dual port SRAM, crossbar switch matrix and a high speed modular adder which was granted a US Patent.• Developed CMOS technology for use in government communications equipment. • Various IC Design and Development roles.• Responsible for implementation of an embedded microprocessor.• Design, development and test of dual port SRAM, crossbar switch matrix and a high speed modular adder which was granted a US Patent.• Developed CMOS technology for use in government communications equipment.