Product Manager with over a half a decade of experience within a dynamic, global, high technology company. Particular expertise in developing product definitions to exploit shifts in technology and in underlying market transitions. Acute skill in understanding new and interrelated technologies. Passionate and results-oriented with exceptional skills in motivating team members. As a leader, facilitates individual development and strive for interdependent group dynamics. Combines deep technical understanding with a determined focus on success and execution.

• Proven track record of learning technology, developing market understanding and building strategic direction.
• Marketing experience in strategic product planning, market segmentation analysis, product definition and management and strategic partnership management.
• Diverse system experience in communications, networking, server and storage industries.
• Engineering experience in communications system design.
• Extensive skills in program management and product development. Have taken products from the conceptual stage to production.
• Considerable experience with acquisitions including group and technology integration experience.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) April 2004-present
Product Manager PCI Express (PCIe) Serial Switching Division

Highlights:
• Developed market analysis, business plans, business plan presentations, product definitions, product ROI analysis, partnerships, and customer relationships for PCI Express (PCIe) I/O Connectivity products in IDT’s Serial Switching Division.
• Developed the product road map for PCI Express I/O Connectivity switching products from the ground up.
• Responsible for the PCIe I/O Connectivity P&L.
• Development and operations, cost and pricing analysis, opportunity tracking, revenue forecasting, developing field/public collateral, internal training, sales and customer support.
• Presenting to strategic customers including all levels of management, analysts, trade shows and technical conferences.
• Develop close relationships with strategic customers (Tier 1 OEMs) and partners (Tier 1 semiconductor manufactures) to grow business (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Alcatel, Lucent, Huawei, ZTE, Siemens, Fujitsu, Intel, IBM, HP, Dell, EMC and NetApp).
• Helped lead the product marketing team to become an individually responsible and proactive team.
• Developed focus in the marketing team so as to facilitate major strategic design wins.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) 2001-2003
Senior Applications Engineer Telecom Division

Highlights:
• Strategic Marketing Engineer involved in all product definitions.
• Key player in helping the Telecom division to become it’s own P&L (Profit and Loss) center within IDT.
• Key business development role responsible for achieving over 200-300 leads/sample requests and achieve fast profitability in a new and growing division.
• Grew early strategic design wins with major OEM to initial profits of $1.5M.
• Quickly learned and mastered IDT’s SuperJET T1/E1 Transceiver (Framer + LIU) to develop training material for internal applications engineering teams and for securing Tier 1/strategic design wins.
• Developed a T1/E1 customer evaluation system design to be a self contained demonstration vehicle (including user programmable scripts).
• Grew the east coast and eastern Canada to have the largest number of design wins in the Telecom division for IDT.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) 2003-2004
Applications Engineer Supervisor Telecom Division

Highlights:
• Senior Application Engineer for Telecom products (exclusive of PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong).
• Senior Application Engineer for Stratum compliant clocks, T1/E1 Line Interface Units (LIU), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) voice CODECs (COder DECoder) and SLICs (Subscriber Line Interface Circuits) and Time Slot Interchange devices (TSIs).
• Specified and designed reference communications PCBs for Telecom products.
• Worked with, improved the integration of, and helped manage the application engineering team in Shanghai, PRC.
• Played an integral role in the merger of an IDT acquisition (Newave semiconductor) based in China.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) 2001-2003
Applications Engineer Telecom Division

Highlights:
• Fully designed reference communications PCBs for Telecom products
• Wrote all PDAEs (Product Definition Application Engineering documents), data sheets, application notes, tech notes for seven generations of TSI devices (24 devices).
• Received three technology patents relating to TSI products.
• Managed the Technical Writing group.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) 2001-2003
Applications Engineer FIFO (First-In First-Out) Memory Division

Highlights:
• Specified and designed FIFO applications PCB.
• Validation testing (bug discovery) IDT’s SuperSyncII FIFOs
• Designed high-speed communications PCB (250MHz LVDS/LVTTL target) using Xilinx’s Virtex-E CPLD.
• Performed signal integrity analysis using IBIS models and HSPICE models and developed transmission line simulations, PCB stackup and design rule specifications for PCB place route.
• Wrote Product Definition Application Engineering (PDAE) documents for next generation FIFO products.
• Wrote technical product data sheets, application notes, and technical notes for FIFO products.

University of California, Santa Cruz September 1997-June 1998
Student (Senior Project)

Highlights:
• Built a microprocessor based telephone with an RS232 communications port, LCD display, numeric key pad, and 900MHZ wireless speaker—awarded the Dean’s Undergraduate Award and the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award.
• Experienced real world problems involving deadlines, budgetary constraints, team work and most importantly microprocessor design issues such as timing, power supply, memory, part selection and compatibility, radio frequency FCC transmission power regulations, protocol resolution, firmware, software compiler, and more.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, June 1998 University of California, Santa Cruz

Comprehensive Honors
Dean’s Undergraduate Achievement Award
Chancellor’s Undergraduate Achievement Award

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I.E.E.E.) since 1996
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (A.C.M.) since 1997
• Member of the PCI-SIG since 2004

• Passion for rock climbing and backpacking
• Interest in photography
• Bikram yoga
• Skiing and snowboarding
• Mountain Biking
• SCUBA (Advanced Open Water Certified)
• IEEE professional functions
• Fluent in French
• Enjoy travelling