Hong Chen, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Lead architect and design software solutions for various wireless products. Enhance design and development in architecture-based software system engineering solutions. Architected, designed, and developed embedded software for common data link, waveforms, antenna subsystems, radar, cognitive radios and SATCOM control unit, providing solutions for advanced technologies in wireless communication systems.● Enabled digital twins and simulation. Hands-on technical lead/architect/developer in embedded C/C++ software design and development for software-defined radio (SDR) and software-defined network (SDN). ● Drive innovation improves collaboration and integration. Innovator with extensive software engineering practices. Successfully completed Seeding & IRAD funded project milestones. Recipient of the Third Annual Walter J. Zable Innovation Award as an Individual Innovator.● Accelerated product development and enhanced life cycle management. DevSecOps initiator and technical lead for data link software, establishing an agile cloud-based process for companywide communication products. Responsible for architecture design, system modeling, execution simulation, and software development for embedded systems.

San Diego, California, Us

● Individual contributor for architecture-based software system engineering design. Architect, design and develop embedded software for common data link, antenna subsystems, cyber resilience, and provide solutions for supporting advanced technologies in wireless communication systems.● Hands-on technical lead/architect/developer in embedded C/C++ software design and development for antenna control software, waveform interface, digital communication protocol, cyber awareness RMF implementation in C4RSI products.● Innovator with a broad area of software engineering practices. Completed the Seeding & IRAD funded project requested milestones. Received a Third Annual Walter J. Zable Innovation Awards as an Individual Innovator.● DevOps initiator for data link software by building an agile cloud-based process for communication products. Performs architecture design, system modeling, execution simulation and software development for embedded systems in various wireless communication products.

Hawthorne, Ca, Us

Architected, designed, and developed embedded software for next-gen 2Ku beamforming antenna systems, supporting HTS technologies for aerospace communications.● Led DSP software architecture and development for Q/K/Ka/Ku band satellite antennas.● Developed real-time embedded software for high-speed satellite modems over Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, Wi-Fi, and SNMPv3 for OpenAMIP protocol.● Created RF software, control algorithms, and optimization tools using C/C++, C#, Python, MATLAB, and Simulink.● Designed remote upgrade solutions for embedded Linux and DSP/FPGA software on 2Ku antennas.● Developed embedded real-time DSP software, u-boot, Yocto build systems, toolchain, BSP, and IO interface drivers for ARM9, Cortex-A15, and Sitara processors, including DSP multithread and multicore programming and secure boot.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Performed design and development of embedded software for radio RF front-end, transceiver, and baseband control on the most advanced wireless modems from bring-up to commercialization.● Integrated and released modem RF software for Snapdragon 810/808 (MSM8994/MSM8992) and MDM9635. Satisfied drivability requirements and performance goals, and commercially launched products within smartphones, tablets worldwide, including iPhone6s, LG G Flex 2/G4/Nexus 5X, HTC One (M9), and 20 others.● Designed drivers for new RF cards and ensured RF device interface designed, tuned, calibrated, operated within modem software architecture, and met performance and quality requirements. ● Innovated, designed, and implemented C/C++ embedded drivers to support Modem and advanced RF cards.● Board bring-ups of RF cards, porting code for RF transceiver drivers with baseband and RF systems to support 3G/4G calls, factory RF calibration support, and intensive unit testing, resolved crash issues.● Integrated innovative RF devices and modem hardware technology for WWAN standards including GSM/CDMA/WCDMA/TDSCDMA/LTE/LTE-A/LTE-U received technical acceptance (TA) Snapdragon 810/820.● Designed advanced front-end RF card software with dependencies of other components within the MPSS image. Innovated Jenkin’s build process and continuous testing framework for advanced projects. ● Resolved defects of broken build, compilation and link errors, modem crash and on-line call issues. Code optimization improved memory and functional performance.● Created continuous and nightly RF integration tests for all LTE TDD/FDD bands and 3DLCA/2DLCA to satisfy 3GPP standard and TA requirements for the advanced product.

San Diego, California, Us

Provided technical oversight to all software activities within the 2G/3G/4G devices, including engineering maintenance, new product architecture, hardware and software integration, gating issues analysis, and product strategy and technology roadmaps. Carried out LTE product requirement definition, VID/PID and QMI API command specs, Software Technical Requirement, software architecture and solutions, including SDK, drivers, tools, third party application and manufacture integration for mass productions.● Initiated and built a software team hired about 25 engineers in different countries, led and managed a multi-culture, multi-location teams, mentored engineers developed and produced many successful wireless products.● Technical executive with deep experience in building high-performance international firmware and software team. Completed 4G LTE MDM96xx/MDM92xx based firmware development and received technical approvals from carriers for various products (E362, MiFi 4620L, MiFi 5510L and MiFi 5580) from initial deployment to commercially delivery by over the air upgrade solutions for end users.● Provided technical oversight to software-related activities within the NVTL 2G/3G/4G devices, including engineering firmware development, maintenance, new product architecture, 3rd party SDK interaction, gating issues analysis, executed software development process accomplished TA following wireless standards 3GPP. Carried out LTE product requirement definition, specs, for architecture, design, and develop solutions, including AT/Diag/QMI commands, SDK, drivers, tools, applications, and manufacture integration for mass production.

San Diego, California, Us

Generated new ideas for enterprise and commercial mobile broadband solutions. Designed and developed different C/C++ software applications for launch 3G devices on Verizon, Sprint and AT&T network, including USB modem, MiFi product, and integrated EVDO/UMTS embedded modules into laptops for Dell/Sony/Panasonic/Toshiba. Handled software requirement definition, FW interface, and architecture system solutions. Performed host software design, API, WMC SDK, software integration, connection managers and Windows mobile broadband driver development.

San Diego, California, Us

Designed and developed QSC6085 based 3G product, including design of use cases, software architecture, firmware interface diag commands, USB and NDIS drivers and tools for S620/V620. Designed Wireless Modem unified API, WMC SDK for Verizon VZAceess Manager and Sprint SamrtView connection manager.

San Diego, California, Us

Completed the first release CDMA PC card software, first USB modem with removable storage. Launched 1xRTT CDMA single band product Merlin C201 by Sprint for mass production, recognized as the best product with the longest sales life time continuously in three years.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Advanced Study Degree Architecture-Based Enterprise Systems Engineering Leadership Program

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineerring

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineerring

Professional Certificate, Leadership And Mangement Program (Lamp)