Patricia Dwyer is a technical professional with more than ten years of industry experience. Her excellent technical, communication and project management skills enable companies to close deals and deliver outstanding products.
Workflow Optimization
- Patricia implemented and customized Salesforce Sales Cloud for the Ventura County Office of Education, empowering the sales team to grow their teacher certification and professional development programs.
- Patricia implemented and customized Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack for Magnify Community, enabling the team to track and manage philanthropy programs.
Technical Collateral
- Patricia authored a competitive white paper for Egnyte, introducing hybrid clouds for file sharing and detailing the benefits over cloud solutions such as Dropbox and Box.
For SanDisk, Patricia developed:
- Detailed technical white papers, application notes, and presentations communicating the benefits of an embedded cryptographic engine and tamper-resistant technology to solicit approval from MNOs and content providers
- Technical proposals and marketing requirements for custom content delivery solutions
Technical Program Management
- Patricia managed multiple projects between SanDisk and handset vendors to integrate software support for SanDisk TrustedFlash technology on proprietary and Android handsets. Vendors included Samsung, Motorola, LG, Amoi and Sharp.
- Patricia managed the technological collaboration between SanDisk and software partners Wilshire Media, Nellymoser, and Abaxia to develop mobile applications.
Technical Marketing and Evangelism
At SanDisk, Patricia:
- Managed the development of customer demos and trained SanDisk Sales, Marketing, and Field Application Engineering in the SanDisk TrustedFlash technology
- Developed relationships with mobile phone processor vendors Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Philips, and NVidia which resulted in the implementation of removable memory interfaces in all mobile phone application processors and the inclusion of SanDisk TransFlash (now microSD) in Qualcomm reference designs.
- Developed relationships with mobile phone vendors Motorola, Samsung, and LG which resulted in the implementation of removable memory slots in the majority of mobile handsets.
Engineering
- As an SanDisk Application Engineer, Patrica drove internal requirements based on communication with mobile device manufacturers.
- As a lead engineer on a VPN server at CoSine Communications, Patricia led development of a three million-gate Gigabit Ethernet Media Access FPGA design that doubled the bandwidth over existing product.