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Greater San Diego Area

• Organized Systems Test group in three interdependent test functions: Conformance and Certification, Software Test and Field Test which at one point encompassing a team of 35 resources around the world
• Established Systems Test organization processes and procedures with focus on quality, efficiency and timeliness
• Established and integrated Software QA center of excellence in Shanghai, China and Hyderabad, India in support of project quality, schedule and cost… Show more
• Established and integrated Software QA center of excellence in Shanghai, China and Hyderabad, India in support of project quality, schedule and cost objectives
• Managed multi-million dollar annual budget covering test equipment acquisition, upgrade, and maintenance, as well as outside authorized conformance labs performing product compliance testing covering IOT/PTCRB/GCF/WiFi.
• Established a flexible organization with proven flexibility to launch successive wireless data products with increasing complexity while maintaining same cost target

Greater San Diego Area

• Took over management of the Systems Test team with overall responsibility for the CDMA standard compliance, carrier validation, network interoperability conformance, and customer requirement covering the full spectrum.
• Expanded Systems Test group capability and capacity by acquiring equipment to bolster internal test capability, recruited test engineers in key domain expertise in order to satisfy the demands of greatly expanded.
• Expanded Systems Test group capability and capacity by acquiring equipment to bolster internal test capability, recruited test engineers in key domain expertise in order to satisfy the demands of greatly expanded.
• Centralized conformance and certification cost management in order to achieve volume efficiency resulting in 50% reduction in certification cost
• Established Software Project Management group taking over the responsibility from software engineering groups in order to effectively manage multiple simultaneous development projects necessitated by the aggressive.
• Successfully launched multiple products including MC727, MC760, E727, E725, Amazon Kindle, Dell M09 platforms across multiple carriers in North America and EMEA markets Show less

Greater San Diego Area

• Oversaw the successful modem firmware implementation and launch of Novatel Wireless’ second generation EVDO platform spanning multiple form factors including PC720 PC card, USB720 USB modem, X720 ExpressCard, and.
• Project managed a yearlong project working directly with multiple customers to architect and implement modem firmware, driver, and connection manager for a family of PCI minicard modules that were successfully launched.
• Project managed a yearlong project working directly with multiple customers to architect and implement modem firmware, driver, and connection manager for a family of PCI minicard modules that were successfully launched.

Greater San Diego Area

• Expanded firmware support for Novatel Wireless’ first generation EVDO platform to include a total of 6 form factors covering 3 carriers including PC Card, Express Card, MiniCard, RUIM PC Card (China market)
• Expanded responsibility to include oversight of OEM support that covers FW, device driver and eventually connection manager software
• Establish coding standard and review process to improve quality, and responsibility to include oversight of OEM support that covers FW, device… Show more
• Establish coding standard and review process to improve quality, and responsibility to include oversight of OEM support that covers FW, device driver as well as connection manager software Show less

Greater San Diego Area

• Led the CDMA modem team at Novatel Wireless to the successful launch of a trio of first-to-market dual-band EVDO data modems: V620 PC Card at Verizon Wireless, S620 PC Card at SprintPCS and EV620 minicard at Dell.
• Devised and implemented a platform scheme that enabled a single firmware platform to support multiple carriers and form factors that ultimately supported 5 commercialized product including V620, S620, EV620, ES602, and.
• Negotiated with carriers to accept the… Show more
• Negotiated with carriers to accept the platform concept of a single binary supporting multiple form factors that paved the way to conducting single IOT for all platform members thus reducing certification schedule and.

Greater San Diego Area

• Led a team of six engineers with expanded responsibility for the firmware of C201 PC Card, the first 1xRTT data modem at SprintPCS
• Plan, coordinate, and execute all aspects of firmware development including system selection/determination, Mobil IP, Simple IP, OTASP/OTAPA (Over-the-Air Service Provisioning/Over-the-Air Parameter Administration).
• Interface with carrier customer on firmware related issues, oversee all customer… Show more
• Interface with carrier customer on firmware related issues, oversee all customer mandated modifications and shepherd firmware through CDG Stage 3 Carrier Qualification testing
• Oversaw firmware through CDG Stage 2 Product Qualification with Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, and LG Electronics and resolved all subsequent issues
• Planning for future product evolution extending current IS2000 1xRTT firmware to incorporate IS2000 Rev. A, RadioOne ZIF (zero IF) architecture and 1xEVDO technology Show less

Greater San Diego Area

• Led a team of three engineers with overall responsibility for the CDMA IS2000 1xRTT protocol stack development for a product based on Qualcomm chipsets
• Supervise physical layer development of bootloader, downloader, synthesizer programming, non-volatile memory programming and firmware programming tools to accommodate Novatel hardware implementation
• Manage development of AT and serial command sets for host application support
• Oversee protocol stack testing including… Show more
• Oversee protocol stack testing including regression testing, user trial testing, field testing, product qualification testing, and responsible for resolving all issues
• Coordinate all firmware issues with Qualcomm, including bug resolution and DMSS releases Show less

Libertyville, IL

• Led a team of four engineers with emphasis on new verification methodology that will permit functional, performance, and system verification of modem designs early in the development stage allowing significantly.
• Managed the development of the Baseband Base Station Emulator (BBSE) project, a CDMA signal source that offers full and complete control over all aspects of CDMA signal… Show more
• Managed the development of the Baseband Base Station Emulator (BBSE) project, a CDMA signal source that offers full and complete control over all aspects of CDMA signal generation and which forms the heart of the new.
• Defined, planned, and executed all aspects of the verification of an IS2000 1X CDMA modem using the new methodology including responsibility over development of custom prototype boards, management of embedded C code.
• Demonstrated feasibility of the new baseband verification methodology with the successful post-silicon verification of a IS95B modem design
• Successfully integrated a pre-silicon FPGA based prototype design of a IS95B modem with an existing IS95A handset for design verification and phone call demonstration Show less

Phd Candidate, Electrical Engineering

Studied three years in the PhD program Focused on high redundant and high fault tolerant computing system

Bachelor Of Science With High Honors, Computer Engineering

Executive Perspective For Scientists & Engineers (Epse) Diploma