SUMMARY:

• Highly successful and self - motivated Technologist with excellent communication and collaboration skills, driven to succeed at new challenges and with new technologies with innovative ideas. A System Architect and subject matter expert directing product development and marketing with a focus on IP protocols, IoT protocols, Device Management and Home Networking, using a distributed control architecture.
• Edited and Leading contributor introducing innovative concepts, driving multiple technical reports for the Broadband Forum:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Systems and Standards Architect

Responsibilities:

• Proposed lightweight messaging layer drove design of operation based communication.
• Designed security access control framework based on path expressions. Detailed TLS/DTLS and COSE research.
• Designed subscription framework based on path expressions.
• Discovery, designed and proposed system endpoint discovery architecture applicable on the WAN and LAN based connections.,
• Designed IoT capability driven Semantic Data Modeling to describe simple and complex IoT devices and services.
• Edited ID-069 TR-069 compliance testing updates to support Virtual SDN/NFV environments.
• Worked on initial Axon protocol design and documentation.
• Designed detailed inter working architecture for Axon Platform with OCF, TR-369, TR-069 and TR-069 SDN/NFV.
• Drove development for industry first TR-369 IoT implementation demonstrated at the Broadband World Forum.
• Designed solutions in device self-diagnosis and self-healing technology.
• Provided TR-069 protocol and data model integration expertise during product integration and design.
• Selected to serve as the Broadband Forum working group Technical Chair, representing industry vendor in the Broadband Forum.
• Represented the Broadband Forum in architectural focus groups as subject matter expert in M2M with other industry forums, and in an OMA M2M technology symposium and panel. Providing input to 2 industry articles on M2M for IMS Research.
• Led groundbreaking work as editor of Broadband Forum PD-282 “Control Signaling Device Abstraction Layer.” This proposed draft for IoT technology involved IoT device control plane signaling, as well as detailed architectural interworking including analysis of ETSI M2M.
• Edited and architected Broadband Forum Technical Report TR-069 amendment 4, which provided an IoT industry first support for the Management of Non-TR-069 Devices. Edited PD-174 “Remote Management of Non TR-069 Devices,” which provided an industry first research evaluation of a proxy management mechanism between TR-069 client and UPnP / Zwave devices.
• Received U.S. Patent approval for filing on M2M service Connected Home solution.
• Served as ATIS M2M landscape and focus team working group member.

Confidential

Senior Standards Architect / Senior Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• TR-140 - TR-069 - Data Model for Storage Service Enabled Devices. Industry first model for managing storage devices.
• TR-106 - Data Model Template for TR-069 Enabled Devices and TR-111 applying TR-069 to Remote Management of Home Networking Devices, 2 vital standards for driving TR-069 to end devices and devices behind a home gateway.
• TR-143 - Network Service Provider Initiated Throughput Performance Test, this provides the broadband industry with a well-defined set of performance and throughput test suite. This work includes HTTP / FTP download and extension for UDP.
• TR-157 - Component Objects for CWMP, which extends support to devices and gateways for extended functionality.
• Received the Broadband Forum ‘Key Contributor’ and ‘Circle of Excellence’ s.
• Provided work on IEEE 802.1Q VLAN and IEEE 802.1D Bridging models.
• Led Engineering in home networking initiative, creating home network discovery feature utilizing LAN-based protocols Netbios, DHCP, ICMP, UPnP, and HTML. Drove feature architecture, and requirements through development, test, and release.
• Led Engineering in end-to-end Element Management system development implementing TR-069. Provided technical direction for new product development from conception, architecture, and requirements through development, test, and release.
• Directed Confidential product development as subject matter expert for all CWMP related features and all router product lines.
• Served as subject matter expert, providing router requirements and white papers on communication protocols, IPv6, video (WMS, UPnP-AV), DNS, HTTP, routing 802.11D bridging, 802.1Q VLAN, UPnP management and UPnP-DM (Device Management)

Confidential

Senior Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted DOCSIS-related standards research to provide engineering guidance on encryption and authentication techniques, including x.509 s, DES, CBC and RSA encryption, 802.1d bridging multicast (IGMP), and SNMP MIBs.
• Authored a patent disclosure for a packet channel solution for increased air link capacity to support packet data traffic.
• Provided technical leadership and new innovative ideas that shaped and implemented digital packet data feature.
• Directly responsible for a development team designing and coding a real time embedded data gateway device. Led a cross functional team in system design, interfacing, integration, and debugging of packet data feature across multiple devices.
• Drove and designed a proprietary reliable data link layer protocol between a gateway device and a mobile subscriber unit. Authored 5 Internal Publications from this effort. Directed implementation of the protocol into the product.
• Patent #US05970056, Patent #US06643276, and Patent #US06765882. Directed implementation of the interface into the product.
• Patent #US06041048. This pivotal invention was the basis for the iDEN dispatch voice system.