Terry Cheng
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Summary:
more than 20-year of wireless communication research and practical experience
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focusing on radio wave propagation, RF engineering, radio performance analysis, base
station design and radio network deployment & delivery with both technical and
management functions.
most recent focus is on LTE radio technology both for FDD and TDD, working directly
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with customer/government research institutes and performing lab/field measurements,
conducting proof-of-concept prototype demo, studying next generation radio network
architecture/function/feature.
Experience:
Jan. 2007 – May 2012
Senior Director, ALU LTE/Wireless Regional Technical Services
Managed and guided radio team and core network team for the following tasks:
provide LTE radio solution support to strategic customers in China. The tasks include:
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working closely with customer’s research institutions for LTE and LTE-advanced
features study, performance evaluation, and lab/field pre-commercial system
planning/execution
work closely with regulatory institutes in China for technology feasibility, technology
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performance evaluation and cross-technology interference issues.
ensure radio feature and product roadmap are in line with customer network evolution
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plan
communicate ALU wireless technology/solution roadmap to operator’s CTO,
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understand operator’s long term network planning, and strategically position ALU
products to meet customer long term needs.
Aug. 2000 – Dec. 2006,
Managing Director, Lucent Technologies Mobility Technical Center-Asia Pacific
Managed and guided RF design/planning team, RF optimization team, and system
design team for the following tasks:
conduct RF field measurement to characterize the propagation environment,
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interference scanning measurement to predict the RF network performance and ensure
a solid radio network design.
support sales team for providing RF/system technical consultation, technical
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presentation, and RF/system network design
integrate different parts of network including value added services to the core wireless
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network to form an end-to-end solution
optimize the radio network to meet all KPIs before launching the commercial service,
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monitor the network performance and perform in-service optimization after
commercial service.
May. 1995 – Aug. 2000,
Technical Manager, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. Wireless System Engineering
Managed and guided a group of radio researchers for the following tasks:
evaluate the air interface technology defined and specified by the standard and simulate
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and determine the performance in terms of capacity and coverage
design the algorithms for efficient radio resource management including handoff,
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overload control, call admission control for radio base station
simulate the radio network performance by using software tools and validate with the
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lab measurement or field data
generate the engineering guidelines, including following the FCC guidelines, for RF
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network planning and design
set requirements for RF design software tool development
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review and decide on the contractual obligation of RF and network performance
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warranty
Dec. 1990 – Apr. 1995,
MTS, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. Wireless System Engineering
As an individual contributor, worked independently for the following tasks:
define base station product features and functions, and generate requirements for
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product development group to implement
plan and implement the industry first fiber microcell in VTC conference with a mobile
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operator to demonstrate the technology
characterize the radio propagation effect of a microcell in various environments, use the
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ray tracing model to predict the rf propagation, and validate by field data
Jun. 1988 – Dec. 1990,
MTS, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs., Satellite Transmission Labs.
As an individual contributor, worked independently for the following tasks:
define and specify the network and protocol to support low bit rate voice using VSAT
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for satellite transmission
design the ASIC for a sophisticated optical surveillance system for government defense
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project
Jun.1986 – Jun.1988,
MTS, Bellcore Transmission System Applications Labs.
As an individual contributor, worked independently for the following tasks:
perform transmission system performance analysis as part of a network plan and design
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tool
specify and implement an automated digital network configuration tool used by RBOC
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operation engineer to increase the operation efficiency
Aug. 1980 – Jun. 1986
Senior Engineer, UngermannBass R&D
As an individual contributor, worked independently for the following tasks:
Analog and digital ASIC design for local area networks including ethernet, token ring,
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and token bus for different network topologies.
Education:
1998, Advanced Management Program, UC Berkeley
1985, Ph. D Electrical Engineering, State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook
1980, MS Electrical Engineering, State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook
1975, BS Electro-physics, National Chiao-Tung Univ.
Additional Achievements:
Co-author of “Handbook of CDMA – System Design, Engineering, and Optimization”,
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Bell Labs Publication
Sponsored by Bell Labs R&D organization as a high performer to attend the advanced
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management program in UC Berkeley
Received more than 10 patents on wireless technology with several pending
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