WhiteStar Communications, Inc. is a spin out from Red Shirt Robotics that is dedicated to bringing disruptive technologies developed at Red Shirt to the market faster. WhiteStar communication's goal is to completely change the landscape for social media and for IoT.

Founder and CEO of Red Shirt Robotics, LLC. Red Shirt Robotics produces a range of robots targeted at the police and military marketplaces.

Served as a Distinguished Engineer in charge of their IoT lighting strategy, architecture and technical direction. I lead a small team responsible for all of Cree’s future intelligent lighting solutions. This is an interdisciplinary role where I interact with the business, engineering, research and development teams. I have a small development team of my own and I actually write code every day.✔ Built a solid reputation of design excellence and solving problems others had perceived as impossible, often adding millions of dollars to the organizations with each new patent.✔ Created “LightSpeed”– a next-gen industrial/enterprise class IoT platform, projected to drive $40M in revenue and capture 20% of market share. ✔ Designed a software distribution system, plummeting update times from 80 onsite manhours to <10 minutes.✔ Recently directed a team of 40 reports and contractors in the creation of an IoT gateway for an existing intelligent lighting platform called SmartCast, immediately cutting product defects by almost 70% and doubling sales from $20M to $40M/year. (See www.cree.com/news-events/news/article/cree-expands-smartcast-intelligence-platform) ✔ While company was experiencing up to 100% employee turnover, led efforts to mentor development team and held turnover to <10%.✔ Personally wrote more than 80% of all the software including a full stack application (management) and nearly a dozen micro-services using the following tools and frameworks:✔ Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSF, Spring, Glassfish, Jetty, Micro services, Azure and AWS, GITLAB/GITHUB, Open Source, HTML, UI/UX, OAUTH, Two factor Authentication, TLS, DTLS, COAP, Analytics, HBASE, Warp10, Video processing, Sensors/actuators, Docker, Centos, OpenWRT, OpenShift, SE Linux, Secure Boot, Netbeans, MySQL Desktop, PKI, PrimeFaces, OmniFaces, WebSockets, Load Balancers, Overlay Networking, SDN, Layer 4 Routing, CDN, OSGi, XML, JSON, JAXB, Jackson, ROS, C++, C, SASS, LESS, Visual Basic, Node.js

✔ Built a comprehensive Software Defined Networking (SDN) vision and strategy, leading to an “open standards” approach to SDN and creating an open daylight controller to boost sales by over 20%.✔ Personally developed more than half the software including a clean room OpenDaylight Controller, micro-services, and a full stack management application using the following tools and frameworks:✔ Java, JavaScript, Blockly, MySQL, MySQL desktop, GITHUB, Glassfish, GOlang, XMPP, micro services, Ubuntu Linux, Secure Boot, SE Linux, JSF, Open Daylight, Open Source, SDN, OpenFlow, XML, JSON, JAXB, Jackson, UI/UX, Log4J, VSphere, VMWare, Open vSwitch, AWS, SNMP, TLS, CSS, Ruby, Rails, C++, CSS, SASS, iOS, Android, Agile, InteliJ, Netbeans, Felix

✔ Orchestrated the groundbreaking work to create “Pervasive Networking”, later dubbed “Internet of Things,” leading to new products that surged revenues by over $1B and being designated a Distinguished Engineer. ✔ For a decade, personally authored more patents than the entire rest of Cisco.✔ Drove initiative to utilize ARM processors, slashing 30% in hardware costs and enable a 65% profit margin.✔ Wrote millions of lines of code for dozens of applications in a wide range of technologies using the following tools and frameworks:✔ Java, Haskell, Domain Specific Languages (DSL), GITHUB, GIT, SourceForge, Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN), Glassfish, JSF, HTLM, CSS, Python, TCL, C, C++, Ruby, CSS, Player/Stage/Gazebo, Objective-C, ARM assembly, ARM Tools, SNMP, GNS3 (network simulator), iOS, Android, Cisco IOS, NetFlow, Service Discovery Framework, JINI, JSON, JAXB, XML, BSON, SDN, MIDlets, OSGi, Netbeans, Eclipse, subversion, clearCase, cvs, JBOS, WebMethods, Erlang, Lisp, uPNP, ed, sed, vi, Emacs, Agile, RationalRose, TLS, Adhoc Network, Multicast

At Ericsson I served as “Director of New Concepts” – where I invented, patented and developed everything the world knows today as smart phones – but 10 years before anyone ever heard of it.🎯 Invented and patented much of the technology built into smartphones today: bluetooth, airplane mode, zoom and rotate accelerometers, touchscreens, and unified email.✔ As Director of New Concepts, guided a department of 110 FTEs and $22M to update company away from Waterfall methodology to an agile-like system called “Evolutionary Incremental Development.”✔ Saved company a $1B investment on a huge multi-corporation joint venture by providing technologies still generating hundreds of millions per year in licensing fees.✔ Developed a Java based operating system for SmartPhones that runs on top of Linux similar to Android, but in 1994.✔ Java, C, C++, Haskell, Ada, disassemblers, CVS, SmallTalk, MacOS, Linux, OS9000, WARP, GEM, System 5, DSP, wireless signaling protocols, VoIP, Booch, Asymmetric cryptography, MATLAB, uPNP, JINI, NewtonScript, OSGi, Netbeans, vi, Emacs, Agile

Vice President of Engineering, UnidenSenior Manager, AmeriCom Corp. Software Engineer, Motorola, Inc.At Uniden I was responsible for all products sold in the America’s including radar detectors, satellite TV receivers, cordless phones, pagers, cell phones, trunked radios and systems, marine radios, marine navigation systems and fish finders. ✔ Introduced trunked radio system for the SMR/EMSR market that captured market share and a novel trade-in program which expanded revenue from about $450M/year to just under $744M/year in only 3 years (a 65% increase). ✔ By using superior industrial design, better software quality and re-using existing platforms, eliminated 30% of product development costs while enhancing customer satisfaction by 50%.✔ Development tools, languages and operating systems:o C, C++, MASM, Motorola Assembly, MBASIC, Pascal, Franz Lisp, Fortran, OPS5, Ada, disassemblers, CVS, SmallTalk, Ready Systems, RTX, OS9000, WARP, GEM, System 5, DSP, wireless signaling protocols, Booch, DSEE (Domain Software Engineering Environment), Apollo, Asymmetric cryptography, Forth, Lisp, PostScript, Visual Basic, Modula-2, uPNP, vi, Emacs, Agile