Product management at Google Cloud Networking

GLEN World (www.glenworld.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to scale English literacy so that every child has access to the educational and economic opportunities it unlocks. Our target audience is disadvantaged kids worldwide, ranging from young English Learners in the US to children in remote areas in developing nations. Our approach for scaling is to build a comprehensive suite of immersive and personalized learning content to enable children to go from “zero to reading, writing and speaking” with minimal skilled adult supervision. GLEN World's content is deployable both online (web apps on Chrome browser, Android apps) and offline (via Android apps). My role:* Product management: coordinating content / UI / UX design, software development and multimedia content development for our web and mobile apps* Forging partnerships with other organizations working on childhood literacy for pilot deployments and evaluation * Fundraising and collaborations: outreach* Operations and financeIf you are interested in joining us in this mission, please reach out!

• Corporate director for a remote technology development center (embedded software / digital design / wireless technology R&D) with 13+ staff in Cairo, Egypt. Involved in the incorporation of the center and responsible for the group’s multiple technical projects (next generation wireless backhaul / access product platforms), hiring, and management.• Led the development of several state-of-the-art proprietary technologies (intellectual property / software / firmware) for Axxcss' 5G point-to-point wireless backhaul products. • Served as product lead for a portfolio of LTE wireless access products (eNodeB, EPC) customized for private markets. Led the development / system integration / test teams and interfaced with potential customers. • Conceived of and led the design and development of innovative product features based on market needs: higher aggregate uplink data rates via multiuser MIMO (LTE), automatic antenna alignment (LTE), new system GUI software for the electronic newsgathering market (LTE), line-of-sight MIMO capability (point-to-point 5G wireless backhaul). • Coordinated multiple LTE field trials at customer sites in the US and abroad. Technology demonstrations and presentations at national trade-shows (NAB Show) / conferences / technical forums. • Led a team of researchers to successfully deliver proprietary technologies for 5G wireless backhaul and access products (e.g., uplink multiuser MIMO, line-of-sight MIMO, FEC).

• Led a team responsible for algorithm design and development of LTE self-organizing networks (SON) features (e.g., Inter-cell interference coordination, load balancing, mobility control).• Algorithm design for LTE/LTE-A base station (eNB) MAC layer (Quality of Service (QoS) scheduling, link adaptation, transmit power control).• Built network deployment planning tools (link budget and data rate estimator tools) and advised customers. • Addressed critical LTE system performance issues / bugs working with software/hardware/research teams. • Led the development of an LTE-based solution for Electronic News Gathering (ENG) applications (RF hardware (non-standard carrier frequencies) and software development (optimizing uplink video delivery).• Proposed novel MIMO features for increasing data rates for line-of-sight backhaul products (technical analysis, simulations and market research). Designed a channel aware QoS scheduling algorithm. • Contributed to company’s wireless access and backhaul products roadmaps and development plans. Conducted relevant market research and worked with the design / engineering teams for new products.

Research on 60 GHz wireless communication systems and resource allocation for cellular systems.For more details, visithttp://www.ece.ucsb.edu/wcsl/mmwcsresearch/doku.phphttp://www.ece.ucsb.edu/wcsl/

Advisors: Prof. Upamanyu Madhow (ECE Dept., UCSB) and Prof. Elizabeth Belding (CS Dept., UCSB). • Dissertation research on network modeling, architecture, and protocol designs for multi-gigabit indoor and outdoor 60 GHz (millimeter wave) wireless networks among the first works in this domain.• Proposed new resource allocation strategies that achieve efficient network utilization as well as a superior tradeoff between network flow throughputs and fairness.• Designed and evaluated a distributed medium access control protocol for multihop mesh networks for efficiently supporting predictable real-time applications based on ideas of learning and memory.Research projects:Medium access control for 60 GHz outdoor mesh networks with highly directional linksMillimeter wave wireless personal area networks: Cross-layer modeling and multihop architecture A resource biasing framework for shaping throughput profiles in multihop wireless networksSticky CSMA/CA: a MAC framework for implicit synchronization and real-time QoS over mesh networksA MAC framework for opportunistic use of TV spectrum (with Prof. Heather Zheng, CS Dept., UCSB)

Worked on algorithms and protocol design for support of video applications over 60 GHz millimeter wave wireless personal area networks.

Project: a game theoretic approach to characterize the throughput achieved by wireless systems comprising autonomous users.

Project: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) implementation for an IP Router. My team focused on two MPLS applications - traffic engineering and layer-2 tunneling support.