Engineer Marketing

Robert E. Owen

Consultant in Digital Signal Processing and VLSI

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Saratoga, CA US-95070-4039

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SummaryJob FunctionsTechnical Marketing Engineer

Product Marketing Engineer

Applications Engineer

Technical Writer (FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint)

Technical AreasCommunications and Multimedia Digital Signal Processing

Electronic Music and Multimedia Digital Audio

DSP Computer-Aided Design Software

VLSI Processor Design

Typical OutputProduct Marketing Collateral, New Product Plans, Target Specifications, Marketing Requirements Document, Market Research, Customer and Training Presentations, Application Notes, Technical Articles, Data Sheets, Advertisements, User and Training Manuals

Education

BSEE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

MSEE Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

Work Experience

1988-Present Independent Consultant

1985-1987 Bipolar Integrated Technology, Beaverton, OR

Applications Engineering Manager for DSP and floating-point IC product line.

1982-1985 Independent Consultant

1980-1982 Fairchild Advanced Development Labs, Palo Alto, CA

Applications Engineer for VLSI DSP processors

1979-1980 Intel, Santa Clara, CA

Design, application and product engineering for i2920 and follow-on DSP processors

1975-1979 ESL / TRW, Sunnyvale, CA

Engineering and Product Manager for DSP floating-point array processor line

1973-1975 Micro Systems, Phoenix, AZ

Company Founder and Designer of Test Systems

Until 1973 Gen-Rad, Inc., Concord, MA

Design/applications of DSP instrumentation

Consulting Clients

A partial list:

Weitek

ARGOSystems

AMI/Gould

AMD

Analog Devices Inc.

µLinear

IDT

BIT Inc.

NEC

LSI Logic

DSP Group/Ceva

Fujitsu

IRIS/Bontempi (Italy)

Mentor Graphics/EDC (Belgium + US)

Medianix Semiconductor

Zoran Corporation

Anam Technology Inc.

Creative Labs/E-Mu Systems

Philips Semiconductors/ESTC

Philips Semiconductors/TriMedia

Clarkspur Design, Inc.

LSI Logic/ZSP Corporation

National Semiconductor Corporation

Chromatic Research, Inc.

Angeles Design Systems, Inc.

Infineon Technologies/Siemens Microelectronics (US + Israel)

BOPS, Inc.

TriMedia Technologies, Inc.

WIS Technologies, Inc.

Atheros Communications, Inc.

Career Summary

I am a hardware circuit design and digital signal processing (DSP) person by training. Initially I was a systems design engineer but then became a processor architect for ICs at the functional and instruction set level. Doing this I also developed an interest in hardware/software design tools for processors. Over time I moved away from design engineering into applications and technical marketing roles.

After years in technical marketing, I have moved more to the creative writing end of that job. As a consultant I most often work for marketing directors to create technical/marketing materials. These are in the form of data sheets, applications notes, white papers, slide presentations, news releases, technical magazine articles, brochures, user and training manuals, web pages, advertisements, etc.

My technical understanding means I utilize the engineering staff sources efficiently, while my marketing knowledge means I can work with little marketing supervision. I am pro-active in creating text and graphics so that most interaction is verbal and reviewing, rather than requiring detailed written input.

My skill and interest are in describing a complex product with graphics and text based on arranging its core functions into a natural hierarchy. This provides ease-of-understanding for the technical user, but also makes it straightforward to highlight features and their benefits for marketing purposes.

Work experience has been as both a full-time employee and as an independent consultant. I work worldwide because of my willingness to live overseas and because the Internet makes working at a remote site practical for documentation.

Prepared January 2003

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