Development Management

Philip Thompson

CTO/Vice President of Engineering proven track record of delivering

disruptive new products and services to consumer, enterprise and service

provider markets. Full cycle leadership from concept to support, creating

powerful and energized R&D teams integrated with business vision, mission

and values. Expert in leading organizations thru cultural change and new

technology adoption to unleash creativity, open new markets and

dramatically improve bottom line performance. Custom adaption of world

class methodologies (Agile) to your business needs, "hands on" leadership

style, demonstrated ability to build partnerships, innovate, lead multi-

site and multi-company development and attract talent while delivering

great results, predictably. Invited speaker at industry events. Looking

forward to unleashing innovation for you leveraging my experience,

strategic leadership and attention to detail.

Building Teams to Deliver Results

< Led multinational/multicompany Research and Development teams tripling

release frequency (Ireland, China, Canada, Ukraine, United States,

India) (Optimized mix of contract and in house staff)

< Conceptualized and created industry disrupting products and services

< Redesigned Multi-National and Multi-Cultural Teams to double

productivity while improving product quality and release

predictability

< Led businesses to enter new markets, adopt new processes and integrate

new technology.

< Created and led cross company partnerships to fill product gaps, take

advantage of emerging opportunities, enhancing quality, raising

customer satisfaction and improving operations

< Adaptive personal style based upon values and vision, wide range of

team sizes (12-250+) and budgets

Business Integration

Innovation

< Track cross industry trends to indentify disruptive opportunities

(Components, Systems, Platforms)

< Incorporate emerging best practices and industry assets to improve

productivity and focus on value added

< Build cross industry partnerships to amplify company's value

Executive Vice President/

Chief Technical Officer 2004-2010

SIMtone Corporation - Virtual Services Cloud Technology Provider/ Desktop

& Embedded Software Client

Restored engineering team's vision and direction by focusing on key

customer needs, establishing custom processes and quality rigor. For

first time in three years, team delivered new releases on time,

meeting or exceeding business requirements.

. Doubled R&D productivity (Function points/month), tripling

release frequency, Simplified Team Design, Decreased fault

density by 100% (Introduced Agile and supporting infrastructure)

. Invented and led Development of new Windows and Linux based

Service Delivery architecture

. Led development: desktop software products, C++ based embedded

product (on sourced hardware)

. Transformed Internet Operations Center Software to serve service

provider scale customers

Philip Thompson

mPhase Technologies - IPTV Software and Hardware Suite

Transformed underperforming organization to deliver regular releases

on time, improved product quality by factor of 5 in 8 months, tripled

feature content in 12 months with optimized mix of internal and

external development. Led operations: Deployments in three countries,

variety of networks

. Led Development of consumer IPTV STBs and factory engineering

(China) (All aspects of design and realization including

conformance, integration engineering, production, DFx)

. Pioneered an Extensive Partner Program (Gaming, Digital Rights,

Video on Demand)

. World Wide Development, Mix of Internal and Outsourced

Development

. Prototyped and Developed Instustry's First Cablelabs 2.0

Metadata management system

. Designed, Built and Directed Operations Center, Remote OAM&P,

Monitoring, Tier 3, 4, and 5

Senior Vice President/ Executive Director 2000-2004

Lucent Technologies

Bell Laboratories Research: Created and developed new concepts in

Quality of Service Networking including application aware networking

and service layer for a new MPLS switch, Spearheaded initiative in

EPON technologies leading to multiple 802.3ah standards submissions.

Technology planning, acquisition due diligence, patent portfolio

assessments, competitive engineering.

GeoVideo Networks (A Lucent Venture): Realigned program with business

objectives, built entire new team and software system for disruptive

Internet based ATM/IP Store and Forward Video Network. Delivered

multiple releases on schedule between three development centers

(India, US, China) and three companies.

Wide Area Networking Systems Group: Led development of consumer and

small business router/firewall/VOIP/VPN devices: hardware, software,

physical design and conformance. Redirect product vision to custom mix-

match technology. 80% drop in field failure rates, raised product

first pass test yields to 98%, and decreased quote to product time by

40% to help support 50% growth of business.

Director 1993-1999

Lucent Technologies

IP-PBX Service Provider System Engineering and Marketing.

Conceptualization of new product category. Evangelist for service

hosted IP PBX offers including system engineering, public

presentations, strategic account technical support, technical

marketing and training.

Led all aspects of startup new business and technical team realizing

small business access device (hardware, software, physical design,

factory (Jabil), conformance) to take advantage of product line gap.

Led all aspects of business (P&L) and R&D including design,

development, integration, test, sales, marketing and support. Team

achieved Best in Class Development Time, Cited as Lucent "Benchmark

Product".

Merlin Legend Product Line was losing share in the marketplace, costs

were unsustainable, asked to windup project. Took over Led System

Engineering, Circuit, Physical Design, Firmware Development, Forward

Looking Work, ASIC Design and Production Engineering. Built cross

company team with product management, factories, sales and marketing

to rebirth the product, leveraging acquired multinational assets.

Product life significantly extended:

. Raised Production 5x, while dropping costs 44%

. Innovative VOIP capability, Function point/year increase over 100%

. Lowered field no trouble founds below 0.5%, Time to install by 85%,

New Business Creation: Led team to re-architect and redesign embedded

and small voice mail systems creating new product line enabling growth

of Small Business Voice Mail

. Reintegrated $15M/year business and grew to over $200M/year in 26

months.

. Changed paradigm for development using outsourced DSP software team

and risk managed partnership for Intel FLASH Technology. (Partnered

with Factory Sourcing)

. Inspired sister projects to rethink desktop telephony increasing

display unit constructs, differentiating entire product line from

competition.

Philip Thompson

Technical Manager 1984-1993

AT&T Bell Laboratories

New Business Creation: Expanded role to include technology road

mapping process, competitor technology assessments and became leader

of due diligence technical teams. Created organization and led

creation of pen based telecommunications products with Eo and Apple,

Computer Developed Computer Telephony Integration product line

("Passageway")

. Created line of consumer and small business telephony

integration products (Mexico production)

. Led First Intra Company Development/ Partnership (AT&T with

Apple, Eo, HP, IBM)

. Created First Product Brand (PassageWay) and first company

external SDK

. Evangelized Technology with Intel, Dell, HP and IBM (CHI to

become HSSI, USB 0.9, USB 1.0)

. First co-competition projects for AT&T with Microsoft (TAPI),

Rolm/Siemens (Versit)

Cost pressures from China and Korea were threatening low-end PBX line.

Architected and led hardware team creating new digital PBX: System 25.

ASIC development, firmware design, physical design, power, test and

certification

. Broke barriers between factory and R&D in reallocating design

functionality to reduce costs

. Built relationships across company to leverage existing

technologies and subsystems

. Introduced Digital Signal Processing, use of commodity

components, advanced manufacturing/test technologies to AT&T

communications products.

. Led design of new telephone line: very low cost/high function

enables by unique ISDN definition

Career Notes 1970-1983

AT&T Bell Laboratories

Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories Designed

hardware/software for Unix based computer systems. Doubled system

performance in one year, reduced factory defects by 75%, field "SWAT"

team leader for strategic accounts. Detailed UNIX systems knowledge.

Founder, Princeton Hardwares: Created company building custom

solutions for laboratories, schools and light industry while in high

school.

Awards

Lucent Technologies Business Communications Systems: Partner of Choice (2

times), Trailblazer Award (2 times), Council Of Leaders (3 times) Industry

Awards: CTI Magazine Product of the Year (2 times), Apple Computer Teamwork

Award, OSHA Best in Class for "Enterprise EMS Services", Business Unit

Diversity Leadership Award, "10 in 5" Quality Award

Technologies

Development Methodologies: Waterfall, Spiral, Iterative Prototyping,

Agile. Technologies: SSL, PKI, Oracle, SQL,, EC2, MACRO, custom tools),

Platforms: VxWorks, Android, Windows (XP, CE, Vista, 2k), Linux, EC2,

ESX, Vmware, MontaVista, pSOS, Custom (embedded products) Tools: Test

Complete, Rally, Bugzilla, FogBugz, SQL, Macro, Office, TeamWorks, Wiki,

Drupal, Sharepoint, Protocols: UDP, TCP, Wifi, WiMAX, MPLS, 802.3x, Frame

Relay, SNMP, SIP, H323, ISDN, ETR, POTS, LS/GS, Tie, Custom

Education

. BS Electrical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

University

. MS Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, University of Michigan

. Continuing Education: Technical (Software Development, Systems,

Technologies, Architecture), and Management (Software Contracting,

Strategic Planning, Needs Analysis, Technology Management, Leadership,

Organizational Design): PhD Candidate: Capella University

Comprehensive Leadership: Bottom Line Results

Roadmap Development

Competitive Analysis

. Benchmarking

. Industry Presentations

. Standards Development

. Project Management

. Product

Manage

ment

. Strategic Planning

. Inclusive Leadership

. Requirements Management

. Patent Portfolio Management

. Customer Briefings

. Sales Training

. Documentation Development

. Q/A Design

. Field Support

. Factory Engineering

. Due Diligence Investigations

. Partner Development

. Board Advisor

. Change Management

. Process Design/Metrics

. Analyst Briefings

. Demo Center

. Rapid Prototypes

. SDK/API Support

. Trial Management

. Technical Marketing

. Budget Management

. Software Contracting

. Rapid Response Teams

. Cost Control

. RFP Management

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