• Responsible for all corporate NFV and SDN product strategy.
• Leadership across R&D product teams for evolving legacy products to virtual.
• Created all material for customer communication of NFV strategy.
• Technology and architecture lead for customer engagements for all cloud based deployments.
• Delivered first ever Verizon NFV VNF and VNFM deployment in Red Hat OpenStack.
• Responsible for NFV partnerships.

• Responsible for a large team developing a next generation big data analytics and security application.
• Highly scalable architecture based on container technology.
• Created customer facing presentations and led multiple engagements.
• Partnered with marketing for collateral, show and video materials.
• Familiar with open source technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Splunk, and ZoomData.
• Led next generation UI design.

• Responsible for incubated R&D team for next-gen cloud automation platform.
• Created first deployed VNF Manager in Verizon.
• Responsible for solution architecture, including geo-redundancy and elastic scaling.
• Subject matter expert advisor to multiple leading customers.
• Responsible for model based architecture and overall product strategy.
• Led third party engagements and ecosystem creation for NFV activities.

• Responsible for all corporate Standards activity..
• Direct report became ETSI IFA Chair for ETSI NFV.
• Responsible for forums such as 3GPP, IETF, ETSI, and others.
• Most recently active in MANO (Management and Orchestration) for cloud/SDN infrastructure automation.

This aspect of my role created a new virtualized product with bids in excess of $100M at multiple Tier 1 operators for cloud-based VoLTE transcoding.

• Initiated acquisition of Octasic DSP team and software.
• Led evolution of DSP technology from IC based to 100% virtualized software.
• Architected and patented worlds first elastic scaling, active/active media transcoding engine.
• Created video and audio transcoding and media interworking in near unlimited scaling.
• Responsible for integration and delivery to Tier 1 North American service provider.
• Subject matter expert on media handling in cloud environments.

• Drove, introduced and deployed first cloud infrastructure at GENBAND.
• Expert on OpenStack architecture, internal services, design and deployment.
• Grew cloud deployments to 3 geographically distributed sites with over 15 cloud instances.
• Incubated CTO cloud instances for nex-gen cloud technology prototyping.
• Delivered datacenter design including cooling, power, rack layout, and networking.
• Responsible for all corporate top tier cloud support for production cloud instances.
• Over 15,000 vCPU managed.
• Cloud platforms from Red Hat, Canonical, Mirantis, Wind River (Titanium Server), HPE Helion Cloud, Kubernetes.
• Expert in cloud networking technology including oVS, DPDK, SNAT/DNAT, under SDN control.
• Expert in cloud API automation and OpenStack CLI administrative use.

• Experienced in migrating legacy appliances and applications to the cloud.
• Applied cloud native design approaches to re-architect applications.
• Led design of advanced cloud networking solutions including DPDK, provider, and v6 cloud networking.
• Responsible for team of lead subject matter experts consulting across all product families.

• Responsible for building a large multi-vendor ecosystem with vendors such as HPE, Red Hat, Canonical, Wind River, Rift.io, and others.
• Partnered for NFV integration on multiple technologies, including NFV Orchestration, acceleration (DPDK in the cloud), high availability, and others.
• Generated multiple partner live demonstrations at Mobile World Congress and other forums, with vendors such as HPE and Wind River.
• Responsible for partner ecosystem directly driving millions of dollars of revenue.

• History of extensive patented innovation and invention.
• Multiple technologies across telecom, wireless, DPI, session border controller, cloud, datacenter automation, NFV and VNF architectures.
• Over 20 Patents granted or in flight.
• Published patents are detailed on the "skills" page of this website.

• Responsible for all corporate Standards activity..
• Direct report became ETSI IFA Chair for ETSI NFV.
• Responsible for forums such as 3GPP, IETF, ETSI, and others.
• Most recently active in MANO (Management and Orchestration) for cloud/SDN infrastructure automation.

• Known for energetic and positive presentation skills. Regularly sought out by marketing, account teams and customers as the technical key contributor for a wide variety of needs. Presented at industry forums (example: SCTE Toronto on Web Applications for Next Generation Communications. Also NCTA, CableLabs, etc.) as well as web (Light Reading webinars, etc.) and analyst briefings.
• Regularly produce presentation material for detailed architecture & technology/product direction.
• Ability to build consensus across business and technical groups, including investors, board of directors, and executive staff down through product implementation teams.
• Strong people leadership and mentoring skills. Creative and innovation-driven mindset.
• Experienced managing direct teams of 2 through 20 members, and indirect technology leadership for teams of up to 300+.

• Responsible for partnership development for OTT video caching strategy, developed technology demonstration at Mobile World Congress 2011. Partnership development for applications partners, DPI strategies, telecom data analytics solutions.
• Performed technical due diligence on multiple acquisition targets. Examples include OTT Video Caching, OTT Video Optimization, Policy, Applications, and Networking companies.

• Worked closely with Verizon and Telefonica account teams to align P-CSCF. AGW, iBCF/TrGW, ATCF/ATGW feature definition and prioritization
• Partnered cross functionally with PLM, Engineering and Telefonica account team to align planning and technology content.
• Responsible for detailed IMS requirements, leveraged existing IMS expertise from Cedar Point / Ericsson activities.
• Worked iBCF/TrGW detailed planning with iBasis for LTE roaming IPX applications.

• Responsible across the BU for multiple partnerships related to ongoing programs.
• Partnerships included Emerson, Octasic, Intel, Radisys, and Znyx for next generation SBC media platform.
• Supported and authored content for MOA, SOD, RFQ, and contract negotiations.
• Drove engineering interactions and supported issue and requirements resolution with German team.
• Managed multiple 3rd party relationships to ensure MMBU business goals are met.

• Created and drove GENBAND Cloud strategy for NFV and SDN.
• Presented at customers, Perspectives13, UC, IMS forums, and other public facing forums such as SDN World Congress.
• Developed strategy for SBC evolution to NFV/cloud/SDN.
• Vetted with Comcast, Verizon, Telefonica, FT/Orange among many others.
• Developed DPDK/DSPK based strategy for media handling on bare metal and virtualized environments.
• Developed and built first corporate cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack from Canonical, including MaaS and Juju.

• Invented, advocated and drove patent-pending web-applications product solution for next-generation fixed line cable strategy, launching company into new revenue opportunities and subsequent acquisition by GENBAND.
• Responsible for patent portfolio, patent counsel and litigation support. Issued multiple patents in switching and applications technology spaces.
• Technology advocate within Cedar Point, led messaging to customers, on-boarded first revenue wins, built contractual agreements with partners and customers with COO, lead analyst presenter with VP Marketing.

• Full ownership of responsibilities, resolution of technical or personnel issues, ability to gel and excite a team. Sound judgment and decision making, issue resolution, and proper use of escalation methods.
• Provide clear team organization, division of responsibilities, work direction, and mentoring as appropriate. Strong project management skills both in process, tracking and communication.
• Architectural oversight of entire system. Contributed switch fabric architecture and design (implemented, patented), system high availability/redundancy scheme (implemented, patented), in-band cell based routing solution for traffic QoS (implemented, patented), optical fabric architecture/parallel optics design, system timing architecture.

• Member of initial pre-Series A startup founding team
• Oversight of architecture, design, implementation, lab verification, and production release of every major system component of the first Class Five switching system enabling the cable market to provide VoIP services.
• Excellent cross-functional skills for interworking with software, operations, marketing, technical/field support and customer interactions. Trusted for customer and partner presentations for key technology evangelization.
• Communication to exec staff and board for system and hardware technology strategy, direction and planning.
• Strong understanding of system requirements, business considerations, architecture, board/system design and technologies, layout, HDL coding, timing, tools, and software interface/interop issues. Application of knowledge across every aspect of an entire system.

• Responsible for interfacing with software groups, and performing all preliminary and detailed design reviews.
• Responsible for management of engineers performing schematic entry, layout(etc) while performing technical lead for ATM/Sonet, responsible for all FPGA design and simulation.
• Card Hardware Architect and Project Lead for VoIP activities in the Enhanced Services and Migration Business Unit.
• Architected Cisco's DSP-based (TMS320VC549) voice over IP solution for ESMBU group.
• Responsible for DSP selection trade study for VolP platform.
• Responsible for full project execution including planning/scheduling, ownership of all specifications, management of other engineers assigned to project.

• Strong skills in detailed design, including design entry, static timing analysis, signal integrity analysis, FPGA timing annotated functional simulation, board layout and route, PCB design for manufacture including ATE/JTAG.
• CPLD/FPGA Design/Simulation
• Responsible for the design, implementation and simulation of over 30 FPGA and CPLD designs.
• Primary strength is in Altera MaxPlus+Il and Altera device architecture. Worked with 7K, 8K, 9K, 10K, and now beginning 20K development with Quartus.

Strong skills in fast FPGA, Card and System-level architectural design, analysis and simulation. Four years of experience in leading and implementing DSP subsystem design, including work on custom DSP device architectures with Texas Instruments. Eight year telecommunications and networking background including custom TDM time-space-time switch matrix design, ATM cell processing engine design, CPU subsystem design, and large TDM switch system architecture definition. Responsible for working with marketing on requirements definitions and product direction. Proposed and sold innovative new products to executive staff which are now realizing significant revenue. I particularly enjoy performance analysis and mathematical systems analysis.

• Invented multi-DSP architecture (32 DSPs) that dramatically reduced cost by eliminating the traditional central memory arbiter, interrupt manager, and associated performance bottlenecks.
• Proposed and had accepted form factors, mezzanine card approach, MPC860 PowerQuicc processor selection, all aspects of card level architecture and design.
• Redesigned TDM switch interface to 1/3 cost, 1/2 power and twice the timeslot interface capacity.
• Co-System Architect of VCO/20 hardware platform.
• Architect and designer of TDM switch matrix that gave the Summa Four (now Cisco) VCO/20 migration to VCO/4K (4096 simultaneous non-blocking DSO capacity).

• Performed schematic entry, timing analysis of various card level elements, performed full-card signal integrity analysis and simulation in Mentor Interconnectix toolset.
• Performed design tasks, including multispan T1 and E1 interface designs, TDM switch interface architecture definition and design, VME based DMA controller board, digital bus repeater card signal integrity correction.
• Designed 96% efficient PWM switching power supplies, performed custom digital and analog routing in PowerPCB.
• Worked closely with algorithm vendors debugging algorithms and control code on DSP.
• Strong knowledge of DSP architecture on TI C54x family. Oversaw lab design verification phases, personally transitioned entire product to manufacturing.

• Designed, simulated many FPGA and CPLD projects.
• Performed CPU design for Motorola 302, 340, 360, 860.
• Performed 603e/106 PCI performance analysis
• Produced preliminary VoIP architecture work.

Currently using Mentor Design Architect, VHDL/Verilog simulator, Interconnectix Signal Integrity verification and simulation suite. Have completed several Mentor training courses in addition to using the tool. Previously used OrCAD and Viewlogic, many designs completed in OrCAD. Training completed in Viewlogic. Capable of learning any new tool very rapidly. Experienced in PADs PowerPCB and Cooper&Chyan (Specctra) gridless routers. Comfortable with GoDSP Code Composer, TI compiler, have written diagnostic assembly code for TI DSPs. Completed training for TI DSP including code generation and DSP-BIOS.

Experienced in design entry with AHDL, VHDL, Verilog, and graphical heirarchical design entry. Altera MaxPlus+ll, Altera Quartus, some previous experience with Viewlogic ViewSim, Synario, ABEL. My strength is AHDL and Altera architecture.

Mathematica, AutoCAD, sed/awk/perl and shell tool scripting, FrameMaker, Word, Excel, etc. Very adept in '95, '98, 'NT, 2K, and Linux.