Phil Baker - Contributor, San Diego Daily Transcript | From Concept To Consumer

Phil Baker – Product development and business development consulting

Phil Baker is an expert in all aspects of consumer product development and program management with extensive experience in building strategic partnerships in the Asia for cost-effective and fast-to-market product development and manufacturing.

Phil Baker writes a weekly technology column for The San Diego Daily Transcript, appears monthly on KOGO-AM and writes the technology column for the Website of world travel expert Peter Greenberg.

Phil is the author of the book From Concept to Consumer, to be published in October 2008 by Financial Times Press.

Industry Activities & Career Highlights

Provides consulting services to numerous companies in the US and Asia relating to all aspects of consumer and computer products. Work with numerous companies to find Asian partners for product development and manufacturing
Co-Founder of Think Outside, Developer of the Stowaway keyboard
Ernst & Young San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year, 2001, for Consumer Products
Led the development teams for Apple Powerbook, Newton MessagePad, Polaroid cameras, Seiko printers, and other products employing audio, optical, wireless, GPS and electronic technologies
Inventor holding 30 patents on technologies and devices related to cameras, optics and photometry
Recipient of the Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement,2005

THE BOOK — FROM CONCEPT TO CONSUMER: How to Turn Ideas into Money

Publisher: Financial Times Press

Release Date: October 2008

Availability: most major booksellers

Product developer Phil Baker reveals exactly what it takes to create great products and bring them to market. Baker's product successes range from Apple's PowerBook to the Stowaway portable keyboard, the most successful PDA accessory ever created.

In From Concept to Consumer, Phil Baker walks you through the entire development process, showing how to develop products, underscoring the crucial links between product design, engineering, testing, manufacturing, marketing and distribution.

THE BLOG — FROM CONCEPT TO CONSUMER

Phil Baker's blog - From Concept to Consumer

WEEKLY COLUMN: ON TECHNOLOGY

Phil Baker has been developing new products for over three decades and now writes about new products and technology in a weekly column for the San Diego Transcript, San Diego's daily business newspaper (ww.sddt.com).

The On Technology column includes product reviews, the latest gadgets, travel tech and commentary based on having developed scores of products.

PRODUCTS & MARKETING EXPERIENCE

Clients

Think Outside

Apple Computer

Seiko Instruments

Polaroid Corporation

Polycom

Atari

Proxima

Phil Baker has 35 years experience in all facets of product development, including invention, design, engineering, industrial design, marketing, manufacturing and distribution. He has been responsible for more than 80 products ranging from consumer electronics, computers and computer accessories to mobile devices, printers, cameras, software and more. Phil has extensive experience in utilizing resources in Asia for cost-effective and fast-to-market product development and manufacturing.

Phil has played key roles in developing the innovative flag-ship technologies and products of many leading companies. He developed and implemented both product and market development strategies for Apple Computer, Seiko Instruments, Polaroid, Polycom, Proxima, Think Outside and others.

Phil Baker co-founded Think Outside, inventor and manufacturer of the most popular PDA accessory ever—the Stowaway folding keyboard. At Seiko Phil managed product development of consumer and computer products. At Apple he led development of the second- and third-generation Newton MessagePads, served as director of Entry PowerBooks and orchestrated Apple's development and manufacturing strategy in Taiwan for portable products. At Polaroid Phil contributed to the development of dozens of products, including the SX-70 camera, professional and consumer cameras, ID systems and more.

BIOGRAPHY | CONTACT

Solana Beach, California 92075

Phone: 858 777-9700

Fax: (858) 794-9999

e-Mail: pbaker@gmail.com

Phil Baker has extensive international experience in design, manufacturing and business development. He established relationships with companies in the Far East in order to implement new product development strategies for Apple Computer, Seiko Instruments, Polaroid, Think Outside and others.

Baker also initiated and successfully completed development, manufacturing and business relations with many other companies, including Sigma, Olympus, Ricoh, Nikon, Hitachi, Sanyo, Pioneer, Mamiya, GEHK, Asahi Pentax, Sunpak, Inventec, GVC, Acer, Quanta Computer, Seiko, Epson, Kyocera, Panasonic, Sharp, V-Tech and Nam Tai.

Phil Baker holds more than 30 patents, principally related to cameras, photometry, optical designs and devices, including a teleconferencing projector. He received a bachelor's degree (BS) in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachussetts, a master's degree in engineering from Yale University and a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Northeastern University.

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