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San Francisco, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Product management responsibilies for Aruba's outdoor Wi-Fi products primarily.General radio product guidance and WLAN controller product introduction.Part of a multidisciplinary team to address service provider marketsProvide training for field sales teams and partnersUse my experience in antenna design and radio systems to define product direction

Managing an international team of Sales EngineersInvolved in all named accounts for BelAir including AT&T, vritually all North American MSO's and large opportunities outside of North America.In a small company context activities range from strategic input with Fortune 500 compnies at the executive level to supporting channel partners with a variety of projects.

Spacebridge was a fab-less semiconductor company specializing in systems on a chip, both RFIC's, and software defined radio, for the VSAT terminal businessMember of the CTO office, defined, architected, and supported sales of Spacebridge's radio frequency and baseband chip solutionsArchitected a 200 to 2700 MHz digital in RF out, Direct Digital up conversion solution Chip was successfully fabricatedProvided direct sales and solution supportWith the executive team worked with a marketing consultant to redefine the SpaceBridge brand

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Radio SystemsArchitect UMTS 2 Years Working with an international team This role was one of international coordination of activities in Guyancourt, France and support organizations in Calgary, AB and Ottawa. Systems definition of the physical and radio aspects of Nortel's UMTS product offering Generate and coordinate the creation of system engineering documentation.North American Cellular 5 Years Working within a team of 250 people I was part of a core architecture team Many PLM interfaces in this role. Overall specification and functional definition of Cellular Basestation solutions.Subsystem definition, vendor evaluation and selection of solutions I was called in to support direct customer interaction in critical situations. Subject matter expert for technology evaluation of technologies and companies for possible acquisition Several product initiatives that led to product enhancements of existing product and in some cases substantial revenue. Directly participated in the standards process during the TDMA IS136 to UWC136 to GSM EDGE evolution Defined, wrote, and incorporated all of the GSM mixed mode specifications to allow the use of wide band amplifiers into the GSM specifications. Also wrote I and one other colleague invented a portion of EDGE referred to as EDGE COMPACT. This led to 6 patents for physical layer implementation and the associated protocol. Team member for NORTEL corporate further filing efforts in semi annual evaluation to establish which patents would be filed outside of the US.

Airborne X Band AntennaRadarsat Satellite Antenna50 ft long and 5 ft wide 5 GHz Waveguide AntennaDesigned waveguide componentsIntegration and test of the antennaSARSAT/COSPAS earth station antennas and integrated LNAWorked with multidisciplinary team to optimize product cost and product deploymentSystem optimization allowed a 4 ft disc to outperform a 10 ft dishAircraft mounted steerable Satcom solutionCellular Antenna ProductStarting with a small portfolio I was asked to:Optimize the product for manufacturingReduce the product costBuild a team that could rapidly produce product variantsOnce the product infrastructure was in place I supported the marketing and sales activities Patents and publications Over the course of my career I have been awarded 9 US PatentsThese ranged from detailed RF techniques, algorithmic patents, and patents on aspects of GSM standards.

Masters Of Engineering, Electromagnetics

Bachelor, Electrical Engineering