• Directed two engineering teams for the development and verification of FPGA systems that focus on OTN overhead switching and fabric switching for the OME6500 product series• Managed multiple projects and planned objectives according to customer specifications and scheduled appropriate deliverables that enable feedback from the customer on a continuous basis• Facilitated and evaluated bleed-edge RTL verification technology that minimizes the time-to-market of FPGA releases by encouraging vendor agnostic reuse technology while providing high confidence in quality and robustness

• Documented feature specifications ensuring that customer needs and feature requests are clearly communicated to respective design teams• Consolidated Packet Optical "Tech-20" Product Matrix into a unified feature list used by sales teams• Assisted in responses to strategic RFPs and RFIs• Presented at Ciena's 2014 & 2015 Vector Summit - focusing on MPLS-TP technology

• Directed the development of One Market Ticketing’s core competency of One Market Ticketing to providing its customer competitive pricing solutions to recapture potential lost revenue in the ticketing venue industry• Presented innovated approaches to capture customer through software modelling extendable for dynamic environments and tailored/customizable for any customer• Scheduled, forecasted, and tracked software development cycle in conjunction to corresponding to customer requests and enhancements• Championed low cost cutting-edge product development solutions through cloud computing, reducing development time and infrastructure costs

• Led and consulted the development of verification architectures and primed design of sub-blocks in high speed optical network devices in partnership with design teams• Spearheaded design of scalable verification model using bleeding-edge verification methodology, promoting intellectual property development for other verification fronts• Reviewed and conducted project analysis focusing on efficient development and earlier delivery of customized microprocessors with consideration of additional customer request for features• Focused development of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (G-PON) on SoC (System on Chip) project, concentrating on MAC development and layer-2 switch/packet classifier. RTL verification using system verilog transaction level model verification methodology via AVM

• firmware/software prime and system verifier of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (G-PON) on SoC (System on Chip) development board and responsible defining software requirements, integration of software with SoC peripherals, design of high level software components, user interface, documentation of requirements and high level design, software architecture and verification plans according to standards and protocol.• designer for Nortel Networks Metro Ethernet Network group under OPTera Metro 5xxx 10G OTR – cost reduction alternative service provider project• designer for Nortel Networks firmware software for Nortel Networks OPtera Metro 3500 – P2P 1G Fiber Over SONET Ethernet/Fiber Channel integrating SPI functionality for fast FPGA download and integrating SMBus temperature sensor embedded firmware

• software designer imtegrating gateway data communication protocols over Optical Supervisory Channel under VxWorks OS environment• firmware developer for real-time clock chip access via I2C• system verifier developing Expect automated test suite for network integrity

• produced and published alternative teaching materials in C programming (web tutorial) and conducted independent tutorial sessions on problem solving for engineering case studies

• software designer implementing/integrating data communication protocols under VxWorks OS environment

• Nortel Networks' first level field support, responsible for the turn up of Nortel's OPTera Metro and OPTera Packet Edge products (Ethernet over SONET)• Product verifier to test layer 2/3 transparency of interWAN packet transport for S/DMS OC48 and Express (OC3/12)• Worked with System Engineering to determine interoperability with wireline products (Nortel Passport, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ONS, and data generators (IXIA and Netcom)• Deployed in field-trials for Canadian and American customers to provision network topologies• Completed and release an application software release known as Broadband Network Bulletins (BNB) responsible for report tracking over HTTP protocols and utilizing the combination of CGI scripting and Oracle database