Cable Standards Lead, System Architect And Product Line Manager
Phoenix, Arizona
At Nokia, I served at Nokia as Cable standards lead, System Architect and Product Line Manager for Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) intelligent digital optical fiber nodes at Nokia. My focus was evolving to DOCSIS 4.0 with full duplex (FDX) and extended spectrum frequency division duplex (FDD) technology, and developing the Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) standards at CableLabs. This included Bell Labs Research and technology assessments (e.g. echo cancellation, FDX deployment alternatives, next generation amplifiers) and communicating our findings to customers. As part of this work it became very clear that FDD was the only feasible path forward for 90+% of the cable industry, so my focus went to FDD and to the DAA alternative of Remote MACPHY via FMA. I worked with product manager colleagues to get the associated requirements into our roadmap, and with our product development team to assess the effort of developing to these requirements. In addition to standards, architecture and product management activities, I frequently supported cable sales and strategy in customer meetings and presentations, as well as RFI and RFP responses. I worked virtually from an office in my home in Phoenix since 2003 but traveled frequently, both domestically and internationally, as is required to perform my diverse job responsibilities.Formerly I was a cable industry consultant in the Bell Labs Consulting organization of Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) with focus on techno-economic analysis centered on evaluation of differing cable operator access evolution paths. My cable experience dates back to DOCSIS 1.1 and early PacketCable where I focused on standards, systems engineering and strategy for insertion of the company into the cable market. Prior to that I developed software on central office digital switching systems and digital loop carrier products, primarily with C and C++.
