Engineering Leadership - Project
Management
Strategic Planning - Executive Team Building P&L - Start-ups - P&L
Proven track record of strong leadership and successful management of complex and difficult engineering programs. Projects under my leadership are consistently completed early or on time and on or under budget. Over 20 years experience in engineering and IT, two patents. Very experienced in product development, release to manufacturing, and product introduction. Over five years experience in marketing and sales. Strengths include leadership, simultaneous management of large number of responsibilities, people networking, technical ability, program and resource management, business development, strong knowledge of IT, and the ability to learn very quickly.
Reported to the CTO in the Corporate Technology Group. Responsible for growing new business units, engineering management of new designs, and new product introduction.
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Mobile phone DVB-H TV Mini SD Card and module – Program Manager
o Established relationship with customer and won RFQ for both the card and the logistics
o Managed all aspects of program from concept to prototype production, including PCBA, plastics tooling development, F/W, S/W, GUI, and ID
o Team consisted of antennas in Sweden; S/W in Chennai and Bangalore; plastics in China; and architecture, engineering, prototype, manufacturing test, new product introduction, logistics and marketing in the US
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WiFi Module – Engineering Manager
o Built and managed engineering team
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Led LEAN/Value Engineering program for the cost reduction of electronic susbsystems of a new automobile
o Team consisted of with VE in the US and Sweden, mechanical and thermal engineers
o Led to proposal for significant cost reductions in mechanical housings, air cooling systems, and PCBA’s
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Capacitive Touch Screens - Program Manager
o Worked with design and manufacturing teams in Shenzhen
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Digital Cameras - Program manager of cost reduction program
o Team consisted of engineering leadership in the US, design in Japan, and manufacturing in Xixiang.
Responsible for all aspects of software, embedded, electrical and mechanical industrial design and release to manufacturing for an end-to-end contact-less payment system. System components include a Java-based server platform, Palm and Symbian-based hand devices, and RF & IR enabled readers that interface to Point–of–Sale (POS) devices.
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Grew company to $3 M annual
revenue
· Built and led engineering team:
o Software group consisted of one senior security engineer, one java loyalty/gift card/financial platform engineer, one C++ application engineer, and two handheld application engineers.
o Embedded F/W group consisted of three engineers coding C and assembly on 8051 for the RFID/IR enabled readers. RFID transactions were based on the ISO 14443 and ISO 15693 standards. IR transactions were based on proprietary architecture.
o Electrical group consisted of three engineers for the RFID/IR enabled readers. Components included antenna’s for the 13.56 MHz and 134 KHz range, 8051 baseboard, Philips security chip, and IR transceiver.
o Mechanical industrial design group consisted of two engineers and one technician.
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Successfully managed a
large pilot program with a major telecom carrier of the ViVOplatform and handheld payment
instrument loyalty product.
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Established manufacturing
release process and released 11 products in first six months on the job. Released major product line and started high
volume (thousand’s) production in Xiamen, China.
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Successfully managed
certification program with major card issuer and shipped the first 1,000 readers to that
issuer for deployment that contributed 25% of Q1 revenue.
Initiated certification programs with two other issuers.
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Successfully managed design
and release to production in China of an OEM product for a major POS manufacturer. The milestones were met on time and the product
contributed 10% of Q1 revenue and for 34% of Q2.
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Successfully managed design
and release to production in China a specialized variation for a major petroleum company
for use at their stations. This was a
particularly technically challenging design and resulted in a patent. The
milestones were met on time and the product accounted for 36% of Q2 revenue. Initiated design for a second major petroleum company.
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Successfully developed Beta product for
Symbian, a major provider of handheld operating systems, initiated pilot program at corporate
headquarters.
· Established processes and procedures that greatly increased both the efficiency of product development as well as greatly improving ability to meet milestones on schedule.
Founded Nexcellence, provider of fully managed hosted IT services.
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Developed business model,
business plan, and VC and customer presentations
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Built outstanding
management team and advisory board
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Signed first seven
customers, including Regis McKenna Inc.
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Signed key alliance
partners including IBM and Apptix.
Acting CIO/CSO to Customers.
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Performed security and technical assessments
of existing client network architecture including discovery, evaluation, penetration
testing, and documentation
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Developed computing and networking
policies and disaster recovery plans
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Designed and implemented
network architectures
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Implemented desktop support
process.
Experienced with all Windows platforms, Linux, hosted email, automated deployment and remote management tools, desktop lockdown tools, intrusion prevention and detection, wireless technologies, firewalls & proxy servers, VPN & NAT, cryptography, network protocols, and switches & routers.
Managed a team of 75 people and all aspects of engineering development and release, transition to manufacturing and coordinating Beta and first production shipments of major new product line. Product included custom process control S/W, physics-based sensors, a large and complex mechanical structure, custom and off-the-shelf electronics.
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Received $45 million (50
systems) in orders in the four months following introduction, the best ever in the history
of the company
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Beta and manufacturing releases were
completed on schedule and in budget under an extremely aggressive time-table (when I asked
around before I took the position, many said it couldn’t be done).
Responsible for product development, sustaining engineering, and OEM sales of existing “core technology” as well as test and phase-in of new technology under development.
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Initiated and managed
program to integrate technology into Oracle database product.
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Managed pilot with major
credit card company
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Initiated and ran core
technology cost reduction program; reduced core technology cost by 22%.
Business
Director, 1994 - 1996
Responsible for all aspects of fingerprint identity verification product line, including strategic direction and planning, marketing and sales, strategic partnerships, distribution channels, and product requirements.
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Developed corporate
strategic plan
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Created and implemented
business unit strategic plan
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Developed several key
partnerships including VeriFone Corporation, Symbol Technologies, and a major automobile
manufacturer
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Established OEM partnership
program and signed a major OEM deal
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Built a national third
party distribution and ‘rep’ channel network
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Wrote white papers and
presented frequently at trade shows.
Managed all aspects of design and development programs including team leadership, functional specifications, reliability and cost analysis, documentation, Alpha test, Beta site test, and transition to manufacturing.
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Manager of 1S0 9001
certification program
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Streamlined the product
development and release processes as an integral part the 9001 certification.
Product Marketing Manager of a major product line.
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Market research and
product/competitive analysis, marketing requirements specifications, quality and
reliability analysis, cost and pricing analysis, promotional materials.
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Co-invented a patented
high-speed memory bus architecture
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Designs include a computer
motherboard, memory board, Qbus and Multibus-based DMA Ethernet LAN boards and a real-time
instrumentation S/W package.
MBA, Santa Clara University - Graduated with Distinction, Beta Gamma Sigma, 1989
BSEE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Dean’s list of Distinguished Students, 1982
ISO 9001 Internal Auditor
Microsoft Certified Professional.
Member, Mobile Payment
Forum, 2003 – Present
Advisor, Pilot Ventures, 2002 - Present
Member, Santa Clara University Leavy School of Business and Administration MBA Alumni
Board of Directors, 1991 - 1996
First (and only) woman to win
“First to Finish” in the SSS TransPac singlehanded sailboat race from San
Francisco to Hawaii (2000)
Private Pilot’s License
Other activities include motocross (KTM 200 MXC), SCUBA, road biking, skiing, golf,
watching sports (esp. football), and www.winebork.com.