Dennis Storz

  • Joined Sequent as employee #25, eventually bought by IBM.
  • Developed multiple consumer product and service concepts for Target.
  • Hired and built engineering teams for stealth phase startups.
  • Reorganized and added new service offerings for Speck Design.
  • Mentored students at Stanford’s D school.
  • Managed product development and design activities for Target’s Entrepreneur in residence program.
  • Established development plans and budgets for complex technical products.
  • Developed business plans and strategy content for executive level funding pitches.
  • Key member of the acquisition/transition management team as Speck was purchased by Future Brands in 2016.
  • As COO of Speck Design, managed all operational aspects of the company including P&L responsibility.
  • Creation of design services proposal templates, tools and approval procedures.
  • Development of project budgeting and estimating tools.
  • Hiring, staffing and management of all of Speck’s creative and engineering staff.
  • Establishing project management infrastructure and tools.
  • Established metrics for project quality and profitability.
  • Consolidated product lines and developing a roadmap for nCube’s next
  • generation video server architecture.
  • Managed the successful consolidation of nCube’s hardware design groups – a team of mechanical, electrical and mass storage engineers.
  • Developed the architecture of nCube’s networked server concept vs. the previous bladed approach requiring the development of a new server including packaging, power, industrial design, thermal, EMI/RFI, and mass storage.
  • Established nCube’s infrastructure and standards for design and testing including CAD tools and lab equipment.