Skip to content OBJECTIVE = HELP MY CLIENTS ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS
My objective is to “Help My Clients Achieve Their Goals”.
Yes, that’s right – “Help My Clients Achieve Their Goals”!
We’ve connected because you have a challenge that you know you can solve faster with help from an experienced professional.
At our initial engagement, my goal is to:
- Listen to you describe your challenge
- Ask clarifying questions related to what you have shared
- Understand when you need your challenge solved and your budget
If we move forward together, my goal is to:
- Work with you (and your team) and find and execute a solution that fits within your time-frame and budget
Click any “Email Me For Appointment” button so we can set a time to chat.
PROVEN SKILLS I BRING TO HELP MY CLIENTS
I have a degree as an Electrical Engineer from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
I am a Serial-Entrepreneur having founded/co-founded many companies. One we took IPO (CY). Two others we sold.
Our teams raised over $100M USD from VC’s (Venture Capitalists) and I led the founding teams on the majority of those funds raised.
I have been a Business and Startup Coach and Mentor to Founders and Executives in SMB (Small-Medium Business) for over 25 years.
I thrive on helping Founders and Executives “Learn” how to analyse and solve their “Challenges” and NOT just give you the answer!
I have been writing software (I Love being a Coder) since my engineering college days.
Building Apps, Websites and Software-as-a-Services business is one of my great loves (my wife and son are #1 – of course!).
Websites (HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Javascript), IOS (Objective C = 25 Apps in Apple AppStore)
See my business links at the top of the page for my Coaching and Software Businesses and select each to find out more!
I serve on multiple Board-of-Directors including Philanthropic (Charities) and Startup/SMB Advisory Boards.
EXPERIENCE = Client Success Stories
Experience to me is:
“What Have I Done to Help Others Achieve Success!”
I teach this to my Mentees at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia (My Alum) where I have had the honor to serve as a Mentor to Graduate and Undergraduate Students for many years.
Employers make the initial decision to interview a candidate most-often based on what their resume indicates they have done to help their employers (the candidates ‘clients’) succeed. Sadly most resumes are not written in a manner to quickly (in under 6-seconds) post this out to a human screener, before getting tossed in the ‘circular file’ (trash).
I believe most potential buyers of any product or service fundamentally thinks the same way.
A person looks at an ad or website and ask themselves “Can You Help Me Achieve Success in Solving Any of My Challenges (Problems)?”.
Helping a Person Overcome a Challenge is what I call a “Client Success Story” and below are just a sample of those Success Stories I have been honored to play a key role in.
IdeaToGrowth.com – Specializes in:
- Business Coach
- Investor Pitch Coach
- Advisory Boards
- Masterminds Groups
- Fundraising
- Website Design
- Coding
- Hosting
- Maintenance
- SSL Certificates (HTTPS://)
- Site SpeedUp (Page Opens < 1-Second)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Blog Posts
- Social Media Auto-Posting
- Hack Recovery
- Backup Services
- Small Website Changes – By-the-Hour Rates
See www.IdeaToGrowth.com website for Client Success stories.
Some of my Student Mentee Success Stories:
- Sanjukta Aich – Student Mentee
- Manasi M. Deshpande – Student Mentee
- Evelyn Mitchell – Student Mentee
- Shibani Nasser – Student Mentee
- Pranav Ram – Student Mentee
I was a co-founder and lead SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) Chip Designer for all of the company SRAM product for six (6) years.
I personally designed 100% of the SRAM product chips during my 6 years at Cypress.
Our team took the company public 3-1/2 years after we founded. Our Series A of $15M (1982 dollars) funding came from my prior company (Mostek) founding CEO and my mentor, L. J. Sevin. Cypress Semiconductor was the inventor of High-Performance CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors) which literally changed the Semiconductor industry.
I have 3 patents related to my semiconductor work product. (See Section “Other”)
Lowell Turriff (Cypress Marketing and Sales cofounder), I and two others founded this company a few years after we both left Cypress Semiconductor.
My responsibilities included:
- Design of the SRAM semiconductor chips
- All Product and Test Engineering
- All Offshore Manufacturing
I designed all the SRAM chips, wrote the product testing software and setup and oversaw all the offshore manufacturing in Taiwan and Indonesia.
We sold Aptos to a much larger competitor (ISSI – Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc.) in under three years for a nice profit.
EDUCATION - LICENSES - CERTIFICATIONS
I completed General Education,College, plus Self-Taught and Online Courses (MOOC).
Degree: Bachelors Electrical Engineering
Focus: Math & Science
Activities: Track, Band
Degree: High School
Focus: Math & Science
Activities: Track, Band
Other: Math & Science Nerd; Worked as Manager at McDonald’s in Jr and Sr year.
Degree: The Complete MailChimp Email Marketing Course
Focus:
Activities:
Other:
Credential ID: UC-ERNZRANUL
Degree: The Complete Web Developers Course 2.0 – Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design -Learn Web Development by building 25 websites and mobile apps using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, MySQL & more!
Focus:
Activities:
Other:
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Awards - Patents - Volunteer
My Awards, Patents, Committees and Philanthropic roles I serve on:
Start: Feb 2016
Finish: Present
Details:
I volunteer my time to help Tampa Bay local Entrepreneurs through the Idea, Build, Launch and Grow stages of their company to become both a profitable venture AND a magnet to attract people to move to the Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL area. I serve as Director of the Investment Readiness Program (IRP), a program I created to help local companies prepare an Investor Due Diligence Book, which helps them raise monies from Investors. I also serve in roles as an Entrepreneur-i-Residences, coaching and mentoring the local high-technology startup founders.
Start: Jun 2016
Finish: Dec 2018
Details:
Volunteer to create workshops and events to educate the club members and the Tampa Bay business community on how to best use technology in their business.
Start: Jun 2016
Finish: Present
Details:
Volunteer to create workshops and events to educate the club members and the Tampa Bay business community on how to improve their business and make more money.
Start:Jan 2017
End: Present
Details:
Volunteer to help create events to raise monies for a variety of local, state and national charities.
2018 Helping Hands Happy Hours event dates are as follows:
November 27 – Seniors in Service
October 23 – Operation Helping Hand
September 25 – Starting Right, Now
August 28 – Frameworks of Tampa Bay
July 27 – DACCO Behavioral Health
June 26 – After-School All-Stars
May 22 – The Centre for Women
April 24 – Girl Scouts of West Central Florida
March 27 – Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
February 27 – Voices for Children
January 23 – American Cancer Society ABOA
Start: Oct 2017
End: Oct 2017
Details:
During the pitch competition, 16 entrepreneurial students from 8 universities around Florida would present their healthcare related business innovations, this year’s theme is “Aging in Place”. The pitch would be on October 18 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Guidewell Innovation Center located in Medical City, Lake Nona (Orlando Metropolitan area).
This is a high-profile event with the President of Florida Blue, and the Chief Innovation Officer of GuideWell as two of the sponsor-judges. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-pizzo-2a1b791a/ http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.bioflorida.com/resource/resmgr/2015_Annual_Conference/Chris-Hillier.pdf )
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