Experience

Altera

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Member of Technical Staff

  • May 2011 - Present

  Mobile BackhaulDevelopment of a scalable (10 – 40Gbps) Carrier Class Ethernet switch for the mobile backhaul market.• Embedded Software Project Leader• Managed - Layer 2 software stack development with India based design house - Technical (hardware and software) aspect of solution customisation for a customer• Architected software API for mobile backhaul Layer 2 switch• Embedded software Development (C) - On Linux OS running on ARM A9 processor on Altera’s SoC device (Processor + FPGA) - Development of Linux device driver• System verification and debug (RTL and hardware with embedded software)

• Senior Member of Technical Staff

  • Oct 2002 - May 2011

  Wireless Systems DesignWorked on PHY layer for Basestations. This involved work on both baseband processing (receiver algorithms) and also on digital radio front end (CFR,DPD, DUC).Experience of LTE, WiMAX and UMTS wireless standards.System level architecture (latency, scheduling, algorithmic development). Design using RTL, C-to-gates tools, embedded processors, custom dsp processor. Modeling using matlab/C.Research into future device architecture for wireless designs.

• Senior Design Engineer

  • Mar 2000 - Oct 2002

  ASIC designer.Project involved an ARM processor system.Involved in front end work of developing specifications, RTL design and verification. Responsible for multi-port, high performance SDRAM controller module.Also involved in back end work of synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification and ATPG.



Madge Networks

• Computer Networking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hardware Development Engineer

  • Jul 1996 - Feb 2000

  Design and development of multi-media gateway and computer networking infrastructure (Token Ring Networks) products. Involved from concept through to production. Design and development of multi-media gateway and computer networking infrastructure (Token Ring Networks) products. Involved from concept through to production.



GEC Marconic Research Centre, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

• Electronic Research Engineer

  • Feb 1995 - Jun 1996

  Project management of research projects involving MCM-Ls (Multi-Chip Modules - Laminated): from job quotation through design, fabrication, assembly, verification to delivery. Project management of research projects involving MCM-Ls (Multi-Chip Modules - Laminated): from job quotation through design, fabrication, assembly, verification to delivery.



GEC Marconi Research Centre, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

• Student Electronic Engineer

  • Jun 1991 - Sep 1993

  Sponsored. Worked over 1 summer and also took year out from University. Gained experience in several different areas including: Digital Communications, Radar and Microwaves. Sponsored. Worked over 1 summer and also took year out from University. Gained experience in several different areas including: Digital Communications, Radar and Microwaves.