M.

MAHBOOB AKHTER
Mission Viejo, CA 92692 Cell: 949-300-7585 makhter3@yahoo.com

CORE STRENGTHS AND SKILLS

Executive Management
Technology Startups concept to cruise Business Operations & Logistics Strategic Relationship Management Corporate Management International Business Development Marketing & Sales (+ social media) eCommerce / e-Business PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical
Program / Project Portfolio Management Online / Social Media Marketing & Sales Engineering Supervisor Product Prototyping and Development Control System Design and Analysis System Modeling / Signal Processing

Vampire Professional Tools Inc. Senior Vice President & General Manager 2011 present Vampire Tools is a startup boutique hand tool hardware distributor expanding the market for high quality tools. It aspires to be a company which brought back high quality and value to the tool industry by offering unique tools to solve specific everyday problems. Responsibilities and accomplishments Build the company from grounds up Execute mission of the company through well thought out and debated strategy Build credibility and trust with customers to achieve corporate goals Grow the business through companys own eCommerce site and multiple online stores Leverage conventional and online marketing, advertising, and social media technologies to build corporate image, vertically place products, build and grow sales Quartics, Inc. Senior Director, Marketing and Business Development 2005 2011 Quartics was a fabless semiconductor and software company focused on the development of next generation media processors. Quartics products enabled the digital lifestyle. Through the companys growth phases, the responsibilities included marketing, sales, business development, manage strategic relationships & licensing. Responsibilities and accomplishments Acquired Acer and Sharp as first customers. Both accounts were references for Series A funding of $15M Design wins with Samsung, Acer, Sharp, Addlogix, OKI and Belkin Product evaluations at Tier-1 OEMs such as Samsung, LG, Dell, HP, Canon, Sharp, Sanyo, Epson, Hitachi, DongYang Telecom, Daewoo Lucoms, Gateway, Grundig, and many others. Samsung and Belkin were references for Series B funding of $18 M. In addition, got product evaluation completed at Tier-2 OEMs such as Digital Stream, VisionTek, DM Technology, Focus Enhancements, In-Focus, Lantronix, Addlogix,and others Product evaluations at media firms, after-market resellers/retailers/e-tailers such as CinemaNow, Hancast, Belkin, Kensington, Targus, Hama, Logitech, IOGEAR, eCost, Aver Media, Hawaiian Telecom, and several others Negotiated technology licensing agreements with Adobe, ON2, Brightcove, and OnPlay Labs Established sales channels in Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the United States Many of the accounts converted into sales. Contributed up to $1M / month sales Worked with major ODMs such as Alpha, MSI, Premier, Asus, Compal, Konka, Goodway, Gemtek, CE-Link, MicroLink and others Managed Korean territory for business development, marketing and sales of all Quartics products

SAUZ Technologies, LLC Senior Director of Operations 2002 2005 Sauz Technologies developed, marketed and sold audio/video products such as digital jukebox and signage. Responsibility was to run the operations of the company including business processes, marketing, sales, manufacturing, product shipment, purchasing, customer support and roll-up to finance. Also negotiated licensing agreements for IP and software applications. Accomplishments Revenue shipment (from zero to $250K/mo after which sales took over) Prototype to production to delivery process management Developed, implemented and managed business processes for manufacturing and operations Established manufacturing relationships with contract manufacturer and delivered finished product Component procurement, vendor identification, negotiations and relationship management Managed customer service department Focus Software International, Inc. President / Co-founder 1997 - 2002 Focus Software International, Inc. became a leading provider of eCommerce and eBusiness solutions. The company created differentiation early on by offering scalable and reusable designs along with a toolset developed exclusively for eBusiness sites, which included middleware, EDI and site/database management. Accomplishments Cofounded and built from grounds up organically; provided corporate direction & strategy Developed and executed marketing and sales strategies Acquired high profile customers such as Broadcom, GTE, Shin Etsu Silicones, and carprices.com Acted as Project Manager on an ERP implementation project for a $140M manufacturing firm Developed and managed a team of highly motivated team of marketing/sales professionals, project managers, system analysts and software developers Partnered with offshore development house to scale the business Established high standards for customer retention & relationship management AST Research, Inc. Director of Corporate Planning & Strategic Relationships 1993 - 1996 AST was a leading manufacturer of personal computers for businesses and consumers. In 1995 Samsung became an investor and largest minority shareholder. In 1997, AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics Company. Accomplishments Managed AST-Samsung strategic relationship through initial stages to team building, product meetings, executive visits and all necessary transitions Managed AST-Microsoft relationship and changed it from pure sales to strategic: including technology cooperation, joint business development in developing markets, strategic product / feature alignment Identified and developed new business opportunities in the Far East, and established reseller channels in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia Facilitated Business Process Re-engineering as a member of Corporate Re-engineering effort Supported senior management (Chairman, President/CEO, and the CFO) in market and product research and wrote white papers Represented AST at industry events and at industry organizations Systems Control Technology, Inc. Project Manager / Senior Engineer Systems Control Technology, Inc. (SCT) was a consulting, R&D, and system integration firm concerned with the application of modern design and analysis techniques to complex systems. The application domains were energy/environment, automotive, transportation and aeronautical/marine systems. Its clientele included the United States Department of Defense, DOT, DOE, NASA, FAA and many defense related private firms. SCT was later acquired by SAIC of San Diego.

Accomplishments Won the companys first and only highly prestigious R&D 100 Award; NASA Certificate of Appreciation and US Air Forces Letter of Appreciation Responsibility for Project Management in the Aeronautical / Marine Systems Division Shared responsibility for marketing for the Control and Instrumentation Department Principal investigator and key person with expertise in simulation development, jet engine modeling and failure analysis Developed a simplified scheme for hi-volume data analysis for identification of aircraft system failures Performed development and testing of software simulations deploying software engineering principles and OOD/OOA techniques Designed and demonstrated a fault detection, isolation and accommodation (FDIA) algorithm Designed the first simplified non-linear jet engine model which later won an award from NASA Designed and validated a control system for the US Air Forces conceptual Variable Cycle Engine Designed and validated a control system for the Pratt and Whitney F100 engine University of Phoenix San Jose State University, San Jose, CA University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan Faculty Member Faculty Member (part-time) Faculty Member (part-time) Current
Certified to teach courses in eCommerce and Project Management. Taught graduate level course, "Automatic Control Theory" at the Department of Electrical Engineering. Responsible for course development and lectures. Taught graduate level course, "Molecular Spectroscopy" at the Department of Applied Physics.

AWARDS:

Letter of Appreciation, Department of the Air Force, WPAFB, Ohio, 1992.

(This letter was issued in recognition of the development of a computer model for logistics data analysis.)

R&D 100 Award, Research and Development Magazine, 1988.

(The Research & Development Magazine picks out top 100 projects in the USA, which may result in a commercially viable product in the fields of science and engineering. This award was presented in recognition of the successful simulation bed testing of a fault tolerant control system for a jet engine.)

Certificate of Recognition, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1984.

(This award was presented in recognition of the development of a simplified nonlinear computer simulation for a jet engine, which was eventually used to design a fault tolerant control system for a jet engine.)

EDUCATION: M.S. (Aero. & Astro.), Stanford University, Stanford, California M.Sc., University of Karachi, Pakistan B. Sc. (Honors), University of Karachi, Pakistan
MEMBERSHIPS and AFFILIATIONS:

Member, Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford and Orange County Chapter Member, Board of Directors, 2-1-1 Orange County, California (non-profit) Member of the Board of Directors, Safi Qureshey Foundation (non-profit) Co-founder, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Southern California Chapter Member, Tech Coast Advisory Group (TCAG), Venture Point, Irvine, California Member, Extranet SIG, Software Council of Southern California Member IEEE, since 1981 (also served as reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control) Co-Chair, Year2000 Awareness Committee, Software Council of Southern California

PUBLICATIONS Year 2000 Preparedness for the Family and the Community, Tustin, CA, November 1999. The Year 2000 Challenge Are You Clean?, White Paper, Focus Software International, Inc., February, 1998. eCommerce and eBusiness The Future of Business, White Paper, Focus Software International, Inc., August 1997. "Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control," Draft Final Report, Volumes I and II, Reporting period - 4/25/91 to 12/19/91, with A. Emami-Naeini, N. M. Khraishi, and J. H. Vincent,, Prepared for General Electric, Cincinnati, OH, January 1992. "Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control," Draft Final Report, Volumes I and II, Reporting period - 4/26/90 to 12/19/90, with A. Emami-Naeini, N. M. Khraishi, J. H. Vincent and J. Sun, Prepared for General Electric, Cincinnati, OH, January 1991. "Simulation Development for U.S./Canada STOVL Controls Technology Program," with James H. Vincent, Donald F. Berg and David S. Bodden, presented at the Twentieth Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 4-5, 1989. "Application of System Identification Techniques to Turbine Engine Post-Stall Test and Evaluation," with Rob Anex and Steve Rock, AEDC-TR-88-34, Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFS, Tennessee, October 1989. "Effect of Model Uncertainty on Failure Detection: The Threshold Selector", with Abbas Emami-Naeini, and Stephen M. Rock, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 33, No. 12, December 1988. "Modification and Evaluation of HYTESS Model," with Steve Rock, SCT Report 5491-01/87, Prepared for NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, September, 1987. "Turbofan Engine Model Validation and Real-Time Engine Model Development," with Steve Rock, Final Report presented to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, August 1987. "Robust Detection, Isolation and Accommodation for Sensor Failures", with Emami-Naeini, A., and Rock, S. M., NASA CR-174825, July 1986. "Robust Detection, Isolation and Accommodation for Sensor Failures", with Emami-Naeini, A., and Rock, S. M., presented at the American Control Conference, June 19-21, 1985. "Validated Aircraft Turbine Engine Model Development", with Anderson, L., Heravi, M., Rock, S. M., Final Report, May 1985. "HYTESS - A Hypothetical Turbofan Engine Simplified Simulation", with Merrill, W. C., Beattie, E. C., LaPrad, R. F., Rock, S. M., NASA TM 83561, January 1984. "Sensor Failure Detection for Jet Engines - Final Report", with Beattie, E. C., LaPrad, R. F., Rock, S. M., NASA CR-168190, PWA 5891-18, May 1983. "Sensor Failure Detection System - Final Report", with Beattie, E. C., LaPrad, R. F., McGlone, M. E., Rock, S. M., NASA CR-165515, PWA 5736-17, August 1981. "Development of Multivariable Controllers for Aircraft Turbine Engines", with DeHoff, R. L., and Rock, S. M., Theory and Applications of Optimal Control in Aerospace Systems, AGARDograph No 251, July 1981. "Evaluation of Sensor Failure Detection, Isolation and Accommodation Concepts for an Advanced Turbofan Engine", with Rock, S. M., presented at Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 17-19, 1981. "Nonlinear Control System Design Techniques for Aircraft Turbine Engines", with Rock, S. M., presented at Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 17-19, 1981. "Multivariable Control Structures for Advanced Aircraft Turbine Engines", with Rock, S. M., and DeHoff, R. L., presented at Joint Automatic Control Conference, August 13-15, 1980. "Trajectory Generation Techniques for Multivariable Control of Aircraft Turbine Engines", with Rock, S. M., and DeHoff, R. L., presented at 13th Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, November 5-7, 1979. "Progress in the Evaluation of Methods for the Prediction of Airplane Performance", with Shevell, R. S., Long, L. S., Glick, J., presented to NASA Ames Research Center, August, 1978. "Multi-rate Simulation Calculation", with Powell, J. D., presented to NASA Ames Research Center via Joint Institute of Aeronautics and Acoustics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, November, 1977.