Engineering Vice President

CHARLES F. CASSIDY

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Cumming, GA 30040 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ *******@*********.***

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SUMMARY

Engineering and Manufacturing Executive with over 15 years experience in

management of computer systems and complex electro-mechanical products.

Demonstrated capabilities in operations management; product design,

development and production; corporate strategic planning and the analysis,

selection and successful integration of acquisition targets. Solid track

record managing people and leading effective teams through participative

and collaborative management style.

( Engineering & Product ( Business & Product ( International Internal

Design Strategy & Outsourced

Manufacturing

( Multi-discipline ( Application & Embedded ( ISO Quality Systems

management: Electrical, Software Development (C,

Mechanical, Software & C++, C#)

Firmware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCIENTIFIC GAMES INTERNATIONAL, Alpharetta, Georgia 2007 - 2009

Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing

Responsible for the design, development and production of terminal

hardware, firmware and peripherals for this gaming market leader.

. Designed and released to production 4 new terminal platforms in just

20 months improving competitive positioning, with a team of just 15

electrical, mechanical and software engineers.

. Planned and executed 3rd party Asian manufacturing strategy to reduce

terminal cost by 25% and reduce annual overhead by $1M per year.

. Improved robustness and reduced cost by 10% through architecting and

implementing improvements in terminal CPU card and power supply.

. Coordinated testing by outside agencies and made appropriate filings

to obtain regulatory compliance for products in US, EU, Australia and

Israel.

. Enhanced product capabilities and improved competitive positioning by

developing new wireless peripheral, color lottery ticket printer and

optical document reading technologies.

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES, Warwick, Rhode Island 2004 - 2007

Director of Operations

Led design engineering and manufacturing operations for this leading

provider of photo ID and dye sublimation photo printers.

. Maintained double-digit revenue growth during the integration of

Atlantek into Zebra. Eliminated $0.5M in recurring fixed costs by

moving production from RI to other Zebra facilities.

. Reduced product cost by 12% by moving production to other Zebra

facilities and rationalizing the Atlantek and Zebra supply chains to

make better use of purchasing leverage.

. Enhanced the robustness and reliability of products by improving

engineering and manufacturing process, particularly in the areas of

verification testing, reliability testing and the handling of non-

conforming material.

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RING TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES, Reston, Virginia 2003 - 2004

Vice President of Engineering

Developed the hardware architecture for a high performance storage

subsystem for this startup designing high-performance SAN storage

subsystems.

QUANTUM CORPORATION, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 1994 - 2001

Vice President and Manager, Solid State Business Unit 1998-2001

Managed the cross-functional $12-15M business unit charged with developing

solid state storage systems.

. Led engineering team through development of 3 product generations, 5

ASICs, change of firmware architecture to C++ and change of

microprocessor from 16-bit CISC to 32-bit RISC.

. Doubled revenue through successfully marketing to two additional large

enterprise OEM customers (IBM, HP) and an increased focus on the

distribution channel.

Vice President of Engineering, Storage Systems Division 1997-1998

Directed the engineering team responsible for developing solid state

storage and tape library systems.

. Analyzed available tape library acquisition candidates. Performed due

diligence, developed and executed engineering integration plan for

acquisition of ATL Products which added storage systems capability and

$160M in revenue.

Director of Engineering, Solid State Storage, SSPG 1994-1997

Led the engineering team developing DRAM-based and Flash-based solid state

disks.

. Reduced product design and qualification cycle by 9 months by re-

engineering development and life cycle process. Achieved on-time

completion of project with product that beat performance specification

by 20%.

. Researched five to ten year business and consumer trends and defined

strategic response, which led to entry into consumer storage and the

acquisitions of ATL Products and Meridian Data.

. Instituted rigorous firmware code management and regression process

that improved product quality and OEM customer satisfaction.

Prior experience includes development of memory and storage systems at

Digital Equipment Corporation, development of signal processing memory

systems at Raytheon Corporation and development of automotive emissions

test equipment at United Technologies.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Digital Logic, Computer Hardware and Software Design

Post-Graduate Work

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts

Computer Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Operating Systems, Systems

Performance Analysis

PATENTS

U.S. Pat. No. 5,680,570 "Memory system with dynamically allocatable non-

volatile storage capability"

U.S. Pat. No. 5,459,742 "Solid state disk memory using storage devices with

defects"

U.S. Pat. No. 5,343,426 "Data formatter/converter for use with solid-state

disk memory using storage devices with defects"

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