Charles F. Cassidy
189
Cassandra Lane, North Kingstown, RI
02852
Phone: 401-294-6931 Cell: 401-580-9380
charlie@cfcassidy.com
Engineering
Executive with extensive experience in product life cycle management and
process improvement. Broad experience including business unit management; the
design and development of innovative storage systems; corporate strategic
planning and the analysis, selection and successful integration of acquisition
targets. Solid track record managing
people and leading effective teams. Served on senior management team that took
DLTtape business from $100M to $1.2B.
Selected Achievements
ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES, Wakefield, RI (2004 –
Present)
Currently
serving as Director of Operations for the former Atlantek operations that were
acquired in late 2003.
·
Lead design engineering, sales, manufacturing and materials for the
leading provider of Photo ID and dye sublimation photo printers.
o
Plan and execute integration of Atlantek into Zebra while maintaining
revenue growth.
o
Enhance the robustness and reliability of products through more
rigorous use of engineering and manufacturing process, particularly in the
areas of verification testing, reliability testing and the handling of
non-conforming material.
RING TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES, Reston, VA (2003 – 2004)
Served
as Chief Engineering Officer for this startup designing high-performance
SAN storage subsystems.
·
Led design and development
o
Prepared engineering plans and specifications for a high-performance
SAN Storage Hub.
o
Presented technology to potential customers and investors.
o
Designed ASIC architecture for SPortal and DPortal chips. Developed
plans and chip architecture to rapid prototype using FPGA technology. Evaluated
IP cores for Reed-Solomon ECC, DDR SDRAM and Fibre Channel interfaces.
QUANTUM CORPORATION, Shrewsbury, MA
(1994 – 2001)
Served
in several key roles for this global leader in data protection, including Vice
President of Storage Systems and Software in the Advanced Development Laboratories of
Quantum’s $3.3B Hard Disk Drive business and Vice President and Manager
of the Solid State Business Unit.
·
Demonstrated leadership of engineering function in multiple
assignments.
o
Led engineering team through development of 3 product generations, 5
ASICs, port of firmware from C to C++ and change of microprocessor from 68000
architecture to NEC RISC.
o
Re-engineered product development and life cycle process; achieved
on-time completion and beat performance specification by 20% on first product.
Previous product had been more than nine months late and did not meet
specification. Instituted rigorous firmware code management and regression
process that improved product quality and OEM customer satisfaction.
o Negotiated and executed
joint development program for low-cost tape autoloader with HP. Led development
of new low-cost tape autoloader and 3-drive tape library. Started design effort
for new class of network-attached tape backup device (LANVault).
o
Led joint development effort with major defense technology company to
use DLT tape drive platform as basis for an optical tape drive.
o
Developed protocol for Internet caching SCSI hard drive with leading
caching software provider.
o Directed group through ISO
9001 registration process, and obtained registration on first audit with only
nine months of effort.
o Served on Quantum Patent
Committee
·
Led 40+ person, cross-functional business unit charged with developing
storage systems; managed $8M annual budget.
o
Doubled revenue through successfully marketing to two additional OEM
customers and an increased focus on the distribution channel.
o
Developed understanding of e-commerce system architectures through
direct market research with key e-commerce leaders (eBay, e*Trade) to determine
system architecture and product purchase decision criteria for e-commerce
systems. Employed this knowledge to achieve strategic repositioning of product
line.
·
Led efforts to choose tape library acquisition
candidate. Performed engineering due diligence for acquisition of ATL
Products. Developed engineering
integration plan with Vice President of Engineering at ATL.
· Represented division on company-wide
strategic planning teams. Researched five to ten year business and consumer
trends and defined strategic response, which led to acquisitions of ATL
Products and Meridian Data and entry into consumer electronics with Quantum
QuickView.
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Shrewsbury, MA (1985 – 1994)
·
Led next-generation solid-state disk advanced
development.
o
Designed Reed-Solomon error correction schemes for
block-oriented memory.
o
Designed and debugged proof-of-concept solid-state disk and coordinated
performance testing.
o
Designed buffer controller ASIC for first generation SCSI 5.25” SSD.
·
Developed architecture for PCMCIA-ATA memory
card using NAND or NOR type flash parts with defects.
·
Developed architectural simulation of VAX 6200 memory in Pascal to make
queue management and scheduling decisions. Broadened concept to become a
generic memory performance model implemented in C++.
·
Represented Memory business on Storage Patent Committee, Storage
Strategy Task Force and System Architecture Review Group.
Prior experience includes development of
signal processing memory systems at Raytheon Corporation and development of
automotive emissions test equipment at United Technologies.
Chronology
ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES
Director
of Operations, Zebra Atlantek (2004-Present)
RING TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES
Chief
Engineering Officer (2003-2004)
QUANTUM CORPORATION
Vice
President, Storage Systems and Software, AD Labs (2000-2001)
Vice President and Manager, Solid State Business Unit (1998-2000)
Vice President of Engineering, Storage Systems Division (1997-1998)
Director of Engineering, Solid State Storage, SSPG (1995-1997)
Storage Architect, Specialty Storage Products Group (1994-1995)
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
Consulting
Engineer (1991–1994)
Principal Engineer (1987–1991)
Senior Engineer (1985–1987)
RAYTHEON CORPORATION
Engineer
Computer Design Laboratory, Equipment Division (1984–1985)
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES / HAMILTON TEST SYSTEMS
Senior
Engineer (1980–1984)
Education
Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, Post-Graduate
Work
Completed 15 credits toward M.S.E.E. with 4.0 GPA
Computer Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Operating Systems
Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, B.S., Electrical Engineering
Digital Logic, Computer Hardware and Software
Design
Continuing
Education
University of Michigan,
School of Business, Business-to-Business Marketing
Digital Equipment Corporation, Continuing Education,
Project Management
Patents
·
U.S. Pat. No. 5,680,570 “Memory
system with dynamically allocatable non-volatile storage capability”
·
U.S. Pat. No. 5,459,742 “Solid
state disk memory using storage devices with defects”
·
U.S. Pat. No. 5,343,426 “Data
formatter/converter for use with solid-state disk memory using storage devices
with defects”
