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- Consumer Electronics
- As President of USAsia Consulting, Inc. I manage many products from concept through production.
- Managed product development for the largest satellite Radio antenna manufacturer in the world including GPS, AM/FM, multiple band under single housing for both aftermarket and OEM Automotive industries. Was instrumental in getting this company to $100 Million dollars in five years.
- Manage high-end OEM customer electronics for the leading catalog company in the USA.
- Mange development products for entrepreneurs that need prototypes and production of their products. Several products are the Ultimate Clamp Stand, unique video bags for X-Generation Sports to name a few.
- Develop and sell OEM branded satellite radio antennas to specialty markets in the USA, trucking commercial to name a few.
- Consulted with Gibson Audio a division of Gibson Guitars to manage the hardware development for three digital jukeboxes under the Wurlitzer brand name with capability of ripping CDs to a hard drive while playing downloadable music from the Gibson Audio web site or playing stored music in an MP3 format from the hard drive all from a wireless remote controller.
- Within four months developed ten prototypes of each type for use at CES2004 where they won several awards for new audio products in their category.
- While at Recoton Corporation I created and managed the Satellite Radio Product line for Recoton Home Audio and Mobile Audio Divisions. This included hiring all personnel for internal employees and external venders for the following elements; Test and Validation, System Integration with existing product lines 3rd party R&D, interim and final manufacturing facilities. I also trained local regional and national salesman, distributors etc. on all new satellite radio products.
- Full life cycle product development from concept through mass production of the following Jensen satellite radio products.
- SSR2000 installed system
- SRP2002 PNP System
- SR4500 Head Unit
- SRB2003 Boom Box Prototype
- Positioned Jensen product as the only radio manufacture to launch product of sufficient quantities of 20,000+ for Sirius Satellite Radio. If Recoton/Jensen was unable to achieve this Sirius would not have been able to launch and would have lost even more ground to XM Satellite Radio.
- Obtained national exposure with a three quarter page spread article in the USA Today on two Satellite products.
- Position Recoton brand "Jensen" as the leading product for Sirius Satellite Radio in the market.
- Developed the first Plug-N-Play satellite radio system for Sirius.
- Won Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award at CES2002 for innovative technology for the first FM/AM/Satellite Radio Boom Box, the SRB-2003. They also place an article into their March 2002 issue with over a million subscribers.
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- A guest speaker in San Francisco for an internal conference on Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, and Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service, SDARS. My presentation focused on current and future products, demographics and technology trends for both technologies.
- Also program managed the only OEM program that Recoton obtained with Alpine/Chrysler for the Chrysler "Town & Country" mini-van platform.
- Introduced the first RF based headphone technology into an automotive manufacturer. First order was 65,000 in 2002.
- Current orders exceed 340,000 per year and have spread to three other Chrysler platforms.
- Defense Industry
- While at Boeing I managed Test Engineering Department for the Brimstone Missile Program for the Ministry Of Defense, MOD, and United Kingdom.
- Managed the design from concept through production of 134 different types of test equipment to test PCBs, sub-assemblies and assemblies and full up live Brimstone missile at a budget of 8 million dollars.
- Manage the development of the missile launcher platform for ground test trails at Yuma, AZ.
- While at Electro Magnetic Sciences I managed the development and production of a critical system that jams emery communication signals.
- Delivered 8 Beam Forming Networks to TRW for the MILSTAR satellite Program from concept through mass production.
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