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Donglin (Doug) Shen

Tel: 613-***-**** (Home) 613-***-**** (Mobile) 858-***-****(Work) E-mail: admzm2@r.postjobfree.com

Highly Experienced ICT and Mobile Telecom Expert

CAREER SUMMARY:

Senior technical expert in ICT and mobile communication industry with diversified technical and management experience within large organizations, public companies, and start-up firms, I have worked in a variety of areas for both equipment vendors and service providers, with balanced experience of strategic planning, product R&D, product management, industry partnership and standards development, I have acquired an in- depth knowledge and experience of IT and telecommunication technologies and businesses practice. I gained extensive experience in dealing with government agencies and private companies, having worked with the United Nations, Government of Canada, Government of China, International Organizations, telecoms equipment vendors and service providers worldwide. CORE COMPETENCE & QUALIFICATION

• Technology and business leader with strong business acumen;

• A strategic thinker with expert technology and business forward looking capabilities;

• Earned a reputation and strong influence in the industry, having actively participating in Forums, Summits, standards bodies, industry consortia and alliances as a major contributor

• Well received system architect and communication protocol expert with strong analytical skill;

• Customer relationship builder through supporting sales, pre-sale and technical marketing activates;

• Experienced standard/regulation and specification expert with 3GPP, ATIS, IEEE and ITU and actively contributed to 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G standard;

• Keeping updated on the latest technology and industry development: capacity in evaluating technology and business cases to differentiate fads from real technological advancement;

• Capability to build and manage multifunctional teams in a matrix environment to achieve the business goals, through open communications, coaching and mentoring;

• An excellent team player, generous, assertive, honest and ethical. A technical leader to influence senior management, team members and industrial partners;

• A patent expert with practical patent analysis, evaluation and negotiation skills and experience;

• Very good cross-culture background and know how to work effectively in a multi-culture environment. DETAILED WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Principal Analyst, OVUM/InformaTech, (11/2019 – 06/2020) Focus on US, Europe and Asia market on 5G related development, research and marketing strategy. Support service providers 5G network deployment planning and strategy; Independent Consultant, business affiliation to EJL Wireless Research, Principal Analyst (10/2014 – 10/2019)

- Focusing on technology research, market evolution and business strategy studies, with focus on 5G NR features (such as mmWave, massive MIMO, LAA etc.), SDN/NFV(open NFV, MANO, CORD etc), C-RAN, IoT/IIoT(eMTC), Unified Communications, open source development etc. ;

- Engaged in research/study of connected car, and 5G application ecosystem;

- Completed C-RAN, vEPC and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) technical reports. Provided with consulting report on 5G and IoT/IIoT technology as well as business evaluation to telecom equipment OEM clients;

- Played the role as an industry expert through chairing sessions or keynote speaker in “NFV World Congress”, “SDN and Open-flow World Congress” and “Carrier Network Virtualization conference” organized by Knect365 (owned by Informa);

- Involved in the consulting projects of DevOps planning and development processes for IT Resume Donglin Shen

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development and operational efficiency enhancement;

- A member of industry expert platform, such as GLG, CRG, Third Bridge, and Mosaic etc., offering on-call consulting services for diversified clients of finance industry and consulting firms, covering the areas of mobile devices; telecom infrastructure; semiconductor; network technologies and services; market research; intellectual property strategy and miscellaneous topics;

- Consultant for a medical device start-up company. Specialized for remote biomedical device R&D on overall device architecture, sensor selection, data acquisition via wireless network, patient data security solution, and overall software architecture/solution, which is a pioneer project on mobile health research;

- Contracted system engineer with Wipro Technology to coordinate RF system development between Ericsson and Wipro on 4G and 5G system development; ZTE (USA) (2005 to 2014) VP/CTO

Joint ZTE (USA) in 2005 and served as a technology and business expert in several management positions, including product management, advanced research and industry standards, CTO of wireless product and marketing, and strategic planning. My responsibilities include:

- Analyzing market trends and customer requirements, coordinating with customers, business units and product lines, defining mid and long term roadmaps of technology, and product strategy

- Provided the guidance for product R&D teams on technology evolution and strategic R&D direction, responsible for product R&D roadmap;

- Coordination with the senior executives and engineering teams of global customers to build up effective strategic partnership;

- Lead and drive customer oriented product strategy and business development for both mobile devices and infrastructure business units. Coordinate and drive project execution with sales, marketing, P&L and senior managements;

- In charge of cooperation with academic and industry partners on technology research & development project including intellectual property evaluation and company’s IPR strategy;

- As company’s public speaker on the events, such as conferences, consortiums, workshops, industry alliances, and interactions with media and consulting firms;

- Functioned as a bridge between product design teams and customers to facilitate the effective communications between them through pre-sale and marketing activities;

- Intensively worked on international business development and cooperation. Having worked with 64 telecom service operators over 46 countries;

- Recruited and set up an industry standard team to support global standards activities and advanced research demand with annual operational budget around US10 million. Trained and led the team (more than 100 scientists and engineers) from a clean start to advance quickly and perform in 3GPP, ITU and other standards bodies;

- Defined and drove broadband data network evolution strategy and solution roadmap including radio access network, transport network, core network and mobile device related issues with feature/budget planning and execution;

- Drove and defined IoT technology and product strategy and facilitated the set up/participation of IoT Industry Alliances, increased the market influence of IoT products;

- Well received and respected technical expert from product R&D teams. Provided consultant service to product R&D teams when they encountered challenging issues;

- Participated as an expert on IPR review and evaluation, contributed to the decisions on IPR licensing related issues. Actively participated and contributed in LTE patent pool studies and negotiations. Secured internal buy-in to become a member of VIA LTE patent pool; AT&T Wireless Services, Senior Technical Staff, Team Leader, (Oct. 99 to Apr. 05)

- In CTO’s organization responsible for technology, architecture and standard

- Vendor management on 3G mobile communication specifications development.

- Key contributor to 3GPP specification committee (SA and RAN), including ATIS, ITU; Resume Donglin Shen

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- Major initiator/contributor to Iurg interface, UMTS1800/1900, IMS, and AGPS minimum performance specifications, drove VoIP activities in standard organizations (3GPP and IETF)

- Coordinated with vendors and other operators on key standard issues in order to achieve consensus in the industry to meet AT&T’s business objectives;

- Planned and participated AWS’ 3G (UMTS) network Field Operation Approval (FOA); Metawave Communications (1997 – 1999)

Director, Product Research and Development (Jan. 97 – Sep.99):

- Built and led GSM smart antenna product development team, including the management of a team of 28 engineers which covers multiple expertise in following areas: system engineering, RF design, digital HW design, software design, mechanical engineering and wireless network optimizations. The job function included project planning and budgeting, team building, engineering management, and coordination with manufacturing partners and service provider customers.

- Led a feasibility study group on beam switching and adaptive array smart antenna technology for IS-136 and GSM system.

Nortel Networks, Senior System Engineer, Team Leader, (Mar. 94 - Jan. 97):

- Base station radio product design and development;

- IS-136 specification development as Nortel’s main contributor to the standard community

(TR45.3 and T1P1);

- Test environment design and development for cellular base station system;

- Product specification management, software development, test & verification coordination among multi-side development teams.

Nortel Networks, Software System Engineer, Team Leader, (Aug.91-Mar.94):

- Design team leader for cellular base station controller/DSP software design and development.

- IS-136 network authentication and encryption architecture design.

- Field support for software delivery and field debug and verification. State Seismological Bureau of China, Project Manager (Feb.82 – Jan. 90): Project leader/manager of a United Nations funded project - Wireless Telemetry (SCADA) system for Northern China Earthquake Prediction Experimental Field, which was a US$4 million project (UNDP funded). It is an IoT (MTC) network according to current term and expression. My responsibility covered network design, development and deployment, including such duties as project budgeting, planning, management, drafting system design requirement specifications, performing system integrations and test verifications Chinese Technical authority of UNDP project, Energy, Mines and Resources of Canada (Jun.86- Jan.90) Led system design of UNDP-funded project "North China Seismic Data Network, as technical authority of China government and a project coordinator among China State Seismological Bureau, UNDP Beijing office and Canadian Government (Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Commercial Corporation) on technical and project management issues; EDUCATION:

Advanced Project Management UCLA Extension Program Master of Electrical Engineering University of Ottawa, Canada; Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, China

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Northeastern University, China PUBLICATIONS:

2 conference papers and 1 magazine paper, plus 54 public speeches on conferences and workshops 3 patents are awarded (#US6118767, #CN200680054906, #US6405018)

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