Project Manager Electrical Engineer
Resume:
James S. Toreson
Off: 775-***-****
Alamo, NV 89001
Cell: 818-***-****
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Seeking opportunities in entrepreneurially oriented companies that challenge my executive
Objective
skills in leadership, creative problem solving, and high-tech business development.
Summary Over 30 years in the electronics industry with over 20 years of experience as chief executive.
Business environments include: start-ups, initial public offerings, R&D partnerships, far-east
joint-ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, and turn-arounds. Experience in executive
management includes:
MARKETING: 25 years of experience in the world market for high-tech products in the
field of computers, peripherals, software, security systems, medical, solar, and small rotary,
internal combustion engines. Specific management experience includes: OEM marketing,
consumer product marketing, product management, distribution channel management,
advertising, promotional management, and international business (15 years in China).
ENGINEERING: Formally educated as an electrical engineer, having specific design
expertise in analog and digital electronics, logic design, computer design, real-time computer
control, software, integrated circuits, and rotating magnetic storage device technology.
MANUFACTURING: 20 years of experience in manufacturing technology including:
quality control, materials management, JIT production, process control, and manufacturing
engineering. Eight years of experience in flexible automation, statistical process control
(SPC), and quality systems including ISO 9000/13485 and Six Sigma programs.
FINANCE: 20 years of experience in business finance including: IPOs, reverse mergers,
negotiating debt financing, equity financing, leasing, and debt restructuring. Ten years of
experience in SEC financial reporting and investor relations for publicly held corporations.
Raised over $130 million in the public and private equity markets.
Owner and CEO TORESON INUSTRIES, INC., Alamo, Nevada
Founded Toreson Industries, Inc. in 1983 as a real property development company.
1983
Successfully developed a high-end residential subdivision and an industrial subdivision in
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Northern Nevada in the mid to late 80 s. Currently developing a 1000 acre residential,
Present
commercial, and industrial subdivision in Lincoln County, Nevada. Developing utility-scale
solar plants using solar PV technology in Southern Nevada totaling over 100 Megawatts.
See www.toreson.com and www.lincolnestates.com
Owner and CEO ONSHORE, INC., Los Angeles, California
Founded ONSHORE in 1990 as a management consulting business, specializing in serving
1989 companies involved in technology based products and services. Key assignments and results
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have been:
Present
CEO of Freedom Motors, Inc., in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing
2004 and marketing of innovative, rotary internal combustion engines for the under-100
to horsepower market www.freedom-motors.com. These engines lead the market in low-cost,
Present
reliability, power to weight ratio, energy efficiency, and low part count. Landed a multi-
million dollar OEM contract with a major power tool company.
CEO of Cell Robotics, Inc., a public company, in the business of designing, developing,
2005 and manufacturing of a patented, laser-based medical device, used by diabetics, to reduce the
to pain and trauma of monitoring blood sugar levels. Completed a turn-around business plan,
2006 raised debt and equity funding, and sourced a merger with a Chinese company.
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CEO of ChineseFN, an Internet portal serving the world-wide ethnic Chinese marketplace
1990
for financial services with a focus on stocks, and hedge funds based on currency trading.
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Refined the company s business plan and completed a private placement of debt and equity
2003
of one million dollars www.chinesefn.com. Developed strategic partnering agreements with
major corporations seeking to penetrate the Chinese financial market such as Charles
Schwab and FXCM. Developed business models to monetize the traffic coming to the
portal by marketing third parties products and services using banner ads, email marketing
and China-based call centers. Positioned the company to become a public company.
VP Marketing and Sales of APPIANT Technology, Inc., a NASDAQ company, in the
business of providing software and ASP services for speech recognition enabled, unified
messaging, unified communications, and call centers. Developed a business plan for global
call center business; landed orders totaling several millions of dollars for unified messaging
and call center services and sourced a multi-million dollar equity capital infusion.
VP Business Development of Sanctuary Critical Storage, Inc., a company in the business
of provided secured mass storage for Internet data centers. Developed a business plan and
established strategic partnerships with corporations such as RSA, Dell Computer, EMC, and
Sandia National Laboratories.
CEO of Forte Systems, Inc., an application software development company specializing in
developing custom software for the automotive industry that facilitates Web based B2B
eCommerce. Developed business plans, established multi-million dollar contract with
General Motors and developed two $5 million merger deals with NASDAQ companies.
Interim president of APAQ Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of personal computers.
Landed a nationwide, multi-million dollar contract with CompUSA. Developed and
marketed a new line of personal computers for the NT server market and the high-end, NT-
based technical workstation market for CAD/CAM and 3D animation applications.
President of a company in the UNIX-based computer market. This company built its own
hardware and did its own UNIX port. A major new product was developed to enter into the
market for fault-tolerant mass storage systems.
CEO OMNISHORE, INC., Carson City, Nevada
1987 Founded OMNISHORE as a world-class manufacturer of computer components and systems.
In the first year of operation, the company landed major contracts from Dell Computer,
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Control Data Corporation, Proteon, Memorex-Telex and several other companies. The sales in
1990 the first year grew to over $10 million dollars. Had direct responsibility for sales and
marketing. Successfully negotiated a line of credit with Fidelcor for over $10 million dollars.
Manufacturing technologies included: printed circuit board assembly using surface-mounted
devices (SMT) and through-hole devices, Winchester disk drive assembly in class 100 clean
rooms, and complete turn-key manufacturing of personal computers
CEO XEBEC CORPORATION, Sunnyvale, California
Founded Xebec in 1974 to enter the hard disk controller market with only $5,000 of capital.
1974
The company grew on retained earning to over $30 million by 1982. In 1982, the company
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landed a $300 million OEM contract from IBM to design and manufacture a hard disk
1989
controller for the PC-XT personal computer. In one year, revenues grew to over $150 million,
which was fueled by an IPO on NASDAQ and secondary offerings with proceeds of over $80
million. Led a product and customer diversification program to alleviate the high account
concentration of the IBM business. This strategy was successful and led to the spinout of
several businesses. Significant accomplishments include:
Designed, manufactured, and marketed the world's first micro-programmed, error
correcting disk controller for high performance hard disk drives, attached to various
minicomputers of this era.
Led the design, manufacture, and marketing of the world's first, low cost, gate-array-based,
error correcting disk controller for 5-1/4" hard disk drives, which attached to various
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microcomputers of this era. This technology was used to cr eate the IBM PC XT product
line; the world s first personal computer with a built-in hard drive.
Established a state-of-the-art, high volume, high quality, automated manufacturing facility
in the USA for the assembly of printed circuit boards. This operation achieved worldwide
recognition for superior quality, including the worldwide top quality award from IBM.
Created the following subsidiaries to diversify the company's dependency on IBM:
OMNISHORE, in the business of contract-manufacturing computer equipment and
subassemblies; DASTEK, in the business of thin-film magnetic heads; INFORMATION
MEMORIES, in the business of thin-film media; AHEAD TECHNOLOGY, in the business
of mechanical heads: and EPELO, in the business of Winchester disk drives.
Engineering Manager SPECTRA PHYSICS, Mountain View, California
Successfully led a team of 25 people to design and manufacture a universal product code
1973
(UPC) reader (scanner) for the supermarket industry. This led to a $10 million dollar order
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from NCR Corporation and launched Spectra-Physics into a leadership position in the field of
1974 supermarket scanners.
Project Manager HEWLETT PACKARD, Mountain View, California
Designed and put into production several minicomputer products including Universal I/O
1971
interfaces, line printers controllers and the world's first fully micro-programmed
to minicomputer, the HP-21MX. Developed the LSI strategy for the Data Systems Division,
1973 which led to the successful establishment of a state-of-the-art CMOS Silicon-on-Sapphire
process and high performance, low power custom LSI circuits.
Project Manager MEMOREX, Santa Clara, California
1969 Co-Founder and project manager for a business unit that built modems, multiplexers, and
communications front ends for IBM mainframe computers. Was chief architect and design
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engineer for remote multiplexer product line and Autocall feature for the Memorex 1270
1970
terminal control unit. Key member of the design team that developed the Memorex 1275, a
micro-programmed terminal control unit to compete with the IBM 3705.
Project Manager BELL LABORATORIES, Holmdel, New Jersey
Contributed to the design of a highly reliable (99.9998% uptime), fault-tolerant computer
1967
based telephony system for use in the telephone network operated by Bell Telephone
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Company. Designed and built a state-of-the-art analyzer for real-time software debugging.
1970
BSEE, University of Michigan, 1967, with Honors
Education
MSEE, University of Michigan, 1968, with Honors
PhD EE, University of Pennsylvania (Completed Coursework)
Dr. Science, University of Nevada- Reno, 1985
Honor
Societies TAU BETA PI, ETA KAPPA NU
Author of several patents in the Winchester disk drive and controller field
Patents
Conference Speaker at NASA, Dataquest, InfoCorp, Robotics West, etc
Speaking
Commencement Speaker, University of Nevada 1985
Engagements
Several "Road Show" Presentations to Security Analysts
Government Education for the Manufacturing World of the Future," - National Academy of Engineering
Committees "Educational Excellence K-12," - Nevada Governor's Committee
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