FYI= Trimble is also a member of the inlocation alliance. Its a small group and so QUIK's person and Trimble's person have met……

so what would Trimble know about location?


A lot, a whole LOT.
The coffee house of possibilities is just on a caffeine roll.

Maybe QUIK will hire more Trimble people…..like This guy….or someone just like him?

read this snip of text….
A Trimble guys CV


Background
Summary


Technical Business Developer, over the last 14 years I have managed and contributed individually to a number of complex projects. I have built executive working relationships with over 250 companies in Indoor Location, LBS, Automotive and GNSS industries

Most recently my work has focused on Indoor Localization Technologies, Use Cases and Business Models. In addition to discovering and creating technologies (patents pending) I fostered cross company collaborations through a series of Indoor Location Workshops. To promote communications and interchange I created a comprehensive internal website and social group. To manage my company’s interests I contributed at a high level in industry organizations including; the In location Alliance (ILA) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). I also monitored other industry standards development organizations; 3GPP, WFA and BTSIG.

I am currently seeking roles where I can contribute to the success of bringing innovative products to the indoor location market.

Previously I have contributed with same high level of passion and attention to detail with projects including; development and licensing of GSP silicon, software defined GPS receivers, GPS chipsets, GPS modules, GPS algorithms and GPS IPR.

Specialties:
GPS / GNSS, Indoor Location, Mobile, LBS, Business Development, Collaborative Development, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Technical Marketing, Product / Project / SW Engineering Management, Semiconductors

Please contact me

Experience

Director of Technical Business Development
Trimble
2007 – 2015 (8 years)Sunnyvale, CA
Reported to Executive VP, responsible for Indoor Positioning research, development and promotion. Managed internal developments and relationships with market leading providers. Cross company champion for indoor positioning. Technical due diligence for M&A activities.
• Trimble representative to InLocationAlliance.com (ILA) a global alliance promoting rapid adoption of indoor Positioning eco system, key contributor to System Architecture, Use Case and Promotion working groups. Co-authored System Architecture and Use case white papers. Liaison to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).



So QUIK you know this guy….
• Conducted 3 cross company Indoor Positioning workshops with 20-30 people from 20 divisions, to determine divisional capabilities, product plans, use cases, requirements, business cases and innovated technical solutions. Nurtured cross division collaborations, resulting in several joint product plans and developments. Authored 4 indoor positioning patent applications, two have since issued.
• Developed & demonstrated internal RFID based positioning technology. Shortest time to find downed firefighter in live simulated search and rescue at WPI Precision Personnel Location conference. (less than 5 minutes against a baseline of more than 22 minutes)
• Managed development of TDMB positioning technology coordinating efforts between several international companies targeting a market of 100,000’s of mobile TV’s and 35 million mobile handsets. Successful live demonstration to KBS in South Korea.


Director of Chipsets & Licensing
Trimble
March 2001 – 2007 (6 years)Sunnyvale, CA
Reported to VP/GM/CTO, responsible for development of global market for GPS chipsets, and licensing for GPS silicon integration, GPS software defined radios and GPS IPR.
• Brought FirstGPS™ chipset to market including, license agreements, pricing, advertising, market studies, training programs and software development. Extensive international travel, executive level presentations, marketing and trade shows. Licensed several customers attaining 10K to 50K quarterly units (Bosch Blaupunkt, Infineon, SVDO, Xemics, Epson, Wavedigm)
• Brought SW defined GPS receiver to market. Cooperatively promoted with Texas Instruments. Licensed to Marvell and has shipped over 100 million units.
• Technical due diligence for IPR cross license between Trimble and Nokia, $x million deal.
• Evaluation of Japanese miniaturization manufacturers Sanyo, Casio and Sharp to achieve lowest cost, smallest GPS receiver module, achieved 11x10mm module.
• Led transition from internal to external GPS chipsets for high volume GPS module business, comprehensive GPS supplier test, selected supplier, developed supplier relationship to offer Trimble navigation software with supplier GPS chipset. Shipped millions of GPS modules.


SW Engineering Manager / Director SW. Eng.
Trimble
April 1996 – March 2001 (5 years)Sunnyvale, CA
Reported to VP/GM responsible for SW engineering teams supporting Automotive, Embedded and Timing business units, and development of global In Vehicle Navigation business
• Built SW team from 2 to 8 members, managed design, development, test, bug tracking, release and manuals under ISO processes. Co authored ISO processes. Multiple release cycles for several high volume (millions of units) product families based on 3 generations of GPS technologies, where the largest customers were tier one automotive suppliers; SVDO, Bosch Blaupunkt, Magneti Marelli, Xanavi, Delphi.
• Expanded automotive business through technical innovation, hosting customer applications on Trimble GPS main processor, and global travel to assist with systems integration.
• Significant embedded SW contributor; architecture, GPS algorithms, protocols, APIs, low power modes. 7 years embedded firmware development including prior Sr. SW engineer role.


Firmware Project Manager
Trimble
December 1993 – April 1996 (2 years 5 months)Sunnyvale, CA
Established embedded GPS firmware development capability for several GPS OEM module families. Developed; GPS algorithms, communications, interface protocols, low power modes and manufacture configuration SW.
Established automotive grade release test process and ISO processes for high volume GPS modules


Sr. Software / Applications Engineer
Aehr Test Systems
February 1986 – November 1993 (7 years 10 months)Menlo Park & Mountain View, CA
Semiconductor test system firmware, software, database and UI (created test vector editor)
Application engineering, international semiconductor test system integration in Asia and Europe
7 years SW engineering experience