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Embedded Electronics Design Engineers wanted...

Experience designing sophisticated embedded, wireless HomeSecurity
systems, fire/smoke/CO detectors, shock/vibration/motion, Control
panel... etc. 2 years of related experience.
full-time/part-time/contract. Work can be done off-shore in India or in
US. Please contact ASAP.

Goodluck!!
Niray
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Pooh Bear

Jan 1, 1970
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Experience designing sophisticated embedded, wireless HomeSecurity
systems, fire/smoke/CO detectors, shock/vibration/motion, Control
panel... etc. 2 years of related experience.
full-time/part-time/contract. Work can be done off-shore in India or in
US.

At Indian pay rates presumably.

Great to see the harware jobs going overseas too. :-(

Graham
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Interestingly, it appears from the OP's IP address that s/he is in New
York...
Shipping R&D overseas as well as manufacturing was a major factor in the demise
of a (once) dynamic medium size company I used to work for.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote...
Shipping R&D overseas as well as manufacturing was a major factor in
the demise of a (once) dynamic medium size company I used to work for.

Name(s) and details, please.
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Winfield said:
Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote...



Name(s) and details, please.

Checkout Ltd, a privately owned company making a gross profit of some 10%-20% on
a turnover of around $30m.
Later revamped by 'real''professional' managers to XN Corporation who pissed it
all away by getting rid of all the people who had made Checkout a success.
I was part of the R&D team around the time the outsourcing began. In my 30yrs
experience in the industry it was the most productive R&D dept I have ever
worked in, with world class people. R&D plus manufacturing was outsourced to
Singapore, at what eventually became enormous cost as problems cropped up.

The old R&D dept could take an idea and have it in production within 6 weeks,
with prototypes in the customers hands. For example, four of us designed an
entire POS terminal in around 3 months and had it in production.

Of course, this was not the sole reason for the destruction of the company, but
it was a very major error. Another, probably bigger mistake, was ignoring
existing 'small' and domestic customers in the hope that big international sales
would compensate. Wrong. There were so many mistakes with product that these
never really materiualised. Good ideas could not be implemented fast enough
because of the separation of manufacturing, R&D and management in Britain. In
the 'good old days' everyone worked in the same building. If a problem cropped
up it was being fixed within hours. That doesn't work when the three functions
are separated by thousands of miles and many time zones.

Checkout is now gone.
http://www.xncheckout.com/html/index.php

for the 'official' story.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk said:
Checkout Ltd, a privately owned company making a gross profit of some
10%-20% on a turnover of around $30m.
Later revamped by 'real''professional' managers to XN Corporation who
pissed it all away by getting rid of all the people who had made
Checkout a success.
I was part of the R&D team around the time the outsourcing began. In my
30yrs experience in the industry it was the most productive R&D dept I
have ever worked in, with world class people. R&D plus manufacturing was
outsourced to Singapore, at what eventually became enormous cost as
problems cropped up.

The old R&D dept could take an idea and have it in production within 6
weeks, with prototypes in the customers hands. For example, four of us
designed an entire POS terminal in around 3 months and had it in
production.

Of course, this was not the sole reason for the destruction of the
company, but it was a very major error. Another, probably bigger
mistake, was ignoring existing 'small' and domestic customers in the
hope that big international sales would compensate. Wrong. There were so
many mistakes with product that these never really materiualised. Good
ideas could not be implemented fast enough because of the separation of
manufacturing, R&D and management in Britain. In the 'good old days'
everyone worked in the same building. If a problem cropped up it was
being fixed within hours. That doesn't work when the three functions are
separated by thousands of miles and many time zones.

Checkout is now gone.
http://www.xncheckout.com/html/index.php

for the 'official' story.

Here is the hype and bullshit that sank the ship. I was there.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=55392

Brian Shepherd, CEO of Xn Corporation, was appointed by the major shareholder
and former CEO Ed Dyan (who made Checkout such a success.) Shepherd stayed long
enough to preside over the new Titanic before leaving for reasons which might
seem obvious.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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Ken Taylor

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk said:
Here is the hype and bullshit that sank the ship. I was there.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=55392

Brian Shepherd, CEO of Xn Corporation, was appointed by the major
shareholder and former CEO Ed Dyan (who made Checkout such a success.)
Shepherd stayed long enough to preside over the new Titanic before
leaving for reasons which might seem obvious.
As Dilbert would say:
"The CEO predicts massive improvements in profitability next FY.
Unfortunately for personal reasons he has to leave the company so will
be cashing in his options before the windfall."

Ken
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
As Dilbert would say:
"The CEO predicts massive improvements in profitability next FY.
Unfortunately for personal reasons he has to leave the company so will
be cashing in his options before the windfall."

I hear it was very Dilbert towards the end of that era.
Ed Dyan tried to recover after 'the management' had gone, but obviously did not
make it.
Still, no need to shed any tears for Ed. I hear that in one of the good years he
paid himself $3m. Just shows you how well screwed Checkout became under 'the
professionals'.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
Experience designing sophisticated embedded, wireless HomeSecurity
systems,
yes

fire/smoke/CO detectors,
no


no

Control panel... etc.
yes

2 years of related experience.

5 years experience
full-time/part-time/contract. Work can be done off-shore in India or in
US. Please contact ASAP.

How about Malaysia?
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk said:
I hear it was very Dilbert towards the end of that era.
Ed Dyan tried to recover after 'the management' had gone, but obviously
did not make it.
Still, no need to shed any tears for Ed. I hear that in one of the good
years he paid himself $3m. Just shows you how well screwed Checkout
became under 'the professionals'.

As an afterword...
A major reason why the R&D at Checkout was so productive was that it answered
only to Ed, and was run as a 'Skunkworks' (although he did not know the term).

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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Ken Taylor

Jan 1, 1970
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Dirk said:
As an afterword...
A major reason why the R&D at Checkout was so productive was that it
answered only to Ed, and was run as a 'Skunkworks' (although he did not
know the term).
I've worked in the same sort of environment too. Isn't it a buzz?! Funny
how that's just the sort of productive environment that gets the most
out of people, and the one that 'managers' hate....

Cheers.

Ken
 
Interestingly, it appears from the OP's IP address that s/he is in New
York...

It's quite an interesting post, as there are two major players in the
field who have New York engineering offices. I work for one of them, in
fact.
 
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
I've worked in the same sort of environment too. Isn't it a buzz?! Funny
how that's just the sort of productive environment that gets the most
out of people, and the one that 'managers' hate....

Yes. No project plans, timescales, budgets, bureaucracy... just "I want
something that will do this ASAP".

I would guess that once the R&D was outsourced to Singpore Checkout (by then XN
Corp.) spent more money on airtravel and hotels for managers sorting out
problems than it cost to run our old R&D dept.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
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