# Steven Holmes > Founder and executive with experience in electric and unmanned vehicles, consumer electronics, medical devices, wearables, and smart home/IOT. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenholmes Executive with over 20 years of experience pursuing innovation, quality and economy in the design and manufacture of revolutionary consumer electronics, medical devices, robotics and communications technology. Specialties: Executive leadership, engineering, operations, manufacturing, product management, consumer electronics, medical device design, team building and management, computer hardware, industrial design, wireless, RF, consulting, handheld products, innovation, mobile phones, smart phones, wearables. ## Work Experience ### Chief Technology Officer @ Woddle Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area Woddle's smart change pad and ecosystem are designed to help you stay present, so you can cherish each moment with your newborn. ### Chief Executive Officer @ Boosted Reality, LLC Jan 2020 – Jan 2026 | United States At Boosted Reality we use technology to make tabletop gaming easier to learn, play, and share. Because the fun of games is playing them, not reading the rules. ### Vice President of Engineering @ Agtonomy Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | South San Francisco, California, United States Agtonomy’s AI-driven automation helps growers tackle labor shortages, improve efficiency, and manage rising costs—embedded at the factory level with the world’s leading equipment brands. ### SVP Hardware Engineering @ Saildrone Inc Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Director of Hardware Product Design, Google Nest @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Vice President of Innovation and Electrical Systems @ Rivian Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Chief Product Officer @ Willow Pump Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA ### Vice President @ Intel Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara ### Product Director, Digital Sport @ Nike Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Beaverton, Oregon Nike, Inc. is the world's largest shoemaker and one of the most recognizable marketing brands on the planet. • A key driver of Nike’s Digital Sport strategy and responsible for complete product life cycle. • Responsible for end-to-end delivery of all Nike digital sport products including the award winning Nike+ GPS SportWatch and Nike+ FuelBand. • Managed a multidiscipline team including product marketing, industrial design, project management, engineering, and manufacturing. • Built the the digital sport product team from seven to forty people increasing the ability of Nike to create and produce innovative new digital products. • Drove the move for Nike from small contract manufacturers to first tier contract manufacturers enabling predictable delivery of ambitious high volume products. ### Vice President of Product Design Engineering @ Palm Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Palm, Inc. is a leading mobile products company, creating instinctive yet powerful mobile products that enable people to better manage their lives on the go. The company’s products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Palm® Treo™ and Centro™ smartphones and Palm handheld computers, as well as software, services and accessories. • Actively built and managed a multi-national engineering team capable of delivering best in class smart phones. • Responsible for product design, component process development and quality plans of all Palm products. • Key decision maker for vendor selection of joint development partners, contract manufacturers, and suppliers of critical components including displays, touch panels, and enclosures. • Personally drove solutions to critical design and quality issues in Asia to insure successful product ramps for the Pre and Pixi. Technically engaged on all projects. • Owned products from conception through end of life including manufacturing and return logistics. ### Director of Product Design Engineering @ Zing Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Pioneering start-up developing end-to-end solutions for connected personal entertainment devices. • Early member of management team developing company strategy and direction. Built vertically integrated mechanical design organization including internal employees, local contractors, and remote design and manufacturing partners. • Architected the mechanical design for the CES 2007 Best of Show Sandisk Sansa Connect, the first portable Sirius satellite radio, the SL100, and it’s successor the SL2. • Solved difficult thermal challenges from high power density and met aggressive cost targets, all with innovative industrial design. • Participated in business negotiations and program presentations with all major partners and vendors. • Leveraged vendors in Asia extensively for design and product testing. Manage multiple teams in Taiwan, China, and the U.S. • Established internal processes and documentation for the product design department including test and mechanical specifications, development processes and gates insuring timely and dependable results. • Primary responsibility for all tooling, piece part, and NRE negotiations related to the industrial and mechanical design. ### Director of Engineering @ Flextronics Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 • Responsible for design revenue of over $12 million per year with follow-on manufacturing revenue estimated at over $500 million. • Managed a team of over forty engineers, project managers, and support staff in the U.S. and Taiwan working on more than a dozen simultaneous projects. • Doubled the size of mechanical engineering department while maintaining design quality and increasing average customer satisfaction over 25% (per survey) • Drove multiple strategic initiatives to improve quality and consistency of design work performed by Flextronics Design. Successfully aligned individual contributor’s goals with division and corporate goals. • Prepared quotes and proposals for design and manufacturing services for customers. Since taking responsibility for the design center rate of success for proposals has increased from 17% to 40%. ### Manager of Product Design, Professional Desktop Products @ Apple Computer Jan 1999 – Jan 2004 • Responsible for all mechanical aspects of the PowerMac G4 Tower, Apple’s professional desktop product line, and Apple’s server products, including product cost, schedule, manufacturability, EMC, human factors, thermal and structural performance, from conception to continuation engineering. • Built and managed the team responsible for the Xserve and Xserve Raid Apple’s first rack mount server products creating over $40 million dollars of revenue for Apple in their first two years with very high margins. • Allocated a multi-million dollar development budget. Product development costs for systems in my division were approximately 35% less than for other platforms while still meeting quality specifications and deadlines. • Design lead for Apple’s G4Cube, winner of multiple design awards and the only computer in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. ### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Intuitive Surgical Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 Leader in telesurgery products combining the flexibility of open surgery with minimally invasive surgery • Managed internal and external mechanical engineers and industrial designers through the definition and design of the da Vinci Surgical System. My team defined system architecture, wrote all mechanical specifications, and set design and production schedules. • Responsible for the industrial design of the da Vinci Surgical system including human factors and user experience. • Created full scale industrial design mock-ups to win $25 million in funding.  Wrote documentation packages for FDA, manufacturing, and service.  Developed overall design and specified layout for the custom electronics enclosure meeting ergonomic, manufacturing, service, and FDA /FCC specified layout requirements.  Championed and designed a low cost, high performance stereo-viewing system. End to end responsibility from initial prototype to production. ### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Acuson Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 ## Education ### MS in Mechanical Design Stanford University ### B.S. in Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley ### Gunn High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/steventholmes --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevenholmes JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevenholmes/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13