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Vancouver, BC, CA

• Designed and developed Avigilon Control Center (ACC) network video management system, focusing on media server and storage components that provide highly performant recording and playback of surveillance data.
• Maintained ACC legacy code, meeting new requirements, improving performance and scalability, and expanding components testability.
• Fixed product defects and addressed hot escalations, enhancing product quality and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborated on storage archive redesign, decreasing space requirements and delivering savings to customers.
• Participated as member of team creating export microservice for Motorola next generation video management system, VMSNext, facilitating product transition to new cloud-centric platform and providing better customer.
• Built multiple storage utility tools for automated testing framework in collaboration with team.

• Implemented multiple features and enhancements for protocol and infrastructure modules of Calix switching and routing platform, AXOS. Provided integration and defect resolution support for current releases, with the.
• Ported legacy Layer2 ACLs functionality for IP Source Verify, MAC Forced Forwarding, PPPoE and 802.1x authentication to the new routing platform. Used C/C++ with Embedded Linux.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Developed packet classifier, routing policy manager, subscriber service accounting and QoS functionality as part of the distributed operating system (IPOS) for Ericsson’s IP Edge and Core routers and mobile network.
• Refactored and partitioned platform-independent code migrating legacy SmartEdge product line to new hardware platforms, achieving required quality under aggressive deadlines and helping secure additional new products.
• Investigated and debugged live customer and integration problems, working with development teams across Europe, North America, China, and India.
• Advocated for enhanced software quality standards and processes, establishing ACL module automated test tool, enabling earlier defect detection and 3x increased code test coverage up to 75%.

Hillsboro, Oregon, US

• Developed real-time media streaming subsystem for Convedia VoIP Media Servers. Used C, TCP/IP sockets, multi-threading, and IPC mechanisms with Timesys Embedded Linux and LynxOS on PPC and i686/ATCA platforms.
• Developed and maintained multi-media file format module based on QuickTime, ISO, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and MPEG-4 standards.
• Collaborated with verification and customer support, debugging complex technical issues while meeting project schedules and quality goals.
• Proposed and executed process improvements, facilitating discovery of deficiencies at early development stages.

• Developed safety critical embedded software for distributed, hard real-time control system of Flash-RTP machine. Used C and C++ with QNX RTOS (Neutrino).
• Prototyped RPC/XDR-based communication interface between distributed real-time systems.
• Designed and implemented DAS4020 based real-time data acquisition application, helping replace expensive oscilloscopes used in research and saving company up to $10K per device. Used C++/MFC/Windows2000.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed and developed GPRS support node through full software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, process, and integration testing, addressing lab and field-reported.
• Led feature development with teams of 3-5 engineers, estimating efforts and working on feature planning.
• Developed software requirements from GSM/GPRS standards.
• Implemented and maintained GPRS transmission protocol stack as member of team working on network and sub-network layer protocols (SNDCP, SM-RL and SM-CM). Used C, UNIX Streams, TCP/IP Sockets, and Posix IPC in LynxOS.
• Represented development teams in Escaped Defect Analysis process, investigating faults, recommending process improvements, and reducing customer-reported problems to achieve SEI CMM Level 5 for development site.

• Developed medical image processing software and GUI applications for the CT scanner. Used C and C++ with IRIX.
• Developed software requirements and high level design of the system, working closely with physicists and other development teams. Analyzed existing software components and suggested design changes.

• Designed and developed network and database applications (VoiceMail, SMS, Calling Card, Single Number Service, Billing) for a large-scale highly reliable telecommunication system Infinity.
• Implemented proprietary data communication protocols for message notification and billing applications over TCP/IP and X.25 (NOKIA and Aldiscon SMSC, NEC Caroline).
• Managed small product releases (up to 5 developers). Leadership responsibilities included meeting with customers for technical reviews, project scheduling, coordinating between development, test and marketing teams.
• Provided customer support, on-site integration and system troubleshooting during acceptance testing (Astel and Hitachi in Japan, HK Telecom, Airtel in Spain, D1 Data Mobil in Germany and SFR in France).
• Provided formal training to the test and customer support teams in the operation and maintenance of developed applications.

Computer Science

B.Sc. And M.Sc., Mathematics And Mathematical Physics