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
+1 847-912-1365
Middleton, WI