Kevin Calvert

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About Kevin Calvert

An enthusiastic and highly skilled program management professional with over 15 years’ experience in Program Management and Engineering Test Services, leading cross-functional program teams for start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Providing IT product solutions with an emphasis for building strong OEM and strategic partnerships. Delivering both hardware and software solutions to industry with an excellent record of over 40 projects managed, with budgets from $3K to $6M, team sizes from 6 to over 50 and schedules from 2 weeks to 18 months. CORE COMPETENCIES * Program Management activities including leadership of worldwide cross-functional teams, schedule and budget compliance, reporting internal and client facing along with issue tracking to resolution.* Over 13 years as an engineering functional team manager reporting directly to senior management that included performance to budget, facility planning, staffing activities and technical team participation.* Providing solutions for IT hardware, firmware and software components. Supporting embedded designs, application software and device drivers.* Direct management of engineering staffs from start-up to multi team and 24 direct reports. Building new teams from inception or improving existing teams.* Developing and enhancing client relationships by serving as lead for technical teams, product development teams and technical business liaison.* Experienced in product marketing, technical sales, technical marketing and business development with an emphasis of OEM and strategic partnerships.* Developing, documenting and delivering both product and program deliverables while driving to team consensus.* Delivering host and device based solutions built on SCSI, SATA, SAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Ethernet 10Gb Ethernet and RAID technologies.