GEORGE M. ABDELNOUR

Raleigh, NC ***** 919-***-**** ac1iqd@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications Summary:

Engineer and Manager of hardware development at a solid organization, bringing 20+ years executive leadership experience in directing up to 50 personnel, and skills in listening, problem solving, decision making, communications, developing and maintaining positive relationships with staff and executive team. Fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

Product Development

Product Management

Project Management

Program Management

Product Integration

Executive Management

Staff Development

New Product Introduction

Performance Management

Hardware Product Lifecycle

Software Product Lifecycle

Vendor Relations

Supplier Relations

Customer Relations

Cross-functional Teams

Professional Summary:

ORACLE RTP, NC 09/2013 – 10/2016

Senior Principal Product Manager 05/2015 – 10/2016

Spearheaded and managed the conversion of all proprietary hardware to meet European standards for Hazardous Materials, re-opening the EU market and resulting in a 15% increase in revenue.

Conducted market research to rationalize segment opportunities using Agile methodologies.

Published functional specifications for a switch blade, two X-86 server designs, and the performance and capacity specifications for LTE routing.

Managed $55M lifecycle program for proprietary platforms, and directed customer installations, maintaining cost efficiencies based on space and power allocation.

Director, Software Development 09/2013 – 05/2015

Oversaw the Operational Integration effort in to Oracle Corp after Oracle acquired Tekelec. Converted processes, tools, and methods of operations, with no impact to the business.

Led the LTE network monitoring software development group, a global team across three countries, through re-architecture and the first successful release.

Overhauled the Design Services support group supporting the development community. Introduced automation in software build and test, resulting in a 15% improvement in software build and release cycle.

Instituted a problem ticketing system for the development community to raise any development tool issues.

Worked closely with the networking group to provide networking interconnects for all Oracle Communications products.

TEKELEC, Inc. RTP, NC 11/2000 – 09/2013

Director, Hardware Development 03/2008 – 09/2013

Directed a 50 person, $15M development organization. Group consisted of electrical, mechanical, diagnostics and support engineers.

Instituted new development processes that cut down design cycle time by 10% and improved quality by 13%.

Managed staff, resources, budgets, and project schedules to ensure each project is completed under budget and on time.

Coordinated up to six independent projects concurrently and delivered on time. Projects were developed in a global team spanning four countries.

Defined strategy and business plan for all Tekelec products.

Initiated program that standardized new employee training.

Introduced new design tools that cut down on schematic errors by 30%. Directed the group through design of 15 X-86 server cards, and three proprietary switches.

Interfaced and planned tests with regulatory bodies to ensure world-wide compliance for all regulations.

Senior Manager, Hardware Development 11/2000 – 03/2008

Managed team of 10 engineers through the design of multiple server cards and two rack-mount servers. The introduction of the servers cut down our product cost by 40% and decreased field returns by 20%.

Took on the role of system Lead for the development of the rack-mount servers.

Designed PCIe 1Gbps Ethernet card, memory expansion card, and an ATCA processor card.

Managed projects from inception through design, simulation, procurement, build, test, agency tests, and release.

IBM RTP, NC 09/1984 – 11/2000

Advisory Engineer

Designed multiple motherboards for X-86 servers. This included schematics capture, PCB layout, manufacturing interface, and test and debug.

Designed 24-port Token Ring switch for the Networking Hardware Division. Switch was used to replace old switches in the IBM internal network.

Designed, debugged and tested an ASIC chip used in an IBM telephony switch

Wrote, debugged, and tested microcode for the IBM telephony backbone

Designed multiple hardware platform including a PC graphics card, 3270 controller, 3194 display, and others

Educational Summary:

Auburn University Auburn, AL

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Technical Skills:

Microsoft Productivity Suite

Microsoft Project

Mentor Graphics

Cadence

Java

Agile PLM

Linux

DFx

Languages:

Native or bilingual proficiency in English, French, and Arabic.

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