Chris Widmann Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, Nc, Us

• Interfaced with top customers and largest prospects to help sales organization close large deals and align our future products roadmaps to customer needs.• Architected next generation cutting-edge products by working with technology leads within the networking industry suppliers; recognized by industry analysts as best-of-breed solutions for market segments. • Drove small cross-functional teams to solve complex customer issues and quality challenges. Engaged directly with suppliers to close any quality concerns.• Worked cross-functionally to define unique solutions to meet evolving customer needs to provide the most capable, secure and flexible product offerings. From secure guaranteed software to artificial intelligence, continually embracing new technologies to expand product capabilities and appeal.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

• Hardware development organization lead. Responsible for a large, diverse team of developers, first line managers, architects, and multi-discipline engineers. • Lead architect and design manager for all Ethernet switching platforms.• Responsible for platform architecture and development, both internal CM and JDM/ODM relationships with Taiwanese and Chinese vendors. Management of JDM/ODM partners to deliver cutting edge products ranging from very large chassis systems to commodity class fixed Ethernet switches. • Manage a high performance team of hardware development engineers through the entire product life cycle process from conceptual phase through customer shipment and support for the entire Extreme Networks switching portfolio.• Coordinate cross functional relationships with manufacturing partners and external vendors for product design and production support.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• WAN packet processing engine development for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch family. • Gigabit Ethernet, OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 optical interface development for Catalyst 6500 switch family.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Development Engineer IBM - Networking Hardware Division, RTP, NC, 1994 - Dec 1999 IBM - TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY• PowerPC processor control point architecture and development for L3 Ethernet switches, 2216 multiprotocol router and 2212 low end router. • PCI bus analysis and development to support hot plug and hot swap interfaces in router and switch applications.• Verilog PLD and FPGA development for performance critical and peripheral interfacing within control point designs.• Provided division-wide architecture direction to maximize reuse and performance while minimizing cost over many processor based switch and router products. • Field and development support for 2216 multiprotocol router, 2212 low end router and new L3 Ethernet switching development. Development Engineer IBM - TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 1992 - 1994 High Performance Computing and Communication Group• Developed a proprietary fiber-optic 1Gbps microchannel network adapter for a 1Gbps ring network research project, called Orbit and PlaNET. Coordinated the design, simulation, high speed PCB layout, and testing during development at a vendor site.Software Engineer IBM - TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 1991 - 1992 Parallel Systems Group (SP2)• Programmed a microcode kernel for interprocessor communication, memory paging and cache control for the Intel i860 processor based communications controllers within the IBM SP2 parallel processing system. • Performed high-frequency and bit error rate analysis of ECL differential twisted pair communications links between host processors and switch interfaces within the IBM SP2 system.Summer Intern IBM - TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 1990 - 1991 Deep Blue Chess Project• Designed and programmed an interactive X Windows network interface for the Deep Blue chess computer in C with TCP/IP sockets for the IBM RS/6000.