IoT, Electronic R&D, Product Development, Engineering Management

DANIEL L. HUGHES

Fishers, IN 913-***-**** *********@*****.***

VP – PRODUCT DEVELOPMNET / ENGINEERING / TECHNOLOGY Technology & Product Development / Revenue and Margin Growth / BPM / BI / Multi Site KPIs / Competitor Evaluation / Strategic Leadership / Process Design / Project Management Business savvy engineering and technology leader. Significant operational and business development responsibilities in addition to technical leadership. Ensured that technology served business goals. Streamlined business processes, and developed infrastructure that enabled those processes to strengthen the bottom line. Routinely and successfully led teams and divisions in product development innovation, and produced outcomes consistently beyond planned goals.

Utilize Embedded Electronics, C Language, Git, Jira, PHP, Python, PostgreSQL Open Source Database, Linux OS,

.Net, MVC, AngularJS JavaScript Framework, MS Sequel Server Database, MS Project and MS OS. Skilled in:

Driving product planning and development to consistent technical and commercial success

Developing and strengthening scalable business processes

Leading high performance teams

BS in Electronics Engineering Technology, DeVry University. Selected Achievements

Introduced new product management structure. Further new product introductions in new vertical markets were the solution to Elecsys plateauing at $35M. Assumed control of business development. Focused on electrical utility and agriculture markets. Products developed under this new regimen are all on track to generate over $1M in year one, with one product showing the potential to bring in $15M its first year. Restructured electronics manufacturing. Acquisition of Elecsys prompted a review of the company’s electronics manufacturing and product development. At the direct request of the parent company’s CEO, assumed control of product development and engineering management. Increased quality and cut costs by $500K a year for parent’s product line. Corrected nine product issues in 90 days, decreasing warranty costs 15%. Completed six major cost reduction initiatives totaling over $1.4M in annual savings within six months. Boosted product development output. Growing product demand increased need to expand Elecsys product development output. Instituted design consistency. Used code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. Increased product development output from two-to-three products a year to more than four, growing revenue by an average 10% year over year.

Played key role in corporate transition into an IoT / M2M company. Elecsys initiated transition into being a machine-to-machine (M2M) product company producing networked devices. Established plan for rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) products. Introduction of five new products boosted Elecsys into first place from third in remote monitoring market with an average 50 point margin, setting path for years of 10%+ growth. Career Summary

VP of Technology, Flexware Innovation, 2016 to Present. Lead engineering teams in developing custom IoT and electronic product solutions. Conduct technology research for use with current and new customers. Over-all P&L responsibilities for the product development business unit. Chief Technology Officer, Elecsys Corporation, 2014 to 2016. Identify opportunities, risks and market obstacles to developing new markets and products. Brought in $6M in new revenue. Created IT roadmap to establish new market segments and optimize product development for this $45M provider of M2M (machine-to-machine) / Internet of Things

(IoT) cloud technology for industrial applications. Expanded cloud system capacity from 50,000 connected devices to 500,000+. Manage budgets up to $5M. Lead teams up to 36. VP Engineering, Elecsys Corporation, 2011 to 2014. Led engineering teams in developing products. Conducted research into new technologies for product and margin improvement. Supervised software web development team in IoT cloud application development. Controlled $5M budget. Built and headed team of 28 .Net developers; relational database architects; and software, electrical and application engineers. Director of Product Development, Elecsys Corporation, 2010 to 2011. Oversaw design, introduction and redesign of products to meet quality and sales goals. Assessed development progress, specified changes, and approved cost estimates and proposals. Rationalized expenditures. Controlled $2M budget. Led team of 18. Project Engineer, Elecsys Corporation, 2007 to 2010. Managed product life cycle. Researched project ideas and requirements. Designed hardware circuits and embedded firmware. Produced bills of material. Led troubleshooting of hardware designs and firmware. Used Orcad for schematic capture.

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