SUMMARY:

• Senior Technology, Engineering, and Product Development Manager with vast experience developing innovative technology and strategies, building and leading multi - disciplined teams, strengthening them with strategic partnerships, and leading them to develop and deliver cutting-edge networking technologies, products, and services for the IoT, wearable, automotive, telematics, enterprise, consumer, and enterprise markets.
• Extensive expertise in product and service networking technologies and in device integration, IoT, and cloud service delivery platform technologies that connect and extend product functionality and build the product ecosystems that are at the heart of the modern Product as a Service delivery model.
• Technology & Product Development Strategist and Execution Leader

• Developed a new cutting-edge wireless and satellite technology incorporated into a Confidential standard that extended digital media service to mobile users worldwide, doubled capacity, improved QoS, and provided strong anti- legacy protection.
• Developed global strategic partnerships and managed strategic multi-national product development programs and projects to develop, deliver, and deploy the first ESDR consumer and OEM products and 24x7 digital media and telematics service delivery network and all the network infrastructure and end-user software, firmware, and hardware subsystems including the wireless front end, baseband, and service layer decoder Confidential, the first mobile hand-held consumer & Automotive OEM receiver products, and the realtime backend business and service delivery IT systems.
• Founded the first company dedicated to developing infrastructure webservices-based IoT software, server products, and cloud services to integrate and network remote wireless and wired devices and sensors with fixed and mobile real-time IoT/M2M enterprise applications and designed an award winning standards based multi-protocol RFID receiver.
• Designed and released the first Linux-based embedded software technology platform and server network appliance products to cut the cost and time to market for M2M application developers and system integrators by over 75% by giving them uniform transparent API to real time data streams from sensor, telecom, and multi-media I/O devices.
• Designed, developed, and delivered the first fully functional commercial, hands-free, voice activated Mobile Windows-Intel based Wearable computer as well as three subsequent generations of Wearable computers with Sony Digital Products and Confidential Pervasive Computing Labs, the first wearable head-mounted display (HMD) 14 years before Google Glass, and the first touch-based Flat Panel Display 10 years before Apple,
• Developed the first desktop audioconferencing electronic echo & Confidential, Confidential, and Internet-based products sold and marketed by Intel under the name ProShare Desktop Video Conferencing System.
• Developed first wireless controlled IP based home digital media server/appliance marketed under the Confidential brand name to stream 100 internet radio channels, acquire and store content, and synchronize multi-room audio streams.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Product & System Architecture
• Standalone & Embedded Design
• Wired and Wireless Networking
• Infrastructure & End-User Products
• Application Integration & Analytics
• Global Program & Project Management
• Product Life Cycle Management
• SOA & Cloud Service Models
• Agile Product & Project Management
• Platform & Product Line Strategy
• Vision & Strategy Alignment
• Strategic Business Development
• Strategic Partnerships
• New Ventures & Acquisitions
• Contract Negotiations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fulton, MD

Principal & Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• A technology and product development , engineering, and business development consulting company focused on M2M/IoT applications for the industrial, enterprise, and consumer markets.
• Principle consultant covering all aspects of technology, business, and product strategy and development focusing on embedded and standalone wireless and wired device and sensor integration and networking M2M technologies, product, and services, as well as as the realtime device and sensor communications and messaging, and event and streaming data, analytics, and cloud application integration that constitute the rest of the IoT technology stack.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development and deployment of an advanced and strategically critical mobile digital media networking technology that was later incorporated into the ETSI ESDR standard to deliver subscription based digital media services to mobile users via hybrid ground wireless and/or satellite technology. Managed a global organization and a large number of global technology, product, and business partners to develop all the software, firmware, and hardware products and systems that implement and deploy all the end-user mobile consumer and OEM receivers products and all the digital content production, transmission & broadcast, ground wireless, uplinks, satellite, Conditional Access, and back-end business ESDR networking infrastructure systems, including:
• Developing the ground wireless-satellite digital waveform with the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen, Germany.
• Developing the Service Layer message based software API, and the message handling stacks that allow intelligent system wide configuration, monitoring, and control functions as well as the handling customer orders, payments, and service activations in real time with the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen, Germany.
• Developing the hybrid baseband ASIC and the complete ESDR chipset with ST Microelectronics in Milan, Italy.
• Developing the Conditional Access System with Certicom (now Research in Motion) in Ontario, Canada.
• Developing, outsourcing, and managing the Subscription Management System (SMS) software that integrates the CRM and backend business systems, the Conditional Access System (CAS), and mobile receivers to activate individual receivers with various levels of subscription services with Accenture.
• Developing the head-end encoders and RF uplink systems with SED in Saskaton, Canada.
• Developing the mobile handheld automotive Aftermarket satellite radio receiver with Delphi in Kokomo, Indiana.
• Developing an automotive OEM/ODM Receiver for Fiat cars with Fuba (now Delphi) in Hannover, Germany.
• Negotiating a ground wireless network deployment agreement and successfully deploying the first generation ESDR wireless network achieving 99.5% coverage in metropolitan Milan in Northern Italy with Telecom Italia.
• Developed two chipset generations including the RF Tuners, Baseband Decoders, Service Layer Decoders, and Conditional Access Processors and used them to develop high-end and entry-level handheld consumer receivers, OEM automotive receivers, and a reference design to license third parties to develop their own receivers.
• Managed the development of an iOS software application that uses Bluetooth to turn an iPhone into a virtual automotive OEM satellite radio that controls, plays audio, and displays graphics from a hidden aftermarket receiver.
• Developed a new band-segmentation frequency & coverage plan for Europe to leverage the new ESDR technology re-programmability feature to double the capacity of the 12.5MHZ L-band spectrum available in Europe and enable the service to meet the Pan-European mobile roaming requirements of the European automotive manufacturers.
• Produced a savings of $10M in R&D expenses by restructuring the management team, eliminating unnecessary R&D expenses by replacing the fixed legacy technologies deployed in Asia and Africa with the more advanced standard ESDR mobile technology developed for Europe.
• Managed the global restructuring and continued operations of the company on behalf of the court appointed officer during the critical chapter 11 period keeping the company afloat, raising over $39M in DIP financing, and ultimately successfully selling the company’s technology, product, and network assets to a new company and continued to support the new buyer as a Post-Merger Consultant after the sale.

Confidential, Washington, DC

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Managed the technology, product development, and product management for all technology subsidiaries
• A software startup which develops a Web Services based device technology, middleware, and server, products and services to network and integrate real time fixed and mobile devices, appliances, and sensors with home, enterprise, and M2M/IoT applications.
• Founded and managed the company which was recognized as the Confidential Company of the year in 2003 from ground up, provided strategy, technology, business, product development, and product management direction and vision, developed and marketed technology, intellectual property, cloud-based and end-user software products and services that automate the process of capturing and distributing real-time and streaming data from devices and sensors for seamless integration into enterprise, industrial, and IoT web service applications including the SOA device integration software “dial tone” technology, patents, and the first generation of SOAP/Web services based server software platform and embedded software products to automate the process of integrating and networking sensors and devices with fixed and mobile realtime IoT enterprise applications, and the first RFID middleware platform to meet EPC global standards, which included the Electronic Product Network version of Auto-ID Reader Protocol, Auto-ID Savant, and Object Naming Service specification.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed the development of software, server, and network appliance products that provide the communication industry system integrators with the embedded and standalone solutions they need to integrate into their products uniform and transparent access to remote real-time Telecom signals and live streaming data including developing, releasing, and supporting a devices and sensor data communications software platform/middleware product, a line of robust multi-channel data collection and processing servers and network appliances, and the first realtime Linux-based software and embedded software technology and I/O Server Network Appliance products that offered telecommunications, data acquisition, remote monitoring, and test and measurement OEMs and system integrators a standard, customizable, network-programming interface to build realtime network-based IoT and M2M applications.