SproutXR - Educational VR

Chief Operations Officer

Oct 2018 - Present

​SproutXR is a Platform of Educational Games for children in elementary school and early middle school. SproutXR focuses on the rich engagement of children with the use of Virtual and Extended Reality technologies. Through Eugenio's experience as COO at SproutXR he accomplished:

• Licensing IP from game development studios to increase library offerings.

• Developing business strategies for definition, development, launch, and growth of new SaaS.

• Driving company vision from a single VR math game into a subscription-based multi-game platform, similar to Netflix.​

• Leading development team creating AR/VR educational games and surrounding development analytics platform.

• Increasing throughput of codings tasks by increasing the quality of communication between Product Owner and Dev Team, implemented Agile methodology.

• Decreasing time spent in code rollbacks by implementing better source control methods.

Texas Instruments

Precision Applications Engineer

May 2013 - Jul 2016

Texas Instruments (TI) is a global analog and digital semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) design and manufacturing company. As an Applications Engineer, Eugenio worked in the High Precision Analog Department in charge of hundreds of Precision Digital-to-Analog Converter chips. It was his role to be the glue of our department by supporting several released and active development ICs. While the role of a Product Manager is to stay on top of all the development in the business, the role of an Applications Engineer is to understand and support all the development in the business by communicating with:

• Customer engineers

• Sales team

• Testing & Characterization team

• IC Design team

• Marketing team

• Roadmap engineers

• Lab technicians

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Roles and Accomplishments:

• Training internal and external multi-cultural engineering teams worldwide in analog system design practices.

• Cultural training for business negotiations in the US, Eastern Europe, Central, and East Asia.

• Corporate training in Project Development, Time Management, Technical Training, and Customer Relations.

• Developing precision hardware and software development of evaluation modules and internal tooling for test automation decreasing client evaluation time. ​

• Developing support systems for characterization, failure analysis & design to clients like BMW, Apple, Huawei, Siemens, GE, and Hitachi to name a few.