Architecting advanced networked system prototypes in the CTO Office with a team of talented engineers, to analyze how to best leverage emerging technologies and protocols (e.g., Datacenter TCP, Multipath TCP, QUIC, netmap, Intel DPDK/SPDK, P4/OpenFlow, Open vSwitch) for building better products, with a focus on hybrid cloud and SDN/NFV deployments (e.g., on OpenStack).Established NetApp EU R&D team and acquired € 7 million public grant funding to collaborate with top academic (e.g., University of Cambridge, RWTH Aachen, CERN) and industry partners (e.g., Deutsche Telekom, Orange) on strategic cloud and datacenter networking topics. Leading the overall technical development of the resulting R&D collaboration.Developing open source contributions (e.g., DCTCP, PRR and NewCWV for FreeBSD, StackMap for Linux). Inventing patentable IPR. Performing technology evaluations and due diligence for M&A decisions. Directing EU and US university engagements in networking. Authoring academic publications and standards contributions. Acting as engineering liaison to EU customers. Leading standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Invited speaker at international events. Supervising engineering interns and mentoring Ph.D. students.

Leading technical expert on Internet technologies in the CTO Office and member of the CEO and CTO Technology Councils (2009–11), Nokia’s dozen most senior technical experts that provided internal technical consulting. Participated in the development of company-wide technology R&D and standardization strategy. Performed technology evaluation and due diligence for M&A.Helped to acquire the EU grant (€ 9.2 million project volume) and participated in the award-winning R&D team (with, e.g., Stanford, UCL, BT) that designed Multipath TCP, originated the Linux reference implementation and kicked off the IETF standardization. Designed, implemented, analyzed and standardized various other TCP and Internet protocol extensions, (e.g., TCP UTO) with a focus on improving the Internet experience on mobile devices.Led architectural teams in other R&D collaborations (volume >€ 25 million) with academic and industry partners. Managed Nokia’s related academic engagements. Invented patentable IPR. Authored academic publications and standards contributions. IETF standardization leader. Invited speaker. Supervised R&D interns.

Led architectural teams in EU-funded R&D projects on next-generation internetworking. Participated in project acquisition (volume >€ 20 million). Invented patentable IPR. Authored academic publications and standards contributions. Chaired NEC Europe student recruitment group. Supervised R&D interns.