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Focused on innovating around broadband carrier and narrowband communication systems while advising the product organizations serving public safety customers.• Monitored, assessed and advised senior leadership on the development of Machine-Type Communication, Proximity Services, and Cooperative Multipoint technology advances within the 3GPP standard bodies and academia leading to a reprioritization of internal efforts. • Responsible for the simulator development and system level performance analysis of LTE/LTE-A for public safety use cases using C/C++. • Implemented and characterized the performance of the LTE random access channel detection algorithm within Matlab mitigating the risk of unconventional deployments for public safety customers. • Developed and transferred the two branch linear predictive receiver diversity algorithm shipping in the narrowband public safety base station radio resulting in extended coverage, reduced cost of deployment and enabling over $50M in APCO Project 25 Phase II revenue. • Created a linear compatible phase modulation and low complexity maximum likelihood sequence estimation receiver in Matlab enabling a cost reduced subscriber receiver architecture.

Responsible for expanding the technology product portfolio through the development of physical layer algorithms and modeling of wireless propagation channels for IEEE 802.11 based WLAN and EDGE cellular networks. • Investigated and created both micro and macro mobility algorithms essential to realizing a converged GSM/WLAN enterprise phone using linear prediction techniques. • Designed a patented space-time coding method of transmit diversity for EDGE using Matlab. Air interface subject matter expert on the research team tasked with conceiving and developing a high throughput Mesh and Ad Hoc network resulting in standard contributions to IEEE 802.16m. • Responsible for the investigation and development of algorithms in Matlab and protocols to achieve multi-hop network synchronization. • Created the framework, methodology and messaging protocol for context aware topology management enabling dynamic cluster configurations.• Developed patented interference aware methods of centralized radio resource scheduling improving throughput and spectrum utilization.• Assessed technical merit and novelty of Ad Hoc networking patent committee disclosures.

Responsible for the development and simulation modeling of transmitter and receiver algorithms at the core of the iDEN communication system deployed by Nextel. • Developed and transferred the signal quality estimation algorithm pivotal in the reconfiguration of iDEN to address significant performance issues resulting in two patent of the year awards.• Created a minimum mean square error approach to interference rejection diversity combining in Matlab and C leading to product implementation and a $7.5M payment.• Responsible for the creation of sensitivity improvement technology and proof of concept implementation within a digital signal processor resulting in reduced deployment costs.• Conceived and implemented an integrated physical layer and voice system simulator in C/Matlab to allow for end-to-end evaluation of the iDEN FEC voice system reducing the MOS testing cycle time.• Investigated and developed an adaptive means of equalizing group delay and amplitude variations inherent in crystal IF filters.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Additional coursework in image processing and pattern recognition

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa NuEngineer's Week (1991) High School Outreach Committee Chair Engineer's Week (1990).