Experience

SR Technologies (SRT Group)

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2018 - Present

  Sunrise, Florida, United States • Successfully manage and lead multiple hardware and software concurrent projects with total budgets of $6 million and up to 25 team members per project. • Facilitate project proposals, estimation, and gathering requirements. Prepare schedules and project budgets for approval. • Lead cross functional project team from kickoff to launch to meet schedule and cost goals. Conduct weekly project status meetings with core team. Drive issue resolution and change management. •… Show more • Successfully manage and lead multiple hardware and software concurrent projects with total budgets of $6 million and up to 25 team members per project. • Facilitate project proposals, estimation, and gathering requirements. Prepare schedules and project budgets for approval. • Lead cross functional project team from kickoff to launch to meet schedule and cost goals. Conduct weekly project status meetings with core team. Drive issue resolution and change management. • Responsibilities also include weekly resource leveling among all company projects with other PMs and managers, reviewing hours worked, updating project plans with hours worked, reporting project financials, and preparing new budget forecast. • Prepare Month End Reports for contract projects to share with the customer which include project status, financials, total hours worked updates, issues, and risks. • Present project status, schedule, and financial updates to VP, leadership team, and customer. • Manage subcontractors and facilitate their interaction with core team to ensure their deliverables are met. • Flawlessly managed two company events where our technology is demonstrated and tested together with other competitors. These included the U.S. Army’s technology assessment event known as Cyber Blitz and the Wifi Rodeo. • Introduced process improvements for project estimation, change request, and the postmortem process that were implemented by the PMO organization. Show less



Dell Technologies

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

• Senior Principal System Architect

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2018

  Austin, Texas Area • Obtained PMP certification in 2017 since the role combined the responsibilities of system architect and project management. • Successfully lead the system electrical architecture of 30 products. These included: Dell Venue Windows and Android Tablets, Dell Latitude Education Windows Laptops, and Dell Latitude Education Chromebooks. • Responsible for gathering initial marketing requirements, scope of work, preparing the project schedule, product cost, identify project risks, and… Show more • Obtained PMP certification in 2017 since the role combined the responsibilities of system architect and project management. • Successfully lead the system electrical architecture of 30 products. These included: Dell Venue Windows and Android Tablets, Dell Latitude Education Windows Laptops, and Dell Latitude Education Chromebooks. • Responsible for gathering initial marketing requirements, scope of work, preparing the project schedule, product cost, identify project risks, and mitigation plan for each risk. • Managed and scheduled the work of cross functional global ODM teams. Enabled and trained them as needed. • Presented project status and phase exit reports to VP of engineering, marketing and procurement. • Worked with vendors and partners such as Intel, Microsoft, and Google to ensure parts availability and product requirements. • Conducted competitive and design-to-value analysis for all new architectures. • Managed the scope of EE features taking into account the schedule, cost, value and quality level requirements of the projects. Show less



Foxconn

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager & Technical Staff Electrical Engineer

  • Jul 2008 - Aug 2012

  Sunrise, Florida Project Manager – 2009 – 2012 • Managed the development of high volume wireless phones for domestic and international carriers that were taken to market and realized revenues of over $5 Million in 1 year. • Developed the plans for needed resources before the start of projects based on each project’s scope. • Responsibilities included leading the team from platform definition to ship acceptance. Coordinate work with engineering teams in the US and China. Interface with electrical… Show more Project Manager – 2009 – 2012 • Managed the development of high volume wireless phones for domestic and international carriers that were taken to market and realized revenues of over $5 Million in 1 year. • Developed the plans for needed resources before the start of projects based on each project’s scope. • Responsibilities included leading the team from platform definition to ship acceptance. Coordinate work with engineering teams in the US and China. Interface with electrical, mechanical and software teams, Program Manager, manufacturing, and sourcing to drive schedule and issue resolution. • Managed the project’s risks and contingency plans. • Responsible to maintaining the project cost within the allowed budget. • Presented project status at program and quality reviews to customer. • Worked with vendors and law department to create SOWs to enable engineering to procure unique parts that met the schedule and specifications for the project. Technical Staff Electrical Engineer – 2008 – 2009 • Worked in the design and integration of handheld products. Involved in the architecture study of the phone, schematic capture, assisting with printed circuit board layout and testing. Responsible for baseband digital subsystems which incorporate the Freescale and Qualcomm processors with emphasis in the memory, SIM, USB, SD Card and flex circuits. • Responsible for the audio section of iDEN and GSM/CDMA phones. Assignments include component selection; circuit design of the microphone, earphone transducer, and high audio speaker, and testing. Show less



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Electrical Engineer

  • 2007 - 2008

  Plantation, Florida 3G Development Team • Responsible for power management section for two UMTS phones. • Assignments included talk time and standby time measurements for Proto Certification and AT&T submission, BSP testing and battery metering, Testing of new components for regulator circuits. • Responsible for proto certification testing of the hardware, optimization of the SIM circuit, and conducting the required tests and obtaining the data needed for CTIA battery registration and certification.

• Senior Digital Design Engineer

  • 2003 - 2007

  Plantation, Florida iDEN (Nextel) Development Team • Responsible for the design and development of the processor memory, SIM, SD card, USB circuits, and Buttons Flex. • Involved in the architecture study of the radio, detailed logic circuit design, schematic capture, assisting with printed circuit board layout, testing, evaluation, and design certification. • Supported the SW team with all the breadboard requirements for the development and testing of the iDEN phone SW. The responsibilities included… Show more iDEN (Nextel) Development Team • Responsible for the design and development of the processor memory, SIM, SD card, USB circuits, and Buttons Flex. • Involved in the architecture study of the radio, detailed logic circuit design, schematic capture, assisting with printed circuit board layout, testing, evaluation, and design certification. • Supported the SW team with all the breadboard requirements for the development and testing of the iDEN phone SW. The responsibilities included collecting the requirements, designing the boards, capturing the schematics, overseeing the layout, and testing the boards. • Worked with manufacturing to successfully architect and automate the process for building the iDEN modems needed for the breadboards. The previous manual process was very costly, time consuming and had low yields. Reduced cost by 83%, reduced production time by 97%, and increased yields by 88%. • Created the uUSB accessories test plan and documentation of the test procedures. Championed the testing and issues resolution of all accessories.



Motorola Solutions

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Technical Marketing Product Planner

  • 2001 - 2003

  Global Sales and Marketing Group • Responsible for the worldwide launch of high tier (XTS 5000) and mid tier (XTS 2500) two-way radios that realized revenues of $1.5 Billion over five years. • Defined the market requirements and planned product launch activities. Conducted Beta testing of the product with customers. Created the content for product literature, web pages and press announcements. • Prepared business cases, conducted cost and pricing analysis of the subscribers… Show more Global Sales and Marketing Group • Responsible for the worldwide launch of high tier (XTS 5000) and mid tier (XTS 2500) two-way radios that realized revenues of $1.5 Billion over five years. • Defined the market requirements and planned product launch activities. Conducted Beta testing of the product with customers. Created the content for product literature, web pages and press announcements. • Prepared business cases, conducted cost and pricing analysis of the subscribers, features and accessories. • Interfaced with all disciplines including project managers, business team, engineering managers, quality managers, sales representatives, customers, competitors, and regulatory agencies. • Responsible for maintaining globally distributed portable product lines and executing customer feature requests and managing any product issues. • Participated in trade shows. Evaluated competitive products and provided strategic recommendations. Show less



Motorola Solutions

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Electrical Engineer

  • 1997 - 2000

  Plantation, Florida Advance Development Team • Smartcard - integrated a contactless smartcard reader into the ASTRO portable and mobile radios. Demonstrated the use of this technology to upgrade the radio's customer specific information, eliminating the need of a computer and cables. Performed initial research on the different readers and smartcards available, product evaluation, integration, and supported the software and mechanical groups. • Mighty Mouse – developed a miniature ASTRO two-way radio… Show more Advance Development Team • Smartcard - integrated a contactless smartcard reader into the ASTRO portable and mobile radios. Demonstrated the use of this technology to upgrade the radio's customer specific information, eliminating the need of a computer and cables. Performed initial research on the different readers and smartcards available, product evaluation, integration, and supported the software and mechanical groups. • Mighty Mouse – developed a miniature ASTRO two-way radio based on the XTS 5000 controller architecture and XTS3000 RF architecture. Responsibilities included the miniaturization of an XTS 5000 controller using HDI technology for board layout, researching smaller footprint components, schematic capture, circuit simulation, assisting with PCB layout, designing interface flexes, and power architecture. • Dual Mode Radio – developed a multi-service radio, which integrated a Nextel private network phone and an ASTRO private network subscriber in a single unit. Responsibilities included the interface design of the two units as they shared one user interface, re-layout of Mighty Mouse controller using HDI technology for the board layout and smaller footprint components, schematic capture, assisting with PCB layout, designing interface flexes, and power architecture for the unit. • Full graphic display - developed a full graphic display concept utilizing the Optrex quarter VGA display module and the Mcore evaluation board to create a market test platform to be used on next generation products. • Infrared - Successfully integrated an iRDA based infrared transceiver and an encoder /decoder IC into the XTS 3000 two-way radio for market test. The concept was used to demonstrate radio-to-radio cloning, Palm Pilot to radio communication, and computer to radio codeplug upgrades.

• Digital Design Engineer

  • 1993 - 1997

  Plantation, Florida ASTRO and XTS 3000 Digital Portable Team • Responsible for the design and development of the controller board, control flex, keypad board, and keypad flex. Involved in the architecture study of the radio, detailed logic and circuit design, spice simulation, schematic capture, assisting with printed circuit board layout, testing, evaluation and design certification. Drove resolution for ESD issues, microphonics, microprocessor and DSP crystal shift circuit optimization, and ALT failure… Show more ASTRO and XTS 3000 Digital Portable Team • Responsible for the design and development of the controller board, control flex, keypad board, and keypad flex. Involved in the architecture study of the radio, detailed logic and circuit design, spice simulation, schematic capture, assisting with printed circuit board layout, testing, evaluation and design certification. Drove resolution for ESD issues, microphonics, microprocessor and DSP crystal shift circuit optimization, and ALT failure analysis. • Member of the accessories test team that was responsible for creating and performing the test plan, and testing compatibility of audio and surveillance accessories. • Lead the design certification efforts. Contributed to the testing, responsible for submitting the data package to the quality department, and driving corrective action for all issues. • Responsible for the ASTRO encryption board schematic capture, overlooking layout, testing, evaluation, certification, and factory introduction. Trained factory personnel and technicians in the test, programming, evaluation, and trouble shooting of the board. Created the programming and test procedure manual for the factory. • Member of team that developed a pocket-sized ASTRO radio (code named ELROY). Team responsibilities included repackaging of ICs into 1mm BGA, the redesign of flexes and keypad, design of a new housing, and molded the Visar battery to match the mechanics. • Championed the Vocon cost reduction. Successfully reduced the cost of the portable board by $30 and the mobile board by $20. Responsibilities included feasibility study, cost and reliability analysis, interacting with vendors, and planning the work of technical support personnel.