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Greater New York City Area

Greater Chicago Area

Led solution architect team for all global broadband opportunities. Maximized product roadmap reuse, identified and proposed solutions for product roadmap gaps. Led Mission Critical Broadband Standards strategy and execution in standards defining organizations, such as 3GPP and OMA.• Guided system architecture and design activities for world’s largest dedicated public safety LTE system and served as trusted advisor to Middle Eastern government officials, driving understanding of future capabilities of mission critical PTT and ensuring ongoing optimal system performance.• Directed system architecture for responses to FirstNet’s RFIs and RFPs, developing solutions with potential partners such as T-Mobile, as well as final architecture approach for Motorola’s FirstNet partnership with AT&T which focused on providing PTT functionality.• Drove system architecture for nationwide public safety LTE proposals to government agencies in countries such as Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Korea, and Pakistan, supporting partnerships with nationwide cellular carriers or competing equipment vendors.

Greater Chicago Area

Built and directed team of system architects and governed all broadband product development organization system architecture activities, spanning infrastructure, devices, applications, standards, and regulatory compliance. Defined features and capabilities to be implemented by product development teams.• Shaped multiple Public Safety LTE deployment models, serving Cellular Carrier partnerships in addition to dedicated private deployments, enabling United Kingdom Home Office adoption of Motorola as Public Safety Operator for new Emergency Services Network (ESN).• Spearheaded new 3GPP standard specification for High Powered User Equipment (HPUE), providing improved coverage for public safety users in North America.• Formed unique Public Safety LTE Device multi-system mobility architectures and requirements, supplying Intellectual Property (IPR) to support mobility and allowing utilization by LEX (handheld) and VML (vehicular modem) products.

Greater Chicago Area

Headed Global Infrastructure Product Management of iDEN and Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) product lines, including P&L, pricing, R&D funding, roadmap prioritization, and 3rd party supplier agreements. Governed new 2G and 3G solution proposals in North America.• Optimized $1B iDEN infrastructure product portfolio and associated R&D to support needs of declining global subscriber base (26M to 15M) while maintaining profitability of the product line; driving focus on lower cost scalable solutions and interoperability with PoC systems.• Reversed unprofitable PoC business by focusing R&D on solutions optimized for 3G and multiple device vendors.

Greater Chicago Area

Headed design of new iDEN system capabilities and proposed capabilities to customers. Steered implementation of iDEN infrastructure digital signal processing capabilities. Directed iDEN system-wide audio quality. Staffed and led team of 30 system architects and digital signal processing engineers.• Proposed and led development that doubled system voice capacity by employing AMBE++ vocoder from DVSI, meeting Nextel’s capacity needs without acquiring and utilizing additional spectrum or switching to new technology.• Proposed and led development of wideband packet data solution to provide Nextel and other iDEN operators with solution superior to CDMA 1X data.• Led system architecture of nationwide PTT capabilities to allow Nextel to provide calling capability across entire U.S.

Greater Chicago Area

Led the development of digital signal processing software for the iDEN system, which included device, cell site, and core transcoding software. Staffed and led team of 20 digital signal processing engineers.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering