Engineering Management

WANDA SEALANDER ac0x4o@r.postjobfree.com

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PROFILE: Senior Level Software Engineering professional with extensive experience in wireless networking and mobile computing. Successfully managed 25+ major programs, products, and new product introductions for Zebra, Motorola and Symbol Technologies, developing the first-ever wireless networking protocols and next generation wireless technologies. Six patents involving voice and data wireless communications, WLAN and VoIP systems, and radio networking equipment.

AREAS OF Wireless Technologies Application Development Project Management

EXPERTISE: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Protocols Software Engineering Product Requirements

Access Points Test & Validation Power Management

Security Platforms Embedded Systems Remote team Management

Regulatory Compliance New Product Development Outsourcing Strategies

Enterprise Mobility Systems DFS Certification Processor Technologies

EXPERIENCE: Sr. Software Engineering Manager

Zebra Technologies, San Jose, CA (2014 – 10/2016)

Served as Team/Project Leader for 7+ major software releases of the WiNG system

Led a team for 2 next generation hardware platforms and 1 major software WiNG program.

Worked on refining product requirements, creating engineering schedules, aiding in technical documentation and publications, estimates, and metrics.

Led a team of software regulatory engineers to ensure all next generation platform work is done by product release as well as ensuring any field issues are resolved quickly.

Led a team of integration test engineers to ensure all development software was tested before release to the Test and Validation teams.

Overall ensured programs stayed on schedule and on budget, all product requirements were met and mitigation plans were in place when issues arose.

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, San Jose, CA (2000 - 2014)

Supervised a team of 40 technical professionals working on various next generation projects for the $7 billion Enterprise Mobility Division.

Served as Team/Project Leader and Architect for next generation 802.11 a/b/g dual band Access Point product, the AP5131, and first 802.11n Access Point product, the AP7131.

Led multisite teams in San Jose, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Bangalore, India developing applications software for our switch and access point products.

Helped define product requirements, engineering schedules, technical documentation and publications, forecasts, estimates, and metrics.

Managed development of test and validation protocols, embedded systems, power management, signal processing, roaming capabilities, and feature enhancements.

Oversaw OEM software engineering program team for a major telecmmunications company to add wifi capabilities to their LTE network.

Developed functional specifications, test plans, test cases, validation procedures, product features, integration plans, and bug fixes for OEM programs.

Established security protocols for wireless infrastructure product line and performance improvements. Ensured Access Point products met all global regulatory requirements.

Led development of outdoor Access Point product, the AP5181, the first product to utilize wireless mesh networking using Access Points as wireless bridges and wireless repeaters.

Received Motorola Solutions' 2011 "Patent of the Year" Award for data and voice packets, timing mechanisms, and voice quality and clarity.

Built and mentored engineering teams and mentored 50+ developers and engineers.

Director of Software Engineering / Senior Software Engineer

SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (1986 - 2000)

Led 18-person software engineering team and supported software programs, wireless networking, and radio firmware integration across handheld terminal product line.

Interfaced with Test and Validation, Technical Publications, Marketing, Hardware Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Instituted unit test plans to minimize defects found reduce cycle time to release products.

Created algorithms for proprietary and patented Spectrum One radio products.

Led development team for Spectrum24 product, the AP3020 (now part of 802.11b standard). Created Network Management tools for Spectrum24 wireless infrastructure.

Modified Spectrum One protocol, establishing wireless protocol used in the Spectrum24 product (the basis for the first 802.11 standard).

Created encryption algorithm used in our Spectrum24 product to be used in NYSE installation.

Co-authored Wireless Network Management Protocol (WNMP), a proprietary inter-access point protocol which enabled our APs and our mobile devices to add differentiator features.

Integrated scanning/decoding algorithms into mobile, handheld, wireless terminals.

PATENTS: 8660061 B2 – Queuing mechanism for management/voice/data packets

7400912 B2 – Polling mechanism for mobile units in power save mode to receive audio/video/data packets

6404772 B1 – determination of which terminals are voice capable. Distribute traffic so that priority is given to voice enabled terminals without starving transmission to other terminals.

6069911 – Sequence of data transfer between remote unit having scanner and base station. Method to determine universal chipping code or network chipping code in order to determine data packets and initialization packets.

5812589 – Sequence of initialization between remote unit and base station using universal chipping code.

5418812 – The use of a universal chipping code to send initialization and network chipping code to remote units

EDUCATION: B.S. degree, Computer Science

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Stony Brook, NY

TECHNICAL Programming Languages: C, C++

SKILLS: Processors: x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM

Protocols: 802.11, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, SNMP, TCP/IP, UDP

Security: Kerberos, WPA, EAP, PSK, WEP, Radius

OS: Linux

Tools: Quality Center, ClearQuest, Jira, GDB, Subversion, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Pivotal Tracker

Proprietary Protocol: Wireless Network Management Protocol(WNMP) - authored layer 2 messaging system to add company added features including faster roaming in the wireless network. This protocol was also used for system health, and value add field debugging.

Additional: Embedded programming, system analysis, SDLC, agile

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