Software Sales
Resume:
John Xu
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Summary of Qualifications
• Extensive experience and excellent track record in people management, project management, and general management
• Result-driven leader, particularly strong in terms of executing the company strategy and ability to drive an organization to succeed
• Solid technical background in telecommunication and solar power technologies, deep understanding of technical details, and a vision for the future
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team skills, ability to play multiple roles at the same time
Professional Experience
2009 – 2011 Entrepreneur
• Started Rainbow Solar Technologies, a solar thermal company that specializes in development of mid-temperature (80 - 250 ) solar collectors
• Successfully built a number of solar thermal collector prototypes that can operate in the temperature range of 100 - 200
• Conducted extensive research on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), as well as non-imaging optics (Fresnel lenses)
• Filed 6 patents in the past 2 years, all of them are in the field of solar thermal technologies, two additional patents are in telecommunication
• Company became inactive in June 2011 due to lack of funding
2006 – 2009 Principal System Architect
Motorola San Diego, California 92121
• Defined Motorola’s next generation data synchronization architecture for mobile devices. As the system architect, contributed significantly every step along the way during the entire development process.
• As the system architect and feature lead for CDMA SyncML over local transport, played a critical role in the feature development by leading more than 15 engineers located in 4 different countries.
2004 – 2006 Senior Director
UTStarcom Alameda, California 94502
• Managed one of the R&D departments at UTStarcom’s Broadband Business Unit. The department consisted of approximately 200 engineers and supporting staff who were located in Hangzhou, Shanghai, and New Jersey, respectively. As the head of the R&D organization, I oversaw the day-to-day operation of the entire organization and interfaced with marketing, sales, purchasing, finance, manufacturing, quality assurance, document support etc.
• Managed the system engineering, hardware, firmware, software, and system test groups to design, develop, and test UTStarcom’s NetRing product series, these include NetRing 600, NetRing 2500, and NetRing 10000. NetRing product series represents the latest generation of multi-service optical transport products. The product series incorporates innovative system architecture based on advanced chip design and sophisticated software algorithms.
• Personally led several key projects and played a crucial role in these projects. For example, under my leadership, UTStarcom’s NetRing 10000 product passed a tier 1 service provider’s stringent test (including functional test, chamber test, and inter-operability test) in 2005 as the No. 1 vendor, beating several competitors that are well known in the industry. Our effort has directly contributed to our market success in Asia Pacific and around the world.
• NetRing 10000 supports continuous and virtual concatenation at VC-12/3/4 in SDH. It also supports Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), RPR and provides built-in Ethernet service functions. GFP protocol is used to map FE/GE services into NxVC-12/3/4 for transmission. In addition, the platform supports Layer 2 switching and flow control.
• Worked with other engineering/marketing/business leaders on advanced product planning, product roadmap, time and manpower estimate, development cost, sourcing, and business strategy in general. Developed yearly budget for the department and monitored the spending on monthly basis. Had numerous initiatives to improve the internal product development process and thus to improve the product quality.
• In late 2005 and early 2006, I interacted with one of UTStarcom’s largest customers in Japan and made a number of extremely important presentations to this customer. Please note this was in addition to my normal responsibilities as the head of the R&D organization. During and after these customer visits, I received very positive feedback from the customer as well as our sales office in Japan.
• Received the Best Engineering Project award in Kickoff 2006. This is the highest award offered by UTStarcom. The award ceremony was held on Mar 26, 2006 during the Kickoff 2006 event. As the leader of the project, I personally received the award plaque on behalf of the entire project team and gave an award acceptance speech. The award is in recognition of our success in Korea market.
2002 – 2004 Director of Engineering
Integrated Photonics Technology Carlsbad, California 92008
• Managed the engineering department (approximately 25 people) at IPITEK and interfaced with marketing, sales, purchasing, finance, manufacturing, quality control, document services etc. and dealt with day-to-day business, personnel, R&D, manufacturing, and other issues, directly reporting to the CEO.
• Conducted short and long term project planning for advanced product development, including definition of new projects, developed and implemented business strategy with sales, marketing and business leaders.
• Managed in the system architecture, hardware, firmware, and software development of IPITEK's MSP-110/220 products. MSP-110/220 is new transport solutions that combine Baseband video, High Definition Television (HDTV), and Fast Ethernet services onto a single fiber. Its output is either an OC3c or an OC12c formatted signal that is compatible with the installed SONET transport systems of service providers. MSP-110/220 has been deployed by major MSO’s in the United States.
• Managed the system architecture, hardware, firmware, and software development of IPITEK second-generation ABR (Assignable Bit Rate) module, which is in full SONET compliance. This includes system architecture, board design (schematic design, PCB layout etc.), firmware (FPGA and CPLD) design, and software design. It also includes system integration and testing. This product has already passed the rigorous qualification tests run by a major MSO in the United States and has been deployed by a number of service providers.
• Managed the embedded and network management software development of IPITEK HBR-2500. IPITEK HBR-2500 is an OC-48c/STM-16c-based optical networking platform designed to intelligently multiplex and transport multiple services over a single optical fiber. These include a wide variety of video services such as Baseband video, IF video, SMPTE, and DVB-ASI. In addition, the system supports full or half-duplex services such as DS-1, E1, DS-3, E3, OC-3/STM-1, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet, and RS-232/422/485.
2000 – 2002 Manager, Embedded Software
Sorrento Networks, Inc. San Diego, California 92121
• Managed the embedded software development of GigaMux (Sorrento’s DWDM fiber optic transmission system) product line, these include OC192 transponder card, OC48 transponder card, Fiber Channel card, timing card etc.
• Interfaced with system, hardware, network management, and project management teams and made a number of important joint decisions on the overall GigaMux product development
• Defined TeraMatrix (Sorrento’s intelligent wavelength routing optical switch) embedded software requirements, designed the TeraMatrix embedded software architecture, and defined TeraMatrix interface specifications
• Led a group of 7 software engineers to develop TeraMatrix embedded software, and coordinated numerous design reviews, code inspections, and other technical discussions, also mentored some junior level engineers
1997 -- 1999 Staff Engineer
IBM Corporation Encinitas, California 92024
• Performed extensive research (as the technical lead) in the area of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standard and its application in the context of IBM GSM solution and IBM Pervasive Computing
• Designed, implemented, and tested a number of new features of data services software for IBM's GSM multi-band chipset, these include AT command handling, data flow control etc.
• Designed, implemented, and tested digital hardware driver software for IBM's GSM multi-band chipset, this includes both high level and detailed design, software implementation, and lab testing
• Made the transition from an out-of-date development environment to Green Hills MULTI software development environment, which involves changes to the make file, link file, and a number of assembly files (e.g. interrupt handler)
• Developed a number of software programs to help ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) designers validate their designs
1996 -- 1997 Member of Technical Staff
Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs Whippany, New Jersey 07981
• Designed the Lucent next generation TDMA Radio Cluster Server (RCS) Hardware Error Handler (HEH) software
• Designed, implemented and tested the LAN Router (LANR) subsystem for Lucent's GSM Base-Station Controller Frame (BCF) 2000 Sub-Rate Switch (SRS) Traffic Control Unit (TCU - Motorola 68360 running pSOS) software, this involves the creation of BCF LAN which is required to establish the necessary TCP/IP connection between BCF and SRS, and the creation of LANR which is required to route the BCF messages to their corresponding destination tasks (and vise versa)
• Designed, implemented and tested the Sub-Rate Digital Facilities Unit (SDFU) loopback software that involves TCU-IMT (Installation & Maintenance Terminal) interface as well as TCU-SDFU interface, this feature facilitates the factory and the installation personnel to test the SRS to make sure that the system is in good working condition
1993 -- 1996 Member of Scientific Staff
Nortel Networks / Bell Northern Research Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Developed, implemented, and tested the flight recorder software for the shelf processor (Motorola 68360 running pSOS) of the OC3 Express System
• Developed, implemented, and tested the remote file handler software for the OC3 Express System in the same environment as above
• Developed, implemented, and tested the OC12 clock frequency out of range handling feature for OC12 Transport Node software (the executable image executes on Motorola 68030 running SOS)
• Maintained the DS3 Resource Maintenance Manager software for OC12 Transport Node and resolved a large number of software deficiencies
• Received an award of recognition for the outstanding contribution to the successful completion of the OC12 Release 10 program
• Published several journal articles on optical waveguide theory that have been regularly cited by other researchers, Nortel and the National Research Council of Canada continuously funded these projects
Computer Proficiency
Languages: C, C++, Pascal, and assembly languages
Operating systems: UNIX, Windows, MS-DOS, pSOS, VxWorks, Linux
Education
Ph.D. -- Electrical Engineering
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
M.A.Sc. -- Electrical Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
B.S. – Applied Physics
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
Publications and Presentations
[1] J. Xu, "Outlook of FTTx in APAC ", Invited Presentation, Optical Fiber Conference, Anaheim,
California (2006)
[2] J. Xu, "Trends in Broadband Passive Optical Networking", Keynote Speech, International
Conference on Telecommunications ICT'2002, Beijing, China (2002)
[3] J. Xu, D. Yevick, and M. Gallant, "Approximate methods for modal reflectivity at optical
waveguide facets", J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A., Vol 12, No. 4, pp.725-728 (1995)
[4] J. Xu, D. Yevick, and M. Gallant, "Approximate methods for electric field reflection at
waveguide interfaces", in OSA Annual Meeting, Vol. 16 of OSA 1993 Technical Digest
Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C.), paper MGG2 (1993)
[5] D. Yevick, J. Xu, and W. Bardysewski, "Split-operator calculations of reflected electric
field profiles", IEEE Photo. Technol. Lett., Vol. 4, pp.1383 - 1386 (1992)
[6] J. Xu and J. Barby, "Modeling of mixed analog/digital circuits for functional simulation",
presented at CMC VLSI Workshop 92, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1992)
Patents
“Broadband optical network apparatus and method”, U.S. Patent No. 7,181,142, Feb 20, 2007.
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