SUMMARY:

• Energetic Technology Leader with significant hands - on achievements and ability, passionate in software and intelligence for people and devices. Accomplished experience as a two-level organization manager and a Software developer/Architect. People leadership, critical thinking and deep problem solving to generate high value business critical products, intellectual property, and data-driven decisions.
• Created and led multiple respected software development teams in US & abroad including India and Singapore up to size of 30+. Setup relationships and work with teams in France, Israel, Germany, Italy, UK and China.
• Successful design, development and time critical releases of Software on products to market. Bonus grounding of hardware, high availability voice/video/network systems and management.
• Overseas strategic outsourcing: Directly managed vendor with 35 subcontractors.
• 18 yrs. at multiple locations with Confidential Inc., largest European chipmaker with a global matrix organizational presence and a broad high technology portfolio.
• $80M+ customer Software delivery and Silicon Validation organizational interface.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Management: Strategy, Agile, People Management, Large Customer Relationship, Product Management, Project Management, Marketing Management

Computing: C, Embedded Linux, System Performance, Scrum, LAMP, Java, Virtual machines, Git/Clearcase, iOS/Swift, RTOS, Software Engineering/Quality, Tcl, Scripting, PHP, Kernel Device Drivers, Assembly, Confidential, I2C, ARM, Parallel/Multi-core, JIRA/Bugzilla, Open Source, Python

Data: R, Data Analytics, Statistics, Visualization, Matlab, SQL, DBMS, Introductory Machine Learning, MapReduce

Systems/Middleware: Large scale distributed Web/video, Scale-Out distributed storage, Caching, Embedded Real-time, IoT Device Connectivity/Management, System-on-Chip, Confidential 3/3.1, Packetcable/Voice-Over-IP, Router/Wifi/RDK-B, Digital Networked Video, Videoconferencing, Set-Top-Box/ Confidential /H.264/IPTV, AWS cloud/S3, Enterprise IT management, Low-power, Secure Microcontrollers, Ceph

Networks/Security: Network Performance Hardware Accelerators, Switching, NGINX, VLANs, TCP, UDP, IPv6, VPN, Tunnels, Wireless, SNMP, IPTables/Firewalls, Fastpath, SIP/MGCP/IMS, Operator Networks, Network Security, Penetration Testing, Public Key Infrastructure, encryption, certificates, Software defined Storage and Networking, Network Function Virtualization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Development Manager, Atlanta, GA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Content Delivery Networks/Origin Technology development, Innovation w/ focus on distributed video storage and microservices, Live large scale Confidential production Video networks R&D support, Software Development including offshore.
• Deployed scaled Agile, introduced cutting edge container technology and enabled architectural changes for performance to achieve unprecedented time-shift product use case.
• Responsible for development of leading edge scale-out distributed storage product based on Ceph core kernel.
• Drove innovation in optimizing the storage product for video resulting in a valued product targeting.
• Drove innovation in the economics and performance of the product for Hadoop storage as well as Media asset management market leveraging Confidential standard.
• Drove technology in IP Video streaming at scale, Media security, caching, Network security, Server performance, High availability, Adaptive bit rate, Video on demand, Web interfaces, Configuration management, REST APIs, Database clustering, Hybrid Clouds, Containers.

Senior Manager OF Software and Director of validation, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created embedded SW for the core technology of transparent Linux kernel networking acceleration for multi-gigabit Confidential WiFi Router Cable Gateway using a cohesive team allowing realization of product performance higher than competitors. This also enabled successful certification and eventual monetization of the proven product family through transfer of IPs to a leading international customer.
• Acted as US interface for international division R&D at pre-sales level leading to three customer development engagements and a product certification by a US R&D consortium.
• Investment of R&D resources in deploying pre-silicon chip validation technology led to acceleration of software development by 2 months as well as early detection of bugs that would have caused significant delays and expense if testing would have been done post-silicon only.
• Created an environment for innovative and collaborative work where the software team produced 3 key architectural innovations in addition to 1 patent application filing working closely with the hardware designers.
• Achieved the first CableLabs claimed IPv6 interoperability and success in stringent CableLabs certification on large software with 800K+ lines of code global development with 4000+ unique requirements including security that were tested for compliance.

Software DESIGN Manager and Director OF validation, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Produced capable and highly responsive set-top-box software and silicon validation ‘embassy’ team support for the key ASIC customer. The strength of the engineering and the responsiveness of the support at critical times produced endorsements from the delighted $80M+ customer.
• Strengthened relationship over 6 custom chip design and set-top product cycles with regular deployment software releases enabling the 45% US Cable set top box market share.
• In collaboration with business development team, established the strategic need for new secure, Cable network specific VoIP technology and setup global teams as well as outsourcing producing a key enabler for the company in a new market segment.

Engineering manager

Confidential, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and led SW team to perform joint development on customer SW projects. Deployed software subsystems, key tools and expertise from global ST organization.
• Built a silicon validation team with expertise and preparation to enable key chip blocks on the ASIC for the time sensitive bringup with new embedded code merely hours after the chip becoming available from fab.
• Worked in a true partnership mode allowing creation of advanced facilities and discovery of synergy between the companies which reduced costs and strengthened relationships.

Applications Engineering manager, Carrollton, Texas J

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Produced key SW technology components and a synthesized technology showcase of Confidential encoding for DVR working with remote company architects. The customer declared it being a “bad news for the competitor”. This reinforced belief in the capability of the company and strengthened business partnership.

TEAM Leader, Dallas, Texas

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Chief architect of extremely stringent requirement robustness and conformance Confidential Cable Modem 802.3, DIX, TCP/UDP/IP networking software that continues to be the core of multiple CableLabs certified products sold in high volume today over a decade later.

Technical Leader, San Jose, California

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced significant development cost and achieved fast certification by providing technical leadership to a software team tasked with achieving network interface over low level embedded Confidential by removing the need for Windows device driver development and instead utilizing new concept of Microsoft RNDIS (remote network device interface).
• Innovated to make it possible to connect the Cable modem chip product to home clients over Confidential without installing device drivers from a disk saving installation support cost and end-user complexity.
• As a consulting project in this timeframe, enabled a new product class of controllable, networked security CAMs by engineering network streaming digital Confidential video product reference and provided technical leadership to a team to develop the JAVA applet, embedded application providing HTTP web server, the web application and buffer managed streaming to Visual C++ developed video client application.

SYSTEM APPLICATIONS Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created the basis for a targeted, new system-on-chip by taking initiative to repurpose an existing video decoder chip and authoring sophisticated DVD navigation software. This not only became an international pre-sales marketing demo but provided concept and architecture for the new product.
• Became the lead engineer to produce a robust and interoperable software that became key to marketing the product in a high volume turnkey solution creating a $25 million business enabler for the company in Southeast Asia.