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Allen, Tx

Worked as a Consultant Engineer for TrueCall/RAN Solutions product within R&D. Responsibilities included architecture and lead, management, cross functional collaboration, SME to customer service team, feature PLM role, and key proxy role for the VP to relegate ideas and requirements to the development team.• Worked on the RAN Analytics platform, collaborated with big data analytics product (nBA: nGenius Business Analytics), RAN & Core network correlation and diagnostics, Customer Deployment planning and SME role, product support to service teams, and feature development management/guidance to overseas team.• Initial support for docker deployment of RAN Solutions product, installation Wizard, and Administrative Tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Zookeeper, High availability proxy, GUI Admin Portal).• Built key partnerships and trust with development teams in four different locations overseas and QA teams to achieve aggressive project goals.

Allen, Tx

Managed and lead multiple global teams for NPU development of new features and defect management for G10 and GeoBlade (IP Telecom Network Monitoring products). Lead and managed multiple feature releases and customer focus issues while collaborating with cross functional teams such as sales accounts team, Field Application Engineering team, PLM, management executives, and customers. Lead intense customer acceptance efforts for multiple customer accounts to recognize revenues. Lead multiple product solutions after merger and presentations to CEO.

Allen, Texas, United States

Worked as a technical manager for “Interface Team” (NPU) in Network Management Department. Took on additional responsibilities for the next generation hardware project “GeoBlade” for Interface Team as a manager and technical lead. Duties included personnel management, project scheduling, architecture and design recommendations, development execution, daily scrums, collaboration with adjacent groups, and interfacing with upper-level management. • Managed/Lead two releases of GeoBlade to complete the initial requirements of the product. Further responsibilities included providing feature releases, managing defects. Management of three teams in three different locations. Additional responsibilities included support and feature releases of G10 product line.• Shipped the next generation multi-bladed architecture platform, GeoBlade, to multiple customers with initial revenues over 300 million.

Plano, Texas, United States

Worked in Network Management Department on monitoring solutions for IP Telecommunication networks. Primary responsibilities included research, design, development, and functional testing of probe (interface boards) software. Team member of the first G10 probe project with EZchip and Cavium processor development.• Participated in fast paced Agile development environment using Scrum methodology. Shipped our new flagship product G10 probe, built from ground up to provide monitoring solution for mobile IP networks.

Richardson, Texas, United States

Worked in Network Diagnostics department on functional and load testing solutions for Telecommunication industry. Primary responsibilities included research, design, and development of software products and features for functional testing, load testing, and monitoring of SS7 and VOIP networks. Other responsibilities included, but are not limited to, interfacing with and providing guidance to hardware team, product management team, customer support team, technical publications team, and junior engineers.• Researched and designed flagship product Spectra2 for VOIP networks.• Performed functional role of a technical lead and project lead numerous times for multi-person team.• Shipped numerous feature sets and initial flagship Spectra2 product that increased our market share up to 80%.• Provided SME (subject matter expert) role to outsourcing company overseas, provided design and architecture, evaluation of vendors for third party stacks, interfaced with third party.• Participated in architecture and design of two new product initiatives related to telecom diagnostics. Guided other engineers with their design and development estimates.• Provided numerous development effort estimates, working with customer requirements.• Active participant in internal Code Review Committee that provided guidelines and recommendations to the department. • Received numerous recognition awards at the department level.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

Worked in R&D Personal Communication Division (PCD) for retail products. Primary responsibilities included research, design, and development of enhanced features to WinModem, project scheduling, interfacing with hardware team, interfacing with product management team, and guiding junior engineers. Research and designed Voice Over IP WinModem Architecture. Developed Windows device drivers, system tray applications, integration with 3rd party libraries, and low level debugging.

Mountain View, California, United States

Worked in Systems Software group with hardware design teams to ensure optimal functionality of new product designs of personal photo scanners. This included writing TWAIN data sources, low level device drivers for Windows, and providing software support to ASIC team and board-level systems team for verifying/validating their design.• Shipped following products: SmartPage 1.5 (multi-page sheetfeed photo scanner), ImageWave 1.1 (Flatbed photo scanner). • Performed project schedule function for multi-person team using Microsoft Project.• Acted as primary technical contact with our OEM scanner vendors.

Orange, California, United States

Worked in a small but dynamic company, wearing many hats. Responsibilities included research and development of new products, maintenance and enhancement of existing retail products, customization of existing or new products to fit clients’ needs, interfacing with other vendor’s products to create turnkey systems, interfacing with potential clients as technical sales representative, providing technical support for our retail and OEM customer base, acting as a product manager for new products, writing technical documents and product manuals, interfacing with hardware engineers, and project scheduling. Designed and developed software for automatic indexing of forms based on neural learning, OCR, OMR, barcode reading, and high speed scanner drivers with supporting software applications.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science