Lawrence Slotnick
Senior Product Development Executive
Product delivery leader, Strategist, motivational team builder

Strengths:

•Defining, developing and delivering software and systems products, emphasizing mobile enablement
•Product and company strategy development and execution
•Establishing and executing right sized processes
•Transitioning to Open Source and Agile development
•Building and motivating teams

Aspiration:

•To provide leadership, direction, creativity, discipline, perspective and mentorship in a
company wanting to transform itself, and willing to think big.

Key Career Accomplishments: Organizational and Business Structures

•General Motors: As a consultant to the vice president of the global connected consumer division, I represented the technology perspective in the strategic planning that led to the adoption of a new, open ecosystem based In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) system intended to replace the limited, closed systems then currently in place. I advocated for a specific software architecture, introduced GM executives to their Google Android team counterparts, performed technology assessments, investigated and recommended software components, arranged for GM to join the Open

Automotive Alliance, established the GM Silicon Valley Engineering office and hired the core leadership team in this Palo Alto office. Several vehicle product line variants of this product are nearing completion.

•Motorola: As a VP of Engineering during the company’s mobile devices turn around, I led the software platform transition to Android from the previous Linux-Java platform orientation; restructured the platform engineering team to accommodate to these changes, and determined the company wide software platform perspective including the adoption of open source development practices across all of software engineering and within individual phone teams. I led the creation and adoption of an open source repository management process for maintaining multiple code repos and maximized common code utilization across dozens of product teams and thousands of developers. I also served as Motorola’s engineering representative to the LiMo Foundation.

•MontaVista: As VP of Engineering I transitioned the teams to current Open Source Community tools and practices, restructured engineering management, negotiated vendor relationships and represented Montavista engineering worldwide.

•PalmSource: As Chief Product Officer and a member of the executive staff, I led the Product Group components of the spin out of PalmSource from Palm, Inc. in 2003, delivered two major PalmOS releases (PalmOS Garnet and PalmOS Cobalt), transitioned the PalmOS focus to Linux and mobile phones, managed the China Mobilesoft acquisition and represented PalmSource at public speaking venues, press conferences and interviews.

•Apple Computer: As VP of Engineering for Internet and Enterprise products, I participated in the remarkable Apple turnaround; led the engineering and product line aspects of the acquisition of Next by Apple in 1997, delivered the

internet functionality that enabled the original iMac to be called “iMac” (when the “i” stood for internet), led the Apple server software group through its transition to OSX, led the WebObjects team with its support for establishing the Apple store and led various other internet product teams including browsers and security. Earlier in the decade I served as VP of Product Development at the Apple subsidiary Claris where I led the teams doing many Macintosh defining application products such as FileMaker Pro, ClarisWorks, MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard. In 1998, while a VP of Engineering at Apple, I was asked to participate in the transition of Claris into FileMaker, Inc. from the Apple side of the relationship, and as part of that process led the team that transformed ClarisWorks 4 into AppleWorks 5. That was a nostalgic moment for me.

•Octel Communications: As VP of Engineering I led the engineering team integration and product line adoption implications of the VMX acquisition by Octel in 1995, resulting in a seamless and consistent product offering.

•Silicon Valley start-ups: In VP and Officer roles, I created engineering teams, processes and products, collaborated with investors and boards, and developed entrepreneurial cultures.

Key Career Accomplishments: Products Shipped

•Motorola: Coordinated with Google, Texas Instruments and Verizon to deliver the original Motorola Droid phone on time for its holiday season launch in 2009. This is the Android 2.0 based product that led the Motorola Mobility business turn around and spearheaded Motorola’s product line migration to Android. It was heavily marketed by Verizon in the

US and was very well received. In a previous role I led the international team to deliver the several Linux Java 7.2 platform and supported the on time delivery of multiple LJ 7.2 and LJ 7.4 based products customized for the Chinese marketplace. During this period, the Linux Java (LJ) portion of the portfolio was rapidly growing while most other product lines were in decline.

•MontaVista Software: Delivered 3 Editions of the MontaVista Linux Distribution and 3 versions of the Developer Tools IDE. MontaVista Linux was the core operating system in the Motorola LJ Linux phone software stack. My role at MontaVista and success there at delivering mobile focused versions of MontaVista Linux ultimately led to my transition to Motorola where I became the leader of their Linux engineering teams.

•PalmSource: Delivered PalmOS releases 5 and 6, branded as PalmOS Garnet and PalmOS Cobalt to our licensees along with the essential development tools, components, support and maintenance; transitioned product line from PDA orientation to Mobile Phones.

•Apple Computer: Delivered MacOS X Server, WebObjects 3.5 and 4.0, Quicktime Streaming Server 1.0, many components of the original iMac Computer, FileMaker Pro versions 2, 3, 4; ClarisWorks versions 1,2,3,4; AppleWorks 5; multiple releases of MacDraw, MacWrite, Claris CAD, and many other Macintosh defining applications. (1991-99).

•Octel Communications: Delivered Octel Serenade Voice Messaging System and Octel Overture Voice Messaging System, versions 200, 250, 300, and 350.

Education:

•M.S (EECS) & B.S. (Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley

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