Embedded Systems Architect, UML Modeler, Implementer (C and C++)

ABTINE NAJAND

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Walnut Creek, California 94597

Cell: +1-510-***-****

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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ARCHITECT, MODELER, IMPLEMENTER

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ITinera Technologies (USA) - Co-founder and CTO

Since April 2013

Currently providing design and development consulting services at a safety critical medical device company in the East Bay. Previously was in charge of the design and detailed design of the center-to-center communication networks for the I-80 Integrated Corridor Mobility project in the Bay Area.

Accenture (USA and UK) - Manager / Consultant

February 2011 to March 2013

Management of system architects, developers, and testers, during the development of mobile applications with iOS, Android and Windows. Validation manager for a Cable TV project in UK.

DKS Associates (USA) - Sr. ITS Systems Engineer

March 2009 to January 2011

ITS Project Manager for the Active Traffic Management System in the State of Washington, a $40 million project implemented over a period of 2 years.

IBM (USA) - Systems and Software Modeling

September 2004 to November 2008

Consulting services for the UML/SysML modeling of real time embedded systems and software, using various RTOS and development environments: Workbench/VxWorks, MULTI/INTEGRITY, QNX 6.2 and 6.5, WinCE, Cygwin, Eclipse, Visual Studio, and various Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian, Monta Vista, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.

Microsoft (USA) - Software Engineering Manager

June 2001 to August 2004

Management of a team of software engineers for the development and validation of set-top box projects: Interactive Program Guide, DVB Stack, functional and performance test suites.

LSI-Logic (USA) - Engineering Manager

January 2000 to May 2001

Management of test projects, developing and executing test procedures, proceeding to defects analysis and reviews with the development teams.

TPS/Canal+ (Europe) - Project Manager

January 1999 to December 1999

Management of software and hardware development and test engineers. Creation of set-top box technical specifications, participation to acceptance testing. Project coordinator with multiple vendors.

Bouygues Telecom (Europe) - Performance Manager

March 1998 to December 1998

Creation of a team of system architects, testers and Oracle database specialists, analyzing and resolving performance issues with their Commercial Information System.

Thomson/RCA (Europe) - Engineering Manager

November 1990 to February 1998

Creation and management of a team of twenty engineers in charge of the validation of MPEG set-top boxes. Design and development of home networks and wireless communication systems.

Micro Technologie Electronique (Europe) - Field Applications Engineer

January 1988 to October 1990

Pre-sales and post-sales support for various cross-compilers (IAR, Intermetrics, Keil, Microtec Research), debugging solutions (Xray), In-Circuit Emulators (Lauterbach, Microtek, VisionICE), Statemate for the modeling of complex systems in the Automotive and Transportation industries.

Atari (Europe) - Technical Support Engineer

September 1985 to December 1987

Support engineer, and delivery of programming training classes to software engineers.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - 1985 - Paris - France

PUBLICATIONS

Thomson: "Wireless In-house Network Studies" for the European Community - 1992-1993

Atari: Technical Press - 1985-1987

PATENTS

Thomson: "Error Correction Technique for Power Line Transmission Systems" - 1996

Microsoft: "Presenting EPG Data According to Multiple Data Configurations" - 2004

TOOLS

Requirements Management: DOORS, RequisitePro

Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development: UML/SysML with IBM Rational Rhapsody

Native development: Visual Studio (C, C++, C#), GCC Linux, Oracle Java

Cross development: Embedded Linux, Green Hills, IAR, Keil, QNX, Wind River

Test tools: LDRA

Project Management: MS Project

Office tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Other tools: ICE/BDM, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, various test and measurement tools

LANGUAGES

Fluently read, write, and speak in English and French

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