Speech Titles:
- Ineffective Engineering Costs You Time, Money, and
CUSTOMERS!
- Keep Your Eyes on THE GOAL!
- Vision and Roadmaps Are Essential to Effective Product
Development
- Recognizing and Understanding Your Role in Effective
Product Development
- What Do Your Customers Really Want?
- Development Methodology: Too Little, Too Much, or "Just
Right"?
Biographical Information:
Tom Dennis has over thirty years of outstanding engineering
and business management experience. Prior to consulting, Tom was a senior
engineering executive and corporate officer at a number of large, medium, and
small companies (including Bell Labs, Xylogics, and Cabletron Systems), where
he put into practice the principles recommended by Effective Engineering
Consulting Services. Tom has demonstrated success in applying these principles
by building and running many product development organizations and in releasing
many successful products. He has a broad technical and business education (MBA
– Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, MS-EE – Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn, BS-EE – Lehigh University), all achieved with
highest honors. He has extensive experience in markets including
Telecommunications, Networking, Network Management, Wireless, Storage, and
Navigation. He has a strong background in product development, including
disciplines such as software, hardware, firmware, mechanical, ASICs, RF, audio,
and acoustics. He has demonstrated strengths in product development
methodologies, project management, quality by design, quality assurance,
performance engineering, usability engineering, release engineering, sustaining
engineering, manufacturing engineering, technical documentation, customer
support, product management, and more. He has managed groups of over 120
people, as well as smaller groups, and has built and nurtured strong teams
throughout his extensive career.
