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• Lead cross-functional teams, manage and develop mechanical, hardware, firmware, FPGA, Software and NPI engineering teams responsible for development of Multilane core products• Continuously drive growth and innovation, provide guidance and influence as to where technologies should be developed and engineered• Apply a variety of project management methodologies such as waterfall, agile, SCRUM, Kanban and direct workflow according to the situations that are presented for each project/product• Working with partners, sales and customers to ensure products meet their expectations and follow-up on customization requests• Implement proper product development process and ensure all products are released on time and without bugs• Active member in standard forums such as Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), QSFP-DD, OSFP200, CFP2-ACO. Submitted multiple successful contributions• Define new architecture for Multilane Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) product and work with engineering teams on implementing and releasing the new platform known as ThunderBert, which resulted in huge success and was recognized by partners as revolutionary solution in BERT industry• Coach, develop and mentor Operations Unit Managers and Product Line Managers, and jointly establish performance measures• Establish and coach New Product Introduction (NPI) team to handle proper product release• Improve manufacturing processes, set quality standards and product acceptance criteria• Assist engineering units in troubleshooting mechanical, hardware, and software problems in new or existing products• Continually seek ways to improve all operational aspects of how teams plan and execute work• Define KPIs, write performance reviews and solve internal issues• People management hiring, performance management, compensation planning• Assist in defining 5-year strategy plan for company 2025 vision and suggest structure to grow and expand engineering department

• Established complete Interconnect’s product line (MCBs, HCBs, Loopbacks) covering a wide range of standard form factors• Gather customer requirements for new projects, follow up with engineering teams to implement and deliver custom solutions, make sure delivered product meets customer expectations• Started an FPGA team, hired and trained fresh engineers to become able to assume FPGA development responsibilities• Initiated signal integrity review concepts for hardware layout, hired and trained engineers to become able to perform signal integrity simulations and optimization for high-speed circuits2• started using new system on chip SoC from cypress semiconductors on new generation of Multilane loopback modules, initiated design and development efforts for the new SoC• Review mechanical, hardware, firmware, FPGA and software of new and existing products• Designed concepts for new products such as CFP2 to QSFP28 adapter and Analyzer tools• Define a new Architecture to upgrade sampling scope to integrate and FPGA instead of micro controller, allowing sampling for multiple channels in parallel and faster throughput• improve manufacturing processes and continuously coordinate with shell and PCB fab houses to make sure required tolerances are always respected• Find ways to reduce product fabrication costs while preserving quality• Define test and QA procedures for Interconnect products and implement automated test tools to increase production team capacity while ensuring all modules shipped are properly tested. Multilane ships ~4-5K loopback modules per week

• Working on API (C/C++) and GUI (C#) development for company products such as interconnects, Bit Error Rate Tester and Optical Sampling Scope• FPGA Design, simulation, and development for MDIO protocol, I2C protocol, CFP state machine and register map and deploy the modules on a Spartan3 FPGA used on Multilane CFP loopback products• Handle customer support and customization requests from customers• Write datasheets and user manuals for developed products

• Development, Implementation and Support of Group ERP Software• Implement eCustoms webservice in Customers ERP software to perform automatic screening of clients• Designed architecture for FTP server and implemented FTP scripts on SQL database to upload data from multiple locations and consolidate• Implemented SMTP script triggered by SQL table entries to automatically send an email when a blacklisted customer is screened• Developed a GUI to provide access and reporting to the consolidated eCustoms data, manage data on FTP server, and monitor user’s activity. Wrote user Manuals