Karl Janowski, B.S.E.E.

Product Development    //   Team Leadership   ||    Process Development    \\    Project Management

 

 

Kellogg MBA -2010 Expected

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management – Part-Time Program

Majors: International Business, Marketing, Decision Science

Classes Taken:

·      Business Strategy

·      Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions

·      Statistical Methods for Management Decisions

·      Marketing Management

·      Leadership in Organizations

·      Marketing Research

·      Microeconomic Analysis

·      Operations Management

·      Accounting for Decision Making

·      Marketing Strategy

 

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, May 1999

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign        

 

 

 

Project Manager and Systems Engineer, Shure Inc., 2006 – Present

Project Manager and Systems Engineer for Shure’s Personal Audio Products.

 

About Shure Inc. – Founded in 1925, Shure Inc. is a global leader in audio electronics.

The private company claims a 60% share of the U.S. microphone market, 45% worldwide,

and its SM58 mic is the best-selling wired microphone on the planet.

 

Current Work: Project Manager for a global product development team.  

 

Project Manager: Manage a product development team for Shure’s I2C-M product, an earphone headset designed to complement sales of Apple iPhones in AT&T stores this summer. Manage a global team to develop and manufacture the product. Communicate product details and schedule with customers. Responsible for product cost, project schedule, project budget. Develop manufacturing plan with Shure’s Juarez Mexico plant. Product shipped to customer ahead of schedule, on budget, and under cost.

 

Systems Engineer: Work with marketing to define product requirements for Personal Audio business unit.

Communicate and review requirements with internal development team and external development partners.

Lead marketing through design tradeoff analysis. Lead engineers though schedule development and planning.

Work closely with the project managers to keep project on schedule. Mentor and train new engineers.

Develop platform plan with marketing so that the technology roadmap matches the product roadmap.

Worked Shure’s booth, giving product demonstrations at Consumer Electronics Show 2007.

Excellent communication, negotiations, presentations skills.

 

Senior Embedded Development Engineer, Shure Inc., 2003- 2006

Lead embedded software engineer on Shure’s UHF-R project, a three-year product development effort.

Responsible for software team’s schedule, task priorities and assignments, communication with management, adherence to development process, documentation, and product software architecture

Designed and implemented object-oriented multi-tasking application and network protocol.

Product won several design awards and was used by the Rolling Stones at the half-time Superbowl XL.

 

Audio Circuitry Development Engineer, Shure Inc., 1999-2003

Digital circuitry development engineer on several Shure product development teams.

Worked closely with manufacturing and quality engineer to develop manufacturing test plans. 

Worked with German engineering development team to develop Conference One system, including presenting a legacy system overview to Shure’s Heilbronn, Germany location. Developed new microcontroller circuitry with network technology. Worked to outsource circuitry layout to new partner.

Represented Shure on Audio Engineering Society committee. Work Shure’s booth at AES convention.

 

Digital Signal Processing Intern, Shure Inc., Summer 1998

Computer Network Intern, Viskase Inc., Summer 1996 & 1997

 

 

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