Management Engineering

Jacob Harel

*** ****** *** ***, ******* city, CA

Cell: 650-***-****

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Career profile

A high-tech entrepreneur with extensive experience in engineering management, product management and

Business development. I have hands-on experience in software and hardware development, as well as

manufacturing. Managing the full development cycle, for idea to large-scale production in the US and off-shore

manufacturing.

I have a leadership style that yields effective results, managing global inter-disciplinary engineering and

manufacturing teams. I focus on fostering a high-performing organization, where excellence is recognized and

individual innovation is encouraged resulted in strong team and in fostering high motivation among his employees.

His positive approach and proactive management style combined with his ability to generate and implement

innovative solutions, allowed him to turn around the company and bring it to profitability within a year.

Experience and Skills:

● Leading global development teams of hardware, software, firmware and mechanical engineering

● Manage the full development cycle, from Idea to large-scale production

● Manage IT operation and infrastructure for company use and for the Web-based collaboration products

● Manage the budget for all operation and engineering aspects and for the entire company.

● Business development and OEM relationship with fortune 500 companies

● Product and project management implementing agile methodology

● Just-in-time Manufacturing and supply-chain management.

● 30+ international and U.S. patents (pending and granted).

Engineering Experience:

Extensive experience in ASM, C, C++ with MFC and QT. Development of embedded and DSP platforms

Web development Java and JavaScript HTML\CSS

Embedded system development (Ti, Motorola, National and Microchip, DSPs and microcontrollers)

Mix signal design.

Wireless communication BT, Zigbee, WiFi and RF communication.

Low power system architecture and battery management.

Cloud base system architecture and deployment, Amazon cloud services.

System engineering and system architecture, OOD\OOP

Real time OS, VXWORKS, ITBios. WinCE, EmbeddedNT and QNX\Linux.

Mechanical and electrical DFM, and transfer to manufacturing management.

Ultrasound and audio.

Work Experience

2014-present Zeidman Technologies – VP of Product Management and Business Development -

developers of SynthOS, an innovative tool for creating an Application-Specific Operation System (ASOS).

Generating a highly optimized and small memory foot print operation system for IoT M2M and control

system.

Developed the Business plan and strategic marketing plan for the company

Manage the develop web base SaaS platform implementation and business strategy

Responsibility for product requirement and roadmap, coordinating the implementation of new and

updated features and capabilities.

Develop and manage the relationship with MCU CPU and DSP manufacturers, and embedded application

developers.

Responsible for all QA and testing activities, specify and design the automatic building testing and

deployment.

2014 Product realization group – senior consultant, consulting for operation and product management

to startup and established companies. Specializing in IoT M2M and embedded control system. Working

with medical devices, consumer products, home automation and automotive companies.

Supporting startups and established companies with product and project management methodologies

Support for companies with product management ad transition to manufacturing

Operation and Scaling manufacturing for commercial and consumer products.

System engineering and design for manufacturing to support scaling to large-scale production

Testing compliance and certifications

2003-2014 Luidia inc.- SVP Product Development and Operation – A spin-off from EFI for the eBeam

product line, Luidia became a leading provider of interactive technology for education markets

worldwide. Luidia products can convert any flat surface to an interactive collaboration display using a

standard projector. Luidia’s line of products includes its brand eBeam portable interactive system, as well

as hardware and software kits that are embedded into projectors of leading manufacturers as Hitachi

and NEC.

● Co-founder of Luidia Inc. The company was acquired by PNF Korea in 2014, was a key participant in

acquisition negotiation.

● Responsible for all product-related activities, including R&D, engineering and QA, maintenance support,

and OEM/BizDev.

● Managing global engineering organizations of hardware, software, firmware, mechanical and QA teams.

And a global manufacturing and supply chain.

● Managing the technical relationship with the major OEM (Hitachi, NEC, Ricoh, Sony, Cisco and Polycomm).

● Manage the transition to Agile development methodologies in software and firmware development.

● Initiated and lead the effort to revamp the company’s product line. Released four hardware products and

associated software over a period of eight months, accounting for 50% of the revenue forecast for 2014.

● Lead the Initiative to increase the company’s revenue from its new software components to supplement

the revenue from its legacy hardware-based products. Defined a new strategy for SaaS, and designed the

architecture for web-based collaboration system products.

● Responsible for negotiating supply and manufacturing contract, manage to keep the growth margin

across the product line at above 50%.

● Managed scalable production and supply chain, using the “just in time” methodology. Scaled production

to achieve 500% increase within 4 months. Successfully delivered on time the largest bid in the industry,

of over 50,000 units within 6 months.

● Responsible for development of company’s intellectual property portfolio, including participating in

patent infringement litigation.

● Business Development - manage relationships and initiate new products with other technology companies

(Cisco, Avaya, HP, youSendIt and Polycomm).

1996-2003 Electronics for Imaging (EFI) – Engineering Manager. A worldwide leader in the field of

printing controllers and unique wide-format printing. EFI developed the eBeam product for internal use,

but later commercialized it, and spun off Luidia for that purpose.

● Design and development of the eBeam technology from its early stage R&D effort to a complete product

line, including transition to manufacturing.

● Develop software module, hardware, firmware and signal processing algorithms (issued US and

international patents).

● Responsible for engineering relationship with OEMs, and the development of OEM specific products (e.g.,

3M, GBC, Palm).

● Develop a portable mobile solution to convert any whiteboard into an interactive system using BT and

IRDA. Design and implemented mobile software application for PalmOS and WinCE.

Tici – Software/Firmware Engineer. An engineering consulting firm for semiconductor fab machine

controllers and UI.

Strasbaugh, San Luis Obispo CA – wafer polishing systems. Design the system architecture and the multi-

thread wafer sequencing system.

FSI, Fremont CA – wafer imaging system. Develop fab control drivers for all hardware interfaces, and

wafer sequencer for managing and optimizing system throughput.

Applied materials – QA engineer (contractor).

Israel Defense Forces (Army Intelligence) - 1st Lieutenant, technical Officer Communication and

commuter systems.

Education

● BSC in computer science – Tel-Aviv University 1994.

● BA in economics – Tel-Aviv University 1994.

● Practical engineer (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering – Ort Singalovsky College, Tel Aviv 1987.

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