Leadership (Requirements)
• Ability to set a vision and engage own team to reach that vision
• Natural collaborator; leads through building relationships; demonstrated
facilitation skills across different functions; motivated by collective success
• Agile learner, tolerant of risk, and biased towards action
• Sets high standards of performance for self and others
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for successfully completing
assignments or tasks
Judgment and Decision Making
• Seeks appropriate input to decisions and recognizes the impact and
implications for other areas
• Decision making is timely, practical, clear, and open
• Natural collaborator; leads through building relationships; demonstrated
facilitation skills across different functions; motivated by collective success
• Agile learner, tolerant of risk, and biased towards action
• Sets high standards of performance for self and others
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for successfully completing
assignments or tasks
Judgment and Decision Making
• Seeks appropriate input to decisions and recognizes the impact and
implications for other areas
• Decision making is timely, practical, clear, and open
Uses 5-Why's and Root Cause and Corrective Action to improve engineering processes.
Uses the Agile approach to leadership - open, collaborative, approachable.
Determines strategic outcomes, 1 year out or more, and walks those back to the team in the form of monthly outcomes.
Communication
• Skilled communicator at all levels; ability to translate complex technical
concepts to non-expert audiences
• A persuasive speaker and good listener
• Effective utilization of negotiation and influencing skills
• The ability to communicate in a concise and effective manner to senior
leadership
• Able to identify and effectively communicate with stakeholders throughout a
matrix organization.
concepts to non-expert audiences
• A persuasive speaker and good listener
• Effective utilization of negotiation and influencing skills
• The ability to communicate in a concise and effective manner to senior
leadership
• Able to identify and effectively communicate with stakeholders throughout a
matrix organization.
Develops and communicates metrics of performance that are communicated across the entire organization - executive stakeholders, project managers, and team members.
Easily moves up and down the "tree of detail", the 50,000 foot view of resourcing and budgets down to bits and bytes as needed to resolve detailed technical issues.
Functional management of a team of Senior Technical Leaders
• Builds and nurtures a high performing and engaged team
• Fosters a work environment that rewards risk taking, rapid learning, and a bias
for action
• Prioritizes the team’s performance and career development; provides creative
growth opportunities for high potential associates in alignment with business
objectives; provides timely and regular performance feedback to all associates
• Identifies and develops technical training and development plans; mentors or
serves as a resource to share specialized knowledge with others; maintain
leadership and technical capabilities through continued education or training
• Determines resource needs for new product development and existing product
support and assigns personnel as appropriate
• Ensures that department personnel have clearly defined tasks and annual
goals which are aligned with broader hardware engineering and business
objectives
• Responsible for hiring, talent development, and pipeline management within
their team
• Fosters a work environment that rewards risk taking, rapid learning, and a bias
for action
• Prioritizes the team’s performance and career development; provides creative
growth opportunities for high potential associates in alignment with business
objectives; provides timely and regular performance feedback to all associates
• Identifies and develops technical training and development plans; mentors or
serves as a resource to share specialized knowledge with others; maintain
leadership and technical capabilities through continued education or training
• Determines resource needs for new product development and existing product
support and assigns personnel as appropriate
• Ensures that department personnel have clearly defined tasks and annual
goals which are aligned with broader hardware engineering and business
objectives
• Responsible for hiring, talent development, and pipeline management within
their team
Has lead teams of electrical, mechanical, PCB and software design engineers. Leads managers of these groups and/or principal engineers in each of these disciplines.
Starts with the customer and walks the customer solution back to the employee using the "CODE" approach - Customers, Organization, Deliverables, Employees.
Develops employees in alignment with company values and direction
Technical and Analytical Skills
• Expert knowledge in related technical fields
• Able to draw upon technical breadth to evaluate concepts outside area(s) of
personal expertise
• Excellent analytical skills and discipline; able to conduct thorough analysis of
concepts that have high uncertainty
• Excellent critical thinking skills; able to constructively challenge ideas and invite
critical feedback
• Expert knowledge in related technical fields
• Able to draw upon technical breadth to evaluate concepts outside area(s) of
personal expertise
• Excellent analytical skills and discipline; able to conduct thorough analysis of
concepts that have high uncertainty
• Excellent critical thinking skills; able to constructively challenge ideas and invite
critical feedback
Has developed a deep understanding and skills in areas of signal analysis, systems integration, hardware design and software design.
SKILLS and ABILITIES
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in optics, electrical engineering, or
physical sciences related fields. MS degree and Ph.D. a plus
• Minimum of 8 years of team management experience
• Experience with early stage technology development
• Experience with resource allocations within a complex matrix environment
• Strong product development experience
• Experience in project execution and administration
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in optics, electrical engineering, or
physical sciences related fields. MS degree and Ph.D. a plus
• Minimum of 8 years of team management experience
• Experience with early stage technology development
• Experience with resource allocations within a complex matrix environment
• Strong product development experience
• Experience in project execution and administration
Has developed over 50 products in the areas of I/O, cpus and controllers. MSEE in Electrical and Computer engineering with additional courses beyond the MSEE level in DSP and Networking.
