Intel years

 

 

 

 

1999-2002 
Jim Johnson  was Vice President Oregon site manager.  In the Oregon Site Manager role, I was responsible for managing Intel’s relationship with various government, community and business organizations and makes decisions on matters which broadly affect Intel and Oregon , including facility expansions and employee relations.  This included contributing to Intel's successful application for a tax reduction under the Oregon SIP, giving presentation to various organizations averaging over 1 per week, working with local and state governments to support Intel's agenda, representing Intel on various community, business and government councils, and supporting Intel's community involvement activities.

1997- 1999 
Vice president and General manager of Intel’s Internet Service Operation.  In the Q1/98 I lead a team that developed the business plan, built the team and then implemented an internet based PC help service called Intel’s AnswerExpress
Ô Service.  The service was launched 5 quarters after securing funding in Q298 to major press coverage and very positive reviews.  The service sold through a limited retail, PC OEM and on the web network.  In the first 4 quarters of operation, the service sold over 190,000 copies.  The service has a customer satisfaction rating of > 93%.  In 1999, Intel decided to sell the business to a third party service provided as our growth rate was good but not good enough for Intel.  At the time of our sales, we were a break even business.

1994- 1997 
Vice president and Director of Marketing for Intel’s Internet and Communications Group in Hillsboro , Oregon .   In that role I oversaw the strategic direction & marketing for Intel's Networking, Business Communications and Internet businesses as well as Intel’s industry efforts to advance the PC as a communications platform within the Intel Architecture Labs.  I was responsible for the worldwide marketing of Intel’s award-winning retail products, including EtherExpress
Ô  network adapters, LANDeskÒ network management software and ProShareÔ personal conferencing product lines.  

1983- 1994  
Vice President & General Manager of Intel's PC Enhancement Division (PCED), Intel’s retail products group he co-founded in 1983.  Along with my business partner, I helped write the business plan and secure the funding that created a new business that was over $500M and very profitable when I left.  Since this was the first business to sell to retail, we built Intel's retail sales organization.  The business developed and sold products in the PC memory, Modem communications, math coprocessor and LAN areas.  To maximized our revenue growth, we developed our own products, OEM'ed products and purchased 2 companies.

1974-1983  
Various engineering assignments.  The last was the Engineering Manager of the OEM Microcomputer Systems Group, Intel's single-board computer operation in Oregon .

Board Activities
In addition, I served as a City Search board observer for Intel from Q497 to Q498 when they merged with TicketMaster Online.  CSTM then went public in Jan 99 and merged again into Interactive Corp IACI.  

I served on Connected Corp (on line internet back up start up company) another Intel investment as an observer 1996-1998.  

I served on Fluent-Speech Technology’s board of directors from it’s creation in 1998 to 2000 when the company was sold to a private (pre-IPO) Bay Area company, Sensory Inc.  Fluent-Speech was a 7 person startup focusing on speech recognition software.

I served on the Finatus board of directors from it's creation in 2001 to 2003.  Finatus, a start up, provided environment compliance services to small businesses.  In the end, it was it's channel strategy that proved to be the most difficult getting right.  By Q303, it got it right, but it couldn't get the additional funding needed to turn profitable.  I was an Angel investor and helped the company raise 2 rounds of financing before it was shut down in Q403.