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VP Product Management Chief Technology Officer in Seattle WA Resume Scott Toborg PDF
VP Product Management Chief Technology Officer in Seattle WA Resume Scott Toborg PDF
Bellevue, WA 98006
425-747-4371 scott@toborg.com
Technology Executive with outstanding combination of technical depth, leadership skill and business savvy.
Proven C-Level experience in both large enterprise and entrepreneurial organizations. Track record of
success in the development & deployment of products and services used by millions and generating billions
in revenue. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, MS Computer Science, BS Physics, Deep expertise in:
Mobile Application Development Lean and Agile Development Techniques
M2M, Wireless, Cellular Technologies SOA, SaaS and Cloud Architectures
Software Development Management Cross-Functional, Global Program Management
Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics Complex Technical Product Management
Data Mining / Big Data Architectures Business Process Management
EXPERIENCE
Chief Technologist, TOBORG TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES, Bellevue, WA 2009-Present
Executive consultant to high growth enterprises in the development and execution of technology, product,
and partnering strategies.
Vice President, Products, Control4, Inc. Line manager for team of 15-20 Product and Program
Managers. Led comprehensive revamp of product strategy, roadmap, and development
processes for 40+ products generating $100M+ in annualized revenue.
CTO HealthMate Medical. Low-cost heart diagnostics device. Developed new product concepts
for medical device communication, data storage, and data analysis service.
Program Manager/Architect, AT&T Mobility Product Realization / CTO. Lead development,
onboarding and lifecycle management of over 40 AT&T branded or pre-loaded consumer mobile
applications. Portfolio includes top revenue generating applications for AT&T.
Product Development Consultant for major food processing equipment company. Identified
market and technology gaps. Defined new $200M product line. Performed due diligence on
technology partners. Reviewed current Image Processing algorithms and developed technology
strategy to enhance next generation systems.
Completed (2011) In-depth Technology Assessment for Investment Group in the area of wireless
location and tracking technologies (RFID, Nanotechnologies, WiFi, WiGig, UWB, SAT, 4G, M2M).
Project Manager, IBM LOS ANGELES SCIENTIFIC CENTER, Los Angeles, CA 1983-1984
Fortune 50 company. Research Center associated with Almaden and Santa Teresa laboratories.
Designed and implemented software interface for object-oriented tools used in Computer Aided
Software Engineering (CASE) products.
Responsible for directing day-to-day work of 16-member graduate student team.
Interviewed, hired, and trained new student research assistants. Responsible for periodic oral and
written reports to IBM management.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION
PMI, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, Sigma XI, Sigma Pi Sigma, Who’s Who in Telecommunications, XIWT Internet
Performance Metrics Steering Committee, IETF IP Performance Metrics Working Group (IPPM), SBC Internet 2
representative, TeleManagement Forum, Technology Executives Peer Group (TXPEG), University of Washington
Business School Curriculum Committee, Keiretsu Forum, WTIA.
“Pathogen Management: Technology Survey and Commercialization Strategy”, Prepared for Key
Technologies, May 5, 2010.
“The Enterprise New Product Development Process", Technology Executives Leadership Academy,
Seattle, WA, May 30, 2007.
“An Introduction to MTOSI: A Web Services-Based Standard for OS-OS Communications”, (with Francesco
Caruso), Proceedings TeleManagement World, Nice, France, May 2005.
“Implementing NGOSS with MTOSI: A Case Study on the Development of Inventory Interface Standards”,
(with Don Gibson and Paul McCluskey), Proceedings TeleManagement World, Long Beach, October 2004.
“Winning Strategies: Transforming Networks, Operations, and Services to Drive Business Success”, invited
opening address and executive panel, IEC Executive Forum, Chicago, Il., June, 2004.
“Beyond OSS/BSS—Next Generation Customer-Centric Service Delivery”, invited opening address and
executive panel, Billing and OSS World, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2004.
“The IT Competency Chasm: How can we more effectively leverage technology to deliver business value?”
University of Washington, Technology Management MBA Guest Lecture Series, May 3, 2003.
“Strategic Planning for Information Technology”, Technology Executives Peer Group, Bellevue, WA, 28
August 2002.
“Building a Large-Scale Stage-Gate Network Service Delivery Process”, invited keynote address, Product
Management Conference, Bellevue, WA, Jan. 8, 2002.
“Information Systems and Technology Vision 2001: How Information Systems will Revolutionize our
Business”, keynote address, Information Systems and Technology Summit, Vancouver, B.C., January
2001.
“Changing the Paradigm for Global Optical Service Provisioning”, Proceedings IEC Operation Support
Systems Summit, Miami, FL, 6 March 2001.
“Business-Driven Network Design and Operation—The Business Value of Network Design Tools”,
Proceedings OPNETWORK2000, Washington, D.C. August 29, 2000.
“Critical Role of Network Simulation in the Design of Next Generation Network Services”, Communications
News, August 1999.
“A Systems Perspective on the Impact and Role of Business Intelligence Solutions in Telecommunications”,
Telcordia Engineering Seminar, Morristown, NJ, April 20, 1999.
“SBC Wireless Customer Relationship Management System”, invited keynote address, Wireless Retention
Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 15, 1999.
“New Directions for Unified Network Design and Operation”, Proceedings Next Generation Networks
Conference, Washington, DC., Nov. 6, 1998.
“Integrated Network Design and Performance Analysis”, Proceedings OPNETWORK98, Washington, DC., May
1998.
“Neural Techniques for Fault Diagnosis of Broadband Networks” (with Thomas John), Conference on
Communications Networks and Neural Networks, Duke University, Durham, NC, March 4-6 1996.
“HyperSAR: An Integrated Hyperspectral / SAR Remote Sensing Platform for Wide-Area Search, Terrain
Mapping, and Environmental Monitoring”, ARPA Technology Reinvestment Concept Paper, Dec. 21, 1994.
“New Paradigms in Technology Transfer”, Keynote Address, IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence. July, 1994, Orlando, FL.
“Performance Comparison of Neural Networks for Undersea Mine Detection”, (with D. Rowe and M.
Lussier), Applications of Artificial Neural Networks V, Proceedings SPIE Volume 2243, pp. 200-211, 1994.
"Neural Network Computing with 3-D Wafer Scale Integration", (with M. Campbell), IEEE Transactions on
Circuits, Hybrids, & Manufacturing Technology, Special Issue on Wafer Scale Computing, Nov. 1993.
“Stability and Convergence Control in Cooperative Integration Networks”, International Conference on Artificial
Neural Networks, Amsterdam, Sept. 13-16, 1993.
"3-D Wafer Stack Neurocomputing", (with M. Campbell, S. Taylor), IEEE International Conference. on Wafer Scale
Integration, San Francisco, Jan. 20-22, 1993.
“Cooperative Vision Integration Through Data-Parallel Neural Computations”, (with K. Hwang), IEEE Transactions
on Computers, pp.1368-1379, Dec. 1991.
“Neural Network Vision Integration with Learning”, SPIE Conference on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks
II, ed. Steven K. Rogers. pp.77-88. Orlando, FL, 1991.
“Parallel Vision Integration on the AMT Distributed Array Processor”, (with K. Hwang), Fifth International Parallel
Processing Symposium, ed. V. K. Prasanna Kumar, pp.178-185. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991.
"An Approach to Image Recognition Using Sparse Filter Graphs", (with K. Flaton), International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks. June 18-22, Washington, D.C., 1989.
"Exploring Neural Network and Optical Computing Technologies", (with K. Hwang), Ch.16 of Parallel Processing
for Supercomputer and Artificial Intelligence, K. Hwang and D. DeGroot, eds., McGraw-Hill, 1989.
"STRADEM: A Simulation for SDI Architecture Analysis", (with S. DePicciotto, T. Lonski), Proceedings of
the 1986 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 28-30, Reno, NV, 1986.
“DirecPC: High-Speed Satellite Internet Access”, SBC Technology Resources Internal Report, July 1997.
“Neural Networks Technology Assessment”, (with S. Shams, W. Przytula), Hughes Research Laboratories,
Technology Assessment Report #93002, April 1993.
“Cooperative Integration of Multispectral Infrared Images”, Hughes Aircraft Common Image Processing
Technologies Project, Karen Olin (editor), December 1992.
“Cooperative Vision Integration: From Neural Algorithms to Wafer Scale Architectures”, Hughes Research
Laboratories, Research Report No. 587, August 1992.
“Using CASE Tools for Systems Engineering Support”, Hughes Space and Communications Group, Technical
Report No. 4M11.26/26, March 3, 1989.
“Processing Needs for Future DoD Communications Spacecraft”, (with Mark Schwene, Mike O’Hara),
MilSatCom Technology Assessment Report, June 1988.
"Connectionist Expert Systems for Autonomous Spacecraft Control", Hughes Space and Communications
Group, Report No. 4M11.23/17, May 20, 1988.
"Exploring the Application of Neural Networks for SDI Weapon Assignment", Hughes Space and Comm
Group, Tech. Report No. 4912.3/197, May 29, 1987.
“Parallel Processing for Space Battle Management”, Hughes Space and Communications Group, Jan. 9,
1987.
THESES
“Cooperative Vision Integration: From Neural Network Algorithms to Parallel Hardware Architectures”, University of
Southern California, Department of Electrical Engineering--Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1992.
"Developing a General Model for Information Systems Design: An Analysis and Synthesis of
Methodologies", Brigham Young University, Computer Science Department, Master of Science Thesis, May
1984.
"Design Considerations for Nd:YAG-Glass Laser Systems", Brigham Young University, Honors Program,
Bachelor of Science Thesis, April 1982.
Management: Chief Information Officer. Chief Technology Officer. VP Product Development. VP Business
Development. Senior Executive Management. Technical Personnel Management. Cross-Functional
Distributed Team Building. Multi-project Program Management. Strategic Technology Planning and
Forecasting. R&D Project Management. Technical Marketing. Technology Assessment. Product
Specification and Evaluation. Financial Planning and Budgeting. Business Process Engineering. Business
and Technology Strategy. Global Team Management. Lean-Agile Development. Scrum.
Software and Hardware: IBM Business Discovery Solutions and Data Miner. NeoVista DecisionSeries
Data Mining. SAS Enterprise Miner. MS Project. HP OpenView. Riversoft Network Management. OPNET
Network Simulation Package. SPSS. PV-WAVE. Matlab. Mathematica. Sun. Silicon Graphics. Distributed
Array Processor (DAP). 3-D Wafer Scale Integration. Cisco IOS. UNIX. Solaris. Windows. Mac OS. UML.
C/C++. XML. Java. JMS. Fortran. Lisp. Pascal. Assembly. Web Services. Service Oriented Architectures.
Microsoft SharePoint Server. Dreamweaver. Adobe Creative Suite.
Technologies: Large-Scale Network Design and Planning. Network Simulation and Modeling. Network
Management. High Availability Web Site Design. TCP/IP. Ethernet. Local Area Networks. ATM. IP over
ATM. ADSL. HDSL. VDSL. FTTC. HFC. Cable Modems. Routers. Ethernet Switches. ATM Switches.
Routers. Wireless Cable. Broadband Satellite Data Networks. Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites. Wi-MAX
Software Engineering Methodologies. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Enterprise Information
Systems Architecture. CASE. Data Compression. Intelligent Agents. Database Management Systems.
Multimedia Databases. Multimedia Systems. Internet. Neural Networks. Fuzzy Logic. Genetic Algorithms.
Pattern Recognition. Multi-Sensor Data Fusion. Computer Vision. Image Processing. Signal Processing.
Time Series Analysis. Wavelets. Massively Parallel Computer Architectures. Parallel Processing
Algorithms. Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence. Predictive Analytic Algorithms. Land Mobile Radio
(LMR). CDMA Cellular Communication Systems. Picocells. Femtocells. Wi-Fi Networks. Fixed-Mobile
Convergence. Multi-spectral/Hyperspectral Image Processing. RFID. Cloud Computing.
Applications: Network Performance Monitoring. Internet Access Services. ADSL Access. ATM Backbone
Architectures. High-Speed Internet Access Architectures. Electronic Yellow Pages. Data Mining. Automatic
Target Recognition. Credit Card Fraud Detection. Hyperspectral Image Processing. Infrared Imaging.
Character Recognition. Face Recognition. Handwriting Recognition. Real-time Embedded Processing.
Resource Optimization. Speech Recognition. Customer Acquisition and Churn Analysis. Telecom Market
Segmentation. Market Basket Analysis. Telecom Operation Support Systems. Telecom Inventory
Management Systems. Customer Relationship Management. Public Safety and First Responder
Communications and Applications. Computer Aided Dispatch Systems. Mobile (Cellular) Advertising
Systems. Foodborne Pathogen Detection. Home Automation Systems. Real-Time Location Systems
(RTLS). Content Delivery Networks (CDN).