Selected Career Accomplishments:
Tom established several research, advanced development and product development teams that created valuable technology and products for large consumer markets. This included developing leadership, research strategies, and foundational operational mechanisms.
The Shanghai team distinguished itself by developing and delivering a steady stream of highly competitive and differentiated human interaction technologies to the company’s Smart Phone product line. Their thought leadership was acknowledged both with internal company and external awards for innovation including awards from the Asia Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun Times Innovation Award.
Prior to joining Motorola, Tom directly led an engineering organization in NCR-The Netherlands through an objective assessment of their current performance, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities and helped them forge and execute a new organizational and product development strategy. The result was the creation of the Wi-Fi standard (802.11) and associated products that led to a highly profitable business and a new industry product segment for wireless data communications. Our contribution to industry innovation was acknowledged with a Byte Magazine Innovation Award.
He is an active participant in public discourse on the issues and opportunities for improving human/computer interaction. He has written several articles and presented at large public forums to call attention to industry challenges in creating more usable consumer products and leveraging increasingly capable embedded devices. As an officer and member of Motorola’s corporate research organization, Tom participated in many advisory boards, business councils, innovation conferences, technology summits and panel discussions, special task forces, and patent committees.