Georgia Institute of Technology

Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas

University of Delaware

Product Creation Leader at Sonos, Inc.

Provided oversight over all engineering development functions (i.e. EE, ME, RF, Software, ID) and drove all technical and operational decisions necessary to meet market, schedule and cost targets for multiple new product introduction (NPI) programs.

Sonos, Inc.

Product Creation Leader

Responsible for defining product requirements and directing the design and development of a bespoke industrial IoT platform that included smart sensors, embedded Linux edge gateways, a micro-service based AWS backend, and an advanced AI/ML analytics engine. IoT platform was deployed and maintained in both the US and Europe across 500+ sites.

Xeros Inc.

Vice President, IoT Product Management

Developed turnkey field-ready connected/IoT products for Fortune 1000 companies in the consumer products and industrial sectors. 

Selected products brought to market include:
* Non-invasive remote patient vital sign monitoring system for medical device startup.
* Connected HD video baby monitor with smart audio for leading juvenile products company.
* Bluetooth LE based factory floor WIP inventory tracking system for global oil and gas industrial  conglomerate.
* Developed embedded ML engine for wearable sensor manufactured and marketed by well-known consumer fitness brand.

Salbec Solutions, LLC (IoT product development consultancy)

Vice President, Product Development

Architected and directed the development of an advanced proprietary 2 Gbps wireless HDMI chipset consisting of a CMOS baseband processor (Foundry: TSMC) and SiGe BiCMOS front-end (Foundry: Maxim).

Managed a JDM engagement between a leading CM, major CE manufacturer, and Radiospire that produced a wireless HDMI accessory product based on Radiospire chipset.

Radiospire Networks (venture-backed wireless consumer electronics chipset startup)

Co-Founder, VP Engineering and Product Management

Conceptualized and led the development of an innovative hardware accelerator that paired with a DSP to enable software defined radio for 3G mobile wireless basestations. 

Defined product roadmap and secured design-wins at 7/10 leading global wireless infrastructure manufacturers.

Envoy Networks (cellular software-defined RAN chipset startup acquired by Texas Instruments)

Co-Founder and CTO (Envoy Networks), Product Manager (TI)

DSP chipsets and voice/audio/telephony algorithms for consumer electronics applications. Elected Member of Group Technical Staff for technical contributions.

Tandhoni Rao