Manage integration of software deliverables for Blackberry mobile phones. Work with carrier facing teams to determine content delivery targets. Prioritize deliveries for development and test teams. Facilitate fast resolution of issues impacting schedules, quality, and/or carrier acceptance by working closely with enterprise customer service, handset software development, enterprise server management, test, and manufacturing teams around the globe. Prepare and present program status to executives. Work with hardware and software teams to create integrated requirements and schedules for new device. Contribute to software release process improvement initiatives with quality, development, and program management teams.

Principal Engineer, Engineering Management January 2008 – January 2011Manage operations of 100 people in several multimedia R&D teams located in Irving and Beijing, including recruiting, subcontractor management, budgeting and financial management. Manage execution of multi-team project located across 5 sites in Finland, Beijing, and Irving to productize first Symbian^3 Music Player application and vertical integration with OVI PC software and OVI Music Store backend. Prioritized Test backlog and directed test teams, helping to create one of the best quality applications on N8 with faster content browsing than iPhone Music Player.Senior Product Manager, May 2004 – December 2007Managed multimedia product management team, including financial management. Collaborated with product managers, operator representatives, business development, marketing, 3rd party developers, and user experience teams to define product requirements. Worked closely with R&D teams to clarify requirements and use cases, elicit effort estimates, review test coverage, and prioritize features. Created product strategy, roadmap, feature prioritization, and requirements development for Music, Audio, FM Radio, and Voice Recorder. Analyzed competitor product offerings and performed gap analysis against own products.Project Manager, April 2001 – May 2004Managed team tasked with integrating speech recognition algorithms and applications for Series 60, 80 and 90, devices, and Symbian OS. Led team implementing audio adaptation software for TI OMAP1510 and OMAP1710 hardware. Created program proposals, schedules, and project plans for budget and milestone approval. R&D Specialist, February 1998 – April 2001Integrated speech recognition algorithms on Nokia’s first GSM mobile handset in DSP assembly language. Integrated first Name Dialing application on first Series 60 Nokia device in Symbian C++. Performed audio enhancement tuning for mobile handsets for type approval certification.

• Designed and developed a UNIX system alarm daemon for an intelligent peripheral device in landline network.• Created Hidden Markov Models and grammars for speaker independent speech applications. Responsible for supporting speech recognition, speaker verification, MELP, CELP, and echo cancellation implementations.• Assisted with customer integrations of speech applications with internally developed C++ speech API's.• Designed and implemented speech application and test tools in C, Perl, and AWK.• Optimized memory and execution utilization of speech recognition C code on an TI C30 DSP based embedded platform.• Key contributor to group goal of meeting SEI Level II standards.

• Improved algorithms for identifying speech endpoints in the presence of noise and echo.• Ported C language implementations to C26 DSP assembly.• Key in the design and development of speech recognition system.