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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Leading the technical strategy and roadmap for next generation Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) - Defined AMR use cases and value proposition in partnership with Marketing and Product Management - Defined the High-level system architecture and implementation options in collaboration with Product Engineering - Identified, evaluated, and built relationship with potential robotics providers partners - Laid out the functional safety strategy and system requirements in collaboration with Product Engineering and Regulatory - Recommended a technical strategy and execution plan to senior leadership - Defining and implementing the system requirements of the infrastructure foundations in partnership with Robotics Engineering and third-party suppliers for hand-over to Product Engineering- Lead System engineer for Tennant's first floor cleaning Autonomous Mobile Robot. - Responsible for Voice of Customers activities, use cases definition, system requirements, and system architecture integration of all subcomponents including, sensors and compute units integration, User Interface and User experience, indoor localization and navigation, path planning and coverage area, obstacle detection and avoidance. Work as the technical interface between internal and external multi-functional units to ensure the overall system integrity. - Responsible for the definition and implementation of the overall test strategy for the entire V cycle including unit testing, subsystems functional testing, system integration testing, system verification and validation. Focus on automated testing in non-deterministic environments using Software In the Loop (SIL), Processor In the Loop (PIL), and Hardware In the Loop (HIL).

Minneapolis, Mn

- Produced, directed, and wrote "Train Station", a 17 minutes drama on the children fear of separation, featured at the 2006 San-Fransisco film festival- Produced, directed, and wrote "Dolls", a 40 minutes drama on the effects of bullying- Managed small budgets films including paid crew of 2 to 10 members, and a cast of 3 to 11 actors and 30 extras

- Lead a cross-functional team for the Remote Monitoring System of implanted medical devices (Class III medical devices)- Full release cycle for new features and functionalities improvement in the Remote Monitoring System including release content definition, features specifications and implementation, Quality Assessment, Regulatory approval (FDA and CE), and commercial deployment- Project Management including schedule planning, resources definition and allocation, risk management, progress monitoring- Upward and downward communication including reporting and issue escalation, cross-company communication, team engagement and team building

- R&D Core Team member (cross-functional leadership group) and Lead System Engineer for Remote Monitoring (Class III medical device)- Responsible for Requirements management, Risk Analysis, Specifications definition, document authoring and review (Design History File - DHF) of all system components (home appliance, back office application and infrastructure, security and data privacy)- Architecture and design of interface between home appliance and Back Office- Architecture and design of network security (SSL/TLS mutual authentication)

- Architect, System Engineer, Designer and developer of an authoring and administration tool for aggregation of data-intensive graphics from multiple sources into a large 3D display environment- Architect, system engineer, designer and developer of a secure SOA-based hardware and OS agnostic multi-clusters management system including a centralized web-based alert system, hardware configuration and monitoring, integration and aggregation of third-party and proprietary applications- Co-architect, designer and developer of a Groundbreaking Web-based System Management Software to easily administer, monitor and submit jobs to one or many HPC Linux clusters without having to ever log on to any nodes of the cluster.

I participated the development of a new, general purpose, File System independent Hierarchical Storage Management System. My role was to design and implement- the Meta data database and interface- the thread management, process management and tracing infrastructure

I worked in the front and back office to develop proprietary tools to handle complex financial instruments in an intranet environment, based on the then emerging .NET environment. The tools I designed and implemented were:- Market Valuation system - XML based Reporting system- Hedge Fund Portfolio Management System - Amortization system - Dividend system - Products Information SystemI also pioneered a large-scale Web Service-based B2B environment to link to Morgan Stanley portfolio management system and ledger.

Minnetonka, Mn

- CORBA infrastructure implementation for Component-based applications.- Security infrastructure design for distributed application including authentication (Kerberos) and authorization (ACL).- Designed and implemented the UNIX side of a router to connect UNIX servers to UNISYS mainframes. (C, C++, NIS).

Eagan, Mn

- Sun ONC+ implementation. - Implemented the Network Lock Manager version 3 and 4 at user level and in the Cray’s UNIX Kernel- UNICOS Kernel support of Jobs checkpoint/restart with open NFS files- Designed, implemented and tested code to improve the implementation of the NFS protocol.- Designed and developed support of SecurID for NQS and RQS/UNIX 3.0.

Masters, Robotic

Masters, Computer Science