SUMMARY

Product Design and Engineering Executive with over 15 years experience in engineering management of quality high-volume products. Demonstrated capabilities in operations management; product design, development and production; corporate strategic planning and the analysis, selection and successful integration of acquisition targets.  Solid track record managing people and leading effective teams through participative and collaborative management style.                                                                                                                                          

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCIENTIFIC GAMES INTERNATIONAL, Alpharetta, Georgia                                  2007 – 2009

Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing

Responsible for the design, development and production of terminal hardware, firmware and peripherals for this gaming market leader.

·         Designed and released to production 4 new terminal platforms in just 20 months improving competitive positioning, with a team of just 15 electrical, mechanical and software engineers.

·         Planned and executed 3^rd party Asian manufacturing strategy to reduce terminal cost by 25% and reduce annual overhead by $1M per year.

·         Improved robustness and reduced cost by 10% through architecting and implementing improvements in terminal CPU card and power supply.

·         Coordinated testing by outside agencies and made appropriate filings to obtain regulatory compliance for products in US, EU, Australia and Israel.

·         Enhanced product capabilities and improved competitive positioning by developing new wireless peripheral, color lottery ticket printer and optical document reading technologies.

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES, Warwick, Rhode Island                                                     2004 – 2007

Director of Operations

Led design engineering and manufacturing operations for this leading provider of photo ID and dye sublimation photo printers.

·         Maintained double-digit revenue growth during the integration of Atlantek into Zebra. Eliminated $0.5M in recurring fixed costs by moving production from RI to other Zebra facilities.

·         Reduced product cost by 12% by moving production to other Zebra facilities and rationalizing the Atlantek and Zebra supply chains to make better use of purchasing leverage.

·         Enhanced the robustness and reliability of products by improving engineering and manufacturing process, particularly in the areas of verification testing, reliability testing and the handling of non-conforming material.

RING TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES, Reston, Virginia                                            2003 – 2004

Vice President of Engineering  

Developed the hardware architecture for a high performance storage subsystem for this startup designing high-performance SAN storage subsystems.

QUANTUM CORPORATION, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts                                          1994 – 2001

Vice President and Manager, Solid State Business Unit                                        1998-2001

Managed the cross-functional $12-15M business unit charged with developing solid state storage systems.

·         Led engineering team through development of 3 product generations, 5 ASICs, change of firmware architecture to C++ and change of microprocessor from 16-bit CISC to 32-bit RISC.

·         Doubled revenue through successfully marketing to two additional large enterprise OEM customers (IBM, HP) and an increased focus on the distribution channel.          

Vice President of Engineering, Storage Systems Division                                      1997-1998

Directed the engineering team responsible for developing solid state storage and tape library systems.

·         Analyzed available tape library acquisition candidates. Performed due diligence, developed and executed engineering integration plan for acquisition of ATL Products which added storage systems capability and $160M in revenue.

Director of Engineering, Solid State Storage, SSPG                                              1994-1997

Led the engineering team developing DRAM-based and Flash-based solid state disks.

·         Reduced product design and qualification cycle by 9 months by re-engineering development and life cycle process. Achieved on-time completion of project with product that beat performance specification by 20%.

·         Researched five to ten year business and consumer trends and defined strategic response, which led to entry into consumer storage and the acquisitions of ATL Products and Meridian Data.

·         Instituted rigorous firmware code management and regression process that improved product quality and OEM customer satisfaction.

Prior experience includes development of memory and storage systems at Digital Equipment Corporation, development of signal processing memory systems at Raytheon Corporation and development of automotive emissions test equipment at United Technologies.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
Digital Logic, Computer Hardware and Software Design

Post-Graduate Work
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
Computer Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Operating Systems, Systems Performance Analysis

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”