Engineer Engineering

ABDELLA BATTOU

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Silver Spring, MD 20905

240-***-**** (Cell)

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CEO/CTO/SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING

Versatile technology leader with 20 years experience in Advanced Technology, IT and Telecom engineering, researching,

developing, and delivering solutions that achieve bottom line results. Proven ability to produce results and proactively dri ve

engineering initiatives. Excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, problem solving, and decision -making skills. Highly

collaborative, tactful, and assertive.

DIVERSE TECHNICAL ABILITIES

SDN, OpenFlow Network Virtualization Web Service Technologies (EJB, SOAP

IP and Optical Networks Optical Client Interfaces Product Life Cycle Management

Network Security Protocols Signaling/Routing Protocols Enterprise Architecture

Network Management Systems UNIX Operating System Web Development (JAVA)

Optical Transport Networks System programming Service Architectures

Network Performance Analysis Distributed Systems Development Ecommerce Strategies

eScience and Big Data

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS/UNDERSTANDING

Division Chief, Advanced Networking Technology Division, responsible for Cloud, Big Data, Wireless dynamic spectrum

allocation, Smart Grid, and Public Safety init iatives in the division.

Running a Regional (MD, DC, VA) Production DWDM, Layer 2, and layer 3 networks with a large number (over 45) of

high-end customers with connections up to 100G.

Building and running state-of-the-art highly dynamic 100G Optical Research Network with an SDN layer based on

OpenFlow.

Designing and Running International Open Peering Exchange ( WIX in Washington DC)

Design of the DataEx (Data Express) Service – a data kiosk for staging high-performance data transfers. A Data Kiosk will

be deployed on every campus and performance between Data K iosks will be guaranteed. The Data Kiosk consists of rack

that includes the CISCO UCS cloud platform, an OpenFlow switch, Disk attachements, and connectors to SAN storage.

Extensive project management experience through full software development life c ycles. Skilled in compiling requirements,

project resources allocations, project scheduling, progress tracking, technical supervision, and risk management.

Architecture and design of integrated DWDM SONET/SDH network elements, WSS and MEM based WXC.

SONET/SDH/OTN based network performance monitoring and fault management.

Element Management Systems with SNMP interface, optical control plane based on GMPLS (LMP, OSPF -TE, RSVP-TE,

OIF UNI/NNI).

Wavelength based optical circuits protections (1+1, 1:N linear, me sh protection, ring shared protection) and reservation

ATM Networks - PNNI, UNI, NNI, ATM security, NHRP, LANE, MPOA.

Design of optical client interfaces, from 1R transparent interfaces to 3R wavelength conversion interface, and trans -mixing

interfaces of Gibe/FC/FICON/ESCON.

Practical engineering and cost structures of components: Tx/Rx/Xcvr/XP, EDFAs, large or small switches, VOA, filters,

tunable components, OPM/OCM, DGE/DCE, IPD/IPM, DCF/DCM, SONET/SDH/OTN framer/PP, practical relation and

trade-off to optical system architecture and transmission performances.

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EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

Advanced Networking Technology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland Oct 2012 – present

Division Chief

Responsible for Cloud Computing, Big Data, Public Safety Network, Wireless Dynamic Spectrum, and Smart

Grid, IP Next Generation (IPv6), High Assurance Domains, Emerging and Mobile Networking Technologies

initiatives in the division.

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MID-ATLANTIC CROSSROADS, College Park, Maryland Oct 2009- Oct 2012

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and CTO

Started in October 2009 as Director of Research and became the Interim Executive Director in November 2011and Executive

Director in January 2012.

Designed and currently building two new POPs one in Baltimore and the other in Shady Grove to extend MAX reach to the

Johns Hopkins University and the Biotech Industry and National Cancer Institute.

Installed jointly with Internet2 the Washington DC International Exchange (WIX) located in McLean Level3 POP.

Developed and implemented a research program in High Performance networking funded by NSF, to upgrade MAX research

network to 100G backbone to support eScience and Big Data.

Introducing the first Data Kiosk Service for staging high performance data transfers with a peering to Amazon Direct

Connect Service.

Built an OpenFlow network to support research funded by NSF GENI in ne twork virtualization.

Designing and building the first ATCA-based Gridless Elastic Optics ROADM Research Card in collaboration with

NISTICA.

LAMBDA OPTICALSYSTEMS CORPORATION (start-up Telecom) – Reston, Virginia 2000 - 2009

VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING

Successfully reported to the CEO and Board of Directors, led Engineering through recruiting/creating a development team, oper ational

structure/responsibilities, and driving processes. Efficiently established a proficient program/project managemen t, with a program

plan, product realization/tracking process, and execution.

Championed and delivered a Department of Energy research contract ($1M) on wavelength reservation systems for next-

generation networks based on winning SBIR/STTR proposal (Pha se I and II).

Founder of Lambda OpticalSystems, played a major role in raising over $100M.

Effectively conducted and directed three optical switching trials with three major carriers BT, Telecom Italia, and KDDI.

Delivered a five-year research contract, capped at $29M from the Naval Research Laboratory to architect, design and

manufacture next generation all-optical switching systems.

Efficiently recruited, interviewed, hired, organized and developed Hardware and Software Engineering Teams.

Professionally established an efficient and tractable development, integration, and testing environment for both Hardware and

Software teams, with a systematic documentation process including product requirement (PRD), system requirements (SRD),

and Change Control System .

Designed, manufactured, and tested three all -optical switch generations (Lambda Node 1000, 2000, and 3000)

Spearheaded equipment, installation, and testing for demonstrations at tradeshows; Supercomm, Supercomputing.

Partnered with sales and marketing teams, developed and penetrated new and emerging markets to increase revenue.

Executed GMPLS, RSVP -TE inter-operability tests with CISCO, JUNIPER, and other equipment vendors

Tasked as Keynote Speaker at GridNets in Boston, delivered an effective and t hought provoking speech.

Kaman Sciences/ Naval Research Laboratory – Washington, DC 1992 - 2000

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Senior Network Engineer and team leader of five network engineers, directly responsible for the design, implementation and testing of

hardware prototypes, network drivers, middleware and network protocols. Highly regarded high -speed networking research engineer

in ATM, SONET and DWDM.

Professionally designed and coded a Distributed Network Management System for the MONET Optical switches in the

Advanced Technology Demonstration NETwork (ATDNET).

Diligently created and implemented several object-oriented frameworks for network protocols such as; Asynchronous I/O

framework and Network Protocol Prototyping framework.

Competently coded network device drivers for ATM, coded ATM PNNI, SSCOP, UNI 3.0, UNI 3.1, UNI 4.0 and ATM

Security as defined by the ATM Forum.

Meticulously completed performance evaluation and testing of ATM network protocols using FORE systems equipment;

PNNI, UNI, NNI, ATM security, NHRP, LANE, MPOA

Trusted to deliver a performance evaluation of Fore Systems switching architecture using OPNET simulation tools.

EDUCATION

PhD EECS

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Masters of Science, Mathematics

The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Communications Society

TEACHING/PUBLICATIONS

Adjunct Professor at Catholic University of America, EECS, since 1994

Taught several courses in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department)

Operating Systems, Data Structures, EE and CS Senior Design, Unix System Programming, Local Area Networks

Data Communications, X Window System, and Game Programming.

Books: Optical Switching/Networking and Computing for Multimedia Systems

Publisher: Marcel Dekker, Inc, May 15, 2002

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