Engineer Sales
Resume:
abkgn9@r.postjobfree.com
Areas of technical expertise: flat panel displays, photovoltaic systems.
Strengths:
. System Design and Development - take a product from research to
manufacturing
. Product Evaluation - evaluate projects and products based on thorough
understanding of technology and market, both PV (Photovoltaics) and LCD
(Liquid Crystal Displays). Focus on utility scale PV projects.
. Efficiency Analysis - elimination of inefficiencies in complex
electric/electronic systems
. Engineering Management and Training - build solid engineering teams.
. Business Development - marketing and network building
. International Experience - conduct business in German and Japanese
Manager, Business Development for CPV start-up
since Jan 2009
As the first US employee of Concentrix Solar I ...
- hired and taught US employee, taught utility engineers the benefits of
CPV
- helped develop power plants (early stage development)
- created tools and procedures for future employees, technical
presentations for customers
- initiated >$100M of business opportunities and created an extensive
network of business
- partners and the US strategy for company
- created an extensive network into all levels of government (state and
federal), as well as finance, EPC, developers, law firms and utilities
Business Development for pvXchange
2008/2009
- helped pvXchange create a network in the US on a part time basis. This
accelerated my re-entry into the PV market
- reviewed database on inverters - 18 parameters for 100's of inverters
Director, Flat Panel Sales Tianma Microelectronics, USA
9/'07 ~ 10/'08
Managed 12 employee sales company of a Chinese LCD manufacturer:
- selected and contracted law firm, personally acquired Tianama's most
strategic account,
- researched, created sales strategy based on research, hired new sales
managers
- personally conducted in-depth failure mode analysis of returned displays
in two cases which had dead-ended a year earlier and averted two law
suits
- implemented sales statistic tracking and evaluated sales staff
performance
- maintained a 30% p.a. growth path while most competitors were
experiencing shrinking or flat sales performance in 2008.
Manager, Product Development NTERA, Ireland
9/'06 ~ 9/'07
- recruited, developed and managed the Product Development and Analysis
Engineering team
- coordinated efforts with research, manufacturing and marketing
- led mechanical and electrical design
- took over evaluation and improvement of mixed signal IC after sudden
death of
former IC design manager
Senior Engineer/PM, Intel Corporation, USA
9/'00 ~ 9/'06
Senior Engineer, Corporate Technology Group (CTG), Intel 5/'04 ~ 9/'06
As display technologist in the Intel System Technology Lab I was a key
resource to Intel's display divisions as well as photovoltaics for Intel's
venture capital arm, iCap.
- evaluated various display and PV technologies presented to Intel by start-
ups
- supported display controller spec definition,
- led the Frame Buffered LCD Development project
- advised IP committees related to display and PV related questions,
- developed roadmaps for future display technologies and projects in the
Systems Technology Lab
- assisted with technology transfer to the business units.
- promoted exploration of low power technologies for handheld devices,
- led an Intel photovoltaics interest group for the purpose of pulling
Intel into the PV business.
Senior Display Engineer, CTG, Intel
4/'02 ~ 4/'03
- advised business units on new display technologies: what to expect and
which functions to provide in Intel silicon
- created display intranet page with >1000 industry links and >300MB of
educational material
- drove creation of display interface for handheld devices
Quality Engineer for Commodities Group, Intel 9/'00
~ 4/'01
- negotiated specifications for displays
- wrote qualification document for LCDs and the quality of display samples
- established and led the Intel Display Forum, identified overlapping
displays-related
projects and saved Intel approximately two man-years of labor.
Sales Engineer at Sanyo Semiconductor, Japan
9/'98 ~ 8/'00
- interfaced between Kodak Labs and Sanyo design engineers in the
development of the first AMOLED samples made
System Engineer/FAE, AKT, Japan
4/'97 ~ 9/'98
- Installed and serviced 2nd and 3rd generation CVD machines in clean-rooms
in Akita, Mie, Yasu and Kobe.
- set-up and trouble-shot robots, electronic control circuitry, RF
generators,
vacuum pumps, etc. All work was conducted in Japanese.
Assistant Engineer, Sanyo Solar, Japan
5/'93 ~ 4/'97
- designed 100W stand-alone systems for rural Africa
- evaluated solar cell samples used in Sanyo's HIT modules
Other Achievements:
. Created NGO (Non Governmental Organization) in Japan, educating the
public on alternative energies
. Created interest groups for displays
. Designed several web pages
Education:
BS EE equivalent - German four year polytechnical college.
Language skills:
. Fluent in English, German, Japanese .
. Proficient in French.
. Can hold simple conversations in Spanish and Italian.
. Some Chinese.
Hobbies:
. Languages.
. My own 10kW PV system (my design) : www.mesmer.us
Patents Pending or granted:
1-200******** Multiplex command on data line of digital interface
display devices (filed)
2-200******** Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in
displays
3-200******** Method and system to reduce display power consumption
4-200******** Method, processing system and computer system for sparse
update displays
5-200******** Method, display, graphics system and computer system for
power efficient displays
6-200******** Flat-panel display with hybrid imaging technology
7-200******** Field-sequential color architecture for low-power liquid
crystal displays
8-200******** Integrated energy conversion Photovoltaic
inverter
9-200******** Dual-face display apparatus, systems, and methods
10-200******** Display using light guide and refractive index control
11-200******** Electronic privacy filter
12-200******** Color scanner display
13-200******** Method, processing system and computer system for sparse
update displays
14-200******** Method, display, graphics system and computer system for
power efficient displays
15-200******** Graphics processor and method for controlling a dsplay
panel in self-refresh mode
16-201******** Distributed Display Apparatus
Availabiltity: on three week notice
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