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Patrick Lazar

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VP OF ENGINEERING Helping companies translate their business goals into reality

Improved Development team morale significantly by eliminating fear, and leveraging existing assets

Reduced project cycle times through better design reviews, CI/CD and automated regression

Proposed and implemented a platform architecture for existing products to enter a much larger market

Put an end to the drought of product launches, and released a record number of SKUs

Improved company morale by improving quality, reducing customer issues, and promoting innovation

Accelerated product launches by redefining cross functional processes and eliminating obstacles

Improved customer satisfaction by involving cross-functional leads in early product decisions

Developed a culture of ownership that pays attention to “red flags” and continuous improvement

Created a team that keeps commitments and deliverables through 50-90 schedules and look-ahead systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Boulder, CO (2015-2019) SVP of Engineering

A leader in industrial, secure Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networking solutions.

● Hired to transform a team that had not released a product in five years. Released 10 SKUs in the following year.

● Eliminated fear amongst teams: Fear of risk taking, Fear of innovation, Fear of raising red flags. Promoted project ownership, empowered individuals and introduced a “red flags” system, a continuous improvement system, innovation award program. Morale improved significantly, driving productivity higher.

● Synchronized prioritization of all company projects by introducing weekly POR review and decision meetings.

● Eliminated non-value add efforts by switching to new collaborative tools with workflows. Introduced CI/CD, Automated Regression systems to replace unnecessary manual coordination.

● Transitioned product architecture to start revenue generation through sale of software, recurring revenues from licenses, subscriptions, and apps in addition to long-range industrial radios. Proven success with AWS, Azure, and private cloud platforms. Generated incremental revenues from existing customers

● Redesigned all legacy and revenue-generating products to extend the life of the product and continued baseline revenue by adding software revenue with higher margins to fund new product lines. This also resulted in a 30% cost reduction.

Key Accomplishments

● Improved company morale, ownership culture, innovative patents, TTM speed, and product quality.

● Redefined processes within Engineering, and defined the processes connecting Engineering to Manufacturing, Finance, Marketing, and Sales/Support. The new processes resulted in a first-time successful launch.

● Introduced new collaborative tools to increase information transparency across all teams and reduce meetings.

● Started innovation awards as a means to incentivize everyone to create and try new ideas. This resulted in 9 Patents being filed and 7 innovation awards presented, recognizing the individuals with cash and equity.

● Automation of system test (QA), 80% of all the tests are now fully automated, and test coverage has increased to 90% range. Features that were never tested due to a high number of working hours then began being tested consistently with every release.

● Introduction of CI/CD (Continuous Development and Continuous Integration) significantly increased the quality of software handed to the system test team, which led to fewer bugs and the ability to meet committed timelines.

● Trained all team members to start thinking in terms of 50-90 schedules, resulting in keeping all schedules commitments and deliverables to the sales team and customers. Trained the team in Agile and SCRUM to increase effectiveness of risk mitigation plans and outcomes. Patrick Lazar

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Batis Life Arbor (startup). Palo Alto, CA (2016-2018) Board Advisor

Stealth startup to develop an intelligent camera doorbell.

● Provided guidance in defining product specifications, defined processes needed for onboarding Taiwan ODM, defined terms, conditions, and legal points of the contract for product design, compliance, deliverables, quality, beta support, and project management roles.

NETGEAR, INC. San Jose, CA (2006-2015)

VP of Engineering

Netgear produces networking hardware for consumers, businesses, and service providers.

● Appointed to head of DSL Gateway Engineering team as Engineering Manager. Promoted to Manager in three months, and later to Sr. Manager, Director, Sr. Director and then VP of Engineering.

● Led global teams in multiple U.S. and global locations, such as China, India, and Taiwan. Visited the ODMs face-to-face, built relationships, and guided the growth of their teams. Created road maps, evaluated P&L results, QA, and directed the overall strategic direction of the BU with the senior leadership team.

● Scaled up the number of simultaneous projects to 90+ global parallel SKUs, allowing increased market reach and sales revenues.

● Optimized quality from overseas ODMs, improved their internal processes, provided their engineers with automated machine-to-machine test systems, and supported ongoing training.

● Initiated an automated Wi-Fi test laboratory to test 150+ client devices in 4 hours, significantly minimizing the number of Wi- Fi interoperability issues in the field.

● Eliminated non-value-added work within Engineering. introduced tools to help predict projects, such as bug forecasting and test progression data and charts to automate slippage awareness within schedules. Key Accomplishments

● Created products that took the company revenue from $80M to $650M within 8 years.

● Took the Cable team from $8M in revenues to $200M and Home Security team from zero to $25M.

● Initiated a cost reduction program that resulted in a 70% margin improvement on enclosures used for high volume products.

● Developed the Xfinity and ADT home security systems, an innovative, novel system to manage home security remotely from smartphones.

● Developed service provider cable, DSL, and LTE routers and transitioned these products into the retail market.

● Achieved the first ISO9001 certification in company history. Created new cross-functional processes, and trained all staff members to pass external audits.

Marconi Communication San Jose, CA (2003-2006)

Director of Engineering

Manufacturer of phone line testing systems that alerts telecom providers to issues, allowing for overnight correction.

● Identified the best engineering talent to move from Texas to Illinois as the company lost $2.5M per annum. Continued to rebuild the team, updated the range of products, and helped advance the factory to Cleveland, overseeing infrastructure, logistics, and relocation-impacted employees. In 2.5 years, helped to position the company for a $5M sale to Tollgrade. Charles Industries LTD. Rolling Meadows, IL

Director of Engineering, Transmission Technology Development Patrick Lazar

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EDUCATION

● B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL

● Strategy and Organization, Stanford Business School Executive Education

● Influence and Negotiation, Stanford Business School Executive Education

● Advancing Business Acumen, Wharton Executive Business

● Arts of War training in Business

● Power Presentation for Executives

SKILLS

Excellent Communication Skills Global Leadership Technical Leadership Product Life Cycle Management Innovative Problem- Solving Calm and Focused Under Pressure Margin Improvements Budgets and Expense Control Company Turnaround Negotiations Engineering Project Management Staff Development Software R&D QA Management Presentations and Training Fostering Organizational and Team-Based Culture Leadership Collaboration Hardware R&D C C++ Python

Lisp Snobol Assembly Basic Fortran 4GL Programming Designing Troubleshooting Debugging Continuous Improvement Simulation Company Acquisition Process Improvement CI/CD App development for Android PATENTS

● Patent 2018.0234192: Antenna alignment tool and Method, using VR overlapping camera. USA, 2017

● Patent 2018.0145910: Wireless traffic optimization for ISM radios. USA, 2016

● Patent 2188.266: Wireless access point management system and method. USA, 2013

● Patents 2188.273 and 2188.035: System and method for remotely updating cable modem software. USA, Australia, 2013

● Patents 6396910 & 6396911: Offer consistent 53.33 kbps connect rate for analog modems over DAML products on extreme distances, 1999

TECHNOLOGIES

Development of Hardware and Software for products ranging from: Fiber optics digital cross-connect systems to analog POTS products such as T1-E1 line cards, DSL modules, Packetized & Channelized VoDSL line cards (VoIP and VoATM over ADSL), DAML systems, wireless (Home-RF) NIDs, HPNA NIDs, IP Camera, Home Monitoring Security devices, POTS test systems, consumer electronics, retail networking devices, artificial intelligent surveillance system, and SONET based Digital Cross Connect Systems, VDSL, PON, Zigbee/Zwave router, Smart Home, IoT, Wifi IP Camera, Wifi routers, Wifi Video Bridge, CI CD in Jenkins, DHFSS radio, VR + Camera, Camera Doorbell, Android home security tablet.

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