• Direct members of the team in their daily activities.• Coach, create and execute career development plans, and performance reviews.• Lead and manage successful IP development projects for OTN applications on FPGA. • Work with customers to understand requirements; communicate status; negotiate schedules, application features, and engineering change requests. • Participate in strategy decisions with management and executive staff • Championed the adoption of Agile project management practices

• Subject matter expert for OTN and various other telecommunications protocols (Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, etc.).• Attended ITU-T and IEEE meetings to help define industry standard recommendations relevant to OTN (ITU-T G.709 & G.798 and IEEE 802.3).• Interpreted standards specifications and provided guidance to developers.• Worked with customers to negotiate and define OTN application requirements.• Created customer facing application documentation.• Acted as pre and post sales support on customer engagements. • Worked with the IP developers to help architect system solutions.• Acted as the project lead/project management on various projects.

• Resolution of field reported hardware related issues for Alcatel-Lucent’s ASAM/ISAM product line.• Root-cause analysis • Subject matter expert for hardware dependent software and CPLD issues• Maintained manufacturing test software.

• Designed, developed, and maintained an embedded test software application.• Provided a test suite which facilitated design verification, production test, in-field diagnostics and “Power on Self Test (POST)” . • Developed drivers and routines in C, used to test and verify the functionality of the hardware components (buses, memory, processor interfaces, ASICs, FPGAs, etc.) that comprised the PCB assemblies of various line cards.• Developed software in accordance with established standards

• Designed PCB assemblies • Simulated, modeled, and lab tested system critical high speed digital signals• Performed detailed timing analysis• Board bring up including developing any code/drivers necessary to configure on board processors and programmable devices required to facilitate board verification.• Verified and documented completed designs.

• Third level support for problems reported against all Newbridge products including the network manager platform, TDM & ATM switching products, and access products.• 7 x 24 on-call and field support at customer premises as necessary.• Planned and executed large scale network management upgrades for strategic customers • Developed customized UNIX shell, PERL, and Expect scripts to automate and/or improve complex network management tasks.