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Dr. John Chandra

JOB INTEREST

Senior Executive-level position for Product & Services - Architecture, R&D, Innovation, POC, Market and Business Strategy. Positions of Interest – CTO, CEO, Chief Strategy Officer/Mentor/Advisor/Architect, EVP, Corporate VP, Exec Dir, MD. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Ø Thought & Execution Leader for Products & Services in Media & IoT; XR; AD, AV, ADAS, Infotainment & Telematics; AI, ML, NLP, Big Data & Analytics; Wireless & Mobile; Automation, Web Services & Smart Apps (Cities/Homes/Grids/ Transport/Education/Health); Cloud & Security; CIP; Remote Sensors & SCADA; Open-Source SW, SDKs, APIs & API Management; Energy Technology & Mgmt; Networks, Gateways. Mentoring Staff on Technology and Business Strategy. Ø High-end Consulting for VCs, Institutional & Angel Investors on Disruptive Tech, Incubation, Products, Business Models, Channels, Tactics & Strategy, Scaling. Direct/Facilitate Stakeholder (Entrepreneur/Innovator, Mentor, Investor, Gov’t, NGO) interchanges on Regulations/Policy Making, Ecosystem Development, Private/Public Partnerships, Community Outreach. Ø Directed large, global, multi-disciplinary Product teams to further Customer Business Goals, Issue Resolution, Product Lifecycle and Program Milestone Support - Testing, Systems Integration, Internal Peer & Customer Reviews. P&L Director. Ø Presented Product Strategy, Technology Roadmaps and Project Workbooks to customer C-level staff. Evangelized technology benefits to Strategic Decision makers. Developed Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy in concert with all stakeholders. Ø Provided Business Development (RFI, RFP, RFQ, SOW, NDA) for Customers and Strategy including Tech Partnerships and Roadmaps, Profitability, Product and Services Migration, JV and M&A Due Diligence, R&D, Innovation, Patents & IP. Ø Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Partnerships for incorporation into Products & Services, M&A for Long-Range Strategic Plan (LRSP). Assessed Progress and Tech Readiness Level, Productization, Commercialization & Scaling. Ø Performed Trades for Tech selection. Harmonized Interfaces with Stakeholders. Led Business-Government collaboration on New Tech, Proposed Rule Making, Gov’t Certification and Regulatory Compliance. Studied Disruptive Tech Trends. Ø Developed Stage-Gate Framework for Product Development, established entry/exit criteria, followed Best Practices and leveraged Lessons Learned for ongoing development. Established Enterprise Continuous Process Improvement Initiatives. Ø Established Wiki Webpages on Current Projects for Company & Partner/External Vendors. Decided on App Platforms

(SharePoint and Salesforce). Led initiatives on Collaboration, Workflow & Content/Document Management, Telepresence. Ø Led successful CMMI/SEI, TL 9000 and ISO 9001 certifications of MNCs and Large Enterprises. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

IoT; Connected Car, LBS; RTOS Embedded Systems; IPTV, Video, Media & Infotainment; OTT, CDNs & ABR Streaming; Multi-screen, Cloud-Native & Cross-platform Apps; Advertising (National, Local & Targeted), Search & Recommendation, Personalization; Cloud (Private/Public/Hybrid), IaaS/PaaS/SaaS; UI & UX; IMS, QoS, Routing & Multicast; Cable, Telco & Satellite Nets; Network & SW Architectures; NFV & DC Virtualization; SDN, SDDC, SDR; RDBMS & NoSQL; 3rd Party/ ISV Integration; Requirements & Ops Concepts; FCC/UL/CE Certifications; Infosec (Network, Endpoint, Apps, Data, Web); CE; Network Mgmt. & Billing; OSS/BSS, NMS, EMS, SON; Unified Comm’s; Managed Services; Risk Assessment. BUSINESS EXPERTISE

Market Research; Business Case, Core Competency & Gap Analysis; Intelligence & Strategy; Innovation; Technology Roadmaps; Proposals; R&D Incorporation in Strategic Plan; Product Lifecycle Management; Lifecycle-based Pricing. SOFT SKILLS

Building Teams and Consensus for large Co’s and startups involving Stakeholders with Disparate Interests; Direct large, global, multi-disciplinary Product teams; Audience-targeted communications; Contract Negotiations; Community Outreach. SAMPLE CORPORATE CUSTOMERS

Broadcasters (NBC, Fox, A&E), Providers (Comcast, AT&T, VzW, Reliance) & their Internal Orgs (Dev, Assurance, PMO), Satellite (ACeS, OnStar, Boeing, Hughes, TRW, Brazilsat, Astrolink, SiriusXM), Auto OEMs (Chrysler, Ford, GM) & Tier 1 Suppliers (Continental, JCI), Big-Box Stores, Retail Electronic outlets, High-Tech Co’s (Ericsson, ALU, Motorola, Nortel). EDUCATION

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Communications), Rutgers University. Bevier Fellowship. GPA 3.95/4.0 Dissertation: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems for Light-wave Communication Networks M.S., Electrical Engineering (Control and Communications), University of Connecticut. Thesis: Target Localization from Sensors subject to Random Displacement B. S., Electrical Engineering (Power Systems and Electronics), Indian Institute of Technology. Thesis: Design, Fabrication and Testing of Single-Phase Thyristor Cycloconverter. First Class Honors with Distinction EXPERIENCE

2012 – Present Chief Architect and Consultant – AI/GenAI/ML/DL/NLP/NLU, Media, IoT, Mobile, Automotive, Cloud, Security, Analytics; Comcast, A&E, ALU/Nokia, AT&T – Indep. Vendor.

• TV, VoD & Advertising; Use of AI, ML and DL Models & Techniques for Search, Recommenders & Hyper-personalization.

• GenAI in Media and Entertainment Broadcasting and Streaming Use-cases for Content (Voice, Video, Image, Text) Creation, Curation, Personalization and Recommendation with Applications in Sports, Films/Movies, TV, News, Journalism, Radio, Music, Voice Gen, Audiobooks, Podcasting, Translation, Dubbing, Vubbing, Books & Publishing, Art, Customer Service, etc.

• Designed Conversational AI Systems for Content Search, Trick Play, Recording & Playback for TV, Media, Sports & Home Security using TV Voice (Controlled) Remote for Xfinity and AT&T. UI and UX aspects for better Access for the Disabled.

• Service Provider Use-cases - Big Data, Trend Analysis & Prediction (e.g. Traffic), Processing & Streaming. Customer Svc Bots.

• Media & Security/Surveillance AI/ML/DL Use-cases - Amazon/AWS and Microsoft Azure AI/ML/DL(NN) components for Recommendation and Personalization, Video and Image Recognition, Detection, Verification, Search and Analysis, etc.

• E2E Video Workflow Management: Encoding/Transcoding, Acquisition, Ingestion, Processing, Publishing, Encryption, Transport/CDN, DRM, Conditional Access, Decryption, Decoding, Playback. Monitoring, Notifications and Error Handling, Storage and Archival. Databases/Data Stores. Telco vs. Cable/MSO Video Infrastructures. Home Video Delivery using Wi-Fi.

• Media, Metadata formats. Coding Standards (AVC, HEVC). Containers. OTT, CDN, ABR Streaming Protocols: HLS/DASH/SS.

• Streaming Devices: Android/Amazon Fire/Apple TV; Roku, TiVo, Google TV Chromecast. Apple CarPlay, Android Auto.

• 5G Standards – Services, Capabilities, Network Architecture, Air Interface, Spectrum. Std. Forums – NGMN, SCF, ETSI, ONF.

• Executive Platform Architect on Xfinity Home, Wi-Fi & Comcast IoT. SME on Web Services for Home Security & Control of CPE (Cameras & Sensors). System includes External interfaces to 3rd Party Providers for Alarm Delivery & Home Energy Mgmt. Expertise includes Web, App, Media & CPE Servers & Clusters, Subscriber & Mgmt. Portals, HW & SW Architectures, Service Upgrades and Home Networking of CPE Devices and Clients. Led Camera Hardening with Digitally-Signed FW, implemented Mutual Authentication between Cameras and Servers. RESTful APIs for access to CPE, Mobile GW Solutions and IoT Reference Architectures. Led Strategic Initiatives and Marketing – pricing, upsell, bundles and offer management.

• Design and Architecture for A&E View Platform for VoD for content from A&E, Lifetime, History, etc. Used Amazon/AWS components for AI/DL/ML for Video & Image Recognition, NLP/IVR/TTS for Digital Assistants; Computing (incl. Serverless), Storage & Archival, Database & Warehousing; Video (Trans)coding; CDN, DNS; API Mgmt; Security, Authentication & Access Control; Monitoring, Management & Notification. Selected VBR Transcoding over CBR to leverage VBR benefits of up to 60% cost reduction for Transcoding, Storage, CDN Egress, yet better Video Quality and improved UX/CX than CBR. Study QVBR for future. Documented View AWS Deployment, E2E Workflow; Security for View Application and Okta integration with Cognito for Video playback using JW Player, Content Delivery to Partner to Run Recognition, Analytics and Insights.

• Direct AT&T U-verse Projects on Video-on-Demand (VoD), Live TV & HSI. Business Req'ts & Features. Implement Digital Ad Insertion, Impressions & Measurements for VoD & Live TV. Architected National, Local & Targeted Ads, X-platform Apps, UI & UX. SME on UIs, Remote Control & Touch Screens. CDN Design & Infrastructure Integration. Developed Demo Network & Use-Cases for Multiscreen. Design of E2E Network incl. Acquisition and Ingestion Systems, Transport and Access Networks, Hub Offices, CPE (incl. Gateway and STB), Service Provider IT Ops, Billing, Mgmt., & 3rd Party Systems. Author Application-Specific Releases for Smartphones, Tablets and Xbox. SME in Mediaroom Data Services (MDS), Mediaroom Advertising Platform (MAP), Microsoft Data Center (MDC), Metadata Aggregation in MDS for client-agnostic Search and Navigation.

• Architected Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC). Implemented Services for Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds analyzing Security aspects. Supported Data Center Virtualization, NFV, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS projects.

• Led L&D on Disruptive Tech (Media, Wireless, Embedded, Apps & Svcs, Security); Business Models, IPR; SW & HW; Mgmt. 2011 – 2012 CTO and VP Engineering, New Business Development, Escort Electronics, Auburn Hills, MI. CTO, Thought and Execution Leader for Mobile Infotainment, Connectivity & Telematics, Autonomous Driving including Mobile Digital TV (MDTV), Ruggedized Windows7 and Android Tablets, Navigation and Location-Based Services (LBS). Wore multiple Hats for a Startup Environment. Generated concepts, shepherd through incubation, PoC to productization/ commercialization. Developed Multi-gen Product Roadmaps with Schedules, Milestones and Deliverables, Bill-of-Material

(BoM), Proposals for Branding & Marketing, Eng’g and Manufacture. Examined Proposals on Driver Interaction Electronics. Perform SWOT Analysis, form and foster Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, implement NDAs. Make Staffing Decisions and Manage P&L. Direct Technical and Business Interchanges between Partners in a Global setting (US, Europe, Asia). Devise workarounds for roadblocks (Technical, Business, Certification, Regulatory and Logistics). Streamline Supply Chain for efficient

& economical Manufacture, Assembly, Warranty Coverage. Present Roadmaps to CxOs of Automotive OEMs & Tier 1 Suppliers

& build Business relationships. Manage dispersed, Interdisciplinary teams (Sys, SW, HW, UI, UX, Designer, Marketing, CSR).

• Automotive AI/ML/DL Use-cases - NLP, NLU, Machine Translation, TTS and STT as well as Image/Video/Pattern/Object Recognition for Handsfree, AD/AV/ADAS, Safety and Security, Search & Recommendation, Digital Assistant IVR. Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments. Collaboration w/ niche Vendors for Sensors, Cameras, LiDAR, Radar, GPS, etc.

• MDTV products: Connected iOS Dongle; In-car Box Streaming to Tablets using Wi-Fi as Aftermarket Accessory; Auto OEM.

• SmartOffice Ruggedized Tablet: Partners included Contract Manufacturer, vendors for Processor, Connectivity & GPS, various Readers. Develop Roadmaps for Next-Gen Tablets (both Embedded & External SIM cards); Carrier, FCC & UL Certification. Match Roadmaps to Operator Plans (4G LTE, Outdoor Wi-Fi, LBS). LTE-A, SAE, HetNets, SON, Small/Femto-cells & 5G.

• Led Brainstorming sessions. Initiated Lecture Series on Disruptive Tech & Innovation by Industry Leaders. Mentored Staff. 2009-2011 Chief Technology & Business Strategy Consultant, Independent Vendor. Direct projects for Operators incl. Comcast on IoT, IPTV, Streaming, VoD, CDN, cDVR, RTOS Embedded, CE, Open-Source, GigE, Unified Comms, Security, Virtualization. Author Req’ts. Focus on Flawless UX: POS Activation ->QoS->Upgrades.

• Design Multi-NIC Handsets, Wireless Modems, Mobile Hotspots, Seamless Roaming across Wi-Fi, 4G LTE & 3G for Multi-mode Smartphones & Mobile Devices. Direct OEMs (Sierra, Novatel, Broadcom, Qualcomm); Operators (VZW, Sprint, ATT); Test Labs (Metrico, Intertek). Over-the-Air (OTA) Real-time Security Provisioning; Operations, Management and Billing of Smartphone. Hands-Free-Activation Out-of-the-Box Experience; OTA SW Upgrades and Fault Management with OMA-DM.

• Architect Streaming Media CDNs, Caching, VoD & OCAP/tru2way Systems, QoS-enabled GW w/ Device, Service Discovery. 2008-2009 Global Strategic Technologist, Rockwell Collins Inc., Richardson, TX. CTO for Open Innovation & Strategic Initiatives to enhance competitive posture in Company businesses. Responsible for Networks (Wired, Wireless & Optical); Information Security; Embedded Systems SW & HW; Imaging and Displays; Sensor Networks. Customers included various Company Lines of Business (Avionics, Automotive, Enterprise). Cost and Schedule Estimation for Proposals and Projects, WBS development. Chaired Systems, SW and HW Reviews. Led IP audits, decisions on Licensing, Global Teams of Tech Scouts, IP Analysts, SMEs and Legal for Innovation/Productization. Align Roadmap to Customer Budgets and Requirements. Negotiated Ts & Cs. Established New Incubation, Evaluation & Benchmarking Processes. 2002-2008 Technical Director & Principal Engineer, L-3 Communications, Camden, NJ Chief Architect, Market Strategist for Networks, Infosec, SW & HW: Secure Smartphone/PDA, Secure Voice over IP. Manage SDLC (Java, C, C++, C# code bases), SW & HW Modules for GUI, API, Device Drivers, Security, Host & Network Processors. Managed Spec development for 3rd Party Apps & SW Integration. Led Research, Strategy, Architecture & Design of Dual-Mode

(GSM/CDMA) Secure Smartphone and Secure VoIP/Data System. Embedded Linux Java development for PIM Apps & Mgmt. of Microsoft Office Suite Apps for WinCE/Mobile. Design External I/Fs for USB and Bluetooth for Secure Smartphone and Cisco AVVID Architecture for Secure VoIP/Data. PDLC Support, Test, Code Reviews, Certification. Direct Meetings, Costing & Vendor Evaluation- Cisco, Samsung, Nokia, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Jabil, Bsquare, Ericsson, ALU, Freescale, Virtex, Altera. 1996-2001 Snr Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications (LMGT), Valley Forge, PA LMGT Chief Eng'g Architect for Managed VPN Services, Reliance India National Fiber-optic Communications Network, Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) Mobile Services, Astrolink IP Broadband and Ellipso Global LEO System. Business Development for Wireless, Satellite and IP Networks. Trained Customer on CDMA, GSM, VPN. Author ACeS, Ellipso, Astrolink, Reliance Proposals. Study New Tech Partnerships. PLM of Wireless as Integrated Product Team (IPT) Manager. 1995-1996 Senior Member of Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, NJ Analyzed UHF TDMA/DAMA Waveform and impacts to SATCOM Terminals. OSPF and BGP characterization. Selected Industry White Papers

1. Benefits of VBR over CBR for Transcoding VoD File-based Content: Better Quality at Cheaper Cost – Aug. 2018. 2. A&E View AWS Deployment Architecture: E2E Workflow, View App Security and Integration of with Okta – Aug. 2018. 3. Network Selection, Switching & Seamless Session Continuity for Multimode Smartphones, Tablets, USB Modems and Mobile Hotspots across disparate Radio Technologies using LTE System Architecture Evolution (SAE) - Mar. 2011. 4. Over-the-Air (OTA) Security Provisioning, SW Upgrades and Fault Mgmt with OMA-DM for Mobile Devices- Oct. 2010. 5. Applications of Adapt4 and Shared Spectrum Cognitive Radio Technologies - Dec. 2008. 6. Open Innovation and R&D for a Global Technology Company – Jul. 2008. 7. Next-Gen Embedded Mobile Device Secure Data Architecture with Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) – Mar. 2005. 8. End-to-end (E2E) delays, Voice Quality and Phone/Terminal Authentication in Secure Voice over IP (SVoIP) – Aug. 2003. 9. RF Link Budgets for SiriusXM Satellite Radio and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) - May 1999. 10. EllipsoTM Satellite System Power Statistics and Call Capacity Estimation – Apr. 1998. Refereed International Journal Publications

1. Bit-Error Rate (BER) in High Density Wavelength Division Multiplexing (HDWDM) Heterodyne Optical ASK Systems, Journal of Optical Communications (Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 99-107). June 1995 2. All-fiber Image-Rejection Mixer and Receiver Front-End for Optical Communication Systems using High-Birefringence and Polarizing Fibers, Optical Fiber Technology (pp. 247-263), June 1995 3. Optimal Hydrophone Placements Under Random Perturbations. IEEE Trans on Signal Processing (pp. 860-864), May 1990. Management Courses: Portable MBA in Marketing, Business Strategy & Business Development, TL 9000-Quality Req’ts & Metrics, Negotiating to Win, Cost Account Management, Global Supply-Chains & Distribution-Channels, Effective Leadership. Awards: LMGT Significant Telecom Achievement Recognition (STAR), Rutgers University Bevier Fellowship, Tau Beta Pi. Hobbies: Reading, Photography, Traveling, Mentoring. Memberships: Internet Society (ISOC), IEEE. Additional Details of Relevant Background

1. Soft-skills and Leadership - Versatility, Team Building, Customized Leadership. Mentoring at all levels. Worn multiple hats for large Company and startups. Comfortable discussing High-level Technology and Business Strategy with CxOs and details with Developers. 2. High-Value Project Mgmt.: Product Docs, Milestone (Internal Peer & Customer Review) Deliverables. Directed global, multi-disciplinary teams. 3. AI, ML, DL, Bots, Cognitive Services

SW: Azure, Amazon/AWS, Google, Watson, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, NumPy, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, DALL-E. AI Coding Tools.

AI, ML and DL, Non- vs. Self-Learning Algorithms; High Quality Data Generation/Augmentation, Transformation, Enrichment.

ML: Un- vs. Supervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement, Hyperparameter Tuning, Dimensionality Reduction. Amazon Sagemaker.

DL: Neural Networks, Training, Prediction, Decisions; Detection, Classification & Recognition of Objects, Images & Faces; NLP, Transformer

AI: Gen AI Apps, Prompt Eng., GAN, LLM, Foundation Model, RAG, Autoencoder; Azure OpenAI Svc. Models, Azure & Amazon AI Tools.

Ethics, Policies, Bias, Hallucination, Deepfakes, Copyright Laws, AGI vs. Narrow AI, AI Computing & HW. Gen AI Privacy, Security, Safety. 4. Power Systems (Generation, Transmision, Distribution, Electronics) & Renewables (Solar, Hydro, Wind, Tidal/Wave, Fuel Cell, Biomass). 5. XR and 5G

XR (VR/AR/MR) Applications in Gaming, Retail, Marketing, Manufacturing and Construction.

AI/ML Use-cases for 5G – Channel State Information (CSI) Feedback, Beam Management, Positioning, etc.

E2E design of 5G Network Slices for challenging Use-cases: mMTC, uRLLC and eMBB (e.g., Gbps Thru’put for 8K, HDR, XR).

Edge Solutions including 5G MEC for IIoT/Industry 4.0/Smart Manufacturing/Connected Plants and Automotive. SASE.

SME on CDNs for Edge Acceleration of Media/Content displayed/rendered on Consumer Devices.

RF & Optical: 5G to 1G Wireless, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth/BLE, NFC, RFID, GPS/Satellite, Compact Antennas, xPON, OLT, ONT, xWDM. 6. Media and Entertainment

App Development for Linux STB. Multi-screen/TVE Application Specific Releases for Mobile Devices and Gaming Consoles. Mobile and Cross-Platform App Development and Management. Native (iOS, Android, Windows), Hybrid and Cloud-Native Apps.

Mobile and Web App Architecture, Design, Dev and Testing for various Platforms and Devices. FE and BE Technologies. HTML5, CSS, JS, AngularJS, ReactJS. MEAN and MERN Stacks. IDEs. App Security, Certification and Distribution. UI and UX, Responsive Web Design. E2E SDLC. Detailed Process Flows, Wireframes, Prototypes and Interactive Concept Demos for Customer-facing and Internal interfaces.

AT&T U-verse Architecture of National, Local and Targeted Digital Ad Insertion, Impressions and Measurements for VoD and TV. Ad Decision Service (ADS) implemented as Hybrid SaaS across AT&T and Multi-tenanted ADS Data Centers.

Amazon/AWS components: Elemental (MediaLive, MediaConvert, MediaPackage, MediaStore, MediaConnect, MediaTailor), Snowball, API GW, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Rekognition, Glacier, Lex, Sagemaker, Comprehend, Translate, Transcribe, Route 53, Cognito, IAM, KMS, Dynamo DB, SNS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IoT Core, IoT Greengrass.

AI/ML/DL/NLP/NLU, Processing and Streaming, Big Data and Analytics for Media, Security and Service Provider Use-cases. ELK/EFK stack. Applications for Search and Recommendation, Traffic Analysis, Image/Video/Pattern/Object Recognition, Trend Analysis and Prediction.

STT/TTS Apps in Auto Hands-free, IVR, Digital Assistants - Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant. Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments. 7. Cloud

Public, Private, Hybrid; SaaS, PaaS, IaaS; Web Services. Container Management and Orchestration. Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos.

Deployments - Public (AWS, Azure, GCP); Private and Hybrid (Azure Stack, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, vPC, OpenShift).

On-Prem->Public Cloud Migration. App Arch’s - Cloud-Native, Microservices, N-tier, Monolithic. API Security and Rate Control.

Dev, Deployment Provisioning & Config. Mgmt. Automation Tools - Chef, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, etc.

Versioning and CI/CD Tools – Git, Apache SVN, Mercurial, Bitbucket, AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps Server, Mercurial, Travis CI. 8. Agile SW Development, DevOps, SDLC/PDLC & SW-HW Integration for Media & Entertainment, IoT, Wireless & Wired Networks & Devices, Embedded (STB, TV Streaming & Devices), OSS/BSS, Cloud, Security, Smart Apps, Digital Transformation, AI/ML/DL, Big Data. 9. IoT for different Verticals: Automotive, Homes and Cities, Health, Retail, Industrial, Grids and Utilities. IoT Ecosystem.

Azure and AT&T IoT: IoT Device Management (DM), DM and Routing using IoT Azure Hub, Azure IoT Edge, Azure App Insights and Stream Analytics. Digital Twins. Azure Integration with AT&T IoT Platform. Partnerships: Chipsets, Modules, Infrastructure. 10. Automotive IoT: Arch. for Telematics, Infotainment & Navigation. Services: Safety, Fleet Mgmt., Vehicle Health. Led work w/ Auto OEMs & Tier 1 suppliers. Coordinate Testing & Cert. Plans w/ Wireless Carrier Labs. SME on SW, Capabilities using Smartphones- GPS, Camera, etc. 11. Automotive

Battery & Energy Technologies: Electrochemistry, Charging Infrastructure, Power Systems, CIP, Energy Tech Management.

Vehicular Comm’s Standards: C-V2X & DSRC. Challenges to Broad Adoption for AD/AV/ADAS. Safety & Security Issues & their Mitigation

5G for Automotive: E2E Design of 5G Network Slice for Automotive Use-cases. MEC Design and Architecture for 5G Automotive Use-cases. 5G uRLLC Use-case applied to Automotive Manufacturing. Migration to 5G from Prior Wireless Gens.

Agile Dev, DevOps and SDLC. AUTOSAR and COVESA. Quality processes (PPAP, APQP). Stds & Certs - ISO 26262 & 21434, SAE J3061.

AUTOSAR ECU SW architecture. Use of Map/Geospatial/GIS data by AD/AV/ADAS ECUs. HD Maps. ECUs for various functions such as Power-train, IVI and Safety. EV- and Hybrid-specific ECUs and functions. EV and Hybrid Charging App Design.

Architected designs with Auto Chipsets from notable vendors. Multi-function Modules. SME of Automotive Networks, Buses, Systems and Protocols, Interfaces & Standards, Test Tools. etc. Partnered w/ Tech suppliers (TRW, JCI & Honeywell) on GPS, IND/IMU & Audio Systems. 12. Networks, Devices and Virtualization

Wireless and Wired Nets: Cable, Telco and Satellite. Sensor Nets and SCADA. Broadband and Ethernet - CE, ME, GigE; FTTx, xDSL

Network and Devices Software Protocol Stacks and Architectures. AI/ML Use-cases for Network and Device Optimizations.

RTOS Embedded Devices and Systems; SDKs, APIs and API Management, BSPs, HAL, Drivers; Middleware and Firmware.

Data Center (DC) and Network Virtualization - SDDC, NFV, SDN, SD-WAN. SASE and SSE. Holistic and Green DC Design. 13. Security

Policies, Rules, Req’ts, Svcs, Arch., Ops, Cert. & Compliance (HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 1/2, HITRUST CSF, ISO 27001).

Led initiatives for Cloud IAM. IdPs & SSO, OpenID & OAuth, 3rd Party Trust Management. Federation, AD & ADFS, Biometrics.

Docker and Kubernetes Security. Zero-trust and Perimeter-less Security, Micro-segmentation. Attack Vectors and Surfaces.

VNF Service Chaining in SDN and Enterprise SD-WAN, Zero-day Attacks Mitigation. SASE. Cloud-specific NFV Security. 14. Healthcare & Medical

Agile SW Dev, DevOps & SW-HW Integration for Embedded Medical Devices w/ IoT/Comms Capabilities. Medical Imaging.

Apps for Patient Monitoring, Measurements of Vitals, Payments/POS, Conferencing & Collaboration. AI/ML Use-cases for Security.

Led Dev, Testing & IT Ops (both On Prem and Cloud) for Highly-Regulated Environments as CISO/Chief Security Architect.

Security Risk Assessment of Company Infra & Practices for Healthcare Providers, their Enterprise Wired & Wireless Networks, Apps. Data, Desktop, Mobile & Web Security. Monitoring, SIEM; IPS, IDS; Vulnerability, Patch & Log Management. Lessons-Learned & Best Practices.

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