Experience

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  Ventacity Systems

  • Oakland, CA

  • Director Of Hardware Engineering

    • Oct 2017 - May 2024
    • Oakland, CA

    Responsible for Ventacity's Smart Building Gateway, the hardware platform supporting Ventacity's Smart Building Cloud Services. This grew to include development, testing and compliance certification of off the shelf and custom hardware for Ventacity's building management system (BMS) components.Researched offerings in the LoRa and LoRaWAN sensor space for air quality, energy measurement and control.Managed testing and certification of compliance for products for safety (UL) and radio emissions (FCC).

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  Zebra Technologies

  • Pleasanton, CA

  • Hardware Engineer Principal

    • Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
    • Pleasanton, CA

    Motorola's WLAN division was acquired by Zebra Technologies in October 2014. I was transferred with WLAN to Zebra at that time.At Zebra, I continued my role as the lead hardware engineer for 802.11ac WiFi access points. Zebra worked jointly with Wistron Nuweb (WNC), Accton Technologies and Universal Global Scientific Corp (USI) to develop 802.11 and Bluetooth wireless access points.In October 2016 WLAN was sold from Zebra to Extreme Networks.

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  Motorola Solutions

  • Pleasanton, CA

  • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

    • Apr 2007 - Oct 2014
    • Pleasanton, CA

    Lead engineer of the T5 Wi-Fi over VDSL2 System, which allows hospitality, medical and campus customers to install Wi-Fi access points in guest rooms quickly and easily without requiring rewiring. The system consists of an 802.11n Access Point which connects to, and is remotely powered by, a 24 port VDSL2 switch. The AP's industrial design snaps over the existing telecom box and connects using a single pair of the existing analog telephone wires.Lead hardware engineer for the AP6511 wifi access point, a vertical market AP for hospitality featuring an innovative hide in sight industrial design, a flexible pass through port and optional additional FE ports. The AP6511 was nominated for an Edison Award for its innovative design.Hardware design lead for extended Power Over Ethernet (PoE) product line, which extends the range and reduces the number of wire pairs of PoE through use of higher voltages and VDSL. Took the product from concept, to design, through safety certification and introduction. Currently working on the next generation. Design engineer in the Public Broadband Networks group which is a part of the Connected Homes Division.

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  Tut Systems Inc

  • Design Engineer

    • Jan 1996 - Mar 2007

    Hardware design of Ethernet extension products using analog and DSL technologies to extend the reach of enterprise LANs. Products ranged from single HDSL and VDSL modems up to a NEBS certified multi-card chassis. Resulted in two patents. Also worked on compact PCI audio interface cards for Tut/VideoTel's line of MPEG video encoders. Tut was acquired by Motorola 4/1/07

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  Continuum Research Inc

  • Berkeley, CA

  • Director of Engineering/Co-founder

    • Jan 1995 - Jan 1996
    • Berkeley, CA

    Responsible for the design, test and manufacturing of a analog video over unshielded twisted pair wiring video LAN system. This included circuit design, PCB layout, bill of materials, mechanical design and manufacturing of the client hardware, as well as writing the client and server software applications which ran on Apple Macintosh computers. Supervised the porting of the client software to the PC platform. Met with clients and supported the sales process including sales presentations. Provided technical support for the installed base.

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  Farallon Computing/Netopia

  • Berkeley, CA

  • Hardware Design Engineer

    • Aug 1988 - Jul 1994
    • Berkeley, CA

    Hardware design of Ethernet and Apple LocalTalk hubs, routers, switches and add in cards. Co-inventor of Etherwave, daisy-chainable 10BaseT Ethernet with patented automatic crossover technology, which went on to become auto-MDX. Voted MacUser Magazine's 1994 Hardware Product of the Year.