Experience

ExtentCom
• Canada
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director

  • Apr 2014 - Present


Redline Communications

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager and Architect, FPGA and Software development in Technology group

  • Jul 2010 - 2013

  Managed the FPGA and software development groups:Resource allocation over multiple parallel projectsCoordinated on-site and off-site resourcesVendor management: VxWorks, Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, Mentor Graphics, Matlab Project leader for AN80i/RDL3000 line of products:Architecture definitionHigh level and detailed level of designOverall project management and resources allocationFPGA architect for the next generation product platform:

• Manager and Architect FPGA development

  • Jan 2001 - Aug 2010

  Managed the FPGA development for all Redline products.Managed multiple FPGA to ASIC conversions Numerous personal contributions:AN50 Point-to-Multi-Point (PMP) Media Access (MAC)Two processor coresAES PTP and PMP encryption engine Project leader for AN80i broadband PTP and PMP systemsArchitecture definition, High level and detailed level of designHW/SW/RF integrationOverall project managementEngineering leader for the Military OEM partnerCoordinated with the OEM partnerDeveloped innovative security enhancements Show less

• Senior DSP HW/SW engineer

  • Jan 2000 - 2001

  54Mb/s Physical layer (PHY) Architecture and FPGA implementation (team of 2)Point-to-Point Media Access (MAC)Concept, protocol and FPGA implementation (team of 2)AN50 Broadband Wireless Point-to-Point SystemConcept and architecture (team of 3)



LARCAN INC.

• Canada
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior DSP HW/SW engineer

  • Mar 1999 - Jan 2000

  ATSC-HDTV modulator Architecture definition Board design, PCB layout FPGA development Embedded software Multi-standard Digital Broadcast modulator (DAB/DVB/ATSC) Architecture definition (team of 2) Board design and FPGA development (team of 2) Embedded software (team of 3) ATSC-HDTV modulator Architecture definition Board design, PCB layout FPGA development Embedded software Multi-standard Digital Broadcast modulator (DAB/DVB/ATSC) Architecture definition (team of 2) Board design and FPGA development (team of 2) Embedded software (team of 3)



Hefaistos Inc.

• Canada
• Telecommunications

• Senior Hardware Engineer

  • Jun 1996 - Feb 1999

  Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) encoder Architecture definition Simulations (Matlab/C) Hardware design and development (board, CPLDs) Coordinated the software development (TI DSPs) Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) encoder Architecture definition Simulations (Matlab/C) Hardware design and development (board, CPLDs) Coordinated the software development (TI DSPs)



University of Craiova, Romania

• Associate Lecturer

  • Sep 1993 - Feb 1999

  Lectures, class exercises, tutorials, laboratory in digital circuit design area Published courses: Digital Circuits Synthesis and Analysis Digital Signal Processors Lectures, class exercises, tutorials, laboratory in digital circuit design area Published courses: Digital Circuits Synthesis and Analysis Digital Signal Processors



Research and Engineering Institute for Computer Technique (ICSIT-TCI)

• Principal Researcher gr III

  • May 1986 - Sep 1993

  Hardware Engineer Industrial control applications: steel manufacturing process, naval propulsion motor control, electric generator test system, electric utility grid dispatcher Hardware Engineer Industrial control applications: steel manufacturing process, naval propulsion motor control, electric generator test system, electric utility grid dispatcher