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Renton, Wa

Principal Systems Architect and Product Owner. Member of architecture and development teams building a family of special-purpose software defined radios (SDR) running embedded Linux and FreeRTOS, used as the main communications element for the narrow-band 220 MHz national Positive Train Control (PTC) system infrastructure.Developed system architecture and many requirements for new Linux-based, SDR to support track-side detector data acquisition.Analyzed – and demonstrated – potential vulnerabilities in GPS; tested and recommended alternative GNSS modules.Member of several industry standards task forces on cybersecurity threat mitigation, IEEE standards efforts for secure, reliable, position & timing.

Greater Seattle Area

High level consulting engagements: technology due diligence and alternatives, SWOT of competitive architectures. intellectual property assessment, technology deployment, and some process improvement.Projects covered product issues in IPTV migration, IP address asset management, and advanced cable technology products and services.Member of the technical program committee for the IEEE 2012 Global Communications Conference Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications.

Bellevue, Wa

Network and data center infrastructure architecture, implementation, and deployment process issues.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for Seattle operations for this multi-region startup. Responsible for portfolio of high-level architecture design and deployment planning projects for a residential and commercial high-speed fiber-to-the-premises service (FTTP) network across the City of Seattle. This network was to carry IP data including broadcast video (IPTV) over a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM), symmetric high-speed access fiber. Formed and led a DevOps team to build/operate business and operations systems; hired 5 engineers.Company ceased operations, November 2013.

Waltham, Ma

Member of FiOS fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) corporate management team; Led newly formed mixed on-shore/off-shore advanced development organization (50+ engineers, 5 direct reports), responsible for technology due diligence, design and build of product and services prototypes or proof-of-concepts.Led architecture design, proof-of-concept, development, deployment of national multicasting facilities to improve FiOS operational efficiency, and a national dynamic targeted ad insertion infrastructure, enabling significant incremental ad revenue.

Kirkland, Wa

Third employee and key member this start-up. Led assessment of pre-existing interactive TV technologies and products, resulting in design and technology decisions for several significant company products and services. Responsible for initial information, network, and building infrastructure,Hired 40+ engineers that designed, deployed, and operated national delivery infrastructure and service elements in cable systems across the country.Designed and led implementation of one of the earliest functional headends supporting multiple conditional access systems.Designed one of the first IPTV HD DVR and first set top box to support the seamless tuning of both IPTV (streaming) and traditional RF/QAM television content.

Windsor, Ct

Reporting to CTO, responsible for private national corporate network support for 60 sites across the nation.. Migrated distributed targeted advertising database and label-generation systems from SNA- and IPX-based private-line infrastructure to an all IP and frame relay network resulting in significant improvements in performance and cost.

Hartford, Ct

Reported to CTO, responsible for corporate distributed computing architecture supporting large mainframe and UNIX systems, data centers, and email services for 45k employees.Led migration from partially bridged network to a fully routed network using EIGRP/NLSP supporting SNA, IPX, TCP/IP, AppleTalk, and NetBios.Led design and implementation of the company's first Internet presence supporting real-time policy queries and updates supporting remote agents and, eventually, direct access by customers.

Murray Hill, Nj; Merrimack, Nh; Palo Alto, Ca; Mountain View, Ca

At Sun MicrosystemsFacilitated cross-business unit coordination for asynchronous transfer mode and SONET communications and Internet products, and telecom product strategies. Co-wrote Sun's first Internet Business Plan.At Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC):Worked in advanced development, product strategy, and product development.Accomplishments included: - Instrumental in formation of the POSIX IEEE P1003 standards effort, member of steering committee; - Designed interprocess communications facilities. Ported UNIX to an asymmetric multi-processing shared-memory UNIX system (first on native VAX-11/782, second overall); - Key author of DEC's UNIX strategy; - Architect and engineering manager for native UNIX VAX operating system product (Ultrix); - Hired 50 engineers; - Designed high-level architecture for real-time Space Shuttle launch-phase tracking system as part of NASA’s Return-to-Space program, on loan from DEC; - Instrumental in formation of the Open Software Foundation; - Part of small team to propose, design, and develop DEC's first RISC-based workstation product, DECstation 3100.Norwalk Hospital - Hospital-side systems analysis, focusing on information flow between departments for design of one of the early patient information computer systems, supporting online patient medical records - Worked on dynamic imaging series capture functionality for a Searle "Pho/Gamma" gamma-ray scintillation camera for use in medical diagnostics. - Interfaced Technicon Sequential Multiple Analyzer SMA 6/60 medical chemistry analyzer system to hospital patient records.At Bell Labs: - Developed UNIX kernel system diagnostics and recovery capabilities; - Investigated and mitigated performance issues in Bell System UNIX-based switching system control and operations support systems.

Coursework, Operating Systems

Coursework, Electronics Analysis

Coursework, Computer Engineering

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