Newport Technologies 美國新港科技

The Story of Newport Technologies

美國新港科技

Newport Technologies

The Story of Newport Technologies & the Rise of an Asian Mobile Biz Dev Rainmaker

Newport Technologies is my public speaking vehicle. It helps me evangelize cutting-edge mobile technology. I achieve this by harnessing the power of Western & Asian social media online in the Pacific Century. This strategy subtly pitch-promotes and enables design-in wins. I started Newport Technologies in 1998. I continue to use this strategic selling tool. It helps scale and standardize wireless smart card and semiconductor solutions for smart & connected mobile devices. I have always been the global go-to-market specialist. My skill allows entrance into new ports, harbors, Airport terminals, and countries. Ancient mariners saw the symbol of a Seagull first as they sailed into ‘new ports.’ Above them was the blue sky. Below them was the green grass. This moniker does represent a strategic and symbolic way in which I engage business globally.

The Rise of the Pacific Century

太平洋世紀的崛起

The emerging Pacific Century prompted me to study Mandarin Chinese. I studied from 1982 to 1985 under a scholarship. The scholarship came from the Taiwan Ministry of Education. It was at the National Taiwan Normal University, Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan. I started to plan my scholastic and economic future. I envisioned the rise of the Mainland Chinese market. I also foresaw the Chinese Diaspora in Greater China and Asia. Overseas Chinese money drives most of Asia these days but the future is actually an Asian or Pacific Century. I learned that success requires more than just hard work; it involves creativity, reinvention, and innovation. I developed effective go-to-market strategies. These strategies have helped me to propel several mobile technologies. They have become the wireless smart card and semiconductor sector standardization in the market. My approach is rooted in understanding consumers and aligning products with their needs in Greater China and Asia. I live in Washington State, but my workplace remains Asia and the Globe.

Smart card & Semiconductor Background (2004-2024)

I worked for Freescale Semiconductor from 2004 to 2005 in Tempe, Arizona. They had just spun out from Motorola Semiconductor and taken over a real FAB and design center in Arizona. I was initially hired to help build an Asian market presence for a wireless audio chip. Later, I worked on ZigBee protocol chips to help standardize them in Asia. In 2008, I was hired by the global leader in smart card technology, French-owned Gemalto. I worked in their Beijing office to promote their SWP-NFC uSIM cards designed for smartphone OEMs. These cards allowed secure NFC mobile payments via uSIM cards. After completing that mission, Gemalto acquired Trusted Logic, an embedded mobile security software OS firm, in late 2009 and I becametheir Account Manager too. They embedded the TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) operating system into ARM’s “Trustzone” hardware-based security architecture. This system protects data and code on Android devices for Asian smartphones. It also secures mobile wallet payment details. Trusted Logic spun out into Trustonic in 2012. I worked for both firms in China as a Gemalto employee from 2008 to 2013 in Beijing, managing APAC and serving as NFC & TEE Country Manager. I initially promoted eSIM (eUICC) to Asia and Apple in 2016 with Oasis Smart SIM. Then, I worked for Simulity Labs in 2017 pitching their eUICC operating system. ARM acquired Simulity Labs. I pitched both eSIM (eUICC) and iSIM (iUICC) as an ARM employee from 2017 to 2018. After 2018, ARM spun them out into Kigen. From 2018 to 2020, I worked for Rivetz Corp. This ICO featured a unique “Dual Roots of Trust” mobile security wallet application for Android os on Chinese and South Korean Smarphone OEMs, based on integrating uSIM card + TEE security for data at rest in a firewall (vault) environment for ARM Trustzone to protect crypto-wallet private keys. In January 2020, I was hired by a steathly Shanghai design house and began working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic for Aitos.io as their Global Business Development Director, promoting the “BoAT” Blockchain of AI Things from 2020-2021. The BoAT is an SDK middleware framework embedded in cellular IoT modules to enable Blockchain compatibility. In late 2021 with massive funding from WanXiang Group (Shanghai), Aitos.io shifted gears to an ESG and Green energy theme. I was appointed Head of Community Growth in Singapore. My role was to help build ‘Arkreen,’ a green energy data infrastructure network. It features a smart data logging dongle attached to Solar PV panels. This dongle collects and converts green energy into green data. The data supports the on-chain creation of tokenized carbon RECs for climate actors and activists.

The term “Rainmaker” can apply to a mobile technology worker who always books the most sales. It can also refer to a marketing guru who constantly finds innovative ways to represent a company’s products. Additionally, it can mean a strategist who can fuse stakeholders’ interests to scale mobile technology. In the purest sense, a Rainmaker is a difference-maker. This is someone capable of turning the tide when things get rough. They can bring new money or accounts to the business that other people couldn’t. Finally, a Rainmaker takes hold of an ecosystem and scales. They connect with all ecosystem players. This is done to build bridges and encourage collaboration for product or service adoption. Karl Weaver is a mobile industry Rainmaker for Asia-Pacific Mobile markets!

Harnessing the Power of Western & Asian Social Media

發揮西方和亞洲社群媒體的力量

The subtle art of selling to the Asia-Pacific Region requires knowledge and skills to understand the subtle pitch to gain acceptance in non-direct verbal communications cultures, video content works well for this approach. Hyperlinking of video streaming content to social media Apps, like LinkedIn is effective!

Western & Asian Social Media is powerful. Using video content can help influence the design of software and hardware. This affects mobile devices. This has been a strategic tool I have utilized for 20 years to help my go-to-market strategies. It requires a Rainmaker who can effectively explain technology in multiple languages in simple terms with the ecosystem. This explanation helps lay the groundwork for acceptance and adoption by key decision-makers. Mobile technologies being pitched are emerging, cutting-edge, and important to help scale and standardize. Through this process, I have designed mobile technologies. I have embedded at least 4-5 of them into Smartphones and (loT) Internet of Things devices. I have done this successfully since 2008 (see resume). The concept involves capturing your public speaking content. Then, upload it to streaming video media sites. Broadcast the hyperlink on social media sites (like LinkedIn). I was invited to explain this concept to Academic Institutes. I had the opportunity to show at both The University of Washington and Seattle University.

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