Product management for Consumer & Computer Wireless

• Helping starts up on technology & engineering consulting developing products from the requirements into implementation.• Supporting overseas organizations to be successful in US• Leading engineering teams and setting up tools and processes in place for growth.• Full IoT stack architecture and software development from embedded connected devices into smartphone applications and to the cloud.• Projects include medical devices, next generation A/V solutions and wireless technologies with IoT spin.

• Executed the annual budget for smartphone and audio-visual product development; led a cross-functional team in the design, selection, and implementation of wireless and audio-visual solutions.• Established a baseline for digitizing the legacy platform through a modern IoT technology stack; utilized Android, Rust, embedded Linux, Flutter, gRPC. MQTT, SBC integrating projector, and audio subsystem under one management system.• Bolstered Confluence and JIRA to support asynchronous and multi-site operational, product management, and Engineering technical support.• Monitored and reported project status and communicated project progress and concerns with key stakeholders.• Applied complex architecture principles and iteratively reduced technical cost and debt through automation and sustainability.

• Established software engineering development team and processes for medical device including embedded, smartphone and cloud software.• Defined software technology, architecture, design and carried out hands-on development to support hardware and the solution development

• Driving SW platform product management with system architecture and design responsibilities.• Creating SW roadmap across the portfolio and driving its execution as a program.• Leading architecture definition across device, cloud, and smartphone app. SW features and solutions.

• Transformed the company into solutions based planning resulting first ever value driven SW roadmaps, defined platform vs. product concept into SW asset management and drove Scalable Agile-light into planning practices.• Leading edge processing solution product management for 5G modems and routers to increase offering value and expand the customer base.• Established portfolio roadmap process, created templates and now leading the cross-functional roadmapping activity.• Subject matter expert and creating experiences on enterprise networking, Wifi, device management, IoT Edge, telemetry & analytics, and smartphone applications.

In my capacity as an Advisory Board Member at Twistar, I work closely with the CxO Leadership team to guide digital strategy and the technology roadmap from the prototype-to-productionhttp://www.twistar.co/

• Identified new market need, created value proposition and technical solution for aftermarket refrigerator freshness and operations monitoringdevices in unique form-factor by combining leading edge environmental sensors with a context optimized computing and energy storage system.• Created HW prototype and full IoT SW stack from smartphone application, cloud digital twin implementation to embedded software with analytics.• Technology assets and hands-on development include AI, GCP (IoT, BigQuery, Firebase), Flutter (Android/iOS), Python, C/C++, MQTT, FreeRTOS,Wifi, I2C, environmental sensor, embedded IoT device hardware (ESP32).

• Established technology area roadmaps by creating alignment process including vendor meetings and RFPs with Qualcomm, Mediatek and otherproduct technology and platform.• Delivered the first Android Nokia smartphone and selling over 10M+ units in the company’s first year with ”Pure Android” user experience.• Created differentiator opportunities through in-house and partner innovations by using consumer insights with the technology roadmaps.

• Build feature roadmap, hired team of engineers and established development processes delivering LTE over Wifi access point SW prototype.• Developed eNodeB with Wifi L2 implementing NAS, S1AP, GTP-U, SIM authentication with five engineers in 9 months using open source and innovative tools & technology selections.• Saved $300k, 3 months of the development time with optimized buy/specify/develop strategy.• Defined system architecture, feature set and participated on hands-on SW development using Python, C, OpenWRT, Linux & Raspberry Pi.

• Launched smartphones for AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile with new platforms and technologies by defining key requirement and acted as executive escalation point for the approvals.• Achieved platform compliance for Americas customers unlocking the business by establishing and driving the market needs through global platform product management and engineering by through clear request rationale and ensuring that requirements were understood correctly.• Launched first Nokia Windows Phone SW by leading transition program for the new platform with production testing, market configuration and variant creation, SW build, releasing, testing and product validation.

Heading Nokia technology alignment for AT&T business and acting as their key executive technical contact for devices and led a team of three technology managers with $1M budget• Brought Symbian devices into AT&T through technology alignment and acquired agreement for MeeGo technical readiness• Re-established executive technical dialog at SVP level with AT&T after a silent period• Headed first Nokia Windows Phone SW development stream project including the production testing device SW, market configuration and variant creation, SW build, releasing, testing and product validation.

• Led 200+ organization with $25M budget responsible for Internet connectivity, Wifi&WiMAX, product management, engineering and QA.• Reduced Wifi integration time-to-market from 18 to 2 months and saving 70% in OPEX by partner development enablement through tools&processes with automated testing environment.• Early adopter in Agile and created Continuous Integration process with tools delivering single SW asset into three different platform and performingWifi certification in automated setup resulting $10M annual savings in the terms of OPEX and reduced software release testing from 8 to 2 weeks.• Wifi-Alliance Board of Director paving the way for mobile Wifi expansion driving Wifi certification initiatives to enable fast and scalable certifications.• Created innovation culture increasing team IPR submissions by 100% having the highest inventions per employee ratio compared to peer groups.

• Build Wifi SW team ground up hiring, training, developing MAC and application software for the first smartphone (Nokia 9000).• Created multi-product and mobile optimized 802.11 MAC & protocol-stack with superior performance in power-consumption, QoS and mobility enabling support for all the used OSes by abstracting the Wifi subsystem from the host OS and the used chipsets.• Created portfolio of 20+ patents for ”Mobile First” Wifi resulting over $50M in licensing revenue.

• Developing system software for Linux Wifi access point using C/C++, Windows device drivers and embedded OS platform• Creating one of the world’s first Linux Wifi access point.

• Lead Windows PC Suite (phone as a modem) kernel-mode device driver developer and NDIS/modem drivers Wifi, BT & GPRS PCMCIA combo cards.• Tools and technologies: C/C++, Python, Java, NDIS, Windows Driver Model (WDM), Nokia embedded OS, Linux.