12076 Mannix Road San Diego, CA 92129 (h) 858-484-9377 (Cell) 858-354-9378

Michael Rothmuller

12076 Mannix Road, San Diego CA 92129 (h) 858-484-9377 (cell) 858-354-9378

Summary
A dynamic Program Manager with the unique combination of skills that include strong leadership ability, program management, product delivery experience, embedded real-time and satellite communication engineering skills. Possess over 20 years of corporate experience which encompasses managing and motivating both individuals and teams, customer management, managing projects, digital video technologies, satellite communication protocols, system design, system testing, new product definition and introduction, process improvement, quality assurance and customer support.
experience
Motorola Home and Networks Mobility San Diego, CA 9/2008 – 6/2009
Customer Program Manager
Ø  Manage customer programs and relationships for DigiCipher uplink video products. Customers include Disney, EchoStar, BET, Andrita and TV Guide. Projects include new installations, on going maintenance and customer relationship management.
Thomson Satellite Premises Systems http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/MiniSites/BAP/Satellite/ Costa Mesa, CA 4/2007 – 4/2008
Senior Director DIRECTV Customer Integration Center
Ø  Hired to create this organization for Thomson and thus hired and even trained some of these employees. Besides running the entire organization I was the main customer interface for Thomson to DIRECTV. I managed this relationship for all the Thomson DIRECTV products, including new product introduction (NPI) (R15, D10, D11, D12, H20, H21, H22, HR20, HR21, HR22); in 2006 this was a $650M business. My organization had a total of 14 employees that includes program managers, development engineers and test engineering teams. Due to growth and strategic needs I had also opened a second office in El Segundo, I was in charge of both sites. General Manager for these two facilities including budgetary responsibility and planning.
Wind River http://www.windriver.com/ San Diego, CA 4/2005 – 5/2007
Project Manager- Contractor from Michael D. Rothmuller & Associates, Inc.
Ø  Manage a DIRECTV settop box project doing maintenance, integration and testing on Philips D11 and R15 boxes.
Ø  Manage a multi-million dollar settop box development project of 12 engineers implementing NDS CDI middleware on Broadcom and Samsung hardware for DIRECTV, DVB-S, ATSC, and Cable. Our software was demoed by Samsung, NDS and Broadcom.
Healthline Systems http://healthlinesystems.com/ San Diego, CA 12/2003 – 4/2005
Manager of Client Support
Ø  Manager of client support group, which do technical support of 2 product lines totaling 6 software products. Products are physician credentialing and call center applications with either SQL or FoxPro backend used by hospitals and credentialing firms. Responsible for tier 2 technical support, client conflict resolution, bringing new ideas into the group, building team to support a larger client base and process improvement to be more efficient with existing resources.
HAVS, Inc. http://www.havs.com/ El Cajon, CA 4/2003 – 12/2003
Programmer
Ø  Design, code, test and install automation software. Clients include Qualcomm, NASA/JPL, Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson.
NSI Communications San Diego, CA 10/2000 - 11/2001
San Diego Director of Engineering
Ø  Direct the entire 30 person engineering department included Software, Hardware, System Validation & Test (SVT), Engineering Support, Documentation, and Configuration Management. Coordinated activities between San Diego and other sites, including Montreal Canada (corporate location) and Santa Clara. Business group liaison for new product definition and introduction.
Ø  Responsible for all aspects of department including project management, budgets, site resource plan, mentoring managers, building and training SVT group, process improvement towards ISO 9001, compensation, and planning the restructure of San Diego to reduce costs by moving tasks to Canada. This company has gone bankrupt and no longer exists.
Ø  Business group liaison for next generation Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) writing marketing requirements.
Hughes Network Systems (formerly Linkabit) San Diego, CA 1980 - 10/2000
Senior Technical Manager, Software Engineering 1999 - 2000
Ø  Senior software engineering group line manager. Conducted reviews, assigned tasks, tracked budgets, responsible for staff motivation and retention, interviewed candidates including college recruiting.
Ø  Program/Project manager (HW, SW, Mechanical and contractors) for several next generation, multi-media television set-tops with Digital Video Recorder(DVR) capability. Wrote marketing system requirements, project plan, managed schedule and budget, and worked on the system design. Ensured the schedule, budget, technical quality and final delivery.
Ø  Worked within Consumer Division set-top marketing group. Compared DVR products and technologies as well as 3rd party middle-ware to chart future product path for consumer satellite and cable set-tops, including international strategy. Familiar with standards ATVEF, MHP, DVB, AC3, 1394(5C).
Technical Manager, Software Engineering 1996 - 1999
Ø  Engineering release manager for PES (Personal Earth Station, now DIRECWAY) VSAT product for 3 years. This involved managing many projects, schedule, design, test and release teams, problem report tracking, monthly program reviews and customer management. During one of the last months as release manager, did 13 software releases. These 13 releases included over 350 different software packages. I directed development in San Diego, Maryland and India.
Ø  Project manager and system engineer which included project management as well as system design, code, test and documentation of development for the PES TDMA VSAT product line. Multiple projects included inclined satellite orbit operation, fixed field reported bugs, coded network management modifications and customer site software installation, diagnosis and repairs of networks.
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering 1991 - 1996
Ø  Developed software/firmware for VSAT product including adding data encryption, implemented SLIP protocol and other features..
Ø  Volunteered for 10-month assignment as a field engineer in the international marketing group. Extensive international travel alone. Provided both pre and post-sales technical support of PES and Telephony Earth Station products. This included debugging system problems in the field, presented to current and potential customers, installed and ran trials with customers.
Ø  Software developer on TDMA fixed wireless base station product.
Other titles held at Hughes Network Systems 1980 - 1991
Ø  Member of Technical staff 3 (MTS3), MTS2, MTS1, AMTS, Engineering Aide, Test equipment coordinator.

12076 Mannix Road San Diego, CA 92129 (h) 858-484-9377 (Cell) 858-354-9378

Skills
Ø  Personnel hiring and management, Project/Program management, customer management, sub-contract management, leading multi-department and multi-site teams, writing proposals, new business research, requirements management.
Ø  MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SVN, CVS, Clearcase, HTML.
Ø  C/C++, assembly, Windows, Linux, Unix, VxWorks, NDS MediaHighway CDI 2.0, NDS HDI and XTV, MS TV, Liberate TV Navigator, Intel Broadcast Plus. Real-time embedded software development for communications systems, including protocols (TCP/IP, VoIP, SLIP, 802.11x), data encryption, graphical user interfaces(GUI) and web based browser interfaces.
Ø  Training: Project Management, ISO 9001 and SEI CMM, CMMI trained. Internetworking with TCP/IP. Object oriented (OO) project management training. Team building courses. Engineering development Testing.
Ø  US Citizen. Previously held secret clearance, Extensive traveling including 28 countries. Experienced working with many cultures.
Education
BA in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego. Minor in Management Science.
Patents
Ø  “Method and apparatus for sorting and searching a television program guide”, sole inventor, Patent #5,635,989 June 3, 1997.
Ø  “Method and apparatus for sorting and searching a television program guide based on user profile”, sole inventor, Patent #6,075,526 awarded June 13, 2000.