Manager Project

Craig Browning Stein

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688

949-***-**** (Home)

949-***-**** (Cell)

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Summary:

. Accomplished, and hands-on RF and Mixed Signal ASIC, FPGA and Systems

Engineering leader with many years designing complex products for cost

sensitive markets

. Experienced firmware/software manager and architecture lead

. Introduced and ramped more than 200 customer projects to high volume

production

. Achieved exceptional revenue growth by creative product definition and

precise engineering execution

. Increased prior company revenues from $500K per quarter to $200M per

quarter in 3.5 years

Work Experience:

11/11 to Present Knowles Electronics

Head of R&D

Products: Miniature Surface Mount MEM's and Electret Condenser Microphones

and Balanced Armature Receivers (transducers)

. Lead and manage full engineering team comprised of MEM's, Analog IC,

Electrical, Mechanical, and Eletro-Acoustic Researchers and Development

Engineers

. Develop design techniques and methodologies to improve overall transducer

product portfolio

. Lead RF design and debug efforts to address transducer susceptibility and

radiated challenges

. Lead and manage Program Management and Applications Engineering

. Own and drive full product development cycle through manufacturing and

sustaining

. Lead directors, managers, and engineers in innovating and refining

development, and sustaining processes that achieve maximum efficiency,

and scalability

. Work closely with the GM, marketing, and finance to establish the most

successful corporate strategies, product definition, and roadmaps

08/08 to 10/11 Symwave, Inc

Engineering Vice President

Products: High Speed Communication Transmitters and Receivers

. Lead and managed full engineering team comprised of 90+ USA/China R&D,

Analog/Digital ASIC, FPGA, System, and SW/FW

. Developed high speed (5Gps) mixed signal ASICs, FPGAs, and complete

customer systems for high volume Storage, PC, and Cell Phone Products

. Drove manufacturing, and back-end activity including fabrication,

packaging, test, and production

. Lead directors, managers, and engineers in innovating and refining

development, sustaining, and support processes that achieve maximum

efficiency, and scalability

. Served as one of the main technical customer interfaces and drove

solutions through the company

. Regularly prepared and presented technical proposals and presentations to

customers, partners, board members and other executives

. Architected current and next generation high speed solutions and products

. Drove technical innovation, and execution throughout the organization

. Worked closely with the CEO, marketing, and finance to establish the most

successful corporate strategies, product definition, and roadmaps

10/03 to 08/08 Broadcom Corporation

Engineering Director

Products: Bluetooth, FM, GPS, WLAN

. Grew a new engineering team from 8 to 125 engineers and managers

worldwide (USA, Taiwan, Korea, France, Japan, China)

. Lead 125 person team of HW/RF Engineers and Managers who designed

Bluetooth, and FM RF & Baseband Hardware, and Baseband/Host Stack

Firmware/Software

. Drove RF and Analog Signal Integrity initiatives throughout the

organization

. Guided customers in proper RF, and Antenna design and layout techniques

to fully optimize their systems

. Designed RF and Baseband ASIC test boards/systems and customer

reference/production systems for Cell Phones (GSM, GPRS, CDMA, & WCDMA),

Audio, PCs and HID Devices

. Generated test and qualification requirements for all system designs

. Drove cross functional team (Marketing, Engineering, Operations,

Manufacturing) in developing internal process improvements

. Created and drove cross organizational directives to increase company

competitive advantages

. Provided direction and technical guidance on difficult customer issues

that required advanced problem solving

. Represented company as the technical expert when attempting to win and

maintain business

. Worked closely with Contract Manufactures and ODMs to migrate our system

reference designs to volume manufacturing

. Worked closely with marketing and sales on product planning

. Owned and developed technical documentation and training collateral

including, but not limited to specifications, data sheets, application

notes, design guidelines, technical presentations, proposals,

reference/user manuals, etc.

. Owned all internal and external customer technical training

. Worked closely with Product Line Marketing and chip managers on future

architectural development

02/02 to 10/03 Broadcom Corporation

Engineering Manager

Products: Gigabit Ethernet MACs & Integrated PHYs/SERDES

. Lead a team of Digital, Analog Engineers who assisted customers with

designing Broadcom chips into their host servers, workstations, PCs and

Blades

. Provided direction and technical guidance on difficult customer issues

that require advanced problem solving

. Designed MAC and PHY customer and test boards using Cadence tools

. Guided customers on proper layout techniques for their mother boards to

achieve the best EMI and signal integrity results

. Drove Signal Integrity initiatives throughout the organization

. Developed customized SW and FW to meet specific customer requirements and

features

. Owned and developed technical documentation and training collateral

including, but not limited to Data Sheets, Application Notes, Design

Guidelines, technical presentations, proposals, reference/user manuals,

etc.

. Resolved customer technical issues that could not be fully resolved by

field engineering

o Detailed Analog circuit and system signal integrity analysis including

intense lab investigation

o Detailed RTL code and/or gate level investigation and simulation

o Architectural investigation of state machine and flow analysis

o Software/Firmware code review and evaluation of register transactions

. Owned all internal and external customer technical training

. Represented Broadcom as the technical expert when attempting to win and

maintain business

. Worked closely with Product Line Marketing and chip managers on future

architectural development

02/99 to 02/02 Hewlett-Packard Company

R&D Manager

Products: Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel (2 Gbps), ATM,

SONET, SCSI,

Managed a team of 15 people who designed, co-designed and qualified PCI

networking & mass Storage I/O HW & SW for UNIX Server Platforms

. Ranked as the top R&D Manager in a 200 person lab

. Worked Closely with Engineers in each step of the design and signal

integrity process

. Managed I/O hardware life cycle from the marketing requirements phase

through customer product release

. Designed, co-designed and qualified proprietary & PCI bused networking HW

. Integrated and fully qualify OEM I/O hardware on all supported UNIX

system platforms

. Served as hardware I/O consultant for the host platform back plane

designers

. Managed overall I/O card integration into our newly developed HPUX

servers

. Resolved all chip or board problems that are escalated back to the R&D

lab

. Worked closely with driver and firmware engineers to trouble shoot

problems and assure top quality board designs

. Owned all I/O regulatory and environmental certification

. Owned EMI, EMC, UL, CE, FCC Regulatory Compliance

06/97 to 02/99 Hewlett-Packard Company

Hardware Design Engineer

Products: Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, SONET (up to 0C48)

. Designed, co-designed and qualified proprietary & PCI bused networking HW

. Performed signal integrity analysis on all I/O cards and backplanes using

proprietary and industry software and hardware

. Wrote hardware portion of the product specifications and support plans

. Resolved all chip and board hardware problems that were escalated back to

the R&D lab

. Managed all field deployment strategies for releasing retrofitted or

reworked boards or chips

. Composed technical documentation to communicate hardware problem root

causes and resolutions

. Managed I/O hardware life cycle from the marketing requirements through

customer product release

. Served as the Hardware Consultant for OEM partners and our internal

software lab

06/96 - 06/97 VLSI Technology

ASIC Design & Verification Engineer

. Designed and verified specific blocks of a 10/100 Ethernet MAC using

Verilog

. Began Design on a 10/100/1000 (gigabit) Ethernet MAC

. Verified and characterized ATM SAR Chips

01/95 - 09/95 Bay Networks

Board Design & Test Engineer

. Designed and validated a 12 port Ethernet 10Mbps Repeater and management

module

03/91 to 12/94 Gannett Fleming Engineering (Transportation

Engineers & Consultants)

CAD Engineer & Project Manager

. Completed electrical power and lighting design using Computer Aided

Design

. Developed project schedule and managed sub consultants on a BART railway

extension and Caltrans road expansion

02/87 - 11/90 National Telephone Services

Senior Manager - Telecommunications

. Managed telecommunications engineers, technicians, and supervisors

. Mentored other managers and hired a 20 person staff

Hardware/RF & Software Tools:

Synopsys ASIC Tool Chain:

(Power compiler, Design Compiler Ultra, Formality, VCS, Primetime, HDL

compiler, DesignWare, Astro, HSIM)

Logic Vision Logic BIST and MBIST

AWR (Microwave Office)

Cadence Concept, Orcad (Capture CIS), Allegro

Cadence Verilog, Verilog-XL Simulator

Cadence Virtuoso Analog Tool Chain:

(Schematic/Layout Editor, Design Environment, Spectre Simulator)

Mentor Graphics:

Design Architect (Schematic Capture), Board Station (Layout), ICS (Signal

Integrity)

Hyperlynx (Signal Integrity), Pspice

UNIX (HPUX, SUN OS)

AutoCad

Oscilloscopes,

Logic, Network, & Spectrum Analyzers

C, C++, Assembly, Perl

EDUCATION:

MS Electrical Engineering

San Jose State University San Jose, CA

BS Economics

UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA

Patents:

1 issued #7514958

Several Pending

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