Engineer Project

Francis Onochie

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US CITIZEN

PROJECT ENGINEER

Experienced Software Project Engineer. Detail-oriented professional with

good technical, analytical, engineering background. Good communication

skills and team-player. Experience in working within a large corporate

environment and good understanding of agile project management methods.

Professional Experience

Lifesize Communications, Austin, Texas 2011 - 2013

Senior Audio Software Engineer

Engaged in the development of Audio software for VOIP Video conferencing

Systems

Summary:

. Development of DSP firmware for audio algorithms to minimize clock

synchronization effects in echo-cancellation

. Part of a team to minimize the effects of lipsync across the company's

product line.

. Integration and testing of audio codecs from third-party and in-house

. VOIP end-to-end QOS testing including interoperability

. Good knowledge of VOIP protocols including SIP, H.323, RTP

. Good knowledge of Unified Communications, Telepresence and Video

Conferencing architectures

. Experience with Microsoft Project tool

Research-in-Motion, Waterloo, Canada 2006 - 2011

Manager Systems Integration and Validation(SIV)/Senior Software Engineer

Retained and given full leadership accountability in 2009 to oversee the

newly-established group SIV.

Summary:

. Responsible for the testing and Validation of L1-L3 protocols for 4th

Generation Blackberry devices based on the LTE standard.

. Test and Validation activities encompassed the full software

development and delivery life cycle

. External Vendor Management for software and test equipment.

. Change Management and technical issues resolution.

. Technical Knowledge of some of the LTE Protocols: 36.x series

. Good knowledge of TTCN-3 and 3GPP test suites

. LTE UE chipsets from Qualcomm, ST-E, Marvell

. LTE test equipment: Anite 9000, R&S CMW 500, Anritsu

. Attended several LTE Protocol courses mainly by Inacon, Gmbh

. Experience with Microsoft Project tool

IMMARSAT, LTD, London, England 2003 - 2006

Project Manager (Contract) based in San Diego, CA.

Retained and given full leadership accountability to oversee the design,

development and launch of the Hughes Network Systems (HNS) 9201 Broadband

Satellite IP Terminal and WLAN Access Point product into the marketplace to

support $19M contract awarded to Hughes Network Systems in San Diego.

Summary:

. Set up and ran the project management office at Client (HNS) site

. Requirements Capture, Risk Management, Cost and Baseline Scheduling,

Progress Tracking, Change Management

. Managed all the major milestone activities in accordance with contract.

. Produced project status reports, managed and resolved day-to-day

issues.

. Ensure Work was done in accordance with agreed Statement of Work

. Project Schedule,Communications, and Hands-on involvement in technical

aspects of terminal design including: RF, ASIC, Hardware, and Software.

. Experience with Microsoft Project tool

Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP), Basingstoke, England 2002 - 2003

Manager, DSP Group

Recruited to newly established group to direct the development of mobile

platforms and engines for this leading platform supplier, providing

cellular handset manufacturing clients with a faster, cost-effective means

to launch commercial handsets utilizing WCDMA, EDGE and GPRS technologies.

Summary:

. Line responsibilities as well as Technical Lead responsibilities in a

matrix organization

. Responsible for the audio firmware for a SOC design for 2.5G/3G

Cellular handsets

. Project plan, schedule, implementation for the Audio sub-component

. Managed risk for ROM code to avoid ASIC re-spin and helped to solve

several challenging technical issues.

. Test and Validation activities encompassed the full software

development and delivery life cycle

. Ensured timely project deliverables and achievement of project

milestones

. Responsible for staff recruitment, training, budgeting, and forecasting

. Experience with Microsoft Project tool

Hughes Network Systems, San Diego, CA 1996 - 2002

Senior Technical Manager/Senior Engineer - Signal Processing Group

Earned promotion following successful tenure as Senior Engineer for newly

established SPG Group. Advanced to lead a team of 8 Engineers in developing

the physical layer software and hardware of the Thuraya Dual Model Handset

and Immarsat Region BGAN Terminal products.

Summary:

. Direct responsibility for the physical layer algorithms in Mobile

Satellite user terminal used in GMH, Thuraya, ICO, and Inmarsat

technologies and standards

. Line and Technical lead responsibilities within a matrix organization

. Good experience in the full software design cycle

. Project plan, scheduling, implementation, and risk management,

. Hardware/DSP software partitioning for the implementation of algorithms

in SOC

. Experience with modeling tools, change management, and problem

reporting

. Participated in various initiatives and studies to evolve Mobile

Satellite Standards

. Experience with Satellite link and terminal link budgets

. Good knowledge of test methodologies for various project milestone

phases.

. Experience with Microsoft project tool

Tangent Computers, Billericay, Essex, England 1995 - 1996

DSP Firmware Engineer / Consultant

Provided technical DSP Firmware design expertise to manufacturers.

Collaborated extensively with clients to analyze DSP firmware needs and

implement appropriate solutions. Effectively implemented and ported DSP

algorithms, utilizing Assembler and C.

Mercury Communications, Bracknell, England 1989 - 1995

Senior Development Engineer, Network Access Technology

Member of team accountable for the designing and optimizing the Digital

Telecommunications Network.

Direct responsibilities for the specification of the Transmission Network

Performance and Quality of Service (QoS). Defined technical specifications

of interconnect agreements with Cable and Cellular Network Operations; and

of Network Access Technology. Company Representative for ETNO, ETSI, and

ITUT-T International Telecommunication Standards organizations.

Education and Credentials

MBA Degree with Concentration in Accounting (2007)

University of Phoenix, San Marcos, CA

Ph.D. in Digital Communications (1990)

University of London, Imperial College, London, England

(Working towards the PMP certification Scheduled to take the exam in

2013)

Formal Training( MBA programme, various in-house training and

certification) in: Project Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Change

Management, Communications, Structured Software development

Technology Proficiency & Skills

Productivity Tools: Microsoft (MS)

Project, Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint

Programming : C, C++, Python,

Unix, Windows, DSP RTOS

Configuration Management:

Clearcase, SVN

Software Development: UML, Rational

Rose

Communications Protocols: TCP/IP,

H.323, SIP, RTP,

Communications Standards: ISDN,

SDH, ATM,GSM, GPRS, UMTS, LTE

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