Steve DeCabooter Visual Resume

Steve DeCabooter@stevedecabooter

Timeline

BS Electrical EngineeringMichigan State University

MBAKellogg GSB,

Northwestern University

MotorolaAdvanced

Digital Designs

Motorola Continental Gilson

Internships1991: Ohmeda1992: Motorola

Reliability Engineer

Senior Devlpmt Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer

Product Marketing Manager

Digital HardwareSection Manager

Engineering ManagerElectrical Engineering

Manager

PM Mgt Cert

GWU

19891990

20002010

2014

TBP Engineering Futures Volunteer

Full-Tuition Academic Scholarship Recipient

National Science Foundation

Fellowship AwardeePMP Certification

Earned

Soccer CoachU6-U9

Dir R&D

Scrum Master Certification

Earned

Global Experience

Locations where my teams have lived

Locations where I’ve done business

Locations of other direct contacts

Innovative

4 Issued Patents• 8,160,271 Variable Noise Masking During

Periods of Substantial Silence• 8,237,307 Time-Shared Digital Power

Controller• 8,884,821 Apparatus and Method for

Determining Vehicle Location• 8,885,844 Variable Noise Masking

During Periods of Substantial Silence

Mentor to Others• Patent Committee Chair• Created & Launched Division Patent Process• Encouraged developers, leading to multiple additional

patent applications and organizational firsts

Successful in Many Environments

• Budget responsibilities for > 10 years• Global engineering lead for product lines > $100M/yr• Customer and Supplier Partner

– Strategic customer, working with suppliers to develop their roadmaps– Worked with customers to define requirements and communicate project status

• Diverse Teams– Employees and contractors– Domestic and international– Interns to senior technical staff– Managers and sole contributors

• Diverse Industries– Consumer to Enterprise– High volume and low volume– Cellular (Infrastructure & Handset), Automotive, Life Sciences, Design Services

Strategic

• Team Builder and Turnaround Specialist– Helped R&D organization find path to meeting commitments consistently within 6

months of assuming responsibility– Led troubled design center in Asia to become preferred partner for our customer– Worked as part of “problem child” team, transforming us into the overall schedule

leader within one project

• Experienced Matching Organization Needs to Technical Roadmap– Experienced leading lean transformations in support of accelerated product

development, while getting closer to the customer– Proven experience creating product architectures that optimize corporate “net

money in pocket” across multiple industries and business models

Technical

• Lean/Agile Program Manager– Risk-driven project management– Iterative hardware/software development

• Firmware/Software– Managed project teams including firmware/software engineering– Architected designs, partitioning between PCB, ASIC/FPGA and

Firmware/Software• ASIC/FPGA

– Served on supplier Customer Advisory Board– Integrated 3rd party and designed custom IP for numerous industries– Delivered successful digital and mixed signal ASICs

• PCBA/Circuit Design– Digital systems design– Power supply development, including low power/battery powered designs

Credentialed

• BSEE from Michigan State University– Attended on full-tuition scholarship

• MBA from Kellogg School of Management– Majored in Marketing and Strategy

• Graduate Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University

• Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2006• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) since 2013

Where Am I?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-decabooter/2/2a2/497

@stevedecabooter

[email protected]

+1 847-912-1365

Middleton, WI