Experience

• 

  The national law review

  Jan 2009 - May 2024

  Performed technical development and management as partner in privately-held startup business consolidating, re-syndicating, and marketing legal analysis and articles from major law firms. In addition to handling the technical aspects of the Drupal website and organizational needs, performed business development activities and prepared company for a successful sale and provided diligence deliverables.• Managed plans and schedules and implemented several key pages with second major site re-design and CMS migration, driving backwards compatibility and no data loss in migration.• Defined, consulted on, and implemented new functionality, operation-related updates and other optimizations, increasing efficiency of publishing team, including defining new modules or fields, process implementation, and utilization by internal teams. Provided implementation guidance to the team as needed.• Determined timing and execution of external resources necessary for new functionality and website updates, driving continuity and assuring compliance with evolving website standard metrics (Core Web Vitals, ADA, etc.).• Drove implementation of new ad network integration from initial contract to launch, tripling ad revenue.• Signed multiple new clients after presenting and discussing the services and benefits of working with the National Law Review.• Managed the accounting and payroll functions. Show less Lead and mentored a remote technical team. Performed internal and external development, maintenance, testing, schedules, and costs. Defined and managed requirements, documentation, and vendor relationships, working closely with customers, contractors, and employees. Administer corporate books and other functions as needed in small company environments.• Specified and implemented client login, key functionality, and bug-fixes for commercial launch. • Designed and developed new-content fields, important to legal industry, Increasing sales and productivity through work with internal and external users. Assured changes made maintained SEO best practices.• Integrated redundant analytics systems to enable customers to quantify readership, content performance, and value of working with National Law Review, enabling 80% of all new sales and setting industry standard.• Managed plans and schedules and implemented several key pages with major site re-design and CMS migration, driving backwards compatibility and no data loss in migration.• Defined the website hierarchy, architecture, and SEO strategy. Show less

  • Director

    Mar 2023 - May 2024

  • Technical Director

    Jan 2009 - Mar 2023
• 

  Independent contractor

  Jul 2009 - Oct 2010

  Telecommunications consultant

  Provided consulting and engineering services to Knowles Electronics. Educated clients on state-of-the-art in telecommunication industry, including devices and components. Collaborated on system architecture and product roadmaps. • Presented “Mobile Phone Landscape Presentation 2010-05-25” to Knowles Line Management and Application Engineering teams, educating team on telecommunications market and promoting comprehension of customer status.

• 

  Knowles corporation

  Oct 2010 - Mar 2023

  Defined, published, tested, and documented MEMS microphones in consumer electronics division. Consulted with development, QA, as part of the product management team. Excellent analytic skills allowed me to serve as key engineer for technical support, solving customer integration and field performance issues. Collaborated with customers from Asia, Europe, and US to recreate, identify, and solve problems from development questions to factory test and field returns. Worked closely with the sales teams. Mentored and Coached engineers and interns on performance parameters testing.Specified, managed, and performed expanded application-testing to complement component-test coverage, including new acoustic and electrical tests based on newly gathered customer requirements for new applications for microphones, verifying microphone functionality and performance specifications met. Show less Served as application engineering representative on core-product development team. Supported product-line management. Gathered microphone performance requirements and provided technical support for key Asian, European, and US-based customers. Approved all MEMS microphone datasheets.• Specified and developed microphone marketing collateral, including product briefs, sales-friendly summary sheets, and technical datasheets. • Developed datasheet templates and process, saving >$10K per datasheet, improving accuracy, and assuring company branding compliance from all team members.• Developed abstracted acoustic models for MEMS microphone and various tubes and meshes for customer use, while protecting intellectual property details, enabling customers to develop acoustic porting in their devices. Verified accuracy of models against acoustic load, reducing model generation and validation time to days from a week or weeks.• Functioned as acoustic lead, supporting remote team in Asia with electrical and mechanical integrations. • Developed extreme but repeatable test methods by characterizing intermittent customer field issues to recreate similar failure modes, assisting in identifying the root cause.• Published application notes, aiding customers in MEMS microphone usage and on topics, ranging from manufacturing to interfacing with hardware and software. Show less Provided level-2 support and liaised between development and remote field teams and customers. Collaborated closely with field teams in 6 countries. Served as technical support for key Korean and US-based customers.• Launched 2 new microphone models as project manager.• Provided in-depth technical training on current audio topics and presented at Global FAE Conferences, strengthening local field teams. • Recreated and determined root cause of customer’s complex microphone issue and collaborated with development team to identify and implement a solution, driving customer satisfaction and mitigating further issues.• Characterized key customer Final-Test issue by reverse engineering problem and identifying customer-firmware glitch. Show less

  • Principal Applications Engineer

    Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Staff Product Development Project Manager/Global Applications Engineer

    Mar 2016 - Jan 2022

  • Product Development Project Manager/Global Applications Engineer

    Oct 2010 - Mar 2016
• 

  Independent contractor

  May 2024 - now

  Consultant

  Serve as consultant on technical matters for websites, acoustics, and product development.• Implemented and supported National Law Review post-sale training and transition efforts. Consulted on business and technical operations.