Staci Plopan
San Jose,CA
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven executive with a proven track record in building and leading global teams across sales, engineering, and marketing. Demonstrated expertise in organizational capability development, scalable product rollouts, and execution excellence. Adept at driving strategic growth across market segments, forming key partnerships, and delivering go-to-market solutions that enable sustainable revenue growth.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Military, Aerospace, and Government
Altera Corporation
San Jose, CA
01.2025 - Current
- Lead business growth and scalability efforts across the Avionics sector, developing ecosystem partnerships, and managing program execution with early engagement customers.
- Defined strategy for market expansion through targeted partner engagements
- Established focused partner program: tripled number of active partners with >30 market solutions
- Led >15 joint press releases, co-marketed with partners at 5+ focused trade shows, led co-development of most attended webinar at the largest RF publication company in the industry
- Spearheaded development of DO-254 (avionics safety standards) package with Tier 1 customers
- Oversaw early engagement team for several government programs to reduce customer time-to-market
- Developed ecosystem partner business model supporting corporate strategy
Director State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) business
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
San Jose, CA
01.2022 - 01.2025
- Led business operations, ecosystem development, and marketing for next generation microelectronics products for U.S. Government modernization efforts
- Developed a long-term, multi-node business model supporting sustainable engineering strategy
- Defined internal cross functional processes to respond to requests for solutions from the U.S. government maximizing scalability while focusing on large value propositions
- Created framework to integrate new partners into the government chiplet ecosystem
- Delivered 300%+ pipeline growth within one year
- Led winning proposal development for several government RFPs with detailed technical, cost, and timeline planning
- Defined early access program KPIs, measuring customer and organizational success
- Cross functionally redefined a product to meet internal constraints aligning and defined communication plan
- Division leader for new product early access program pulling in deliverable timelines by several months: outlined requirements, defined process and key performance and health indicators to measure both customer and organizational success
Director Worldwide Military, Aerospace, and Government Applications Engineering Team and Emerging Professionals rotation program
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
San Jose, CA
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Led a global team supporting business growth and product adoption (scalability). Managed technical engagements, product rollout, and talent development. Led Emerging professionals’ rotation and intern program.
- Led a global team of 40+ people including 7 direct reports
- Increased Net Promoter score from 43% to over 75%
- Defined and launched the customer enablement go-to-market strategy for Intel’s first Direct-RF FPGA product, achieving 4x business growth.
- Led global applications engineering team with record case closure
- Defined and executed early access program for flagship product line (Agilex) with customer feedback placing it best in class
- Expanded Emerging Professionals Rotation Program company-wide with 90%+ having multiple placement offers
TA and Chief of Staff to Executive Vice President and GM of the Customer Experience Group (CEG)
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
San Jose, CA
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Drove organizational development and execution strategy for a 350+ person division
- Created a scalable training council; curated 100+ learning modules.
- Created objectives, led content development, and led sessions at the World Wide leadership forum
- Streamlined cross-functional processes: budget, metrics, communication, staffing, and reporting
Sales and FAE leadership
Intel and Altera
01.2007 - 01.2017
- Top performer recipient: expanding business to move Tier 4 customer to Tier 1 in under 3 years
- Regional Sales Manager for Mid-Atlantic sales team growing the territory through consistently exceeding design win and revenue goals
- Won 3 customer excellence awards
Various roles: Manager of Worldwide consultant program, Senior Applications Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, planning
Cypress Semiconductor
San Jose, CA
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
Skills
- Organizational development
- Go-to-market strategy
- Issue resolution
- Market expansion
- Customer relationship management
- Project management
- Partnerships and alliances
- Cross-functional leadership
- Budget management
- Business development
- Strategic planning
- Product launch and enablement
Executive Summary
Dynamic and results-driven executive with a proven track record in building and leading global teams across sales, engineering, and marketing. Demonstrated expertise in organizational capability development, scalable product rollouts, and execution excellence. Adept at driving strategic growth across market segments, forming key partnerships, and delivering go-to-market solutions that enable sustainable revenue growth., Organizational Capability Building, Scalable Product Launch & Enablement, Go-to-Market Strategy & Execution, Strategic Business Development, Cross-Functional Leadership, Communications, Aerospace, Defense & Government Markets, Partner Ecosystem Development
Additional Information - Languages
- English, Native
- French, Proficient
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director Military, Aerospace, and Government
Altera Corporation
01.2025 - Current
Director State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) business
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
01.2022 - 01.2025
Director Worldwide Military, Aerospace, and Government Applications Engineering Team and Emerging Professionals rotation program
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
01.2018 - 01.2022
TA and Chief of Staff to Executive Vice President and GM of the Customer Experience Group (CEG)
Intel Corporation : Programmable Solutions Group
01.2017 - 01.2018
Sales and FAE leadership
Intel and Altera
01.2007 - 01.2017
Various roles: Manager of Worldwide consultant program, Senior Applications Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, planning
Cypress Semiconductor
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
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