SUMMARY

• Wif extensive hands - on working experience in organizations ranging from start-up to multi-million dollar corporations, offering business, engineering, marketing, and management leadership skills in highly technical and competitive markets. Decisive and achievement oriented, has engineered and managed projects from concept to realization, while emphasizing cost, quality, and profitability.
• Over 35 years of continuous hands-on innovation and experience in Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor, Broadcast-TV, Avionics, and Communications industries wif over 100 US & over 10 international patents.
• Intimately familiar wif Consumer Electronics, Cable/Satellite Broadcast-TV, On-Demand & OTT/IPTV Streaming- TV, In-Flight-Entertainment, & Wireless Communication market needs and wants (TV & Monitor, Cable & Satellite Set-Top-Box, In-Flight-Entertainment System, User-Interface-Controller, Mobile Smart-Phones & Pads)
• Intimately familiar wif SoC ASIC market, design, methodology, project management, manufacturing, testing, packaging, and assembly
• Intimately familiar wif Internet & IP-Networking, Cable, Satellite, & wireless (high-density Wi-Fi/802.11 & Bluetooth/802.15) technologies
• Intimately familiar wif e-commerce, secure transaction, application/service security, & wired/wireless interface/network security (HDMI-Security HDCP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, IDS, VDS, Firewall, NAT, VPN, Broadcast-TV Conditional-Access-System, Bluetooth-Security Simple-Secure-Protocol, Wi-Fi Security 802.11i, DRM)
• Intimately familiar wif sensors/sensing technologies and contexts detection for Man-Machine-Interface (Touch & Haptics, Motion & Kinetics, Speech & Vision detection)
• Intimately familiar wif Graphics (2D/3D OGL), compressed digital Audio/Video (from MPEG-2 to MPEG- 4/H.264-AVC to H.264-HEVC), Wireless-Display (Miracast & Chrome-Cast), realtime adaptive Streaming-TV (CMAF, MPEG-DASH, HTTP-Live-Streaming HLS, Silverlight Smooth Streaming, & Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming)
• Intimately familiar Always-ON low power design and battery power management to maximize secondary battery charge-life & durability (battery charging & discharging management, Clock/Voltage control DCVS/DVCS, etc.)
• Intimately familiar wif Camera & Display datapath design & their power control
• Over 30 years of hands-on embedded SW & FW development (C, C++)
• Over 20 years of hands-on experience in Digital Audio/Video (MPEG, IPTV/EDTV/HDTV, Streaming-TV, & Internet/IP-TV)
• Over 10 years of hands-on experience wif Streaming-TV over Wi-Fi/802.11
• Over 6 years of development experience in Cable Communications (Set-Top-Box decoder & Conditional Access Control)
• Over 5 years of development experience in Satellite Communications (DVB & DCII Integrated-Receiver-Decoder)
• Over 11 years of hands-on experience in IP communication (Protocol Processing, Packet Switching & Routing, QoS)
• Focused on efficiency and productivity of group, value creation and preservation, Time-To-Market throughout product development
• Familiar wif multi-cultural business practices of Americas, Europe and Asia
• Interfacing wif multiple sites and multicultural groups around the world
• Technology valuation for Merger & Acquisition

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C/C++, Android SDK
• Television & Monitor, Cable & Satellite Set-Top-Box, Cellular/Mobile Smartphone & Smartpad
• IC Design and SOC Architecture
• Embedded Software/ Firmware
• IP/Internet, MPEG, Bluetooth/802.15, Wi-Fi/802.11, Wireless-Display & Wi-Fi Direct
• Battery & Power Management for Low-Power Always-ON Design
• VPN/IPSec Security Processors/Accelerators & Conditional-Access-System
• On-Demand Dynamic Adaptive Streaming-TV
• Video & Audio Processors
• Camera & Display
• Capacitive-Touch Sensing
• Computer-Vision & Vision-Gesture-Recognition
• Ultrasound & Echo-Location for Ranging & Proximity Detection

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principal Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Revised BT Controller/Stack software to Improve Device-Discovery & Connection-Establishment Performance in the Highly-Congested Commercial Aircraft Wireless In-Flight-Entertainment
• Enhanced Bluetooth Security by selectively allowing pairing/bonding only during start-up/boot over wired USB (AMP mode) in Commercial Aircraft Wireless Environment
• Implemented Intra-Piconet-Scheduler for Time-Multiplexing Bluetooth Connectivity for Planned Use-Cases in Commercial Aircraft Wireless In-Flight-Entertainment
• Reliable Data Transfer Between BLE-Connected Devices in Noisy Commercial Aircraft Wireless In-Flight- Entertainment
• Inter-Piconet Scheduling in Wireless In-Flight-Entertainment
• Collaborative Inter-Piconet Ad-Hoc Scheduler for Wireless In-Flight-Entertainment
• Implemented 1588v2/802.1AS Based Precision Timing Synchronization Framework in Wireless In-Flight- Entertainment
• Designed & implemented wireless Bluetooth Passenger-Control-Unit Realtime/Online Dynamic Power & Temperature Manager

Confidential, San Diego, California

Sr. Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Wi-Fi 802.11ac & WiGIG network performance simulators.
• Designed Miracast/MirrorLink wireless-display protocol-packetizer/co-processor for secure 4K streaming video.
• Designed wireless Multi-Channel-Audio (7.1 & 10.2) Use-Case/Application.
• Designed a high performance host-based raw capacitive touch processing framework
• Designed DP-based Multimedia Connector Interface specification.
• Designed the power/performance profiling toolkit & methodology for Ultrasound-Pen.
• Developed Low-Power Always-ON vision datapath architecture.
• Developed the power/performance profiling toolkit & methodology for Vision-Gesture-Recognition
• Developed Automatic-Multimedia-Power-Profiling-System proposal.
• Developed the Resource-Power-Manager design in QCOM 8K series MSM architectures used for power optimizing QCOM SoC by scaling clock/voltage.
• Developed the power profiling toolkit & methodology for multimedia Applications/Use-Cases.

Confidential, San Diego, California

Sr. Director of Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designed satellite MODEM & Gateway for IP over ATM satellite data delivery network (for Astrolink & DVB-RCS data networks)
• Designed DOCSIS MODEM for cable data distribution network
• Design & development of .
• Dual mode DCII/DVB IRD
• Basicrypt Control and Conditional Access System
• DVB PSI/SI generator
• DVB IRD wif Nagravision CAS
• Commercial DVB IRD wif Basicrypt CAS
• FTA Consumer DVB IRD
• FTA Commercial DVB IRD wif multicast IP data delivery capability