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Daniel Dillon
Engineer
Orange, California

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL WITH SEMICONDUCTOR EXPERIENCE as a field applications engineer, a manufacturers’ representative, and founder of electronics-industry start-ups.

Daniel Dillon is a degreed engineer with experience in design, intellectual property analysis, field applications engineering, and customer-facing activity across the Western United States. Areas of specific technical experience include LED lighting products, class-D audio, analog semiconductors, sensors (including industrial, water, and process industries), optical storage technologies, and consumer electronics product analysis for intellectual property infringement determination. Mr. Dillon has done extensive traveling within the Western US meeting with electronics and high-technology companies as an applications engineer and has managed the outside sales network in the region.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
With unique talents and abilities, Daniel Dillon uses technical knowledge, leadership skills, and experience to achieve solid business results and cultivate important business relationships that consistently yield valuable and profitable business results.

• Over ten years experience in technical sales and field applications engineering.
• Skilled at communicating technical information to management, engineering, and purchasing.
• Team-Oriented in helping others to solve problems and build business.
• Proven-Skills, managing end-to-end sales and marketing process.
• High-Energy, thriving on the excitement of opportunities and sales of engineering applications.
• Solid business acumen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dillon Technical Associates, Inc., Orange, CA                                         2007-Present

Founder. Dillon Technical Associates, Inc. is a manufacturer’s representative and consulting firm focused on electronics and industrial technology products. Sales of technology products including semiconductors, solenoids, displays, input devices, transducers, sensors, and data acquisition systems. Provide FAE and sales services. Manage business issues in assigned territories. Sales of OEM digital audio amplifier modules: Negotiated equity agreements with investors, manufacturers, and engineers during startup company formation. Organized and co-founded BlueBlade Audio, Inc. Managed all sales of our proprietary digital audio (Class-D) amplifier modules using proprietary audiophile-quality technology. Negotiated with power supply manufacturers to manufacture application-specific switching power supplies for digital audio amplifiers to compliment our amplifier module offering.

Zetex Semiconductors,Inc. Hauppauge, NY                                            2000-2007

Field Applications Engineer / Territory Manager N. American West Region. Personally handled all sales, customer sales visit, and technical questions within the Western US. Trained and managed outside sales reps and distributors. Created new product proposals based on specific customer revenue-justified demand. Expanded the OEM sales base, and created business at new accounts for a wide range of products including DC:DC converters, digital audio solutions, LED driver ICs, satellite broadcast ICs, high-side current monitors, and discrete analog devices. Continuously won business-critical reference design positions with chipset manufacturers translating into significant ongoing sales overseas. Represented the brand throughout entire sales process, from vendor qualification through full production-support and lifecycle management.

Key customers included: Apple, Mag Light, CalAmp, Kidde Fire Safety, nVidia, Cisco, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Pelican, Surefire, Harman, Flextronics, Rane, Microsoft, Tivo, Echostar, DirectTV, Leapfrog, Texas Instruments, Linear Technology, Power One, Sunon, Comair Rotron, Rockford Fosgate, KSC Audio, ATI

Discovision Associates Inc, Pioneer Electronics, Irvine, CA                     1998-2000

Sr. Electronics Engineer / Product Analyst. Designed circuits related to DVD laser, optics control, and error correction. Designed electronic circuits to implement and enforce existing intellectual property rights and expand patent portfolio. Supervised a team of electronics engineers and lab technicians. Identified potential patent infringement targets through engineering analysis. Generated evidence of patent infringement through electronic, optical, and electro-mechanical analysis. Prepared reports detailing evidence of specific patent claim infringement for the Pioneer Legal Dept. Maintained current knowledge of patent law, PLL systems, optical/magnetic storage technologies, and electronics circuit design.

Primary product technologies included: CD/DVD-Rom Drives, DVD Players, Portable/Car-Audio/Mobile GPS, Hard Disk Drives, Magneto Optical Drives

EDUCATION

• California State University, Long Beach, B.S. – Engineering
  • Undergrad Thesis: Analog RF Telecommunications and Design-to-Cost.
  • Major project: VHF Audio Transmitter with DTMF Remote Control and Digital Audio Loop Recorder (146.565 MHz) 
• Cerritos College, A.A. – Electronics / General Technology