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Career Summary

 Alien Robotics, Operations Director, Pittsburgh, PA, – Implemented client partnering, product development, marketing, sales and business operations for this influential software and robotics development company. Led technology developments with and for Sony, IBM, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard

 Cadence Design Systems, Microwave Application Engineer, San Jose, CA, – Created microwave applications, tested framework functionality, documented evolving microwave circuit design tools and instructed leading engineers worldwide for this $1B+ electronic design automation company

 Martin Marietta, Microwave Test Lab Manager, Orlando, FL, – Managed automated microwave test lab developing classified military circuits. Built test systems, automated test operations and networked testing and data storage systems under DARPA contract for advanced technology company providing research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. Top Secret clearance

 Motorola, Research & Development Engineer, Phoenix, AZ, -- Semiconductor Products Sector; designed microwave circuits and fabrication processes

 Teledyne, Microwave Engineer, Mountain View, CA,  – Designed and fabricated model circuits for hybrid microwave amplifiers

Details

 Commercialized new marketing and artificial intelligence applications for AIBO (a Sony personal robot product)

• Designed software that added advanced functionality and greatly expanded performable tasks

• Enabled robot soccer-playing capability

• Published a website that would organize robot owners together for entertaining team events

• Promoted robot publicity and hobbyist culture

• Pioneered concept of after-market entrainment robotics

 Created computer voice recognition applications

• Wrote applications specific to medical, legal and business professions

• Navigation and dictation human user interfaces were enhanced

• Developed a highly-adapted user environment incorporating IBM’s speech engine

• Enabled physicians to dictate patient charts that satisfied medical billing requirements

• Alleviated demands on doctors to complete exhaustive formal documentation in order to secure compensation

• Product cut hospital medical documentation costs up to 70% and significantly reduced errors

 Developed new microwave design channel at Cadence Design Systems

• Set up new division to develop and launch new products as microwave technology expert

• Built state-of-the-art product design environment including software function manuals

• Enabled top-level semiconductor and electronic product design engineers to effectively apply the highest-level tools and achieve key improvements in performance and functionality

 Automated microwave lab testing process 

• Installed and administered HP-UX workstations, and PC local area network (LAN) environment

• Linked computer control stations with microwave test equipment

• Automated data acquisition and Oracle database storage interface

• Eliminated inefficient manual operation, recording and data entry procedures prone to operator error

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