Manager Engineer

JASON O. BENFIELD

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Project Management (Agile and Employee performance reviews, raise

Waterfall) for Client, Server, and assessments, and hiring

Embedded development Full SDLC experience

International and local development Excellent interpersonal,

team management and creation communication, and organizational

International customer and lab trial skills

support Active Security Clearance (TS/SSBI)

2 Technical Proficiencies

Languages C, C++, Java, XML, Perl

Methodologies OOD, UML, Six Sigma

Environments Processor, DSP, Embedded, Client, Server

Operating Windows, VxWorks, Linux, Embedded Linux, Android

Systems

Protocols SNMP, Home Telephony (Caller ID), SCTP, SS7, ATM,

IPSEC, A.BIS, GSM,. DCME, GPRS, TRAU, GR303, V52,

TR08, T1CAS, T1IMT, PRI, SIP, VOIP, VODSL, MGCP, TGCP

3 Professional Experience

Software Development Manager/ Sevis Systems, Plano, Texas

October 2008 to January 2010

Backhaul Product Manager

Subject Matter Expert on acquired Backhaul technology, which optimized

traffic on the A.BIS interface. Served as Product Manager and Technical

Product Manager and managed both Embedded Development teams (Linux) and

Element Management System team (ASP.NET). Subject Matter Expert on all

A.BIS protocols (GPRS, TRAU, HDLC).

Integrated acquired technology and associated Beijing-based development

team into the company, which involved training the new team on company

development processes and educating the domestic development team on the

details of the technology and customer needs.

Managed local and remote development teams. Served as the primary

interface between the Beijing and domestic teams. Started and managed a

new offshore development team in India.

Responded to customer RFP, generated requirements based on the RFP,

prioritized tasks, assigned resources, and established milestones based on

market need and company objectives. Determined resource needs and hired

appropriately.

Built strong relationships with the Test, Field Engineering, Sales, Sales

Engineering, Hardware, and Marketing organizations as well as international

customers. Effectively communicated product status to CTO, CEO and other

members of the executive management team.

Traveled to multiple international locations to support trials. Developed

and presented a pre-sales presentation to the board of directors of an

international service provider.

Rewrote the protocol detection algorithm on the DSP ( C ), and re-designed

the code on the host processor for the Backhaul product (C/C++) in order to

convert the OS from VxWorks to Linux.

Lead development to successful 1.0 and 1.1 releases of the product

(C/C++/Java/ASP.NET, Perl).

Team Lead, Embedded Group Sevis Systems, Plano, Texas

August 2007 to October 2008

Responsible for hiring, resource planning and allocation, employee

development, annual reviews and raise assessment, project scheduling,

requirement gathering, project management, international contractor

management, requirement definition, high level design and C/C++ embedded

development for an embedded device that ran Linux and operated on the SS7

network.

Led the team to successful SCTP implementation and ATM stack integration.

This was a hands-on role involving C and C++ development as well as

managing development teams locally and in India.

Performance resulted in several personal recognition awards and strong

performance reviews.

Senior Software Engineer Sevis Systems, Plano, Texas

December 2004 to August 2007

Feature Lead for Fault Management Subsystem development which involved

working with a remote development team for SNMP Stack development (C/C

Feature Lead for the "Usability" project, which involved re-architecting

the provisioning system to be centralized and customer friendly.

Developed a Warm Upgrade mechanism which significantly decreased customer's

system downtime and increased profit margins.

Team Lead, UI Group General Bandwidth, Austin, Texas

September 2000 to October 2004

Responsible for hiring and contract renewal/termination recommendations,

customer interaction, conflict resolution, mentorship, scheduling,

requirements gathering, and requirements definition for an embedded device

that ran VxWorks and operated as a Media Gateway as well as its associated

Element Management System.

Lead design engineer for both the Command Line Interface and Element

Management System teams, and lead developer for the CLI team (C, C++, XML).

The EMS team operated in a Client/.Server environment, while the CLI ran

on an embedded system.

Led the successful release of the GenView and CLI software to JPC lab

trials regarding the industry FTTP initiative. Customers included Verizon

and SBC. This process involved responding to a JPC RFP and generating

engineering requirements.

Directly communicated with potential Tier 1 customers during trials in

order to resolve issues and prioritize modification requests.

Led the team to a complete redesign of the CLI command hierarchy to fit

customer needs as well as stabilization of the VxWorks serial port driver

and telnet software.

Nominated for "Engineer of the Month" award several times and strong

performance reviews. Earned stock and monetary bonuses.

Software Engineer Tivoli Systems, Austin, Texas

June 1998 to September 2000

Java developer on the team charged with re-writing the Tivoli Framework in

Java (Java/SQL).

Developer for network discovery subsystem and SNMP Stack Manager component.

Assisted in design and development of the main configuration tool for

establishing security policies.

Software Engineer Matthews Communication

December 1996 to June 1998

Management, Austin, Texas

Design and implementation of device drivers, event handlers, and interface

to higher level software in C and Assembly. Drivers included serial ports,

FSK modem, and FM Transceivers.

Worked with a vendor to debug their voice compression software.

Received a performance award for work done for product demonstration to the

Board of Directors.

4 Education

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

MS in Telecommunications (School of Engineering); August 1998

BS in Computer Engineering; May 1996

Courses Included: Engineering Management, Finance, and Accounting

SMU School of Engineering Alumni Board Member and Mustang Club Member

Clearance

Active Security Clearance (TS/SSBI)

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