Engineering Power Plant

Keith T. Huthmacher

Pittsburgh, PA

724-***-**** (C)

***********@*****.***

Career Summary

Proven engineering leadership with ability to focus and motivate both large and small full functional engineering teams. Responsible for developing engineering budgets for product development and maintenance of existing product lines including manpower planning and staffing profiles associated with growing engineering teams.

Known for strong combination of detailed technical expertise with big-picture business savvy, ability to prioritize, focus, and drive cross-geography projects to on-time and on-budget delivery

Experience collaborating with marketing and sales to define technology and product roadmaps, and working with manufacturing and operations to deliver high yield, high margin products

Capabilities include:

oCross functional team leadership

oTechnology/product strategy execution

oSystems engineering

oTeam building and expansion

oPower systems design

oEmbedded system design

oEmployee development and coaching

oLeadership in a startup environment

oMultisite teams/outsource partners

oNPI/Manufacturing support

oDesign for manufacturing (DFM)

oCommunication and stakeholder buy-in

oOn-schedule project delivery

oASIC Development

oProject management

oBoard Design and Layout

Professional Experience

Dynamics Inc, Pittsburgh, PA

Vice President of Engineering (January 2015 – Present)

Recruited to provide leadership and to grow the engineering team to increase capabilities as a result of this Powered Credit Card startup receiving Series C Funding and to scale volume as more banks are being signed to provide high volume credit card programs for consumers.

Senior Engineering Executive responsible for Hardware, Embedded Firmware, ASIC and Magnetics design in addition to Systems Engineering, internal test development and certification testing of the product lines

Designing customer and regional specific derivatives incorporating displays, capacitive touch buttons and additional interfaces to meet various market and customer driven requirements

Providing DFM support to the existing product lines while starting the next generation design with an improved architecture for higher performance and lower cost. Worked with operations team to improve throughput and test support for the high volume product line.

Embedded COB processor design implements low power strategies due to battery life constraints and also include NFC, EMV contact and a programmable magnetic stripe. Leading the Java Card development team to produce Visa, MasterCard and loyalty program applets running on an NXP P60 Secure processor

Responsible for Specifying and qualifying custom ASICs in addition to schematic capture and PCB layout

Akustica Inc, Pittsburgh, PA

Director of Systems and Applications Engineering (June 2013 – December 2014)

Recruited to provide leadership and to grow the Systems and Applications engineering team as Akustica positions itself in the mobile device market segment for MEMS microphone applications.

Lead an international team of Field Application Engineers in Taiwan, China, Korea and North America providing pre sales, qualification and mass production support to customers worldwide.

Lead the Design Verification Test team in Pittsburgh responsible for qualification and testing of new MEMS microphone designs.

Provide technical support to OEMs, ODMs and CMs during verification testing (EVT & PVT) and process development for incorporation of the MEMS microphones into their smartphone, laptop and tablet audio designs for high volume mass production.

Enphase Energy, Petaluma, CA

Hardware Engineering Director (December 2010 – May 2013)

Recruited to provide leadership for the hardware and embedded software team responsible for the development of industry leading microinverters designed for residential and commercial grid-tied solar applications in a high-energy startup environment.

Responsible for all aspects of hardware and firmware design and test including specifying requirements for mixed signal ASIC design and verification/test of ASICs on the target platforms. The system consists of high efficiency inverters in addition to local internet connected gateways communicating to the microinverters via power line communication and delivering data to servers at Enphase for customer access

Work extensively with contract manufacturers and suppliers in China as Enphase ramped to high volume production of the 3rd generation microinverter to ensure that costs are continuously reduced while maintaining the performance and reliability of the product.

Recruited additional development team personnel to ensure that resources are available to support the product roadmap and expansion as Enphase transitioned from a startup to a publicly traded company (IPO in March 2012). Developed a successful recruitment strategy to grow the team from 10 engineers to 36 over a two year period attracting top talent from around the world.

Instrumental in the planning and opening of a second design center in Christchurch New Zealand and responsible for overall site management. Recruited a team of 10 Power and Firmware Engineers to augment the design team in Petaluma to support multiple product development teams to run in parallel to meet the demands of a rapidly growing product portfolio.

Implemented a more robust product development process that includes a more comprehensive engineering verification testing of both hardware and software resulting in more predictable development schedules which is necessary as the company needs to have multiple development projects running in parallel.

Marconi/Ericsson/Aastra Telecom, Pittsburgh, PA (Series of Acquisitions)

(March 2000 – November 2010)

Aastra Telecom, Video Center of Excellence, Eng Director & Site Manager (May 2008 – Nov 2010)

Successfully established a new product development site (Video Design Center) for Aastra Telecom in the Pittsburgh region as a consequence of Aastra’s acquisition of the enterprise video products from Ericsson.

The team developed multiple enterprise class voice and video over IP products to augment Aastra’s IP PBX business. These are 4th generation SIP based products building upon the success of the Marconi/Ericsson ViPr product line with an emphasis on designing for low cost, high volume production.

Responsible for all aspects of board design, embedded software, FPGA design, injection molded plastic enclosure design, touchscreen based GUI, server software, systems engineering and test engineering functions leveraging engineering assets at multiple sites worldwide to develop the 4th gen video phone.

Primary point of contact for the sales team for all customer issues associated with video based products. Extensive interactions with customers and resellers and very comfortable being the domain expert internally and externally on all matters concerning the video communication products. Responsible for driving requirements for next generation products and developing the product roadmap.

Ericsson, Data Networks Division, Senior Engineering Director (October 2002 – April 2008)

Provide leadership for all aspects of product development including hardware, software, verification, mechanical design, PCB CAD, power design and testing for the carrier class multiservice switches and IP routers, integrated access devices, BPON, GPON and enterprise class voice and video over IP products. Responsible for developing and maintaining a $25M R&D budget for an 80 person engineering team.

Developed a video communication system (ViPr) which is a SIP based voice and video (H.264) over IP system that consists of a number of custom touchscreen HD clients and 1U and 2U server products leveraging a mixture of off-the-shelf components in addition to custom hardware and software to achieve a balance of cost and maintaining high performance audio and video subsystems.

The ViPr products are Linux based and utilize open source components where appropriate. Provided significant input to the overall system design including PCI board design, FPGA design, software design approach, mechanical packaging and resolution of regulatory conformance issues (UL, CE, FCC Class A).

Developed the product positioning, messaging, and new channel strategy for the ViPr products. Developed key partnerships and recruited resellers in Asia and Europe with an emphasis on Japan and China. Responsible for developing the product roadmap based on industry trends and customer feedback.

Successfully managed and coordinated the activities of a number of remote design groups worldwide including software engineers in South Africa, a video codec partner in Scotland, industrial designers in Chicago, IL and a HW/SW design team in Ottawa Canada

Have worked extensively to develop outsourcing partners in North America and India to augment the onsite development teams to provide flexibility to handle varying project loads.

Successfully guided the team through a number of major reorganizations including integration into Ericsson with an emphasis on personnel development and recruitment of employees to rebuild the engineering team.

Marconi Communications, Data Networks Division, Eng. Manager (March, 2000 – October, 2002)

Responsible for all Hardware and Software development projects for the award winning ASX/TNX Multi-Service switch line. Introduced several new line cards (Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Enhanced ATM) for the ASX/TNX portfolio including two high-speed digital designs using the Intel IXP network processor.

Developed high level product requirements along with product management and also responsible for scoping projects to determine product roadmap and feature introduction timelines. Responsibilities also included specifying requirements for ASIC chipsets used on switch fabrics and line cards and performing verification/test of the ASICs on the target platforms.

Successfully developed a number of system designs including the hardware architecture, hardware/software design tradeoffs, FPGA functional specifications and overall system specifications. Responsibilities also included manpower planning, personnel recruitment and selection, personnel development, salary administration and budgeting for the engineering department.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Plant Apparatus Division, Monroeville, PA

(October, 1987 – March, 2000)

Engineering Section Manager (August, 1997 – March, 2000)

Responsible for the supervision of a team of six engineers that developed a new line of VME64x high-speed signal processing circuit cards used in a wide range of advanced design instrumentation & control systems for power plant applications.

Responsible for the design, development, qualification, manufacture, installation and field support of instrumentation and detectors for the measurement, transmission and display of in-plant parameters for power plant applications.

Responsible for new product development, budgeting, recruitment of personnel and salary administration.

Systems Engineer/ Program Manager (October 1987 - August, 1997)

Responsible for the system design, specification, design analysis, testing, documentation and support of multiple classes of microprocessor based Instrumentation and Control systems for power plant applications.

Responsible for the design and development of a 500 KW bidirectional power supply (AC/DC, DC/AC) that provides a reliable source of 440 VAC power in the event that the primary power source is unavailable. Successfully completed a demonstration project in a power plant to prove the feasibility of the technology prior to full production deployment.

Education

University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration, 40 of 52 credits complete

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1987

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