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Rob Cartwright
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Resume:
robert-cartwright-2pg.pdf |
OWNER BIO: |
Below is a bullet-item recap of what I've been up to.
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EDUCATION:
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- BSEET (Bachelor Science, Electrical Engineering Technology) - Purdue
University
- MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Keller
Graduate School, DeVry University
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HIGHLIGHTS: |
- BUSINESS/MARKETING/MANAGEMENT:
- management, executive director, board member
- product lifecycle management
- strategic product/service research/launch
- technology and service research
- staffed
Indianapolis Power & Light home show booth as spokesperson
- staffed
the IPL/Hometronics "Bright Home"
- helped manage "The Home Team
Project"
- written articles for Electronic House Magazine
- hosted
multiple prime-broadcast radio shows
- developed "Fixed Wireless Access Provider"
business plan
- developed "Technology Apprenticeship" course outline
for university client receiving Government Subsidized Funding to go implement
- managed myriad of technology products and services in various
industries: residential connect, customer provisioning, and more
- provided competitive technology analysis for myriad of products,
specific technologies, specific chipset solutions, etc.
- managed
retail customer accounts, during national new product testing, in
strategic development group
- managed call center requirements and customer satisfaction for data
services launch in cellular-data market
- managed industry technology standards
committees, for national home automation standard development
- developed: Marketing Requirements Documents (MRD's),
Product Requirements Documents (PRD's)
- TECHNICAL:
- 20+ year experience in technology solutions
industry, with focus on meeting customer needs, and providing user
friendly solutions managed 3Com Digital Home project, to analyze
"intuitive customer experience" with corporate product solutions, and
services
- done myriad of strategic analyses on forthcoming technologies, market
trends, etc.
- managed wireless carrier relationships with cellular/wireless handset
manufacturers
- designed cellular handset GUI (graphical user interface) standards, API
(application programming interface) requirements, etc.
- automated multiple radio station studios: CD-Player
auto-start, cart machine end-of-cart detection and next cart triggering,
console to equipment automation, tower loop detectors, telepatch
equipment, reel-to-reel start/end-detect automation
- solved company time-sheet
submission problem with technology solution
- remote regional tech support, covering (5) states,
for staff of field reps
- system and technical solutions troubleshooter, in
various industries: residential, commercial, services, and support
industries, and more
- developed Terminal
Requirements Documents (TRD's), and wrote draft Functional Specs which
were fleshed out by corporate engineering thereafter
- became adept
at handful of technical standards and API references, in order to manage
product roll-out: CEBus Standard, Insteon Standard, Z-Wave, BREW, CDMA,
SMS, MMS, DMX, IP, other networking protocols
- chaired internal committee to define corporate-wide home networking
product solutions
- tradeshow exhibit-technology design - sequencing light bulb display, for
Indianapolis Power & Light using embedded programmable controller
- low earth orbit (LEO) satellite
(design/build/launched four), Solar Panel Test Rig
design/development, hardware and software design, using Atmel MEGA32u4
microprocessor.
- digital signage display designs, hardware and software design
- LEO satellite design, building, testing, through launch
- automation designer, and systems integration specialist, for $1.8M
"gallery of homes" residence
- systems integration designer/builder - various $1M+ Chicago and
Indianapolis residences
- university instructor, C Language programming and embedded
microprocessors
- designed greenhouse heating and cooling control system, using Intel 8051
microprocessor
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EVENTS/
CONFERENCES/
TRADE-SHOWS: |
Adjunct Professor, C-Language
Programming/Microprocessor Hardware |
Taylor University |
Upland, IN |
AMX Training Forum |
AMX, Inc. |
Chicago, IL |
Arts Conference |
Willow Creek Association |
South Barrington, IL |
BREW Training (Binary Run-time Environment
for Wireless) |
Qualcomm |
San Diego, CA |
"Bright Home" Spokesperson and Systems
Technician
- CEBus Standard Showcase Home |
Indianapolis Power & Light
HomeTeam Project
CEBus Industry Council
Hometronics, Inc. |
Indianapolis, IN |
CABA Expo |
CABA (Canadian Automated Building
Association) |
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CEBus Booth Tradeshow Manager |
CEBus Industry Council |
Various Tradeshows: WinterCES, CEDIA,
Habitech, and more |
CEBus Tradeshow Booth Mgr. |
Habitech Tradeshow |
Atlanta/Dallas/Las
Vegas/others |
CEDIA Exhibitions |
CEDIA = Custom Electronics
Designers Installers Association |
Denver/Indy |
Cellular & Fixed Wireless Access
Broadband-Infrastructure Conference |
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Chicago/Rolling Meadows, IL |
Church Planting Conference |
Union Chapel |
Muncie, IN |
Colorado VNet Training Forum |
Colarado VNet, Inc. |
Chicago, IL |
Connections Residential
Gateway Conference |
Parks Associates |
San Francisco, CA |
Corporate liaison to
"Connected Family" Digital Home Lab |
GTE (now Verizon)
Sun Microsystems
Cisco |
Irving, TX |
Corporate liaison to "Microsoft Home"
Digital Home |
Microsoft |
Redmond, CA |
CYT Leadership Forum |
CYT International |
Atlanta, GA / Nashville, TN |
FILO Conference (First In / Last Out
Technology Conference) |
Willow Creek Association |
South Barrington & Crystal Lake, IL |
Hamfests |
various |
various |
Home Plug n Play Conference |
HPnP Standards Body |
Minneapolis, MN |
Indianapolis Home Show, Corporate
Spokesperson |
Indianapolis Power & Light |
Indianapolis IN |
Infocomm, Broadband Access Telco Supplier
Tradeshow |
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Atlanta, GA |
Insteon Training Forum |
SmartHome/SmartLabs, Inc. |
Chicago, IL |
Lecturer |
IEEE Regional Meeting |
Indianapolis, IN |
Lecturer |
Purdue University, School of Engineering |
W. Lafayette, IN |
Lecturer |
Ball State University, School of Architecture |
Muncie, IN |
Management Leadership Training |
Learning Tree International |
Chicago, IN |
Mentor: Animation, Electronics,
Programming, and Video |
Phyxtgears Robotics, Team 1720
First Robotics, USA |
Muncie, IN / Matthews, IN |
Parks Associates Forums (Home
Automation, Custom Homes, Broadband Strategy) |
Parks Associates |
San Diego, CA |
Promiseland Children's Programming Conference |
Willow Creek Association |
South Barrington, IL |
Small Group Leadership Conference |
Willow Creek Association |
South Barrington, IL |
SIGGRAPH Tradeshow, Computer Graphics |
Association for Computing Machinery |
Chicago, IL |
Summer Consumer Electronics
Shows |
CES International |
Chicago, IL |
TCP/IP Course |
Learning Tree International |
Los Angeles, CA |
Things That Think Conference |
MIT Media Lab |
Cambridge, MA |
Various/Plethora of Vendor Strategic
Technology Development Meetings |
residential and commercial
router/gateway/and pre-qualification service provider companies |
Silicon Valley, CA |
Wearables Conference |
MIT Media Lab |
Cambridge, MA |
Winter Consumer Electronics
Shows |
CES International |
Las Vegas, NV |
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PUBLICATIONS: |
- Articles Published by Intesh founder Rob Cartwright:
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INVOLVEMENTS
(past and present): |
- CYT Chicago (theater group) - Audio Tech
- CYT Indy (theater group) - Executive Director, Board Member,
Vocal Teacher, Audio Tech, Videographer, Set Builder
- Elgin RC Flyers - Member/Pilot
- Fairway House - Alumni Web Developer
- Lundahl Middle School - Video Studio Designer / Installer
- Model Aeronautics Association - Member / Pilot
- Mount Pleasant Christian Church - Member, Choir, Vocalist,
Orchestra
- Muncie Delaware Robotics - Board Member
- Phyxtgears Robotics Team 1720 - Mentor: Programming,
Electrical, Video, Animation
- Purdue Alumni Association - Member
- Purdue Railroad Club - Member
- Purdue Summer Jazz Band - Trombone
- Purdue U-Sing - Fraternity Choral Member /
Choral Director
- Rising Hope Church - Tech Team, Church
Planter
- Skokie Valley Baptist Church - Vocalist, Network Administrator
- Willow Creek Community Church - Member, Small Group Leader,
Video Director, Video Editor, Audio Tech, Video/Audio Systems Maintenance, Vocalist
- WCFY Radio - Air Talent, Station Engineering
- WXIR Radio - Air Talent, Station Engineering
- Union Chapel Ministries - Member, Video Director, Stage
Designer, Lighting Designer, Audio Tech, Systems Designer/Installer,
Church Planter
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