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I provide consulting services on Engineering Product Development. including time to market, acoustics, noise cancelling and testing standards on Bluetooth headsets

Developed Industry leading headset with a core group of dedicated Engineers. Our products consistently outperform and dominate the transport industry.

Lowell, Ma, Us

Responsible for leading the design and development team at VXi in the realization of audio headset products for call centers, home office and mobile markets. Wired and wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, DECT and acoustics.

Carbondale, Pa, Us

I led the engineering development team at Gentex Electro Acoustics. Gentex designs and developments acoustic products that range from noise cancelling microphones to superior performing noise cancelling intercom systems used on Coast Guard and Navy high speed intercept vessels, which operate in extreme environments.

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I and my team were responsible for the platform development of Lucent's programmable (softswitch) solutions. I headed up a group of cross disciplined engineers. The team consisted of electrical, mechanical and certification engineers. Key was working with other groups to coordinate development schedules and product deliveries. In the regulation rich telecom landscape certification played a key role in product delivery including FCC, CE and NEBS testing.

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I headed up a great team of engineers responsible for all aspects of the hardware development in the Excel LNX programmable switching platform. My team consisted of development engineers, compliance, sustaining engineering, configuration management and tech writing. My role was to build the infrastructure and hire the talent to support the explosive growth being experienced by Excel. We grew the company from 66 employees to over 800 during this time and eventually succeeded in selling the company to Lucent for $1.6B.

Lightscan was a start up within an established organization. The strategic goal was to build an emerging company as the old meter technology was under competitive pressure overseas and from new technologies. I headed up a team that designed and developed high performing fiber optics test equipment. We innovated the ID and functional performance of this category of product. In two years we developed and brought to market fiber power meters, laser and LED sources.

I headed up the engineering group that developed digital test equipment for the telecommunications industry. My team specialized in digital products that supported live testing in central offices and in the field. We developed leading products for T1/DS0/DS1/DS3/SLC96 transmission. Later I also had responsibility for fiber optics laser sources/power meters and fiber identifiers and analog test equipment for Telecommunications. Great experience, great products, great team!

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The Nortel (a.k.a.Northern Telecom) plant was located in the Mervue Industrial Estate in Galway Ireland. I worked on the design of the SL1 PABX, designing a central office interface for the OECD in Paris. I developed a next generation of handsfree speakerphone technology.

Msee, Electronics/Fiber Optics

Bsc, Electronic Engineering

O And A Levels, Sciences

11+, Physical Sciences