Reinhard Metz
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Member of Technical Staff and Technical Manager at Bell Laboratories, AT&T,
and Lucent Technologies through July, 2001. After leaving Lucent, established
business (A and T Labs) to provide consulting and design services.
Consulting Experience
Intellectual Property
Analog and digital design
Product development
Project reviews and evaluation
Engineering problem solving
Bell Labs/Lucent work background
1972-1996 A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories, 1996-July 2001 Lucent Technologies
1998 July 2001: Technical Manager responsible for switching system evolution and architecture planning,
including evolution to integrated voice/data products
1992 - 1998: Technical Manager responsible for architecture planning of Network Systems embedded processor
products.
1987- 1992: Supervisor of 4ESS (AT&T Long Distance Switch) Architecture Planning and Resources Group
1980 to 1987: Development and Forward Looking Work Manager
1972-1980: Hardware development engineer
SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:
Technical
Have six patents
Microprocessor/microcontroller technology and application software design
Digital and analog hardware design/development
Power circuit and switching power supply design
Speech encoding/processing, quality of service
Electromagnetic compatibility engineering and testing
Fault tolerant design, engineering and analysis for ultra-high reliability
ATM, SONET, IP protocols
Packet switching, router and ATM switch technology
Standards: CCITT SGVIII, Telcordia Switching Reliability Requirements
Digital filtering
Management and other:
Senior member IEEE
Founding member and member of the board of directors of System Architecture Review Board at Bell
Labs and Lucent, participating as Leader, Angel, and reviewer for numerous project reviews
Management of medium size hardware & software development teams
Strategic product planning
Management of system architecture definition
Extensive presentation/communication/customer interface experience
Manufacturing interface, vendor management
Management of forward looking work, applications research
Budget management (managed budgets up to $8M), business analysis
CCITT and Telcordia standards processes
Reliability process experience
Speak, read, write fluent German
PUBLICATIONS
Bell Labs Technical Journal article Success in Processor Multi-use
Bell System Technical Journal - 4ESS Clock synchronization
International Communications Conference - Data Bridge article
Audiographics Teleconferencing Using the Network Services Complex, Presentation at the University of
Wisconsin
Six Radio Electronics, Electronics Now magazine articles
Custom Planes article on Atmospheric Electricity and effects on small planes
Custom Planes article on Homebuilt post-completion issues
Custom Planes article on panel light dimming circuits
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
BSEE, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1972
MSEE, University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, 1973
Personal
Married, two children in college, instrument rated private pilot. Swim, ski.