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PROFILE |
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Senior management
experience in Design, Development, Engineering and Operations, with
emphasis on software development and implementation, Management
Information Systems, production management, quality, materials and
customer service. Extensive experience in startup
operations. Earned reputation for productivity, turnaround
management, quality and delivery improvement.
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KEY SKILLS |
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Management,
Operations, Systems Design, Graphic design, Javascript, VBScript,
HTML, perl, other programming languages
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
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| DigitalMiracles.com |
1998 - Present |
| DigitalMiracles.com
This is a consulting organization that specializes in the area
of e-commerce and Internet systems design. |
Founder, Senior Partner
DigitalMiracles is a design
partnership that provides product and graphic development, design
and implementation services to a wide variety of customers. Product
focus has been principally on the Internet delivery of multimedia
data. Products are typically web-based and range from simple
websites to large database-driven systems. The customer base
includes virtually every market segment. Click here for a partial
portfolio of customer projects.
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| TIAS.com |
1999 - Present |
| TIAS.com
A privately-held ASP-based provider of business management
systems |
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Chief Operating Officer, Corporate
Treasurer, UI and software design
Responsible for end-user design and
'look-and-feel' of all production software; end customer interface
and graphical design. As a member of the board and management
staff, managed transition of the company from a small store building
package to a 'best-of-breed' general purpose management
system. Sales volume for company has grown at an average
30% per annum since 1999, while company cash flow performance and profitability has improved.
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INTELECT
NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES, Richardson, Texas
INTELECT VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS NY, NY |
1996 - 1998 |
| Intelect,
a subsidiary of Intelect Communications Systems Ltd. (ICOM, NASDAQ)
is a manufacturer of high-reliability switching equipment and
telecommunications equipment. |
Chief
Technical Officer (Intelect Visual Communications)
Vice President of Operations (Intelect Network Technologies)
As Chief Technical Officer of Intelect Visual Communications,
responsible for managing the design and development of PC-based
video communications systems.
As VP of Operations, responsible for all phases of Quality,
Production Management, Manufacturing and Process Engineering, and
Materials. In-house facilities included a high-variability,
low-volume surface-mount assembly line as well as final assembly and
test for high-complexity, high-reliability switching systems.
Specific successes included:
- Managed development of hardware
and software for a wavelet-compression-based codec and video
communication product; product was delivered on time and
at budget
- Wrote and assisted in filing of
key patents for wavelet-based codec and associated software
- Managed software and hardware
quality assurance for all products; also responsible for design
verification testing for all video products. No field
failures due to hardware or software design errors have ever
been reported on this product
- Managed development of the company's quality system and attained ISO9000 certification;
- Implemented a LAN-based on-line
computer system that provides integrated processing of
manufacturing, inventory, planning and financial data;
- Provided consulting for all
Intelect companies on design for manufacturability and design
for testability.
- Installed a state-of-the art
surface-mount assembly line; managed the design and construction
of the facility and its subsequent operation.
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| NetWorth,
Incorporated |
1993 - 1996 |
| NetWorth,
identified by Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing
companies in the U.S., was a mid-sized manufacturer of network
equipment prior to its acquisition by Compaq Computer in 1995 |
| Vice
President of Operations |
Responsible
for all phases of Production Engineering and Management.
In-house facilities included a high-volume surface-mount assembly
line and a cell-based final assembly and test area. Managed
Manufacturing, Materials, Quality, Management Information Systems
and Customer Service, leading the organization to the following
successes:
- Implemented a LAN-based on-line
computer system that provided integrated processing of
manufacturing, inventory, planning and financial data;
- Implemented software-based
formal forecasting and an MRP system to ensure stock
availability;
- Implemented software-based yield
tracking and follow-on process engineering that improved yields
from an aggregate 75% first pass-yield to 95% in the first year
of operation;
- Implemented a plant-wide TQM
program and managed the development of the company's quality
system and its certification to ISO9001;
- Upgraded the operation from a
"garage-shop" that utilized outside assembly into a
state-of-the-art manufacturer with a high-volume in-house SMT
line;
- Doubled production volume (from
approximately $28 million) while reducing product cost by
approximately 15%;
- Improved manufacturing cycle
time from 28 days to approximately 5 days and defined the
processes and equipment necessary to reduce this further to 12
hours;
- Improved on-time delivery to
customers from 25% delivery to first schedule date to over 99%;
- Improved inventory control and
inventory accuracy from an annual loss/write-off rate of
approximately $300k/annum to less than $5k/annum;
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| FUJITSU
PERSONAL SYSTEMS, INC. (originally Poqet Computer Corp.) Santa
Clara, Calif. |
1990 - 1993 |
| A
pioneering manufacturer of palm-top and pen-based computers |
| Director, Operations |
- Established the Operations department
from start-up through the point where it reached $24 million in
revenue.
- Managed management information systems,
quality control, assembly/rework, production control, planning,
purchasing, shipping/receiving, warehousing, international
traffic, export/import compliance, subcontract assembly, and
order processing;
- Implemented and managed a LAN-based
integrated applications computer system to handle
manufacturing, inventory, purchasing and MRP functions.
- Determined optimum warehouse siting and
established the distribution and warehousing, determined
make/buy decisions on all products and materials; managed
inventory investment levels;
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FAIRCHILD
CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT/NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR
Santa Clara, Calif. |
1978 - 1990 |
| Fairchild,
acquired by Schlumberger in 1978 and sold to National Semiconductor
in 1988, was a pioneering manufacturer of semiconductor products |
| Staff Manager, ASIC
division, Santa Clara, California |
1987 -
1990 |
Materials Manager,
Gate Array Division, Milpitas, California |
1986 -
1987 |
Manager, Domestic
Assembly and Test Operations
Memory & High Speed Logic Division, Puyallup, Washington
1984-1986 |
1984 -
1986 |
| Director of MIS, Digital
Division Director of MIS, |
1983 -
1984 |
| Director of MIS, Memory
and High Speed Logic Division |
1982 -
1983 |
| Manager, Software and
Operations, Central Data Center |
1980 -
1982 |
| Manager, Distributed
Systems |
1978 -
1980 |
| Various
software companies |
1968 - 1978 |
Programmer,
Software Designer
While in school and shortly thereafter, worked for three small
software companies as a programmer and software designer. Specific
area of specialization was Operating Systems software and language
processing. Projects included
- Design and development of
source-to-source language translators
- Design and development of
specialized assemblers
- Maintenance of compilers,
database and operating system software
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RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
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Video
Communications: ISDN or IP?, Broadband Technology
Review, March, 1998
"Why Hasn't Digital Video Taken Off?" . Computer
Telephony, April, 1998 |
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EDUCATION
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| BA, Stanford
University, 1973. |
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PATENTS
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Distributed
Video Communications System, primary inventor with J. B. Hales,
M. D. Mills. #DNAE-14,109, filed September 7, 1997
Streaming Video Control and Management System, primary
inventor with N. Page, VWSI-25,517 |
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