# Halsey Hoster > Manager, Technical Program Management at Cerebras Systems Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/halsey Hardware Technical Program Manager with experience working with overseas and US-based vendors and contract manufacturers; driving closure of cross-functional issues; and strategic planning of program scope, resource availability, and business priorities. Passionate about ensuring the best product experiences are delivered to customers. ## Work Experience ### Manager, Technical Program Management @ Cerebras Systems Jan 2025 – Present TPM manager leading strategic planning for all Cerebras data center designs and deployments. Work with executive leadership to translate high-level business priorities into detailed project plans. Grow, develop, and manage a TPM team driving operational improvements across the organization. ### Staff Technical Program Manager @ Cerebras Systems Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Staff TPM owning end to end schedule of data center design, integration, and deployment. I collaborate with HW engineering, SW engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Deployment to drive development and implementation of custom data center solutions using the Cerebras wafer scale engine AI chip. ### Senior Technical Program Manager, Hardware Operations @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Senior Technical Program Manager for Hardware Operations. I worked with product managers and program TPMs to scope program headcount planning. I drove process improvements for headcount management and business health metrics for the Lab126 Hardware org. I provided quarterly analysis to leadership on org health and efficiency with regards to program execution. ### Senior Hardware Technical Program Manager/Hardware Technical Program Manager, Accessories @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Senior Hardware Technical Program manager for Accessories. I drove product schedules, engineering milestones, and work cross-functionally to close engineering issues during development cycles. I owned head count for Accessories Engineering, ensuring project efforts are appropriately recorded and tracked across program milestones. Promoted to Senior Hardware Technical Program Manager (L6) in Q1 2022. ### Product Design Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA Manager of product design engineering programs in the Echo family. I maintained the product design schedule across the development of the product, ensuring key deliverables like tooling, 2D drawings, and prototype builds. I worked across hardware engineering, product engineering, industrial design, and operations (among others) to ensure key deliverables. Promoted to Product Design Technical Program Manager II (L5) in Q1 2018, 2 quarters ahead of standard promotion timeline. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford University Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA Designed research studies, ran experimental trials, and analyzed data on numerous research projects, leading to authorship on three publications (see title details below in "Publications" section) for academic journals and conferences. Selected projects include: Design Innovation Acceleration Lab: Trained and managed three student analysts in evaluating video data for design interaction patterns. Designed and led concept generation workshops for Stanford students in design thinking classes. Refined the Lab’s symbol language used to analyze video data to better capture the design process. Chairbot: Designed, prototyped, and refined a group of robotic chairs used to study human-robot interaction. Refined the chair robot design to move smoothly and effectively with appropriate speed. Performed experimental trials for a Wizard of Oz study involving basic interactions with robot furniture. Participatory Materials: Ran over 70 experimental trials of a study testing the user experience of an electronics teaching tool for high school students. I recruited the participants, and kept the logistics of our files and consent forms organized. I analyzed video data from the experiment for trends. Third author on a paper accepted to ACM's Designing Interactive Systems 2014. Honda EV Interface: Researched past literature regarding human-computer interaction and electric vehicles. I designed and iterated on different versions of a new EV interface to test. I ran over 10 of our 60 experimental trials testing the interface I had designed. ### Software Design Intern @ IBM Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Austin, TX Conducted user research interviews and data analysis regarding IBM's Internet of Things initiative. Developed use cases for IBM's data analytic capabilities regarding the Internet of Things. Designed software wireframes for a new application that leveraged IBM's capabilities and our user and market research. ### Product Design Engineering Program Management Intern @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA Managed the product design engineering program for a new edition of Kindle. I maintained, managed, and iterated upon task-based PD schedules. I gathered feedback from the PD team to improve upon the product development process used within the product design team. ### Brand Portfolio Management Intern @ Dassault Systèmes Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waltham, MA Analyzed company offerings based on standard product lifecycle management software. Developed the strategy for a new application for ENOVIA, Dassault's PLM software. Worked on detailing requirements documents for new versions of the software. ## Education ### Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Stanford University ### Bachelor's Degree in Engineering in Product Design Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/halseyhoster --- Source: https://flows.cv/halsey JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/halsey/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13