Description
PROFILE Top rated, enthusiastic and customer focused senior R&D Technical Manager. Hands-on experience in all aspects of complex wireless products development from requirements, specification, design, development, test, field product introduction, field support, and current engineering. Program Leader for large and multiple extended fast to market wireless projects with strong collaboration skills, across cross functional teams in different geographical sites. TECHNICAL/LEADERSHIP SKILLS * LTE, 5G, VoIP, DevOps, Agile * TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, IPSEC, PTP, SNMP, RoHC, PDCP, CMP * C++, C, Python, JSON, Expect, Perl, Java, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Shell scripting * Confluence, JIRA, Task Juggler (JIRA-Gantt), RedMine, IBM Rational Clearquest, Pronto, Clearcase, MS-Project, Excel * Jenkins, GitLab CI, SVN, Gerrit * MySQL, ODBC, Access * Rational Rose, Visio, Magic Draw * tcpdump, wireshark Lead, coach, build, and motivate global cross-functional high performing teams * Coordinated large programs, to ensure completion of deliverables that are balanced for quality, timeliness and resources * Develop, review and continuously improve process. * Collaborated and partnered with many 3rd party vendors for on-time delivery and quality * Leading and building DevOps engineering team to address requirements of large US telecom operators * Managing currently a software development and customer/field troubleshooting support team of 25 team members and interfacing with teams in Poland, Finland, Germany, India, China and Japan. Leading a multi cultured international team targeting aggressive delivery commitments of phased deliverables for distributed RF Head CPRI based Front Haul Switch project (Japanese customer) by March 2018. * 5G Projects underway in my team - Clock & Synchronization (Precision Time Protocol) Software Testability Low Level Device Drivers Device Tree Specification using Magic Draw. Concurrent business critical responsibility for building a customer support platform team for large US operators. * Leading core team on a PoC (Proof of Concept) leveraging the open source cloud based ONAP (Open Network Automations Platforms) network management framework and Data Analytics/Machine Learning algorithms to reconfigure 5G eNB traffic flow based on network utilization and other key performance indicators. Led the SMM (Site Monitoring Module) Development Team from inception to roll out. The SMM is a SNMP based standalone environmental alarms monitoring and control Module. Delivered solution for implementation in 10 months on / ahead of schedule with zero JIRA defects. * Led the LTE Customer support platform team working with the various eNB LTE field support and current engineering teams to troubleshoot and specify solutions to critical and complex system end customers impacting problems especially in the VoIP area. Interfaced with top customers (ATT VzW) to deliver RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and resolution for several critical field issues. * Automated the defect tracking management using Visual Basic Macros in Excel. Designed and developed backhaul services (IPv4/Ipv6) PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) PDCP ciphering ROHC (Robust Header Compression) Mobility IPSEC (Internet Protocol security) interfacing with Winpath software. * Integrated open source code CMP (Certificate Management Protocol) client to be able to interface with CMS (Certificate Management Software) from MERA for certificate enrollment.