Gary Depelteau

Background

About Gary Depelteau

A Senior Design Engineering Manager and Program Manager with 24 years of data networking experience including semiconductor, embedded software, and system level experience: • Customer interface experience, design-in activities, talking to architects, engineers and executives to determine customer’s needs and propose and position solutions that satisfy them • Significant experience with customers and Product Management carrying out business cases and early product definition from concept through requirements and functional specification • Managed programs of 20-25 people with budgets up to $8M • Program leadership on all phases of complex engineering programs in a matrixed organization across multiple sites and functions (requirements through architecture and design/verification, RTL code through place and route, technical writing) on concurrent programs • Management of engineering development teams: team building, coaching, goal setting, performance management and review, hiring, and layoffs, budgeting, and scheduling • Data networking hardware algorithm invention and development • Start-up and new product introduction experience • Extensive network equipment system and IC architecture and design work at the Principal level including FPGAs, ASICs and SOCs • Systems from giant routers down to small SFP transceivers with focus on packet processing • Embedded, RTOS, and OO software experience • 20 granted patents • Executive MBA, Queen’s School of Business, 2011