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Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Embedded systems lead developing voice software for analog telephony adapters, cable modems, and mobile phones. · Led a team of local and off-site developers to create a system including a VXML voice browser, an advance speech recognition system with a MRCP/RTSP interface and an Asterisk based telephony unit· Developed a small footprint proprietary voice engine to enable rich voice recognition based applications for existing cable modems based on TI and Broadcom reference designs· Integrated a combination of in-house developed, licensed proprietary and open source software into a low cost and efficient solution without violating any licensing agreements· Developed and maintained a single software base for products deployed on vxWorks and eCOS based cable models, Linux based analog telephony adapters, and iPhone OS and Android based smartphones· Started Xtone’s development group from scratch including: corporate and development network setup, development of design and implementation standards, and design and implementation of a heterogeneous development environment with software source control· Used a combination of LAN and cloud resources for development, integration, testing, and customer trials· Developed automated test software for unit, soak, and stress testing

San Jose, Ca, Us

Technical Leader in a service provider voice software development team. Team leader for development and maintence of several subsystems on Cisco two major Softswitch products: PGW 2200 and BTS 10200. C and C++ development on Solaris (SPARC and x64) and Linux platforms. I/O Subsystems, Protocol stacks (SIGTRAN, SIP, MGCP), feature servers (IVR, Three-way call, etc.)

Arlington, Va, Us

Principal engineer with a defense contractor. Concentrated on real-time embedded software. • Worked on a user interface for GPS/GLONASS simulator using Visual C++ on a Windows NT platform. • Developed a multiprocessor software segment responsible for receiving spectral data via multiple HDLC serial interfaces and distribution of the reformatted data via a multicast FDDI. • Wrote device drivers and handlers for the uplink and downlink portions of military collections systems. • Provided technical leadership and management of project cost and schedule for a four-member team. Team was responsible for developing software to control a custom VMEbus test set used for simulation and analysis of a military data link. • Lead and managed a team which developed built-in test software for fault isolation of custom and commercial CCAs and SCSI peripherals.

Electrical Engineer with a defense contractor. Both digital hardware and software experience working on large systems. Hardware experience with the 68000 and 8085 microprocessors, VMEbus, and CAE design. Software experience using 68000 assembly and C programming languages.