Brian Trexel

About Brian Trexel

I’m a versatile Technical Leader with demonstrated success leading engineering, operations, product development, project management and product management.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Launched 100+ commercial and consumer products to volume production. Although these were hardware products, over 75% of the development cost & effort for each, was software. Led engineering, manufacturing operations, and program management for 3 companies that have scaled from under $10M to $50M+ in revenue with profit margins averaging 40%. Recruited, trained, coached and mentored over 500 engineers, with 90% retention. Directed two large product lines that have driven business growth contributing up to 50% of revenue / company valuation.MY SPECIALTIES:⇨ Embracing Challenges with a positive attitude.⇨ Organized and attentive to details.⇨ Establishing effective processes and practices.⇨ Passionate pursuit of sustainable growth.⇨ Self-less leadership style, freely sharing credit for success\' and words of encouragement⇨ Adopting and evangelizing company strategy.⇨ Recruiting and training high-performing teams. ⇨ Energizing workplace culture.⇨ Building organizations.⇨ Controlling costs.⇨ Integrating quality and embracing QMS.⇨ Solving challenges, enabling progress, removing roadblocks.⇨ Creating and managing budgets, schedules, and work plans.⇨ Building cross-functional support.⇨ Risk identification and mitigation.⇨ Scaling manufacturing operations.⇨ Supply Chain Management, Negotiation, and Contracts

Experience

1. Sr Technical Program Manager, Project Leo - Flight Electronics

   Amazon

   Mar 2026 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Member of the Leo PMO, and lead TPM for Payload Flight Electronics on both Gen1 and Gen2 Leo Satellites. For Gen1 production LRUs (Line Replaceable Units), drive up first pass yield, throughput; drive down factory failures, field failures and Risks posed by the LRU to the program. For Gen2 LRUs, gather cross program requirements & coordinate trades and optimizations to align with program goals. Spearhead tighter collaboration between software and hardware teams to speed development pace, reduce rework, and reduce program schedule risk. Execute Gen2 program delivery on schedule.

Education

• UC San Diego

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• UC San Diego

  Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers (EPSE)

• UC San Diego

  Master’s Degree, Systems Science and Theory

• Stanford University

  AeA Business and Leadership Executive Institute

Skills

• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Semiconductors
• Lna
• Program Management
• Wireless Technologies
• Radio Frequency (Rf)
• Analog
• Start-Ups
• Wireless
• Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Integrated Circuits (Ic)
• Electronics
• Team Leadership
• Product Management
• Ip
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Location Based Services
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• Device Drivers
• Codecs
• Soc
• Testing
• Rf
• Mobile Devices
• Asic
• Product Marketing
• Ic
• System on a Chip (Soc)
• Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership