Experience

Mantle Inc.

• United States
• Spectator Sports

• Vice President of Manufacturing

  • Sep 2021 - 2 years 4 months

  San Francisco Bay Area



Sentient Energy

• United States
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EVP of Manufacturing

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area - Launch our new UM3 product family at Zollner Electronics and met our production commitments - Normalized our production plan and transitioned mfg. to a CTO model (pull with generic base and push with customer specific); eliminated our FGI and improved fulfillment timing. - Establish detailed cost reduction initiatives for each product line resulting in 20-30% COGS improvement - Leading Sentient’s “Quick-Win” Analytics project with FPL, model early failures from disturbance sensor… Show more - Launch our new UM3 product family at Zollner Electronics and met our production commitments - Normalized our production plan and transitioned mfg. to a CTO model (pull with generic base and push with customer specific); eliminated our FGI and improved fulfillment timing. - Establish detailed cost reduction initiatives for each product line resulting in 20-30% COGS improvement - Leading Sentient’s “Quick-Win” Analytics project with FPL, model early failures from disturbance sensor data

• EVP of Engineering

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area - Product Development of Sentient's new products UM3 (Underground Sensor), ZM1 (Lateral Line Sensor) and sustain MM3 (OH Line Sensor) - Managed 3 product teams (45 engineers); hardware, firmware, enterprise software, corporate QA and PMO - Certified MM3 Verizon enabled product and shipped volume production at EOY 2017 - Mentored Engineering Capstone Teams (2018 & 2019) at Texas A&M, team finalist in 2019 - Established compliance, reliability and power systems testing (built and… Show more - Product Development of Sentient's new products UM3 (Underground Sensor), ZM1 (Lateral Line Sensor) and sustain MM3 (OH Line Sensor) - Managed 3 product teams (45 engineers); hardware, firmware, enterprise software, corporate QA and PMO - Certified MM3 Verizon enabled product and shipped volume production at EOY 2017 - Mentored Engineering Capstone Teams (2018 & 2019) at Texas A&M, team finalist in 2019 - Established compliance, reliability and power systems testing (built and manage the processes)

• VP of Manufacturing

  • Feb 2012 - Feb 2016

  Burlingame, Ca Manage Sentient's production of MM2 & MM3 product lines - Actively manage new product enhancements, customer requirements & product costs - Expanding Supply Chain capacity, flexibility and efficiency



Ericsson

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • Mar 2011 - Mar 2013

  San Francisco Bay Area - Provide technical support to the release and launch of Ericsson's SSR - Supply Chain support for both SE & SSR products



Finesse Solutions, LLC

• VP of Operations

  • Apr 2005 - Sep 2010

  - Assembled an Operation’s team to produce our optical based measurement/control products for the Life Science industry. - Established core processes and infrastructure for rapid growth meeting ISO 13485 quality requirements - Successfully managed several multi-million dollar projects meeting strict GMP requirements. - Actively managed successful new product introductions



Pedestal Networks

• Telecommunications

• Manager of Mfg Technology

  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2005

  Provided technical direction for the operations group in the production of Pedestal’s remote DSLAM products. Supported the Supply Chain Manager with all production, NPI & logistics activities at our EMS partners.



Big Bear Networks

• Telecommunications

• Manager of Mfg Engineering

  • 2001 - 2003

  40 gigabit optical transponders for the telecom/networking industry



Agilent Technologies

• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Hardware Design Engineer

  • Nov 2000 - May 2001

  - Development support of Agilent's 60 GHz point to point network link - Technical management of ODM relationships



e*star (Earth Satellite Telecommunications Advanced Research), INC.

• Product Manager / Hardware Engineer

  • Jan 1998 - Nov 2000

  Development & manufacturing of e*star’s multi-beam linear phased array antenna - Detailed antenna design - Microwave design and testing - Near & Far Field RF testing


3Com
• Computer Networking
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Manufacturing Engineer

  • 1996 - 1998

Therma-Wave
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Manufacturing Engineer

  • 1994 - 1996

Raynet
• Germany
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Manifacturing Engineer

  • 1991 - 1994

LTX Corporation
• India
• Advertising Services
• Manufacturing Engineer

  • 1988 - 1991