Engineer Electrical

Mark R. Bishop

*** *** ***** **** ***** Vedra Beach, FL 32082 904-***-**** Fax.509-***-****

abp4k8@r.postjobfree.com www.markbishop.com

OBJECTIVE A product development or marketing position in the Jacksonville, Florida area.

EXPERIENCE FLORICAL SYSTEMS Gainesville, Florida www.florical.com

Chief Technology Officer

2001-Present

Responsible for the functional design specification of new products and

upgrades. Formalized the design process and managed product development.

Managed all product marketing activities including producing new product

collateral, corporate web site and product manuals.

Managed corporate public relations including press releases, press packs and

advertising campaigns. Increased press coverage 400% over previous years.

Deployed a SalesLogix CRM system to dramatically improve customer service

and better manage open development issues.

1997-2001 GRAPHX Boston, Massachusetts www.graphx.com

Vice President, Sales and Marketing; Director of Marketing

Managed all worldwide sales and marketing for Graphx. Increased total sales

137% in three years and secured significant new OEM contracts with Fuji

Photo Film, Sony, Polaroid and Eastman Kodak.

Conducted all negotiations, business analysis, and contracts for the asset

acquisition of a Macintosh product line to complement the Windows printing

software for photorealistic, color film, and wide format inkjet printers.

Managed all product and marketing activities for 12 product introductions.

Responsible for specifying product features, authoring manuals, packaging,

writing product collateral and press releases, and implementing sales upgrade

campaigns. Created a 7 hour technical product training course for resellers.

Managed a web e-commerce development team of staff and consultants that

implemented online shopping on an internally hosted web server. Created

and promoted a new corporate web site that increased customer leads by 90%.

Focused press relations on a top 20 select group that dramatically increased

coverage with a value of over 10 times cost. Managed tradeshow planning and

attendance that achieved 96% of direct revenue versus cost.

Implemented the corporate cost accounting and budgeting system to help

manage costs against sales forecasts and ensure fiscal year profit.

1995-1997 FLORICAL SYSTEMS Gainesville, Florida www.florical.com

Product Software Engineer

Specified and designed an automation control interface for digital video

servers under Windows NT. Authored and published two user manuals.

Developed a distributed control system for satellite antenna controllers,

receivers and routers with redundant inter-computer communication.

1993-1995 ENERGIZER POWER SYSTEMS Gainesville, Florida www.eveready.com

Product Process Engineer

Received the Leader Excellence Award for leading an engineering team in

reducing AA scrap by 66% and improving production efficiencies, saving

$665,000 per year.

Selected as the Most Valuable Member of a team responsible for reducing sub-

C cell manufacturing rework and scrap by 48%, saving over $130,000 per year.

Responsible for all capability analysis and certification procedures on four

new NiCd products and on over $3.5 million of new manufacturing

equipment.

Designed an electronic test system for grading product production.

Mark R. Bishop

216 Sea Coast Lane Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 904-***-**** Fax.509-***-****

abp4k8@r.postjobfree.com www.markbishop.com

EXPERIENCE TEKTRONIX Wilsonville, Oregon www.tek.com

Product Hardware Engineer; Co-Op Electrical Engineer

1989-1993

Specified and designed an I2C serial I/O expander standard cell ASIC using

Concept schematic capture. Worked with suppliers on first article parts.

Designed an error correcting algorithm for critical non-volatile data integrity.

Synthesized Verilog functional designs into Xilinx FPGAs using Synopsys.

Executed simulations using Verilog behavioral modeling and test vectors.

Project leader responsible for the schedule, development, user manuals, and

beta site tests of a protocol converter for IBM mainframe PostScript printing.

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Gainesville, Florida www.ufl.edu

Master of Business Administration, Marketing Specialization

GPA: 3.9/4.0, Matherly Scholar, 1997

MBA Marketing Case Competition Team Member.

Chairperson of the MBAA Student Affairs Committee.

Chairperson of the UFMBA Investment Club Internet Committee.

PURDUE UNIVERSITY West Lafayette, Indiana www.purdue.edu

Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering

GPA: 3.8/4.0, Graduated with Distinction, 1992

President of the Phi Eta Sigma Academic Honor Society.

Member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Academic Honor Society.

Purdue Engineering Student Council Representative.

Most Valuable Member of the Student Affairs Committee.

TRAINING Advanced Microsoft Access, Application Developers Training Co., Boston MA, 1999

Effective Public Speaking, Cambridge Community Center, Boston MA, 1998

Advanced Microsoft Excel, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville FL, 1995

University of Battery Technology, Energizer Power Systems, Gainesville FL, 1994

Statistical Process Control, Energizer Power Systems, Gainesville FL, 1993

Synopsys Logic Synthesis with Verilog, Synopsys, Mountain View CA, 1993

Digital Design Simulation Using Verilog-XL, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR, 1992

Cadence Concept Schematic Capture, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR, 1992

COMPUTER Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP, DOS, UNIX, Macintosh.

SKILLS Languages: C, MS Visual C++, Visual Basic, Verilog, Pascal, Fortran, Lisp, HTML.

Web Design: Dreamweaver, HomeSite, MS FrontPage, Telnet, WS-FTP

Hardware Design: Cadence Concept, Synopsis, PCAD, ORCAD, PADS Logic.

Editors: MS Word, MS Works, WordPerfect, Vi, Emacs.

Graphics: MS PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Acrobat.

Data Analysis: MS Excel, MS Access, FileMaker, STORM, Monarch, HMS.

Communications: MS Outlook, MS IE, Navigator, ProComm, Laplink, TCP/IP

LANGUAGES Fluent Spanish speaker; Lived in Ecuador, South America for 10 years, 1972-82.

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