1. PiotrKravtsov
1613 SerenaLane, Gig Harbor, WA 98335
pkravtso@hotmail.com
253-219-1218 (Cell)
Professional Summary:
Senior Program Manager with eighteen years of experience in hardware / software development,
product marketing and planning. Thriving in customer facing and vendor alliance environments.
Resultsoriented attitude, focused on understandinganddeliveringend to end solutionsfor
customers. Quick learner and strongteam playerwith excellent negotiation& communicationskills.
Four years of Intel server chipset silicon product planning and marketing, with extensive experience
winning server designs with key OEMs like Dell, HP, IBM, SuperMicro, and APAC ODMs.
Elevenyears ofmanagingIntelrelationship withMicrosoft, managedco-engineeringprojects, including
networking, storage, USB-C, embedded / IoT, touch, and thermal subsystems for client and server
segments. Drove Intel software projects from start to shipment on seven versions of Windows OS.
Negotiated many complex technology / IP licensing agreements to cover confidential material
disclosures, code transfers, specifications sharing, andsecuring proper level of implementationrights
for partner feedback. Accountable and transparent.
Education
Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering (1993-1998) – U of Washington & Gonzaga U
Associate of Applied Science – Machine Shop (1991-1993) – Spokane Community College
Work Experience
2005 to Aug2016 – Senior Technical Program Manager – Windows OS Division, Intel Corp, Redmond, WA
Intel and Microsoft alignment: Drove Intel roadmap platform features for future versions of Windows
OS releases. Aligned roadmap priorities, deliverables, dependencies, and pre-enablement tasks for
feature asksandenablementplatform for co-engineering. These features shipon100sof millions PCs.
Storage: Managed timely Windows storagedriverenablementforIntelHW, including NVMeSSDdrives,
eMMC, UFS, SD, andOptanetechnology.Drovemany features, includingNVMe boot, surpriseremoval,
storage class memory support, optimization for Optane technology, and drive encryption.
USB-C: Drove native Windows 10 support for USB type-C technology, including power delivery,
charging, error messaging, and peer-to-peer connections. Received Division Award
Wired networking:Droveservernetworkingfeatures alignment between Intel andMicrosoftWindows
and WindowsAzure teams. Managedto successful shipment of following technologies: RDMA iWRAP,
iSCSI boot, TCP offload, network virtualization/SDN (VMDq, SR-IOV, NVGRE), NIC teaming, and LBFO.
Wireless networking: Built the relationship with Microsoft WiFi team at all management levels for co-
engineering partnership. Drove co-engineering for subjects like: WiFi Direct, WiFi Display, Unified
Connection Manager, Logo compliance, and Intel WLAN driver quality for several Win OS releases.
Embedded/IoT: Successfully managed port for Windows to run in Intel Quark architecture, received
DivisionAward. Droveautomotiveandsettopboxportingprojects, andreference platformdefinitions.
PCI/Thunderbolt: Successfully managed Window 10 native support for Thunderbolt I/O technology,
resulting in over 50 OEM SKU designs for TBT docking and two 4K monitor support options.
Legal: Negotiated business and technical deals, legal agreements for code transfers, specifications,
proper implementation rights, advising Intel senior management on Microsoft strategies
2. 2001 to 2005 – Product Marketing Engineer (PME) – Intel Server Chipsets, Dupont, WA
Owned and managed dual processor server chipset product line for four generation of Intel server
platforms, fromfeature planning, resourcesallocation, securing fundingapprovals, SiSKUsdefinitions,
implementation, designwins, toproduction andshipment. Every cycleI securedabout60 designwins.
To ensure we built whatcustomersneed, I worked closely with our customers, identified their feature
requirements, drovenew features integrationintoSi, resulting in theproductsthatcustomerswanted.
Internally drove complete server platform alignment to customer schedule, including CPU, chipset,
storage, I/O bridges, BIOS, OS software/FW, device drivers, reference boards, and validation plans.
Delivered all productrelateddocumentation, including marketrequirementdoc, competitiveproducts
analysis, formedperSKU pricingstrategy, reviewed datasheets, developedsales& marketingmaterial.
Prepared and delivered product training for the field sales teams worldwide.
2000 to 2001 – ProductMarketingEngineer (PME) – Intel DSL & Optical Components, Sacramento, CA
Performed optical communicationmarketsegmentanalysis,developedConceptApproval(CA), Market
Requirement Document (MRD) documents for optical networking cross-connect segment.
Provided marketing support for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) products,
Developed marketing collateral for the optical and DSL product lines, including marketing and sales
presentations, product briefs and datasheets, product launch plans, sales training and design wins.
1999 to 2000 – Intel Field ApplicationEngineer (FAE) – Intel’s Nortel Networks account, Ottawa, Canada
Owned & managed technical and business relationship with Nortel design teams in Ottawa
Provided FAE technical coverage for Nortel Ottawa designs, and drove revenue targets
Drove IXA, EIA, andFlash memory design wins and seminarsat Nortel Ottawa. While this assignment
was part of my only one year field sales rotation program, I have secured over 30 designs at Nortel.
1998 to 1999 – Technical Marketing Engineer – Intel Engineering Rotation Program, Santa Clara, CA
Firstsix monthsworkedfor Reseller ChannelMarketingteam, delivered comprehensivepackage of the
training material for Intel’s channel customers worldwide. This was a three days long training.
Next six month of the rotation program I dived into Consumer Desktop Marketing. Have created PC
demonstrations to showcase new performance features of the upcoming CPUs. As a final product, I
have packaged up and shipped the working demo systems and detailed demo usage instructions to
Intelfield reps worldwide. Packageincludedall requiredHW, SWload, BIOSconfiguration, andlicense.
1996 to 1998 – IT support – Environmental Health & Safety, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
IT support for Environmental Health & Safety org at University, while a student
Hobbies:
I enjoy beekeeping, running, playing trumpet, and developing Russian library in the local Slavic Church