Product/Web/Market Developer and Communications Network
Engineer
Services:
- Market and product requirements analysis for telecommunications and speech
applications
- Product development support/prototyping
- WAN and LAN protocols and standards: ATM, DSL, Frame Relay, TCP/IP,
SONET/SDH, SS7, MIBs
- Communication system performance analysis and optimization
- Test suite design for network protocols
- Telecommunication standards (contributions, leadership, business
linkage)
- Network reliability/planning
Experience:
Over 10 years background and expertise in systems analysis, standards and
testing, including management and leadership. Many computer languages
(including SQL, perl, Lisp, Scheme, FORTRAN, assembly, COBOL, and others
listed below).
Career Highlights:
- Business/Product Development at Sprex:
Development and marketing of speech recognition client-server products. Lead
development, including negotiating and closing sales. Extensive product
(C, C++, Java, lex/yacc, Windows CE/XP, Linux) and web-site (PHP, HTML, Java)
development and customer support. Consulting support.
- Consultant at Frederick J. Kaudel Consulting:
Support for telecommunications and speech application product marketing and
development, including web-site development. Business plan development and
presentation.
- Sr. Staff Engineer at Fluke Networks:
Supported telecommunications standards for several product development teams.
Represented Fluke Networks in IETF, Frame Relay Forum (now MPLS and Frame
Relay Alliance), DSL Forum, ATM Forum, T1 (now ATIS) and ITU standards bodies,
promoting Fluke Networks and testable specifications. Linkage of standards
work to business strategy. Communication of results and directions (internal
web site/archives/reports/summaries) of external work to product development
teams, assisting in defining product requirements and customer meetings.
- Manager of Future Network Performance department at Nortel Networks
(was Bell-Northern Research):
Managed a group of telecommunications network/product system analysts and
relations with development groups and customers. Led T1A1.2 Working Group
on Network Survivability Performance. Linked ATM Forum traffic
management standards to product development.
- Member of scientific staff at Bell-Northern Research:
Systems engineering, performance analysis of telecommunications networks and
products, close interactions with developers and customers, growing
participation/leadership in T1 standards, patent awarded,
supervised/mentored students.
- Process Control and Automation Engineer at Dofasco:
Designed software for a real-time fault-tolerant mill control system.
- Systems Manager at Connaught Research Institute:
Managed and programmed a mini-computer for genetic engineering applications.
Planned hardware/software changes. Trained staff.
Awards:
- DSL Forum contribution award for leading Testing & Interoperability Working
Group (2002)
- ATM Forum Spotlight Award for leadership of Testing Working Group
(2002)
- Frame Relay Forum Award for contribution/commitment/dedication (2002)
- DSL Forum 2001 Leadership Recognition Award
- Committee T1 Alvin Lai Outstanding Achievement Award (2001)
- DSL Forum Circle of Excellence Award (2000)
- Frame Relay Forum Member Service Award (2000)
- ATM Forum Spotlight Award (1999)
- Fluke Corporation Peak Achievement Award (1998)
- U.S. Patent 677722 (1996, with Doug MacDonald)
- T1 Outstanding Achievement Award (1995)
- NT/BNR Major Contribution Award
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
- Carleton Research Scholarship
- Ontario Scholar
Publications:
- paper in ISSLS2002 (with Ericsson and Simpler Networks, on DSL
interoperability)
- articles in Frame Relay Forum public newsletter
- IEEE CQR 2001
- U.S. patent
- ITC14
- Telesis
- Globecom'91
- ITC13
- NCF'90
- IEEE (Trans. on Software Engineering, JSAC)
- paper in ICC88
- paper in Simuletter
- article in On-Line
- numerous contributions, baselines and technical reports in: ATM Forum,
DSL Forum, Frame Relay Forum, and T1
- reviewer: ITC, FTCS, ISS, IEEE (Telecommunications Network Management
into the 21st Century, Transactions on Networking, and Journal on Parallel
& Distributed Systems), Infocom97
Activities and Interests:
- DSL interoperability presentation to CABA conference (2001)
- Network survivability presentation to IEEE CQR 2001 conference (2001)
- Network testing requirements presentation to Advanced ATM Integration
conference (1999)
- Ambassador presentation on testing to The ATM Forum in Bangkok, Thailand
meeting (1999)
- ADSL loop qualification presentation to DSL Forum summit in Paris, France
(1999)
- ADSL loop qualification presentation to IIR's 4th Capitalizing On Copper
conference (1998)
- Session chair for 1996 IEEE Symposium on Planning and Design of Broadband
Networks; on organizing committee for 1996 Comforum on Network Reliability
(1994 - 1996)
- Finance chair for ACM SIGMETRICS 95/IFIP Performance 95 (1994 - 1995)
- Organizer/co-chair of session on network survivability for ICC/Supercom'92
- Member of program committee/session chair at FTCS-21 conference
- Invited panel speaker on "System level CAD - new frontier" at Canadian
Conference on VLSI
- Presented seminar at Performance '84 conference in Paris, France
- Taught graduate course on computer operating system design at Carleton
University
- Taught mini-course on Computer Graphics at Carleton University
Education:
- Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering): Carleton University, Department of
Systems and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Canada
- B.A.Sc. (Engineering Science, Electrical Option): University of Toronto,
Department of Engineering Science, Toronto, Canada
For a resume, visit http://www.fjkc.com/bio+resume.php.