Experience

Audio Precision

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2011 - Present



In the Light Multimedia Systems

• St Helens, OR

• Owner

  • May 2010 - Oct 2011

  Consulting for design, installation and provisioning of audio, video and lighting systems for churches. Consulting for design, installation and provisioning of audio, video and lighting systems for churches.



Columbia River Foursquare Church

• Volunteer

  • Sep 2009 - Mar 2010

  As a volunteer I designed, selected, acquired, installed, tested and debugged the entire sound, lighting and video projection systems for the new auditorium in Columbia River's new 35,000 square foot building in St Helens. As a volunteer I designed, selected, acquired, installed, tested and debugged the entire sound, lighting and video projection systems for the new auditorium in Columbia River's new 35,000 square foot building in St Helens.



Stech

• Chief Engineer

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2009

  Worked with three colleagues on initial phase start-up company focused on solar thermal energy systems for heating and cooling of small commercial buildings. Developed concept for solar thermal collector, storage system and integration with legacy heating and cooling systems. Wrote simulation to determine overall system efficiency and energy cost savings over a 1 year time frame. Worked with three colleagues on initial phase start-up company focused on solar thermal energy systems for heating and cooling of small commercial buildings. Developed concept for solar thermal collector, storage system and integration with legacy heating and cooling systems. Wrote simulation to determine overall system efficiency and energy cost savings over a 1 year time frame.



Kentrox

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Solution Architecture

  • Apr 2008 - Nov 2008

  Moved from Engineering to the Office of the CTO to build a new product idea funnel and to focus on the integration of individual Kentrox products into solutions. Initiated Stage Gate process to identify, scope and select new product ideas and enhancements for development. Researched customer needs for remote cell site monitoring including battery plants, network infrastructure, environment, power, HVAC and RF performance measurement. Proposed solutions using a mixture of existing Kentrox products, third party products and software developments to create integrated solutions. Worked with field sales to analyze and propose specific solutions for specific customers as required. Show less

• Vice President of Engineering

  • Jul 2002 - Mar 2008

  Returned to Kentrox to remake the Engineering function from a poorly performing remote team that was the result of an acquisition to a strongly performing Engineering Team located in our Oregon headquarters. Improved remote team performance to resolve critical field and sustaining issues while staffing local team to do new product development. Phased out remote team and ramped local team to produce 2 new product lines with a total of 11 new products. Worked with manufacturing to offshore high running products to reduce costs. Ramped up off-shore development teams to extend local development team to get more done with moderate impacts to budget. Worked with Product Line Management to conceptualize and define new products, develop requirements and drive development through engineering. Provided technical due diligence on several potential acquisitions resulting in two successful acquisitions. Show less



Oresis Communications

• Director of Engineering

  • Dec 1999 - Jul 2002

  Organized and led Oresis Platform Group with responsibility for all mechanical, hardware, RTOS and data path software development activities for carrier class high port density multi-service ATM switch. Provided key technical inputs to company strategic planning process as well as working closely with engineers and architects to select key technologies, select vendors and manage vendor relationships. Provided department functional management, drove staffing efforts, developed department leaders, resolved individual and team performance issues and developed and controlled budgets. Played a key role in developing the Engineering NPI process and getting Oresis through the IS0-9001 certification process. Drove Platform Group test automation process that improved confidence testing timeframe from 3 man months to less than 3 man days. Drove the release of 11 complex modules and the ISIS 700 Chassis through production release and into live network trials. Show less



Kentrox, Inc

• Director of Engineering / Senior Eng Project Manager

  • Jul 1994 - Mar 1999

  I led the Engineering and Core Teams responsible for developing, manufacturing and marketing the ATM Access Concentrator series of products at Kentrox. Worked with CTO/Product Management to solidify product definition then led hardware, software and mechanical design teams to complete development. Successfully lead the cross functional core team through completion of verification testing, use documentation, release to manufacturing and product launch. Staffed engineering team as necessary, drove resolution of field and manufacturing issues and developed new processes where needed. Became very familiar with Frame Relay, ATM, IP, Ethernet, T1/T3/OC3 physical layers as well as network processors, FPGAs, 32 bit microprocessors, continuous integration development process and the overall telecom ecosystem. Show less



Cadre Technologies

• SPO Engineering Manager

  • 1983 - 1994