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Douglas P Hansen Resume 6-18-15
- 1. Page 1 Douglas P.Hansen, Ph.D. 1278 South 1250 East Spanish Fork, UT 84660 E-mail: hansendp123@gmail.com linkedin.com/pub/douglas-hansen/3/655/a18 Mobile: 801-358-0935 Residence: 801-794-1962 Career Highlights • Identified the product opportunities, assembled development teams, raised significant investor funding • Navigated and Planned Product Development in a Complex and Fragmented Industry • Managed product life cycles and implemented rapid go to market strategies • Experienced the Business Cycle: start-up, rapid growth, corporate buy-out, merger and acquisition • Created IP portfolios valued at millions of dollars • Negotiated multi-million-dollar IP licenses/purchases and critical business contracts • Deep working knowledge of corporate legal, governance, and equity issues • Excel in identifying and establishing critical, insightful customer and partner relationships PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS Executive-level Management Entrepreneurial Leadership Critical Problem Resolution Strategic Relationships Product Management Crossing Language Barriers ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP • Initiated, attracted outside funding, developed, and matured multiple new product lines and new world- wide markets while transforming a small, single-product, high-tech manufacturing company. Supervised product development, manufacturing process development, and production planning. Led marketing, pricing, and sales strategy, built the sales team and reseller relationships. The most significant product line led to the purchase of the company. Played a leading role in positioning and selling the company, serving as the key liaison to the purchasing entity for over three years. • Researched the market and technology opportunity and started a company to develop and market new archival digital data storage solutions. Led company founding, raised initial capital, organized and built a successful development team, and had a working prototype 8 months after the first hire. Worked with others on the executive team to bring major market players on-board as technology and marketing partners for the product family. The products established a new market category, have world-wide presence, and sales are accelerating. CAREER TRACK Millenniata, Inc. (www.mdisc.com) American Fork, UT 2008 – Present Entrepreneur/Driving Change/Business Builder Founded a new entity to exploit a significant, world-wide opportunity in an existing IT market and brought out the product prototypes 8 months after start-up. Responsibly-allocated corporate resources, resolved manufacturing partner problems, secured strategic partnerships that built product credibility, and developed the foundation to the marketing story. Company is now transitioning from a technology- driven to a marketing/sales-focused organization.
- 2. Page 2 Highlights • Excellentproduct and innovative market relevance brought Verbatim, Panasonic, LG, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, ACER, ASUS, Philips Liteon, and other leading world-wide brands on-board. • Successfully moved product from laboratory prototype to volume production in 4 months • Introduced new product & technology while maintaining compatibility with existing industry standards and infrastructure • Core product concept is moving the entire industry in a new direction. MOXTEK, Inc. (www.moxtek.com) Orem, UT 1993 – 2008 Entrepreneur/Business Builder Took a single-product small company to a multi-product, multi-market, two-division company and a successful shareholder liquidation event over a period of 5 years. Identified a unique, patentable product with critical, differentiating performance capabilities; shepherded it into early-stage production, identified and secured a critical marketing partner, educated the market, and built sales to over $20,000,000/year, all while using government and 3rd -party Capital to mitigate risk. This product led directly to the sale of the company and a successful exit for the shareholders. Highlights • Nano-scale (<60 nm feature-size) optical components based on unique manufacturing process utilizing semiconductor fabrication tools • Brought in more than $4M in outside funding to support an approximately $7M project • Pioneered innovative deep sub-wavelength nano-patterned polarization and diffractive optics • Secured numerous major customers including Sony, Epson, JVC, Philips, Hitachi, and LG. • Instrumental in the corporate marketing process that lead to the sale of the company. Rand Corporation (www.rand.org) Santa Monica, CA 1988 -‐ 1989 Creativity/Innovation Systems Analyst/Architect for JANUS unit-scale ground warfare digital simulator supporting numerous Air Force, Army, and Special Forces studies. Created new modeling and analysis capabilities, analyzed proposed and blue-sky weapons systems to add them to the digital simulation using then state-of-the-art computer technology. TRW Corporation Space & Technology Group Redondo Beach, CA 1985 -‐ 1988 Technical Leadership Supported spacecraft design teams by developing software tools to analyze spacecraft on-orbit behaviors and characteristics. Analyzed on-orbit performance anomalies to determine probable causes, potential fixes, and design improvements for next-generation spacecraft. EDUCATION Ph.D. – Physics Brigham Young University (1997) Master of Science – Physics University of California, Los Angeles (1988) Bachelor of Science – Physics Bachelor of Science – Mathematics (Science Emphasis) Brigham Young University (1985) References available upon request