I am currently happily employed and am not seeking employment of any kind

Jason Slaughter

London, England
United Kingdom

BASc, Electrical Engineering
University of Waterloo
cv@jasonslaughter.co.uk

Employment Objective

To obtain a challenging management position in a Marketing Management or Product Management role at a software company in London.

Recent Work Experience

Director of Marketing

DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research), Cambridge, United Kingdom (September 2006 to Present)

  • First Product Marketing employee hired; promoted to Director of Marketing in September 2007.
  • Executed a successful product plan and built a world-wide marketing team that have allowed DisplayLink to transition from small start-up company to a leader in USB Graphics with tier-1 customers including Samsung, HP, Toshiba, LG, Sony, Lenovo, InFocus, and ASUS, and Acer.
  • Directly managed a world-wide marketing and product management team.
  • Regular travel (25%) to meet with Notebook OEMs, contract manufacturers, LCD Monitor manufacturers, and technology development partners, primarily to the Far East (Taiwan, Japan, Korea).
  • Interfaced regularly with the DisplayLink executive team; primary decision maker at the product level.
  • Responsible for product requirements, development priorities, product positioning, PR, and trade show planning.
  • Developed an open source software strategy to help make DisplayLink technology a defacto standard.

Product Manager - Multimedia

ATI Technologies, Toronto, Ontario (December 2004 to September 2006)

  • Responsible for customer requirements, distribution, and strategic direction of ATI multimedia software, including TV, DVB-T/Freeview, MPEG-4/H.264 video, and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD related software.
  • Interacted regularly in executive level discussions and maintained relationships with tier-1 PC OEMs
  • Created and maintained marketing requirements documents and roadmap for new and existing products.
  • Spearheaded the creation of a European product testing program to improve product performance.
  • Initiated and managed the successful outsourcing of an in-house application development team
  • Interfaced with key external companies to ensure product compatibility and competitiveness.

Sales Engineer

Tucows, Toronto, Ontario (January 2003 to December 2004)

  • Contributed significantly to the product specification of the Tucows product portfolio of Internet delivered software services and products.
  • Travelled regularly to the United Kingdom to maintain close relationship with highest gross margin customers.
  • Applied market and customer knowledge towards the specification and strategic positioning of new products in cooperation with Product Management.
  • Provided technical consulting for the integration of products into customer environments.
  • Maintained close relationship with lead technical contact of Tucows' highest gross margin customers.
  • Worked with UNIX, Perl, PHP, Java, ASP.NET, DNS, and other internet-related technology.
  • Contributed to the open-source project OpenSRS-PHP.

Product Marketing Engineer

V3 Semiconductor/QuickLogic Canada, Toronto, Ontario (October 2000 - October 2001)

  • Interpreted highly technical information and extracted competitive features for use in sales collateral.
  • Researched core networking technology and drafted a marketing requirements document (MRD) for the design of a new semiconductor product.
  • Created presentation material and delivered sales training and product presentations.
  • Initiated an embedded Linux strategy to provide product differentiation and reduce customer design time.
  • Provided technical assistance to customers and sales at trade shows and via telephone.

Educational Background

University Co-Op (Interships) Work Experience

Product Marketing Intern

Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, California (Summer 99)

Generated competitive analysis data of a semiconductor device family for use in sales collateral. Performed project management and sales support.

Product Engineering Intern

Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, California (Spring 98 & Fall 98)

Responsible for resolving production-related issues ranging from measurement inconsistencies to improper silicon manufacturing. Worked directly with customers to solve a wide range of design and implementation issues.

Engineering Assistant

Delphax Systems (A Xerox Company), Mississauga, Ontario (Summer 1997)

Assisted with the design of a fiber-optic interface card used to transfer image data from a workstation RIP to a high-speed printer. Collaborated with software team to develop Solaris drivers and monitoring software.

Quality Assurance/Web Index Technical Support

Open Text, Waterloo, Ontario (Fall 1996)

Conducted testing on large software project. Prepared test reports, assisted in debugging and provided technical support for alpha and beta test sites. Created a variety of Java, Perl & C++ programs for Internet site, Intranet, and internal scripts.

Network Administrator

Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Ontario (Spring 1996)

Designed and maintained CALS web site at cals.debbs.ndhq.dnd.ca. Worked extensively with Internet related technologies including HTML, Perl, Java, CGI scripting and SGML documents.

Extremely Technically Competent

  • Proven ability to quickly adapt and develop expertise in new technology.
  • Working experience using open source software to solve technical problems.
  • Excellent understanding of multimedia technologies including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DRM, and content protection (HDCP, AACS).
  • Extremely computer-literate with extensive UNIX experience including Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X; Linux user for nearly fifteen years.
  • Internet application development and system administration experience using Apache, PHP, Perl, Java/J2EE, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and XML. Internet user for nearly twenty years.
  • Solid understanding of semiconductor design, manufacture, failure analysis and testing.

Exceptional Communicator

  • People management experience with an ability to motivate a team towards a common goal.
  • Proven ability to build strong relationships within an organization at both a managerial and executive level; excellent at bringing together cross-disciplinary teams to solve business issues.
  • Extensive experience interfacing with engineering and product development teams, and making smart product decisions based on customer requirements and resource constraints.
  • Ability to identify characteristics of a technical product to aid competitive analysis, marketing, and sales, and to convey the benefits to both technical and non-technical people.
  • Product management experience through all phases of development, including design, marketing requirements, verification, product launch, and maintenance.
  • Excellent public speaker with technical training and product presentation experience.

Hobbies

  • Geek: Linux enthusiant; interested in open-source software, and the future of Linux.
  • Travel: avid traveller within Europe and the Far East.
  • Active: skiing, hiking, cycling
  • Learning: regular reader of science-related topics, particularly physics, cosmology, environmental technology.
  • Languages: basic knowledge of German; currently studying Mandarin Chinese (普通话).
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