KEN J. MORRIS

416-***-****

Milton Ontario, L9T 7P9 ac0zra@r.postjobfree.com

PROGRAM, BUSINESS & ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP * DESIGN & DELIVERY EXCELLENCE

Complex Project Execution – Speed To Market – Bottom Line Impact

A multi-dimensional leader with an extensive track record helping organizations develop and deliver leading-edge products – mapping out the plans and resources to optimize design technologies, improve efficiencies and implement programs consistently on time and within budget. Spearheads projects from concept through to production, selecting and managing design teams in cross-functional environments to generate outstanding results. Drives and facilitates change and growth.

Known for innovation that leapfrogs competitors. Strategic, collaborative, focused on quality. Has helped engineer products that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Expert in high tech environments – serving world-class clients in the smart-grid energy, semiconductor, automotive, consumer, broadcast and computer industries by implementing designs of ASIC, software, firmware, embedded software, production PCB’s, system products and SaaS services.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Product Development

Project Management

Manufacturing Design

ESW Management

Process Improvement

Vendor Relationships

Contract Administration

Risk Mitigation

Industrial Design & Tooling

IoT Solutions

FPGA Management

IP Reuse

PCB Layout Mgmt.

External Developers

ISO9000/TL9000

HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Managed all aspects of the first generation set-top-box ASIC programs from concept through research and development, field trials, release-to-production and end-of-life. Program Manager for multiple ASIC and driver programs that shipped high volumes (millions) of chips.

Doubled team size in support of very challenging program that became a highlight product during the company acquisition.

Organized alternative assembly and test processes to accelerate time-to-market of major program launches. Businesses realized $M’s of revenue; months before production-ready.

Managed board designers and layout team to release seven boards to fabrication in one month.

Delivered clean-sheet new-platform design for production on aggressive milestone date. Re-tasked the diagnostics team and produced early ESW feature code. Product realized $10M incremental revenue, due to early release.

Took under-estimated task-list and mapped-out the actual project. Managed product design and implementation for this $15M project that established the company as an industry H.264 leader.

Identified need for an FPGA design and Verification groups. Built an environment that produced modular, repeatable, documented and verifiable outputs, doubling design output.

Identified quantified flaw in new chip and initiated fix. Convinced client to continue production. Trusted and timely communication yielded $50M order within 45 minutes of notification.

Embraced challenge of obtaining a lead-client in a new market segment. Defined client’s specifications and developed products. Led engineering and marketing staff to obtain contract. Group developed multiple products and was sold for $100M.

CAREER HISTORY

VLSI CONSULTING 2011-2017

Consultant

Consulting with business leaders and improving product development organizations. Providing direction to software development teams, hardware engineering and systems validation groups. Creates and implements product development processes.

Consulting services include the following; Product Development assessment for a software engineering company, definition of a Product Development Process for an embedded software engineering group, SME for design-engineering agency, product management roadmap/biz-dev of IP-cores, architecture documentation for system/sub-system partitioning, Agile/scrum methodology & implementation consulting, IoT solutions engineering and valuation process for SaaS/AWS company.

Business acceleration accomplished by reducing time-to-market. Accelerates product development cycles by Innovation, Efficiency, Automation and Process Definition.

C-level and executive clients include; CEO at IDC Ottawa, CIO at PCAS in Mississauga, VP of Marketing at SOC in Waterloo, Director of Engineering at Cisco in Toronto, COO at GeoTab in Oakville and CEO of One Room in New Zealand.

SMART ENERGY INSTRUMENTS 2014-2015

Engineering Manager

Introduced smart-grid products and solutions to the market place. Developed and implemented comprehensive business plan elements with the objective of establishing key partnerships and growing the business. Worked closely with company executives to ensure strategic alignment. Implemented key strategies and developed products for the Transmission and Distribution business.

Led the product development for the smart-grid instrumentation start-up that brings time-synchronized measurements, synchrophasors and faulted cable segment innovation to the world's Utilities for IoT solutions using Rogers/Sierra LTE. Was the primary client-contact for managing programs, responsible for meeting deliverables to lead-clients including 3M, RuggedCom and Siemens. Reported directly to the company President.

CISCO SYSTEMS (formerly Scientific-Atlanta) 2001-2011

Senior Engineering Manager (Director-Level) SPV Technology Group

Functional leader of an R&D Group with the mandate to define the organization structure and direct a team of managers, architects and individual contributors - averaging 50+ staff and contractors. Responsible for technology development and product design for hardware, software, FPGA, verification and systems engineering. Assumes project management role at the onset of complex projects, for the concept and early prototype phases. Delegates standard design-process elements.

Led design and development teams of FPGA’s, embedded SW, verification, validation, circuit boards, daughter cards, mechanical design, tooling design and complete systems. Mentored and groomed staff, adapting to changing design needs of the business.

Defined the need for Diagnostics Code development, justified the incremental work, staffed the job functions and managed the team. Product launched six months early due to embedded software design of my group. Validated sub-systems and complete systems.

Managed the delivery of technology components to the business during very challenging design cycle, expanding the group from 12 to 60. Transitioned the product to manufacturing, established material flow, test methodologies and test stations.

oFour years later, completed another even more intense project (with eight-times the density), again with technical, operations and business success.

ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC. 1997-2001

Senior Program Manager

Planned product development and executed plans in accordance with client and internal requirements, for Multimedia Subsystems. Prepared DTV/ASIC development plans, managed staff and ultimately guided transition of key design teams to new functional managers for the following:

ASIC – Functional Block and Top Level, Design, modeling, verification and back-end

Core Drivers – Functional Modules, Architecture and Application Layer

Diagnostics – Initialization, Functional Tests, Chips-back bring-up, Block Tests

Validation – Hardware, Software and Reference Systems

Software Release – Process, Specifications and Release Notes

Responsible for stakeholder expectations, both ATI executives and client technical staff. Identified program risks, set acceptance criteria, developed containment and contingency plans. Communicated cross-functional program progress to the executive level. Managed release-to-production process and launched products into the Toronto manufacturing line.

Executed internal product programs: Rage Pro Turbo, Theater, HDTV, Set-Top-Wonder, WinCE SDK, Linux Software Development Kit and All-in-Wonder HDTV.

Managed ASIC spin of Rage-Pro chip, for 2x interface fix. Extremely successful product launch and high volume production. Managed Dell through quality issue and was awarded $50M contract as reward.

MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING 1991-1997

Managing Partner

Founded and directed operations from concept to delivery for the development of a Windows PC-based desktop videoconferencing system. Defined product development strategy and wrote architecture specifications. Created business plan, identified investors and obtained financing. Managed finances, with investors, SR&ED credits and secured two Federal Research grants.

ST MICRO 1984-1990

Field Applications Engineer

Managed the design of first ASIC program for the corporation, which proved the viability of the investment by successfully designing and producing a telephone-set ASIC, used in several NORTEL models – responsibilities included design reviews, technical milestones and production forecasting.

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo

Arts

Control Data Institute

Computer Technology Certificate

Halton Peel Enterprise Development Centre

Mini-MBA

Strategic Project Management

Risk Management Certificate

Learning Tree International

“C” Programming

Humber College

“C++” Object Oriented Programming

Cisco COLT Training

IP, Routing technologies, Networks

PM Educate

PMP/PMI

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