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Tim Melanchuk

phone: 604-***-****

email: ****@**********.***

location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Overview & Objectives

I have a track record in systems engineering and solutions delivery that spans more than

twenty years. My experience has comprised successful startups to multinationals and

encompassed wireless, military, data, and multimedia communications. A proven problem

solver, I work with stakeholders across both external and internal organizations to find

solutions that align business goals, technical capabilities, and customer needs. With

thorough experience balancing the demands of concurrent projects in different phases, I

have continuously fostered successful outcomes under varying constraints of organization,

schedule, and resources.

My goal is to help companies innovate. I work with companies that are developing products

and systems that help people communicate and interact with information, more efficiently,

and in new and novel ways.

I provide contracting/consulting services to companies in the following areas:

product engineering

product management

innovation

architecture & standards

Skills and Expertise

Through the responsibilities that I have had, and the people with whom I have worked, I

have developed a breadth of skills and expertise that includes:

leadership and vision: I have successfully championed product and standards directions,

led the introduction of new technologies into companies, and redefined the business

direction for a startup company.

proven innovator: for every company I have worked with I have a track record of

innovations solving previously intractable problems and/or fostering new products and

industry solutions.

excellent communicator: I have written and presented proposals to customers world wide,

responded to RFPs and RFIs, spearheaded industry standards efforts, created and presented

courses, and written countless engineering specifications.

strong interpersonal skills: With over ten years experience in a systems engineering role

with little explicit authority, I have continuously fostered successful outcomes by

negotiating and mediating solutions between different groups and departments,

organizational levels, and companies.

sound judgement: I have specified product architectures that have been successfully

developed, managed product requirements definition and capture for market leading

products, balanced short term requirements against longer term strategic goals, and

provided technical guidance throughout development phases.

quick study: I have consistently taken on challenges in complex areas such as multimedia

over IP and cellular data communications, mastered the necessary knowledge and skills, and

applied those to create successful products, protocols, and business solutions.

Work History

IETF Media Control Work Group2001Present

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards group responsible for

developing Internet standards. It is an open organization where anyone with the

willingness and ability can contribute to the evolution of the standards that govern how

the Internet works. I became involved with Media Control standardization while at Convedia

and since then have been a principal architect of that effort.

co-designer of the architectural solution used for media server control and co-author of

the standards specification for the Media Control Framework (RFC6230).

led the original design teams tasked with finding Work Group consensus directions for

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and mixer control solutions.

co-author of the standards specifications for IVR Control (RFC6231) and Mixer Control

(RFC6505).

key author and editor of the informational document that provides an overview of the

media server control framework (RFC5567).

System Architect, Convedia Corporation; Vancouver, BC 20002005

Convedia was a startup company when I joined in 2000. During my tenure, the engineering

team grew from about forty people to close to one hundred individuals. The company was

sold in 2006 for over 100M USD, returning a significant profit to its investors. Reporting

to the VP Engineering, I was a key member of the engineering management team that led the

creation of Convedia s market leading media servers. My key contributions included:

created the MSML protocol and defused a threat posed by a competitor s standardization

effort. MSML became the companies key control protocol, was implemented by several

competitors, and influenced current IETF standardization.

worked directly with major customers and partners such as AT&T, Huawei, Siemens, and

Ericsson, to create formal feature specifications that drove the engineering requirements.

These specifications formed the basis of Convedia s commitment to those customers and

partners.

led the requirements definition process. This involved negotiating with and mediating

between engineering teams, and business development, product management, and marketing

leaders, to create and manage the top level Engineering Requirements Specifications. The

specifications ensured that all groups within the company had a timely, accurate snapshot

of what was in each release. They allowed reliable releases to be delivered on time, and,

when market or business conditions changed and tradeoffs became necessary, contributed to

better decision making.

specified the external product interfaces and consistently insured that they were both

the most standards compliant and the most comprehensive within the VoIP enhanced services

market. These interfaces used SIP (and extension standards), SDP, RTP, VoiceXML, MGCP, and

H.248.

trained customers and partners in the use of Convedia s control protocols.

represented Convedia within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Voice

Browser Work Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Chief Architect, inClarity.com; Vancouver, BC 19992000

inClarity was a start-up company developing Web-based directory services and technologies

for consumer oriented vertical market segments. I was one of the original four people who

initiated the concepts and shared responsibilities for most aspects of creating the

business. The activities in which I directly participated included market research,

concept development, competitive analysis, business plan, and strategic partnerships.

Principal Staff Engineer Architecture and System Design Group, Motorola Wireless Data

Group; Vancouver, BC 1994 1999

created the architecture for a circuit-switched Inter-Working Function for CDMA 2.5G

networks. Presented the architecture to Motorola s Cellular Infrastructure Group and won

their business. Following development, Motorola was able to commercially offer the

function before its major competitors.

wrote and presented technical proposals to the Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group,

and/or to their customers, major carriers within North America and Japan. The proposals

covered CDMA circuit/packet switched products, wireless ISP integration and consulting,

and a mobility testbed.

managed the technical proposal responses to major European carriers requesting proposals

for Motorola s GPRS support nodes and affiliated IP/VPN infrastructure.

within tight engineering and schedule constraints, I spearheaded the development and

adoption of a distributed deployment architecture for Motorola s CDPD system. This

addressed market scalability and availability requirements and led our initial flagship

customer to award Motorola the system rollout contract.

represented the Wireless Data Group in the CDMA Development Group (CDG) and represented

Motorola in the Technical Steering Committee of the CDPD Forum. Recipient of Motorola

Award for Outstanding Participation in Standards, 1995 and 1996. Member of the Wireless

Data Group patent committee 1998 and 1999.

Senior Software Engineer Communications Systems Division, Computing Devices Company;

Ottawa, ON 19921994

researched and defined the inter-networking architecture for a tactical military

communications system with hard requirements for availability, reliability, and

survivability. It supported both voice and data services and connected sub-networks that

included low and high speed digital radios, packet switched fibre optic links, LANs, and

legacy circuit switched facilities.

originated and championed the use of a distributed hash based directory system coupled to

the routing information base. This was a highly reliable and survivable solution that

allowed battlefield personnel to communicate in a dynamically changing environment. The

solution was adopted and praised internally and externally.

specified the requirements of the directory services.

designed and mathematically analysed the directory binding algorithms and supervised the

development of a prototype simulation of the algorithms.

analysed the time and message complexity of the network responses to topological change.

Senior Designer Advanced Development Group, Gandalf Data Limited; Ottawa, ON 19881990

researched and defined a LAN emulation network architecture designed to utilize networked

high speed switch fabrics.

evaluated, in conjunction with Professor L. Logrippo of the University of Ottawa Computer

Science Dept., the commercial feasibility of using the formal algebraic specification

language LOTOS.

developed a workstation test framework for distributed algorithm implementations such as

spanning trees.

designed and implemented call management protocols as a member of a team integrating

remote multiplexers into an existing network product.

System Architect, Programmer/Analyst, Develcon Electronics Limited; Saskatoon, SK 1981

1987

researched, championed the solution, and led a team to implement, distance-vector routing

protocols which allowed previous scalability commitments to customers such as NASA to be

met.

specified, designed and implemented distributed subscriber call control software.

led and managed an offsite project where an external contractor together with Develcon

engineers ported IBM 3270 emulation software from a single-user PC to a multi-tasking

embedded environment.

implemented the initial version of the operator control language/interface.

member of system design team responsible for high level design, system planning,

migration strategies, and technology evaluations.

Publications

IETF RFCs

Melanchuk, T., An Architectural Framework for Media Server Control, RFC 5567, Internet

Engineering Task Force, Jun. 2009.

Boulton, C., Melanchuk, T., and S. McGlashan, Media Control Channel Framework, RFC 6230,

May 2011.

McGlashan, S., Melanchuk, T., and C. Boulton, An Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Control

Package for the Media Control Channel Framework, RFC 6231, May 2011.

McGlashan, S., Melanchuk, T., and C. Boulton, A Mixer Control Package for the Media

Control Channel Framework, RFC 6505, March 2012.

Other

Melanchuk, Tim, Dupont, Pierre, and Simon Backer, CDPD and Emerging Digital Cellular

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Compcon 96, February, 1996.

Logrippo, L., Melanchuk, Tim, and Robert Duwors, The Algebraic Specification Language

LOTOS: An Industrial Experience, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Workshop on Formal Methods

in Software Development, 1990.

Education

B.Sc., Major in Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan.

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