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Glen Haven, Ns, Ca

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working to advance management of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) through cellular data and services - enabling Continual Line of Sight operations for Canadian enterprise.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Responsible for product, market, channel and business development for next generation suite of Occupancy Management Services for Commercial Real Estate.UtiLive are Specialists in Digital Intelligence for the Workplace, providing customers with real-time data on space utilization and optimization that measure workplace effectiveness and provide new occupant engagement services for CRE.

Responsible to establish developer community/ecosystem around technology platforms provided by corporate sponsors, including IBM, GENBAND (successor to Nortel), Carleton University and the Eclipse Foundation. Mandate to promote economic development of communications technology in the Province of Ontario.- Engaged 77 Member companies in 3 markets; transportation, healthcare and smart machines- Granted $2.2M for technology development - Generating $10M in leveraged project funding and $25M follow-on investment- Helped Member companies create over 380 technology jobs in the Province and 22 new SMEs- Established Developer community and channel for large telecom vendor with over 25 members- Developed advanced data access/management platform for real time data exchange

Led new venture through initial funding, Product Strategy and Development, successful prototype design and market entry.Founded company based on market for scalable key distribution within cloud computing networks. Completed Go-To-Market product plan within 18 months of funding. Established channel partnership and reference accounts in Financial and Healthcare verticals in the same timeframe. Established offshore manufacturing capability for product delivery.Selected Board of Advisors with industry leaders from Telecom, Financial and Healthcare. Built Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Marketing and Finance teams.Technology included 3GPP authentication and encryption, smart card (PCI) development, Near Field Communications (NFC) and core software using virtualization and SAML protocols. Co-authored three patents pending on key distribution, identity association and secure storage.

Responsible for Marketing, including Product Strategy and Development, Market Strategy (Strategic Account and Channel) and Market Communications. Established Product and Market Requirements for Session Border Control and Security Gateway product lines. Responsible for global market development, establishing channel partners for product distribution in U.S., Japan and Europe. Developed reference accounts responsible for revenues of $10M.Co-founded company based on market for network processing and session control. Participated in successful venture funding of $70M.Technical specialization in Session Border Control within SIP-based VoIP networks, including Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and state-based firewalls. Security Gateway development following 3GPP standards guidelines for Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) to multimode handsets. Co-authored two patents in Content Routing and Virus Protection.

Corporate and Strategic planning to position the company and its emerging flagship product, the INIP softswitch, as market leaders. Led efforts to establish the product as the reference architecture for certified interoperability with industry partners. Managed process that resulted in the purchase of the Company by Sonus Networks.

Responsible for all Technical Services including Network Engineering, Product Management and Customer Support. Established the ARC Lightspeed Network, interconnecting buildings from a Metropolitan Point of Presence (DS3) to a national fiber optic backbone network (OC48). Responsible for rollout of ARC mPoPs in 25 markets across the U.S. in 24 months. Product Development included desktop video distribution, internet-based voice conferencing, and a desktop portal for service configuration and support.

Beng, Mechanical

Cert Of Applied Science, Engineering