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“I have worked alongside Rick for many years beginning at Hewlett Packard, Cypress Semiconductor and continuing with start-up companies. Rick is one of the outstanding individuals I have met in my career. Rick's leadership and business skills are some of his best attributes. His deliverables are high quality, on time and within budget. He is very detail oriented, creative, technically astute, has excellent teamwork and people skills and manages people effectively. Space does not allow me to extol all of his great attributes but he is a very capable executive.”

“I highly recommend Rick Pennington. I have known and worked with Rick for over 15 years, and he is one of the top technical leaders I know. He has a lot of breadth and depth in managing technologies and delivering products across multiple markets and segments, and he is an exceptional people manager. Rick always works with the utmost integrity, and he has a solid track record of making good business decisions - even when they are not popular. I give Rick a strong recommendation - I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him.” 

“I had the pleasure of working for Rick as an entrepreneur of Cymbrio. Rick is a great innovator with the capability to define a path, and steadfastly and with sound foundation move product concept to reality. His ability to combine good business practices with engineering innovation made for a progressive working envrionment. I admire Rick's tenacity, open discussions, idea generation and professionalism. I recommend Rick to any organization that can take advantage of his broad and deep skill set.”

I work with many entrepreneurs and executives and Rick is top-notch in both categories. He is very focused and organized in his approach to problem solving. He is equally open to suggestions and certainly does his due diligence thoroughly and thoughtfully on the issues he faces.

“Rick is a very professional senior engineering manager who is detail-oriented and has an exceptional quality mindset. He is strong at both program management and overall site management. His development expertise and background attracted a strong team of loyal engineers to the group he leads in Boise. I strongly recommend Rick for senior engineering management roles.”

“Rick has been a colleague for over 15 years, most recently for 3 years as my manager at Cypress Semiconductor and previously as my peer in architecture and design of scanners and laser based printers at Hewlett-Packard, Boise. In every instance Rick is very thorough, very quality minded, very detail and process oriented, very customer focused, an excellent mentor and coach, an excellent engineering director and site manager, always approachable, has keen senses for discovery and root cause, an excellent listener and can derive simple conclusions to complex issues and guide teams be very productive in short order, has excellent teamwork skills, recognizes contributions, and team loyalty comes naturally under his direction. It has been a pleasure to know and work with Rick and I give him my highest recommendation.”

“Rick is an outstanding manager. I've enjoyed working with him and would not hesitate to do so again in the future. He is technically savy, eloquent and completely trustworthy. Its been a pleasure working with Rick.”

“Rick has managed the Boise site providing the development organization for the development kit products for my business unit. Rick has done a great job at both delivering products and delivering business processes that continue to deliver products.”

“I have been working with Rick since 2001. Rick is one of the best managers in Cypress Semiconductor. Rick is very dedicated, focused, flexible, adaptable, and result-oriented. In Cypress, everyone, who reports under him, enjoys working under his management. In addition, Rick has been a great leader due to his deep understanding on multi-cultures and diversities, as well as high level technical system skill. One day, I believe, in the right environment, he can potentially be in the executive level because of his unique experience.”

“Rick is one of the best supervisors I have had the pleasure to work for.  Affording my team the resources it needed, Rick recognized the commitment required to conduct the system validation necessary to deliver high-quality integrated projects (software, firmware and hardware). He set high quality expectations for his team, yet did not feel compelled to micro-manage. As significant for me, (as a new manager in semiconductor industry), Rick always made me feel comfortable in approaching him with any issue. Rick Pennington has my highest recommendation.”

“Rick is a results driven, big picture manager who garners a tremendous amount of respect from his employees, peers and managers. His technical compentence is first rate and he always balances business requirements with technical challenges to deliver high quality products on time. I hope to some day work with him again and highly recommend him for any position.

"Rick is an empathetic leader and a good big picture manager. He provides great leadership to cross functional and cross location teams. He demonstrates a strong positive attitude despite tough circumstances. He is fantastic at taking perspective of individuals and teams and helped me ramp up my team's learning with appropriate challenges. He supported me with the right direction and lots of motivation. With his experience in engineering management, Rick is great leader for any organization/team and I highly recommend him."

“Rick is very motivated in the field of engineering management. He is dedicated to self improvement as well as the improvement of those individuals that report to him. Rick knows how to motivate his direct reports and provide the correct amount of leadership based upon the experience of his engineers. Of the mangers I have had in my career, I would rate Rick as the best and highly recommend him.”

“Rick is very business savvy and is also technically savvy. Additionally, he takes good care of his engineers, monitoring their needs and responding accordingly. A joy to work with/for.”

“Rick is a highly intelligent and well organized motivator of engineering talent. He has assembeld an outstanding team of professionals and I am proud to have been a part of his team.”

I have known Rick for six years and have worked with him in his capacity as a site manager for Cypress Semiconductor in Boise, Idaho for approximately half of that time.  My work with Rick has spanned a spectrum of efforts from engineering to helping in management and recruiting.  In all of those capacities, Rick has always been an outstanding leader. His knowledge of engineering, at many levels, is outstanding.  His insights into problems, technical, business and personal are extremely
valuable. Rick is a team builder.  He sets high expectations for his people and works hard to help them achieve those expectations.  He leads by example.  He is a person who is dedicated to the success of the business and transmits the importance of the mission.  He approaches his work with determination, optimism and a healthy sense of humor.  I find his personal management style to be infectious. I would encourage anyone hoping to improve their management to seriously consider Rick.  He's a remarkable talent.

“While the site manager, Rick supported efforts to make the Boise site a fun place to work while still expecting quality work completed on time. The Boise site had a small company feel with monthy BBQ's and pastries on Friday mornings. In the last several months, Rick has demonstrated his genuine concern for employees at the Boise site. He has spent much time and effort connecting employees to new opportunites using his own networking skills. This effort was done above and beyond his regular duties. Leadership comes in many forms. When it would have been easy to get depressed about future prospects, Rick chose a different way and demonstrated it with his actions. Rick's optimism and positive attitude about the future helped me during this transition time.”