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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Lead and responsible for technology research, industry standards adoption, solution architecture, thought leadership, advanced analytics, and cloud technology across company's wireless mobile security cloud product lines.Chair, Policy (ANDSF & HS 2.0) working group, Wireless Broadband Alliance. Work toward wireless and mobile policy convergence with industry recommendations and whitepaper.Key contributor to Carrier Wi-Fi QoS and Small Cell Forum working groups, Wireless Broadband Alliance. Work toward improving mobile user experience and Wi-Fi network performance with industry recommendations and whitepapers.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led architecture, design, and development of carrier grade mobile secure 3G/4G-WiFi traffic management solution, network quality of service and network based intelligent policy server - NetWise Director Traffic Management product line.Responsible for advanced research and solutions prototyping in the areas of network access security, network access discovery and selection, seamless roaming, policy control framework, quality of service, digital certificate authority, enterprise mobile solution architecture, and IoT services. Led standards based development strategy. Collaborated in industry standards bodies to help shape the company's product planning and enable solution commercialization ahead of competition.Conducted thought leadership briefings to drive solution adoption and product deployment. Collaborated with the sales, operations, product management, product marketing and business development organizations in all phases of product planning and solution realization.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Responsible for providing solution vision leadership, and driving product strategy, planning and development for the Wireless business unit.Collaborated closely with Tier 1/2 wireless operators, enterprises and across the organization to build custom mobile solutions that meet customer needs.As chief architect and lead for the Quicklink Mobility product line, championed the QuickLink Mobility converged enterprise solution to provide first-in-market integrated mobility, security, policy and connectivity solution in a single platform for enterprises.

Co-founded Ecutel in Nov 1996. Bootstrapped company with own investment and government contracts. Built product and staff, and eventually acquired VC funding to support growth in 2001.Led product strategy, systems engineering, product management, and engineering of enterprise Secure Mobile communication solution and NIST FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic module.Invented, developed and launched industry first Mobile IP/IPSec standards-based Mobile VPN client and gateway to enable heterogeneous wired and wireless network secure roaming with session persistence, analytics and device end-point security, which led to adoption by numerous large enterprises, public safety and system integrators in Japan, Europe and US.Smith Micro Software Inc. acquired Ecutel in 2007.

Mclean, Va, Us

As C3I technologist, responsible for solution architecture, networking technology research, software development, and diverse technology integration for US DoD classified critical operations. Functioned as trusted consultant to advise US DoD program offices with technology development to address specific problems, network architecture, and program management to bring technology and support capabilities to the field with cost efficiency.Developed communication software to process intelligence messages in multi-level data security and mobile DoD tactical messaging systems.

Led Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) R&D effort and development of C3I systems using artificial intelligence expert rule based technologies for classified DoD programs.Collaborated closely with Navy military domain experts to extract knowledge and implement in business rules to improve autonomous decision processes in expert systems.

Torrance, Ca, Us

Led full software development life cycle for classified Command Control and Communication Intelligence systems that were jointly managed and deployed by the US Air Forces and NATO electronic commands.Led product requirements planning with and built near-real time decision aids workstation for the field military officers and troops.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude