Carrier Ethernet, SONET/DWDM, Sales/Systems Engineer

AMIT KUMAR CHATTERJEE

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INDUSTRIAL EXPERTISE

• Carrier Ethernet Standards - 802.3ah, 802.1ad/ah/ag, Y.1731, G.8032

• 10G/20G Network Processors and Look-aside Co-Processors

• Multi-Gigabit/Terabit Switch Fabrics and Fabric Managers

• OC-12/48 ATM/IP Port Controller and Protocol Independent Switching Fabrics

• SONET/SDH Broadband Networks and Access Products

• ATM Network Interface Design and Signaling standards

• Broadband Access Networks (FTTC, xDSL) technologies

• Advanced Digital Television Interface, MPEG standards

• Motorola/Intel Controller/Processor based System Design

• Fiber-Optic end-to-end system design using Amplifiers, Filters, Regenerators and Protection devices

• Voice and Data Integration over voice grade Telephone Networks

• RF Interface Design and Development

• Analog front-end circuit design for Medical devices

• Design systems in compliance with CCITT, UL, FCC and FDA specifications

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• QoS and Fault Tolerant IP Networks

• Next generation Switching and Network Processors

• Optical Networking and Switching

• Packet Voice, Video and Data Networks

• Fast Packet Symmetric and Asymmetric Switches

• Residential/Enterprise ATM/IP and Gigabit Ethernet Networks and Gateways

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dowslake Microsystems, MA 2008 – April ‘09

Systems Engineering Manager

Supported pre-sales and post-sales, marketing and engineering activities for all Dowslake products in the Carrier Ethernet and WDM Transport space compliant to IEEE and ITU standards. This involved provisioning of Switching & Traffic Management, OAM and Pt-to-pt or Ring Protection features in Transport and Access/Aggregation devices. Responsibilities included participation in new architectures, test plan generation and validation, responding to RFP/RFQ, training development partners, setting up systems and training customers on site. Published technical documents and white papers as required for promoting company products and educating sales/marketing personnel.

Solely responsible for acquiring MEF 9 and MEF 14 compliance certificates on Carrier Ethernet products through an independent testing lab.

Lightstorm Networks, MA 2007 - 2008

Systems Engineering Manager

Worldwide FAE Group Lead

Supported pre-sales and post-sales, marketing and engineering activities for all Lightstorm products in the Carrier Ethernet space compliant to IEEE and ITU standards. This included Switching & Traffic Management, OAM and Aggregation devices. Responsibilities included marketing collateral generation, responding to RFP/RFQ, training development partners, setting up evaluation system and running live traffic in customer’s environment.

Single handedly setup Lightstorm equipments at the EANTC interoperability demo in the PBT and T-MPLS cloud.

Primarily responsible for the whole of North America including Canada but have traveled to Europe and China for customer training and support.

AMCC, MA 2002 - 2007

Staff Field Applications Engineer

FAE Group Lead and Switching & Network Processor Specialist

Supported pre-sales and post-sales marketing and engineering activities for all AMCC products including 10G PHYs, Framers, NPs, TM and Switch Fabrics in emerging and strategic customers in the Core/Access Switch Router and Transport space in North East US and Canada. Also responsible for device architecture training and training program development for the company and field staff.

Silicon Access Networks, Inc., MA 2001 - 2002

Field Applications Engineering Manager

Responsible for supporting Metro and Core communication equipment manufacturers with 10G/40G Line Card solutions using Network Processors. This involved customer architecture discussion, system development and integration, and all phases of pre and post sales engineering support. Also responsible for new business creation in the North East US and Canada.

Lucent Microelectronics, Framingham, MA 1998 - 2001

Senior Member Technical Staff - Field Applications Engineer

Responsible for supporting Networking and Telecommunication system vendors with Protocol Independent Packet Port Controllers and Switching Fabrics starting from technical marketing to system implementation. Also involved in the development and application support of SONET/SDH Broadband Access and Networking ASICs. Performed verification and testing of some of the ATM Switching and PDH/SONET devices.

Proposed and architected a common platform that allows seamless integration of all Lucent PDH and SONET devices, drivers and protocols. This led to the development of an industry standard Compact PCI shelf system for Lucent access devices with integrated drivers and RTOS on the host and the target side.

Thomson Multimedia, Corporate Innovation and Research, Indianapolis, IN 1996 - 1998

Senior Member Technical Staff, Systems and Standards Group

Involved in the design and development of Broadband Access Networks using Fiber To The Curb (FTTC) technology. This involved designing with FTTC chip sets from Lucent Technologies and integrating the Set Top Box (STB) unit with the Headend and Curb Side units from Broadband Technologies. Also developed the software for Data Broadcast and Meta-Signaling Protocol Stacks. The next project involved development of Advanced Digital Television Interface EIA/CEMA standards using the IEEE1394 200/400 Mbits/s digital bus. This involved developing the firmware for integrating Texas Instrument’s IEEE1394 chip sets with Thomson’s Multimedia STB.

Attended and contributed to the ATM Forum and IEEE 1394 standard bodies and generated Intellectual Property for the company.

Pathway, Inc., Mayfield Village, Ohio 1995 - 1996

Senior Design Engineer

Involved in the system architecture design and development of ATM access terminal equipment for transmission of MPEG-II compressed video and audio over ATM networks. Fully responsible for designing the system architecture that required communication between the encoders, decoders and the network interface card over the industry standard compactPCI backplane bus. Also responsible for designing the network interface card for connecting to the ATM networks via optical and/or electrical interfaces; DS-3 at 44.736 Mbits/s, E3 at 34.368 Mbits/s, E4 at 139.264 Mbits/s, OC-3 at 155.52 Mbits/s and Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbits/s for both the North American and European standards. Involved in embedded system design using Intel i960RP Risc processor running the network signaling and management protocol UNI 3.1 stack under a real time operating system.

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 1993 - 1995

Doctoral Candidate

Scott Fetzer Company, Cleveland, Ohio 1988 - 1993

Product Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of Patient Interface and Patient Monitoring Systems for Cardiac Rehabilitation. This involved digital and low-voltage/low-noise analog front-end circuit design, fiber-optic interface design and RF link development. Also responsible for developing production fixtures and calibration procedures for the complete system. Solely responsible for testing and setting standards for the products to be in compliance with FCC, FDA and UL regulations. Participated in the continued product enhancement schemes and generation of new product ideas. In-charge of production for meeting committed deadlines. Technical sales and customer support was also part of the job.

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 1987 - 1988

Doctoral Candidate

University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 1984 - 1987

Masters Candidate

Indian Oxygen Limited, Calcutta, India 1983 - 1984

Product Development Engineer

Solely responsible for the design, development, production and field support of Baby-Incubators, Pediatric Ventilators and Oxygen Concentrators. Also responsible for the marketing and maintenance of automated and adaptive Medical Ventilators manufactured by BOC of UK.

Boehringer Knoll Limited, Bombay, India 1981 - 1982

Field Applications Engineer

Provided technical support to Medical Diagnostic Laboratories during installation and maintenance of computer controlled Auto Analyzers, Spectrophotometers, Densitometers and other Medical Diagnostic equipments manufactured by Boehringer Mannheim of Germany.

DCM Data Products, Calcutta, India 1980 - 1981

Field Applications Engineer

Provided technical support to Electronic Data Processing Centers during installation and maintenance of Main Frame Computer Systems and Peripherals.

PATENTS

• Title of the invention: Television Apparatus for controlling a peripheral device via a digital bus (US Patent 6,665,020)

Field of the Invention: The invention involves a system for controlling multiple electronic devices, such as consumer electronic devices or the like, via interconnections such as digital data buses. More particularly, this invention concerns as arrangement for managing the interoperability of such devices.

• Title of the invention: Device Interoperability Utilizing Bit-Mapped On-Screen Display Menus (US Patent 7,362,381)

Field of the Invention: The invention involves a system for controlling multiple electronic devices, such as consumer electronic devices or the like, via interconnections such as digital data buses. More particularly, this invention concerns as arrangement for managing the interoperability of the On-Screen Display menus of such devices.

• Title of the invention: Consumer Electronic Device Interoperability (RCA 88,761) -- filed

Field of the Invention: The invention involves a system for controlling multiple electronic devices, such as consumer electronic devices or the like, via interconnections such as digital data buses. More particularly, this invention concerns as arrangement for managing the interoperability of such devices.

PUBLICATIONS

• Amit K. Chatterjee, “Overview of Digital Video in Broadband Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, June ’98.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, “Asymmetric ATM Switch Modules with Imbalanced Traffic,” IEEE Infocom ‘96, pp. 802-809, March ‘96.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, "Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Channel Asymmetric Switch Modules in a Bursty and Nonuniform Traffic Environment," 1995 ACM Sigmetrics and Performance Conference, May '95.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, "Modeling and Analysis of Channel Grouped Asymmetric ATM Switch Modules under Bursty and Nonuniform Traffic," Ist IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Switching Systems, April '95.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, "Queueing and Throughput Advantages of Asymmetric Packet Switch Modules over Symmetric Switch Modules under Bursty and Imbalanced Traffic," 1995 IEEE Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, pp. 212-218, March '95.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, "Performance of Multichannel Asymmetric Packet Switch Modules in a Bursty and Nonuniform Traffic Environment," Seventh IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, pp. 261-265, March '95.

• Amit K. Chatterjee and Vijay K. Konangi, "Approximate Analysis of Asymmetric Packet Switch Modules under Bursty and Nonuniform Traffic Environment," IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems, vol. 3, pp. 1139-1143, November '94.

MISCELLANEOUS

Familiarity with following engineering tools:

• SONET/SDH/PDH and Ethernet Test/Analysis Equipment

• VHDL - MTI

• Viewlogic - schematic capture

• Mathcad

• OPNET – Network Modeling Tool

PERSONAL

• Citizen of USA

• Enjoy Basketball, Soccer, and Tennis

REFERENCES

Furnished upon request

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dissertation Topic: Performance Analysis of Channel Grouped Asymmetric ATM Switch Modules.

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Thesis Topic: Finite Element Modeling of Velocity Effects in Electromagnetic Nondestructive Testing.

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India.

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