Experience

Kinetic Technologies

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Business Development

  • 2013 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Develop business with tier 1 accounts like Google, Apple, Intel, Poly, Qualcomm and Amazon/Lab126. Created product strategy & definitions to attack new, high-margin business. Managed sales and applications activity on the Qualcomm account for very high volume QRD Qualcomm Reference Designs.



Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Field Sales Engineer

  • 2010 - 2013

  San Francisco Bay Area Technical sales support for major customers in the US Western region. Product definition and market penetration for Enterprise SSD power management. Defined the key products required for MPS to gain #1 position in the Enterprise SSD market segment.



Intersil (acquired by Renesas)

• Japan
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Digital Power FSE

  • 2008 - 2010

  San Francisco Bay Area Digital power FSE supporting tier 1 accounts. Zilker was acquired by Intersil.



GE Power Conversion

• France
• Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Western Region FAE

  • 2005 - 2008

  San Francisco Bay Area Penetrated and expanded tier one accounts ... Google, Cisco, HP, Intel, Nortel, Alcatel, Sun, etc. Defined an integrated rack power system including AC/DC 10kW front-end, fixed-ratio IBCs and POLs that dominated the communications market for almost a decade.



Exar Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• VP of Marketing

  • 2002 - 2004

  San Francisco Bay Area Global responsibility for power, optical sensors and serial interface products. Handled all areas of marketing including product roadmaps, marketing communications, sales training and business development. Established new products in digital power and a successful launch into the cell phone market. Defined a killer charge-pump camera flash PMIC that dominated the market for two or three product cycles.



Switch Power

• Founder & CEO

  • 1995 - 2002

  San Francisco Bay Area Switch Power was founded to address the high growth CPU market with fast transient switching regulators using V2 technology. The company partnered with Cherry Semiconductor to deliver semiconductor products to market leaders such as Compaq, Intel, Apple, as well as most motherboard makers. V2 dominated the Vcore market in the early years of Pentium processors. These IC products were then incorporated into a series of DC/DC point-of-load modules sold into the communications industry. Switch… Show more Switch Power was founded to address the high growth CPU market with fast transient switching regulators using V2 technology. The company partnered with Cherry Semiconductor to deliver semiconductor products to market leaders such as Compaq, Intel, Apple, as well as most motherboard makers. V2 dominated the Vcore market in the early years of Pentium processors. These IC products were then incorporated into a series of DC/DC point-of-load modules sold into the communications industry. Switch Power was acquired by MMC, Wisconsin based module manufacturer, in the fall of 1999 who was then acquired by Bourns in 2002. Show less



Linear Technology

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Field Application Engineer

  • 1993 - 1995

  San Francisco Bay Area Still one of my favorite jobs ever. Great company, great people and my first experience in the field. Thank you Jon Dutra! Handled core power rail designs for Intel, Apple, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and other tier 1 high performance compute customers.



Amdahl

• Director of Power & Analog

  • 1990 - 1993

  San Francisco Bay Area System architect, power/analog design teams, and power system bring up. 250kW power subsystem with an enormous amount of analog monitoring and control. Core voltage rails as high as 20kA with liquid cooling, protection systems and intelligent monitoring hardware.



Digital Equipment Corp.

• Power Supply Engineer

  • 1985 - 1990

  Greater Boston Area Design and debug power supplies for VAX mainframe computer. Led power system debug team to bring up power subsystem along with the power control and monitoring systems. Core voltage rails with currents up to 12kA, crow-bar protection, monitoring. Worked on resonant power converters with our partner ... VPI.



US Navy

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• OCS

  • Aug 1983 - Aug 1985

  Worcester, Massachusetts NROTC