SUMMARY

• Extensive, in - depth experience in creating, managing and translating technical innovation into business impact.
• Demonstrated record of success in creating value by bringing together technologies and people from a variety of disciplines, formulating unique projects by combining technical and business goals, and driving those projects towards marketplace realization.
• Specific expertise in interactive television, IP streaming & networking, home automation, automotive infotainment, and real-time embedded systems. Passionate individual consistently recognized for creativity, dependability, commitment and delivering results.
• Set strategic growth themes and developed HARMAN’s first ever consolidated technology roadmap that eliminated redundancies across all divisions. Achieved revenue of $6.3M from IP monetization initiatives within the first year.
• Developed world’s first fully interactive video-on-demand system using ADSL in the access loop and ATM in the backbone. This technology was covered by local and national news channels.
• Developed world’s first DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). Conducted field trials with Telia Research in Sweden and transferred technology to Italtel, Batelco, NIST and Gulf Multimedia in Saudi Arabia. Hold the first issued patent on IP-Gateway mechanism for xDSL-based access router.
• Developed a Residential Gateway prototype and transferred the technology to Telia Research, Telenor and Swiss Telecom
• Invited speaker and panelist at multiple seminars and conferences such as, SMPTE, ATSC, and Connected Car Conference.
• Received Confidential President’s award for exemplary work on Video-On-Demand technology.
• Hold 5 issued patents with 10 patent applications pending and 20+ publications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Automotive Infotainment Systems; Telematics; Connected Car Services; ADAS; UBI; M2M; Interactive TV - MHP, OCAP/tru2way, ATSC-ACAP; IPTV; Software Development; Cloud Computing; Set Top Box; Mobile Applications; Embedded Systems; Streaming Media; MPEG; Java; Integration; Agile Methodologies; SaaS; VOD; GEM Data Broadcasting; SCTE- 18/30/35/65/130 ; DSM-CC; Broadcom 3255, 7420, 7125, 7119, Nexus; JCAS/OMS; RDK; VoIP; Peer-to-Peer Communications; Networked Appliances; Broadband Networks; Home Networking; SNMP; C/C++; Java; Perl; Embedded Linux; RTOS (real-time: OS9, VxWorks); SQL; Database Design; Hadoop; HDFS; HBase; Hive, Pig, Spark; Data Analytics, Machine Learning, R, Python, Matlab/Octave; Wireless and Networking Protocols - SIP, SDP, RTP, TCP, UDP, HTTP; UPnP/DLNA; SOAP; XML; HTML5; JavaScript; iOS SDK; Android SDK/NDK; IoT, Zigbee, Bluetooth LE, AllSeen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Vice President, Technology Strategy

Responsibilities:

• Conducted IP landscape analysis, identified technology white spaces, and aligned IP strategy with technology strategy for focused growth. Launched new IP monetization initiatives that produced $6.3M in revenues within the first year.
• Collaborated with Automotive Application Services Business Unit to define Connected Car Services strategy for Map services, AHA Radio, Telematics, and UBI. Consulted and prepared the group for independent 3 rd -party audit concerning data privacy and security.
• Launched several new innovation initiatives in HARMAN, including an internal crowdsourcing platform to capture NBT ideas from global employee base. Guided 4 project teams in proposal development and presentation to the Board. All projects received funding from CEO or the divisions.
• Streamlined University and Small Business relationships. Won several government funded research grants, including SBIRs (Small Business Innovation Research) and European Union funded Horizons 2020 project.
• Selected to represent HARMAN in an Innovation Partnership Program organized by XPrize Foundation and Singularity University and in a delegation to Israel sponsored by Confidential .
• Steering committee member in the Automotive Grade Linux Forum under Linux Foundation.

Confidential, Hamilton, NJ

Senior Director of Engineering, Cable

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded partnership with Cablevision. Efforts resulted in securing purchase agreement worth $20M for OMS-enabled cable boxes.
• Managed a cross-functional team in the US and Japan with responsibility for new product development, quality assurance and deployment. Held multi-faceted roles supporting sales, development, field engineering and industry promotion.
• Championed an innovative diagnostic tool from concept through definition and development while managing product releases and spearheading business development and marketing. Efforts resulted in the most preferred tool for tru2way network verification in the cable industry.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Comcast, Time Warner and Concurrent to produce and demonstrate World’s first end- to-end tru2way technology at CES in Las Vegas in 2004.
• Actively participated in standardization activities at CableLabs, ATSC, CEA and Sun Microsystems Java Community Process.
• Developed a ubiquitous a peer-to-peer networking system using Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlays to support instant messaging and presence, multimedia messaging, voice over IP, video streaming, file transfer and peer casting - developed CE profile applications to demonstrate these functionalities. Key technologies used include: P2P-SIP, NAT traversal (STUN/TURN/ICE), Internet Co-ordinate System, P2P Presence, Media Relays, Adaptive voice/video codecs, Web services, etc.
• Major projects included; Interactive Digital Television; P2P System Architecture and Development; Broadcast Gateway; MMS-to-TV; OCAP Home Networking; Confidential ’s Proprietary Operating System.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Research Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed a residential gateway providing web-based device control, auto device discovery and provisioning, SNMP-based device management tools, and IEEE-1394 device drivers and AVC command library for AV control. Transferred technology to many European telcos (Swiss Telecom, Telia Research).
• Architected a Residential Intranet with an ATM/SONET core and ADSL access technology. The Intranet employed an IP-based virtual network for Internet Access and Intranet high performance applications and employed a proprietary QoS layer for support of uncompromised quality Video-On- Demand and other multimedia applications. The QoS layer employed a unique real-time deadline priority queuing based on virtual path reservation scheme. DSM-CC U/N session control mechanism was architected for proprietary QoS sessions.
• Developed an IP-Gateway mechanism on ADSL access multiplexer, thereby creating the first in the world ADSL access router. Currently hold the patent on the design.
• Architected and prototyped a new Element Management Layer for management and operations Support of XDSL based systems, including SNMP interface to HP OpenView and the world’s first Management Information Base (MIB) for representation of XDSL systems.
• Technology was transferred to Telia Research (Sweden), Italtel (Italy), Gulf Multimedia (Saudi Arabia), Batelco (Bahrain), National Institute for Standards and Technologies (NIST).
• Demonstrated the technology in trade shows like TINA-C World Wide Demo at Telecom’95 in Geneva in collaboration with 5 major European telcos, and at Asia Telecom’97 in Singapore.
• Conducted field trials and experiments in collaboration with various international and U.S government agencies. The system installed in the trials ranged from small (few lines) to medium (tens of lines) in some cases field deployed to be used by real telephone company customers.
• Major Projects included; Research and Prototyping in the area of Home Networks; Cruiser/Touring; Office Automation; Electronic Panning Camera.