Accomplished hardware design engineer with experience in routers, network security products, servers, and chips for large, global technology organizations. Strong team leader able to guide projects from concept to market on tight deadlines. Extremely creative idea generator with proven ability to work cross-functionally and with outside vendors.

COMPANY	POSITION HELD	DATES WORKED
Cisco	Technical Leader	11/2001 - 9/2013

SCHOOL	MAJOR	YEAR	DEGREE
University of Toronto	Electrical Engineering	1995	Master Degree
University of Toronto	Electrical Engineering	1992	Bachelor Degree

Highlights:

My track record includes the architecture, design and launch of the Cisco FAN CGR router for the smart grid market, and an 8Gbps VPN accelerator: the Cisco VPN Services Port Adapter for the Catalyst 6500 platform. Additionally I architected the next generation security service module based on a multi processor x86 based multi core Intel CPU complex for Cisco’s Nexus 7000 platform and am currently working on designing additional products for Cisco’s newly formed Smart Grid business unit

Companies I like:

Apple, IBM, Startup

Cross functional team leadership
x86 processors
ARM processors
SI
Concept and Allegro
Embedded Systems Architecture and Design

• Embedded Systems
• x86
• ARM
• PCIe
• Cavium
• Crypto
• DDR2
• USB
• SPI
• SPI4.2
• DDR3

System architecture Writing system and HW specification Component selection Circuit board design including power, thermal, and signal integrity System bring up Driving system bringup and testing up to FCS