Simon Fok
Fremont, CA
currently: Job hunting
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Work history
VP of Technical Marketing
tags:
technical marketing
• management & leadership exper...
• architect
How would you describe your time at iVivity?
Responsible for thinking outside-the-box to develop new market and product strategies:
*Identify specific new markets where iVivity's Storage Network Processor technology can be applied
*Quantify the size of these new markets, define & assess new product concepts and opportunities. Targeted new markets are: L2-L7 switches, Network Security, WAN Optimization and NIC/LOM.
*Research potential competition and perform competitive product benchmarking and feature analysis.
*Work with CTO to develop chip and system architectures for the next generation product.
*Write MRD and PRD and other product marketing collateral.... 
Product Development Consultant
tags:
product development
How would you describe your time at DA VINCI GROUP?
* Developed strategies for a top-tiered network security semiconductor company to improve its market penetration. Work included: (1) analysis of network security market segmentation and trends, (2) analysis of top switch/router vendors (Cisco, Juniper etc.) silicon requirements in security and (3) development of product strategies to intercept future market trends and to align roadmaps with customers' future requirements....
Intel
May 2004 to May 2005
Product Development Consultant
tags:
management & leadership exper...
• architect
• product development
How would you describe your time at Intel?
*Worked for Intel's New Business Initiative (NBI) group to develop new technologies and businesses to drive growth for Intel.
*Identified specific areas where Intel's embedded reconfigurable logic technology can be applied, these included: Media Processing including CODECs, Video compression (MPEG4, H.264, VC-1) and Digital Rights Management, NPU (IP/MPLS), Security and Content Processing, Digital Baseband Processing,.
*Identified strategic market opportunities, segment and size and defined and assessed new product concepts and opportunities. Targeted markets were: Consumer (Set Top Box, Digital TV) and Enterprise Communication Infrastructure.
*Oversaw requirements gathering and product specification for both new products and enhanced versions of existing products.
*Developed justification and viability analysis of new products and enhancements....
DBXcel
April 2003 to December 2003
Director of Product Development
tags:
technical marketing
• product development
• architect
How would you describe your time at DBXcel?
* Co-architected & developed product strategies for a FC and IP based database storage product including product positioning and go-to-market plans.
* Drove the customer requirement discovery from both a qualitative and quantitative context to build solid, data driven business plans and strategies. Led the translate technology and technological advantage into business objectives and business advantage.
* Wrote MRD and PRD and other marketing collateral....
Product Strategy Lead
tags:
product development
How would you describe your time at Sanlighte (acquired by Quan...?
*Participated in the product architecture for its software backup product.
*Researched target markets, emerging technologies, and potential competition and perform competitive product benchmarking and feature analysis.
Product Development Consultant
tags:
technology savvy
• architect
How would you describe your time at Zambeel?
*Developed different switch architectures for clustering storage and computer nodes in an enterprise-class storage system.
*Developed the firmware to test the viabilities of selected Gigabit Ethernet silicons from different vendors.
Chief Product Development Officer
tags:
technical marketing
• architect
• product development
• management & leadership exper...
• technology savvy
How would you describe your time at NetConvergence?
*Developed the system architectures for IP over FC/SCSI and iSCSI products, 3 U.S. patents received.
*Led the product planning and multi-year product strategies and roadmaps.
*Directed the engineering team to develop the FC/SCSI-IP gateway and iSCSI products based on x86 processors and Network Processors from Intel and Broadcom.
*Led the team of engineers, consultants and technology partners to develop: (1) iSCSI server software for IBM AIX, HP UX, SUN Solaris, Windows, Linux and NCR Unix systems and (2) iSCSI target software based on embedded Linux for both the Intel IXP and Broadcom Sibyte NPUs. Directed a team of test engineers to perform well-defined unit, product level integration, and device tests.
*Responsible for defining and communicating the strategic path of both current and future products, also engaged in the day-to-day decisions regarding product development, product launches, marketing, and sales support.
*Managed technology partner relationships, partners included Cisco, EMC, Intel, 3Ware (AMCC) and Accton. Responsibility included that the test plans are fully compliant with their product requirements....
VP of Product Dvelopment
tags:
management & leadership exper...
• product development
• architect
• technology savvy
• technical marketing
How would you describe your time at Gigalabs?
*Architected the entire Gigabit product line consisting of scalable, multi-protocol non-blocking crossbar switches and Gigabit NICs. The switches supported Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI and HIPPI blades. The Gigabit NICs supported Gigabit Ethernet and HIPPI and ran under Solaris, NT and Linux. Customers included: Exxon, Cable&Wireless, Tokyo Electron Limited, SAMPO and many other top-tiered Enterprise customers across different market segments.
*Assembled and directed the engineering and manufacturing teams to design, develop and manufacture all switch and NIC products. Worked with Marketing & Sales on a regular basis to ensure hardware and software releases are delivered accurately, timely and in full compliance with customer requirements. The hardware is chassis-based with different line cards that contain ASICs, FPGAs and off-the-shelf silicons. The software is for routing and management and is developed using WindRiver on the Intel i960 embedded processor.
*Led creation of individual product platform and vertical solutions plans and managed the overall corporate product roadmap.
*Defined and communicated a coherent product vision and strategy, value proposition, use cases, and positioning for each product, both internally and externally....
Director of Product Development
tags:
technology savvy
• management & leadership exper...
• product development
• architect
How would you describe your time at Avaika Networks?
*Managed the development of non-blocking crossbar switches for clustering high-performance servers and storage sub-systems. These switches were used and some still in use in High-Performance Computational Facilities around the world.
*Developed the management firmware for the supervisor engine based on the Zilog processor....
Project Manager
tags:
technology savvy
• management & leadership exper...
• architect
How would you describe your time at Technology Development?
*Developed special purpose computers for graphics and scientific applications. This multi-million dollars development was funded entirely by NASA for the purpose of creating a low-cost yet high-performance application-specific system. The special purpose computer is based on a systolic array of Weitek processor chips.
*Developed the ray tracing and fluid computations firmware for the systolic array....
Staff Scientist
tags:
technology savvy
How would you describe your time at Computer Sciences?
Responsible for the evaluation and refinement of two proposed supercomputer systems for NASA.
Education
Applied Mathematics
How would you describe your time at UC Berkeely?
Received Ph.D. and BA degrees
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