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San Diego, Ca, Us

Technical lead of prototype and product development for Government communications systems. Developed network modeling and simulation capabilities to analyze wireless networks and radio links. Established software-defined networking capability to manage selective traffic flows for end-users of wireless networks, using a centralized control of traffic flows to route across heterogeneous networks, implementing selective control via Ethernet and IP header information.

Editor of the IEEE Standards Series of Books covering all IEEE Standards. Topics include Power Engineering, Wireless Networking, e-Health, Cyber Security, and Energy Efficiency, among others. Working relationships with the IEEE Standards Organization, associated chairs of particular standards, and John Wiley and Sons Publishing Company.

Served as the director of a group of engineering professionals who build test and measurement products for the communications and network technology industries. Our group's broad expertise included hardware and software research/design/development applied to products from prototype concept to final manufacturing. We supported testing of technologies including WiFi, Ethernet, TCP/IP, MPLS, T1/E1, ADSL/VDSL/g.fast, location, time-domain reflectomery (TDR) for both fiber and copper lines, and utility markers. The technical role I served in included hands-on development, architecture, and algorithm design for existing and new product innovations. Led efforts to rapidly prototype and demonstrate new products for both residential and enterprise WiFi installations and network protocol performance. Developed alongside our team to write code on various platforms (Embedded Linux, LAMP stack, Python, Cordova, Swift), conceived and implemented algorithms for network simulation (in MATLAB) and constructed/implemented architecture designs for both hardware and software solutions for network testing.

- Launched AirScout Enterprise product, designed to help enterprise Wi-Fi installers and troubleshooters with planning, deploying, testing and validating enterprise Wi-Fi installations. Developed software architecture for performing Wi-Fi measurements with hardware clients, user interface (UI), and simulation algorithms to model Wi-Fi performance based on multiple metrics (radio frequency propagation, congestion and interference, multiple access point types). - Deployed a cloud infrastructure Software as a Service (SaaS) customer portal for licensing, storing, retrieving and remotely analyzing Wi-Fi survey results hosted on Microsoft Azure. - Led data science engineers in the development of an analytics and trend reporting function targeted for customers as a value-added service as well as for our sales team and engineering group to target customers for new opportunities or incremental improvements to the product. - Currently using Agile process to maintain and update feature set based on customer feedback and opportunities.- Currently maintain Microsoft Azure cloud platform for residential Wi-Fi installation result reporting and analysis for the AirScout Residential product line. Recently launched Azure Marketplace-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution for customers requiring exclusive control of their own cloud data. - Currently leading effort to extend Wi-Fi test cloud solution to other products, including wired network testing devices, remote Wi-Fi IoT sensors, and fiber splicing products, to include tracking and asset management.- Conceived and led team to develop rapid prototype of gigabit-rate testing solution based on ARM architecture/embedded Linux in two weeks, including development of wireframe UI for concept and user wizard, initial command and control software to execute test, and reporting of results into a cloud repository.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Director of the Wireless and Networked Systems group within the Asymmetric Operations Sector. Group consists of four sections with 40+ professional staff members. Core competencies include wireless design, network protocols, and software engineering in support of a diverse government sponsor base. Collective knowledge spans all layers of the protocol stack. Recent thrusts include Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Assistant group supervisor of the Communications and Networking Technology Group within the Asymmetric Operations Department, supporting government customers. Group consists of six sections that together constitute over 50 professional staff members ranging from early-career bachelor-degreed to seasoned PhD professionals with 20+ years of experience. Group knowledge spans all layers of the protocol stack, including SATCOM, propagation, wireless technologies, IP, TCP, QoS, and typical Internet applications. More recently, our group has been applying software defined networking (SDN) techniques, utilizing technologies including OpenFlow, OpenStack, and Open vSwitch to enhance network security postures and improve mobile real-time service experience. We also have extensive experience in developing software defined radio (SDR) applications based on the GNURadio framework and USRP/USRP2 platforms. Externally-recognized group accomplishments include development of standards in the IETF and ITU, multiple books on communications topics including wireless networks, MIMO, and network modeling and simulation, publication of works in a wide variety of conferences and journals, including IEEE transactions, MILCOM and GLOBECOM. Personal accomplishments recently include developing Verilog code for FPGA-based networking applications using the Stanford NetFPGA system, testing prototypes based on OpenFlow for government sponsors, and advocating SDN technologies and strategy.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Led a team of highly talented computer scientists and engineers who solve networking challenges for our customers in the following areas: automation, performance assessment, routing, transport, wireless, security, and protocols. The team's experience is grounded in networking fundamentals and we participate in a variety of leadership roles in external organizations, including IEEE and IETF. We also actively publish books and articles on networking topics, including best practices for modeling and simulation, protocol tuning, MANET and secure interdomain routing.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Assistant section supervisor of the Wireless Networking section. Supported the section lead in developing strategy, performance reviews, and initiatives within the section to strengthen wireless and networking technical competency. Led an effort to define a wireless coastal area network architecture for the US.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Network and wireless protocol engineer. Responsible for design, analysis and testing of various wireless and networking systems for government customers. Participation in both IETF and IEEE 802 standards bodies with published RFC on the Network Time Protocol (version 4). Developed automated test scripts for RF and network testing of devices. Utilized MATLAB and SQL to perform analysis of large data sets. Supported field testing activities for wireless buoy sensor platforms.

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering