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.
