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James H. Moeller
3712 Woodland Trail
Eagan, MN 55123-2406
Internet e-mail: Jim.Moeller -at- MoellerVentures.com
Web site: www.moellerventures.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/moellerventures
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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Moeller Ventures LLC, Eagan, Minnesota, 3/2002 - present
Founder:
Moeller Ventures (www.MoellerVentures.com) provides customized research services encompassing market analysis, technological due diligence, and financial evaluation for projects focused on business development, intellectual property assessment, and investment analysis. These projects utilize a diverse set of career experiences spanning nine years of technology business development consulting, five years in the investment banking business and 10 years with various technology companies. Relationships and executed projects span technology suppliers (e.g. Digi-Key Corporation, Soligie Inc.), software and design-tool suppliers (Altium, Mentor, Cadence, EMA Design Automation, Zuken), post-secondary educational institutions (University of Minnesota), and venture capitalists and institutional investors (Platinum Equity, Sun Capital Partners, Crescendo Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, Avalon Ventures). A more detailed capabilities and past projects description can be found at http://www.moellerventures.com/mv-capabilities-pastprojects.html
Devpeak Technologies LLC, Eagan, Minnesota, 9/2009 - present
Founder:
Devpeak Technologies (www.Devpeak.com) provides business development consulting services and enabling technologies to help companies drive new business. Devpeak combines core market intelligence with business-enabling technologies such as prototype and development system design/production, Web site development and hosting, as well as search engine optimization and social media implementation initiatives. These enabling technologies are aligned with the core market intelligence to maximize development investment return. In addition, Devpeak also offers a powerful e-commerce engine to further broaden the availability of its enabling technology solutions. Through this e-commerce channel Devpeak sells hardware development systems as well as software downloadable CAD content, that both enable design engineering customers to more quickly meet their design goals as well as help business development customers drive sales for their products. Devpeak is uniquely positioned to provide both the customized biz dev consulting as well as the enabling technologies that help companies get to market faster and realize a better return on their new business development investments.
City of Eagan Technology Working Group, Eagan, Minnesota, 8/2005 - present
Committee Member:
Committee member on Eagan’s Technology Working Group responsible for the assessment and analysis of technological issues that come before Eagan’s City Council. Eagan is a suburban town of St. Paul, Minnesotawith population of approximately 66,000. Technological issues can be quite varied in topic and scope, but have principally focused on Eagan’s communication infrastructure and its value as a strategic asset to the community in retaining and attracting businesses and improving the communications capabilities to all residences. The recent focus has included the analysis of wireless broadband communications (WiFi, WiMAX) and fiber-to-the-home technologies.
RBC Capital Markets (formerly Dain Rauscher Wessels), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 4/1998 – 2/2002
Director / Senior Wireless Technology Analyst: 6/2000 – 2/2002
Senior technology analyst focusing on wireless infrastructure, microwave broadband wireless, RF semiconductors and the wireless Internet. Covered Andrew, Powerwave, REMEC and Spectrian in the infrastructure segment, Alvarion, DMC Stratex Networks, Netro and Vyyo, in broadband wireless, and Alpha Industries, ANADIGICS, CREE, Intersil, Qualcomm, RF Micro Devices, Sirenza Microdevices and TriQuint in the RF semiconductor sector. Lead analyst in setting strategy for the wireless communications group. Responsibilities included due diligence for the investment banking and research departments concerning market analysis, competitive and technological assessments, and financial modeling. Also authored frequent company and industry reports, and gave seminars and investor presentations associated with both the covered companies as well as for IPOs, secondary stock offerings and merger and acquisition transactions.
Vice President / Wireless Technology Analyst: 12/98 – 5/2000
Technology analyst focusing on wireless communications and RF semiconductors and for Dain Rauscher Wessels (DRW). Responsible for launching coverage of the broadband wireless and RF component sectors. Responsible for coverage of Proxim, Aironet, Vyyo, BreezeCOM, REMEC, TriQuint, RF Micro Devices, Alpha Industries, ANADIGICS and Sawtek. Was the lead analyst for DRW on the secondary stock offerings of TriQuint and REMEC, as well as the lead analyst on the IPO’s of Vyyo, BreezeCOM and Aironet. The lead-managed IPO of Aironet (an 802.11/WiFi broadband wireless LAN company) by DRW was the firm’s most successful wireless transaction, going public in July of 1999 for a valuation of $150 million and subsequently being purchased by Cisco in a sole-managed M&A transaction by DRW that closed in March of 2000 for $1.4 billion.
Senior Associate Technology Analyst: 4/98 – 11/98
Senior associate technology analyst, focusing on wireless communications, in the combined Dain Rauscher Wessels research group after the merger of Wessels, Arnold, & Henderson, with Dain Rauscher’s institutional brokerage and investment banking group.
Wessels, Arnold & Henderson L.L.C., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2/97 - 3/98
Associate Technology Analyst
Associate technology analyst concentrating on wireless communications in Wessels’ institutionally focused brokerage and investment banking firm. Responsibilities included the fundamental research of various wireless market segments, backup coverge of public companies within these segments, and corporate finance activities involving initial public stock offerings and secondary stock offerings of Innova (August 1997), Corsair (July 1997) and Powerwave (July 1997).
Datapro, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota / New York, New York , 3/96 - 12/96
Freelance Technology Market Analyst
Freelance Technology Market Analyst for Datapro, a division of McGraw-Hill of New York(now part of the Gartner Group). Researched and authored technology market reports covering such telecommunications topics as cellular and wireless data communication, CDPD communications, telecommuting, mobile computing, and corporate profiles, for inclusion on Datapro’s Wireless Analyst CD-ROM.
ADC Telecommunications Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2/94 - 1/97
Senior Communications Project Engineer
Senior level project engineer in ADC's Access Platform Systems development group (now called Broadband Communications Division), involved in leading the research, development, and system integration of subscriber-termination products for ADC’s Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) local-loop telephony and data system. Responsibilities included researching Bellcore technical requirements, drafting internal specifications, implementing subscriber unit technology, and integrating subscriber products with head-end / central office equipment. Also served as a project liaison to numerous outside consulting and contract engineering groups.
Uniplex Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota, 8/89 - 1/94
Radio Communications Project Leader
Initial employee hired by founders during start-up stage, to provide project leadership for the Company’s flagship product, a direct sequence spread spectrum digital radio. Provided strategic planning and market opportunity analysis during product conceptualization. Also managed the development and system integration, the communication software, and the radio network planning and implementation, throughout product development and initial deployments. The radio system design implemented FCC Part 15 (unlicensed) and Part 90 (licensed) applications in the 902-928Mhz frequency band for the position location and mobile data communications markets.
ETA Systems Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, 3/88 - 7/89
Systems Development Engineer
Performance Engineering group team member, specializing in the development of the ETA10 supercomputer master clock system and the on-board CPU clock distribution network. Researched, simulated, and redesigned the 143MHz master oscillator timing system implemented in ECL circuitry.
IBM Corporation, Rochester, Minnesota, 10/87 - 2/88
Hardware Simulation Engineer
Hardware Engineer developing and simulating software models of the 32-bit asynchronous backplane system bus for the AS400 line of computer systems.
EDUCATION:
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995 - 2000
MBA - New Venture Management - 2000
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1983 - 1987
MS Electrical Engineering - 1987
Masters thesis, post-graduate research, and teaching assistant dealing with advanced signal processing techniques as applied to radar echo analysis and voice recognition systems.
BS Electrical Engineering - 1985
Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, 1981 - 1983
AS Engineering - 1983
