Experience

Antevia Networks

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Embedded Software Engineer

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Reading, England, United Kingdom Linux kernel driver development for 5G ORAN in-building wireless systems



Avari Wireless

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • May 2022 - Present

  Remote Critical in country troubleshooting for deployed Distributed Antenna Systems, to mitigate or eliminate contractual ramifications. Analyze and diagnose system failures. Identify root cause of failure. Establish chain of responsibility, i.e. identify which party has to fix the root cause and why the identified party must fix it). Write and present report.



Cogosense Technology Inc.

• United States
• Automotive

• Founder, Operations and Technical Development

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  In Latin cogo has two meanings to "drive" (as in compel) or to "bring together" . The "sense" refers to the ubiquitous sea of sensors flooding across the land surfaces of this planet thanks to the smartphone revolution. Cogosense is a company that is developing a solution that brings together the sensors on mobile phones to provide a compelling solution that enables drivers to communicate and navigate safely while eliminating unnecessary mobile device distractions.



Dali Wireless

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Apr 2020 - Apr 2022

  Remote Specialized in IPv6 networking and ultra high bandwidth communication for 5G/4G/3G/2G distributed antenna system. Re-architected/re-designed key server components to meet the need of extremely large distributed antennas in public safety applications using complex failover and redundant configurations. Improved the network throughput of the management system so that systems ten times larger could be deployed without any changes in hardware. After increasing bandwidth, implemented a… Show more Specialized in IPv6 networking and ultra high bandwidth communication for 5G/4G/3G/2G distributed antenna system. Re-architected/re-designed key server components to meet the need of extremely large distributed antennas in public safety applications using complex failover and redundant configurations. Improved the network throughput of the management system so that systems ten times larger could be deployed without any changes in hardware. After increasing bandwidth, implemented a requirement to allow DAS system to utilize existing GSM-R based networks for data communications. This involved: Creating a certificate based VPN network to tunnel IPv6 ethernet frames across the GPRS IPv4 network. Reducing bandwidth utilization to fit within a 128Kb/sec channel. The goal was achieved by: Eliminating redundant connections and multiplexing all communications onto a single connection, Compressing traffic before sending Redesigning application messaging flows to eliminate repetitive operations and implement lazy initialization. Show less

• Senior Consultant

  • Mar 2017 - Feb 2018

  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Transition development environment from adhoc VM images to a fully change controlled container based DevOps system capable of supporting the latest CD/CI and TDD methodologies. The containers created supported embedded development for an ARM target including cross compilation, root filesystem creation and Linux kernel development/customization. All containers were based on the Alpine linux distribution.



Aegis Mobility Inc.

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO and Founder

  • Oct 2008 - Sep 2015

  Architected, implemented and tested a context based application using database, server and client components to implement a telecommunications application that can automatically handle incoming and outgoing calls, text messages and data sessions to both CDMA and GSM mobile devices. This application was featured on BBC, CNN, CBS and many other technology publications. The solution was successfully integrated into the core network of a major US Tier 1 carrier and its operation demonstrated… Show more Architected, implemented and tested a context based application using database, server and client components to implement a telecommunications application that can automatically handle incoming and outgoing calls, text messages and data sessions to both CDMA and GSM mobile devices. This application was featured on BBC, CNN, CBS and many other technology publications. The solution was successfully integrated into the core network of a major US Tier 1 carrier and its operation demonstrated on all Tier1 US carrier networks. I was responsible for the technical Vision from inception, through design, implementation and integration with a major Tier1 carrier. I was responsible for creating the development environment, selecting tools for build, configuration management and change control, writing all requirements documents and selecting the software design, implementation and test teams. All software design, implementation and automated test artifacts were fully change controlled, all builds and tests were automated. Integration with a major tier 1 carrier was achieved in less than three weeks including establishing SS7 MAP connectivity to MSCs and HLR, IP connectivity to the client devices and full road testing of the solution functionality including the redirection of voice calls and SMS text messages in both directions when travelling in a car. Start and end of journey was automatically detected and required no manual intervention by the driver to activate or deactivate the feature. From inception to successful completion of trials with the Tier 1 carrier was 16 months.

• Senior Mobile Developer, CTO and Founder

  • Nov 2011 - Feb 2015

  Burnaby Repurposed the Aegis Context Request Architecture to support a carrier agnostic over-the-top mode for simultaneously tracking and establishing relationships between connected devices while maintaining user privacy. Took the lead to develop always on applications for Android, iOS, BB10, BBOS and J2ME clients to provide real time and historic data to the Aegis platform. All platforms are supported using just two code bases Java and C++ with adaptation layers for each platform. Using a… Show more Repurposed the Aegis Context Request Architecture to support a carrier agnostic over-the-top mode for simultaneously tracking and establishing relationships between connected devices while maintaining user privacy. Took the lead to develop always on applications for Android, iOS, BB10, BBOS and J2ME clients to provide real time and historic data to the Aegis platform. All platforms are supported using just two code bases Java and C++ with adaptation layers for each platform. Using a single code base has greatly reduced maintenance and support costs. New platforms can be quickly added as greater than 80% of the code is common. The platform is used to power the Aegis FleetSafer, TeenSafer and ZoomSafer products. It also powers the Iowa DOT TXT L8R product. The supported products are deployed to Fortune 100 enterprises, governments and coming soon to consumers. Difficult problems that needed to be overcome to make these products a reality include: continuous use of sensors and GPS in a power constrained system; detection and differentiation of hard braking and hard cornering regardless of device orientation; detection and differentiation of excessive speed over speed bumps and pot holes; accurate estimation of speed without the use of GPS.

• VP Engineering and Founder

  • Sep 2007 - Sep 2008

  Aegis Mobility has developed an application that addresses the problem of cell phone distracted drivers by mediating incoming and outgoing calls based on the subscribers current driving state. DriveAssist will direct incoming calls to a dedicated personal assistant in the case the subscriber is driving. The detection of driving and not driving is fully automatic, requiring no manual input from the subscriber. This application is just the first in a series of new and exciting… Show more Aegis Mobility has developed an application that addresses the problem of cell phone distracted drivers by mediating incoming and outgoing calls based on the subscribers current driving state. DriveAssist will direct incoming calls to a dedicated personal assistant in the case the subscriber is driving. The detection of driving and not driving is fully automatic, requiring no manual input from the subscriber. This application is just the first in a series of new and exciting applications that allow you to automatically customize the behaviour of your mobile phone based on your current activity. Show less



UTStarcom Inc

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Director System Development

  • May 2004 - Aug 2007

  Parent company of UTStarcom Canada

• Director Development

  • 2004 - 2007


Telos Technology Ltd
• China
• Senior System Architect

  • 1993 - 2004

TELOS
• Brazil
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• System Architect

  • 1993 - 2004


MPR Teltech

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 1992 - 1993

  VSAT project



GPT

• South Africa
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Engineer

  • 1989 - 1991

  Liverpool, Edge Lane