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Christopher Dawe
Director of Storage & Semiconductor Consulting

Team: Hardware Consulting
Semiconductors
Storage
Christopher Dawe, PMP, Consulting Director for IDC's Semiconductor and Storage Group, provides strategic analysis, marketing research, business planning counsel, and is responsible for overall project management for custom engagements with IDC’s key storage and semiconductor clients. Mr. Dawe has over 10 years experience in the IT industry, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading worldwide authority on project management best practices. In accordance with PMI, IDC utilizes the primary project management processes for each project, including planning, executing, monitoring and closing. For each client, Mr. Dawe focuses on creating clear direction, efficiency, timely responses, and quality outcomes.

Mr. Dawe has been an integral part of IDC’s consulting team the past five years and has managed a variety of projects, including custom white papers, survey-based analysis, and large scale market models. He has particular expertise in researching, analyzing, and forecasting the semiconductor market within a variety of storage applications, including Hard Disk Drives, CD-ROM, DVD, and the Flash card market from his prior position of three years at IDC as a Senior Analyst in these areas. In addition to his work at IDC, Mr. Dawe has also worked as a Manager of Custom Consulting at Technology Business Research, where he was responsible for all survey instrument development and project analysis for the company. Mr. Dawe also was an inquiry analyst at Giga Information Group, and was also a Senior Researcher at Corptech, Inc., where he reviewed and reported on high-tech companies and their product lines. Mr. Dawe has completed the project management certification program at Boston University and has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of New Hampshire – Plymouth.