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  • JOBS: Manager of Hardware Engineering with consumer video electronics experience


    Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) focuses on creating solutions in new and adjacent technology markets, and is looking for high energy, high impact individuals who want to help shape Cisco’s future by building our next USD $1B business.

    Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, and we are currently seeking a Manager of Hardware Engineering to help lead this incubation through to a significant business. Leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.

    Job Description:

    Reporting to the Director of Hardware of TSBU, the Manager of Hardware Engineering will be responsible for the following:

    • Build world-class engineering team
    • Work with product management, market development, and customers to develop, refine, validate, and prioritize product requirements and product roadmaps
    •Work with industrial design team to ensure constraints are met in developing compelling consumer designs.
    • Define product hardware architecture and system level designs based on product requirements and business model.
    • Work with director of software to ensure a complete system and make appropriate trade offs as a team
    • Develop product hardware functional specifications
    • Develop product prototype
    • Make strategic trade-offs in make-buy-partner technology decisions
    • Drive to develop and protect intellectual property for market leadership.
    • Lead development, launch and successful revenue growth of the product(s)
    • Develop, and adhere to, resource plans, schedule, and budget

    Requirements:
    • Previous multiple year experience in the consumer electronics market, bringing multiple successful products to market.
    • Experience with video, audio products and solutions.
    • Track record of developing “disruptive” products and bringing them to market
    • Very high technical competence, individual technical accomplishments with repeated, proven track record for product delivery
    • Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
    • Strong leadership and management skills, ability to deliver results with a small, fast-paced teams, and ability to work across teams
    • Strong ability to stay in sync with key customer requirements and deliver products to meet the requirements, making appropriate trade-offs
    • Experience in building high performing engineering teams
    • Strong inter-personal skills and teamwork
    • Ability to work and thrive in a true “startup” mode

    Other desired qualifications include:
    • Work experience with successful startups
    • Brought products to market with cameras or displays
    • Experience with visual communications systems.

    This position is located in San Jose, CA, US

    For click here for more information.

  • JOBS: Manager of Hardware Engineering with consumer video electronics experience


    Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) focuses on creating solutions in new and adjacent technology markets, and is looking for high energy, high impact individuals who want to help shape Cisco’s future by building our next USD $1B business.

    Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, and we are currently seeking a Manager of Hardware Engineering to help lead this incubation through to a significant business. Leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.

    Job Description:

    Reporting to the Director of Hardware of TSBU, the Manager of Hardware Engineering will be responsible for the following:

    • Build world-class engineering team
    • Work with product management, market development, and customers to develop, refine, validate, and prioritize product requirements and product roadmaps
    •Work with industrial design team to ensure constraints are met in developing compelling consumer designs.
    • Define product hardware architecture and system level designs based on product requirements and business model.
    • Work with director of software to ensure a complete system and make appropriate trade offs as a team
    • Develop product hardware functional specifications
    • Develop product prototype
    • Make strategic trade-offs in make-buy-partner technology decisions
    • Drive to develop and protect intellectual property for market leadership.
    • Lead development, launch and successful revenue growth of the product(s)
    • Develop, and adhere to, resource plans, schedule, and budget

    Requirements:
    • Previous multiple year experience in the consumer electronics market, bringing multiple successful products to market.
    • Experience with video, audio products and solutions.
    • Track record of developing “disruptive” products and bringing them to market
    • Very high technical competence, individual technical accomplishments with repeated, proven track record for product delivery
    • Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
    • Strong leadership and management skills, ability to deliver results with a small, fast-paced teams, and ability to work across teams
    • Strong ability to stay in sync with key customer requirements and deliver products to meet the requirements, making appropriate trade-offs
    • Experience in building high performing engineering teams
    • Strong inter-personal skills and teamwork
    • Ability to work and thrive in a true “startup” mode

    Other desired qualifications include:
    • Work experience with successful startups
    • Brought products to market with cameras or displays
    • Experience with visual communications systems.

    This position is located in San Jose, CA, US

    Please click here for more information.

  • Data Center Expertise Increasingly Valued

    Computer data center experts are being shown new respect, according to The New York Times, and the trend is set to continue.

    In Silicon Valley, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers have traditionally been regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.

    For years, the mission of data center experts was to keep the computing power plants humming, while scant thought was given to rising costs and energy consumption.

    Today, they are no longer taken for granted as data centers grow to keep pace with the demands of Internet-era computing, according to a report in The New York Times.

    As a result of their immense need for electricity and their inefficient use of that energy, data centers pose environmental, energy and economic challenges

    That means people with the skills to design, build and run a data center that does not endanger the power grid are suddenly in demand.

    Their status is growing, as are their salaries — climbing more than 20 per cent in US in the last two years into six figures for experienced engineers.

    Jonathan G. Koomey, a consulting professor of environmental engineering at Stanford University, said: “The data center energy problem is growing fast, and it has an economic importance that far outweighs the electricity use.

    “So that explains why these data center people, who haven’t gotten a lot of glory in their careers, are in the spotlight now.”

    Chandrakant Patel, a mechanical engineer at Hewlett-Packard Labs, said that data centers can be made 30 per cent to 50 per cent more efficient just by applying current technology.

    Patel, who has worked in Silicon Valley for 25 years, said that at one time, “we were seen as sheet metal jockeys”.
    “But now we have a chance to change the world for the better, using engineering and basic science,” he said.

    No letup in demand for data center computing

    Digital Realty Trust, a data center landlord with more than 70 facilities, said that customer demand for new space is running 50 per cent ahead of its capacity to build and equip data centers for the next two years.

    For every new center, new data center administrators need to be hired.

    Indeed, some data managers with only a degree from a two-year college can command a USD $100,000 salary.

    Trade and professional conferences for data center experts, unheard of years ago, are now commonplace.

    Five-figure signing bonuses, retention bonuses and generous stock grants have become ingredients in the compensation packages of data center experts today.

    The pace of the data center buildup is the result of the surging use of server computers, which in the United States rose to 11.8 million in 2007, from 2.6 million a decade earlier, according to IDC, a research firm.

    Worldwide, the 10-year pattern is similar, with the server population increasing more than fourfold to 30.3 million by 2007.

    Based on current trends, by 2011 data center energy consumption will nearly double again, requiring the equivalent of 25 power plants. The world’s data centers, according to recent study from McKinsey & Company, could well surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020.

    Because the task ahead, analysts say, is not just building new data centers, but also overhauling the old ones, the managers who know how to cut energy consumption are at a premium.

    Most of the 6,600 data centers in America, analysts say, will be replaced or retrofitted with new equipment over the next several years.

    They apparently have little choice. Analysts point to surveys that show 30 per cent of American corporations are deferring new technology initiatives because of data center limitations.

    Mechanical and electrical engineers with experience in data center design, air-flow modeling and power systems management are in demand.

    Now that costs and energy consumption are priorities, the data center gurus are getting a hearing and new respect.

  • Google expanding Android team as HTC handset approved

    More designers needed as first Android-powered handset passed by FCC

    The team responsible for Google’s Android open-source operating system is to be enlarged with openings for designers, engineers, and developers.

    Ads from the search giant ask for people who can work in areas as diverse as “innovative” hardware user interface design, battery life, RF issues, and handset-security software.

    The expansion of the phone project in Mountain View, California, comes as an Android-powered handset from High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) passed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements.

    The HTC Dream is expected to be available in the US through T-Mobile sometime between October and the end of the year – making it the first to launch with the open-source operating system.

    Although details remain scant on the Dream, the FCC listing confirmed that the HTC model will be the Dream as the handset was labeled the “DREA100”. It has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and runs on the 850/1700/1900MHz bands.

    For candidates hopeful of joining Google’s Android team, the key job ad word is “collaboration”, with the stress on the need for people to work with the company’s multiple partners in the Open Handset Alliance.

    “The Google Android team offers a collaborative environment in which we help partners across the globe to create world-class hand held products,” says the ad copy.

    Competition shouldn’t be long in coming as the open-source Linux handset front is pushing for its first launch – perhaps by early next year. Verizon Wireless is reported to be preparing its first handsets from the LiMo Foundation.

  • Carolyn Fairbairn appointed Freesat chairman


    ITV director of group development and strategy Carolyn Fairbairn will succeed Tim Davie as chairman of the UK’s free-to-air digital satellite television service Freesat in September.

    Davie, currently the BBC’s director of marketing, communications and audiences, will relinquish the Freesat chair – which alternates between the BBC and ITV annually – when he becomes the corporation’s new director of audio and music.

    Freesat was developed by the BBC and ITV plc. The service began broadcasting on 6 May 2008 and offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television.

    The service expects to have 200 channels available by the end of 2008 – including subscription-free high definition channels from the BBC and ITV- and 230 by early 2009, with around 30 channels added each month.

    Emma Scott, Freesat managing director, said: “Carolyn is a highly regarded industry figure and I’m certain that the strong strategic skills and expertise she continues to demonstrate at ITV will be of huge benefit to Freesat.

    “I’m delighted that she has agreed to become Chairman of Freesat. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank Tim for the great support and wise counsel he has provided during Freesat’s development and launch.”

    Before joining ITV in 2007, Fairbairn worked at the BBC where she developed the corporation’s plans for Freeview as its director of strategy and distribution.

    Fairbairn said: “Freesat plays a crucial role in ensuring that UK viewers have access to free-to-air digital and high definition television.

    “After a successful launch earlier this year, the service has already proved itself to be popular with consumers and I’m delighted to be taking on the chairmanship.”

  • Paul Semenza appointed senior vice president at DisplaySearch

    Display industry veteran Paul Semenza has been named as Display Search’s senior vice president managing its North American and European analyst teams.

    With more than 20 years of global market research experience, Semenza most recently served as vice president and manager of iSuppli’s Display Business.

    In this role he managed the firm’s market intelligence and consulting practice in the electronic display and consumer electronics sectors.

    A frequent speaker at major industry events such as CES and SID’s DisplayWeek, Semenza is has been quoted in leading business and trade publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, EE Times, Bloomberg, Information Display and CNBC.

    Tim Bush, DisplaySearch’s group president and general manager, said the company was “thrilled” to have Semenza join its team of global analysts.

    “Paul’s leadership, industry knowledge, and market insights will be a great complement to the DisplaySearch business,” he said.

    Prior to iSuppli, Semenza was a program officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, where he directed studies on IT policy.

    Before that, he served as a consultant for Mogee Research on international patent activity and was an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), covering emerging technologies such as flat panel displays.

    He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and master’s degree in electro-optics from Tufts University.
    In 1994, he received a master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

  • Motorola sues former executive now with Apple


    Motorola has sued a former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement and threatening to reveal its trade secrets by taking a job with Apple’s iPhone division, the mobile phone maker said in a lawsuit.

    Michael Fenger accepted “millions of dollars in cash, restricted stock units, and stock options” in exchange for agreeing not to join a competitor for two years after leaving Motorola, where he oversaw mobile devices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the lawsuit said.

    According to the lawsuit filed in Illinois last week he took the iPhone job on March 31, less than a month after leaving Motorola.
    Fenger, who now serves as vice president of global iPhone sales, also employed two high-level Motorola employees who have access to Motorola’s trade secrets and customer relationships, the suit said.

    An Apple spokeswoman said the company had no comment on the lawsuit. Fenger could not be reached for comment.
    Motorola, based in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, is asking the Cook County court to stop Fenger from working for Apple for two years and to bar him from soliciting or hiring Motorola employees or disclosing Motorola’s confidential information.
    It is demanding damages and repayment of stock options given to him in exchange for signing the non-compete agreement.

  • New head to take BBC HD mainstream

    The UK’s BBC has named a new controller of its HD channel briefed with attracting more viewers and increasing content

    Danielle Nagler has been named as the new head of BBC HD replacing Seetha Kumar who is moving to a new senior role within the corporation.

    Kumar, who has led the channel since its trial stages, will move to another, as yet to be announced, “senior role” in the corporation.

    A BBC statement said Nagler’s priorities are to “focus on growing the channel by driving consumer take-up, working with in-house and independent producers to increase HD programming, and leading preparations for BBC HD’s launch on Freeview”.

    Speaking after her appointment was announced, Nagler said it was a “critical time” for the channel and the technology – and for people making programmes.
    She said it was up to the BBC to help both audiences and the wider industry make the transition to HD.

    “At the moment there are 10m HD-ready sets in the UK but only a minority are actually used for HD viewing.
    “It’s clear there’s lots of work to do to open up the enormous viewing potential HD can offer for audiences.
    “BBC HD tries to offer viewers the best of the BBC’s HD programmes, so I’ve got the fantastic job of cherry-picking from all the BBC channels to create the best possible showcase for HD content.”

    Although far from the finished product, the BBC HD channel, the UK’s first free-to-air HD channel, continues to build both audience and approval ratings.
    It will also take a place on the digital terrestrial network from the autumn of 2009; DVB-T2 tests have already commenced by the BBC in Guildford.

    Nagler, who most recently worked as head of the director general’s office, joined the BBC in 1996 as a journalism trainee.

    She will report to Simon Nelson, controller of multiplatform and portfolio, who said: “HD is a central part of our broadcasting future with huge potential to grow on cable, satellite and in the future on Freeview.
    “I’m confident that in Danielle’s hands, the channel will make the transition to become a mainstream choice for our audiences.”

    Nagler will take up her position on July 21.

  • T-Mobile Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer

    Denny Marie Post, the senior VP-global food and beverage at Starbucks is to move to T-Mobile as the mobile operator’s chief marketing officer (CMO).
    On making the announcement, Robert Dotson, president-CEO of T-Mobile USA, said in a statement: “Denny has deep and varied experience as a marketing leader in some of the most competitive retail environments in America.
    “We’re delighted she brings her extensive talents to T-Mobile to further drive our mission of enriching personal relationships.”
    According to tracking data from TNS Media Intelligence, T-Mobile spent US$607 million in advertising last year.
    Prior to working at Starbucks, Ms. Post has served as the Chief Concept Officer at fast-food chain, Burger King since April 2004.
    From 1995 to March 2004, Ms. Post served in various positions for Yum! Brands, including Chief Innovation Officer at KFC, Chief Marketing Officer for KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut in Canada and VP Concept Innovation for KFC.
    The previous CMO, Michael Butler left at the beginning of the year for HomeAway, which operates the a network of vacation rental websites. Robert Dotson has been acting CMO since then.
    Earlier T-Mobile revealed its plans for the iPhone 3G in Europe with the announcement that Apple’s new handset will go on sale in Germany from as low as EUR1.
    The company said the 8 gigabyte version will be priced from EUR1 to EUR169.95, depending on the customer’s rate plan.
    The 16 gigabyte version will be priced from EUR19.95 to EUR249.95.
    T-Mobile will sell Apple’s device exclusively and customers are required to sign a two-year contract when buying the iPhone.
    The 3G iPhone will go on sale in Germany from July 11. T-Mobile will also start selling the new handset in Austria and the Netherlands the same day.
    The company will sell the phones in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia later this year.

  • Intelsat announces appointment of acting Chief Financial Officer

    Intelsat, Ltd., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, has appointed its Chief Executive Officer, David McGlade, as acting Chief Financial Officer.
    The announcment follows the resignation of Jeffrey Freimark from the position of CFO, a move that was effective from June 5. He is leaving to pursue other opportunities.
    Mr McGlade will also continue to serve as CEO while an external search for a permanent CFO is carried out.
    In a statement, Mr McGlade said: “Jeff’s oversight of the PanAmSat acquisition financing and his involvement in the integration process, together with his focus on assuring our compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, were important factors in our corporate success over the past few years.
    “We thank him for his contributions to Intelsat, and we wish him the best in his future endeavors. Our business is performing well.
    “Last month, Intelsat reported a strong quarter with record revenues and successfully launched the Galaxy 18 satellite.
    “We remain focused on executing our proven business plan.”