1996 - Present
Nimon Consulting, Inc.
Dallas, Texas
Vice President
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Served as chief architect for a major inter-exchange carrier
to manage the definition of architectural requirements for equipment in a
new network.
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Served as chief technology officer for a publicly held media
compression and streaming firm
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Founded a firm that provides telecommunications software,
hardware, and overall system design consulting services.
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Served as VP of Engineering for a firm manufacturing an
hardware/software solution for IP traffic QoS policy management.
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Served in interim senior management positions for two
startup companies producing wireless multimedia peripherals.
1981 - 1996
DNA Enterprises, Inc. Dallas, Texas
President
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Founded and managed DNA Enterprises, Inc. DNA grew to over
100 engineers providing services in software, hardware, signal processing
and overall system design consultation. Sold the firm to a public company
in 1996.
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Supported architectural development for a switching and
video conferencing product manufacturer.
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Served as Vice President of Engineering for a special
services switching system provider.
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Designed a 64K switching system with unprecedented cost,
call throughput, conferencing, and voice processing characteristics
supporting a virtual service logic execution environment.
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Designed a high capacity interprocessor communication
subsystem supporting 1,000 processors with an aggregate throughput greater
than 300,000 messages per second. Supported the development of a large
Signal Transfer Point using the communication subsystem.
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Designed a proprietary operating system communication and
maintenance subsystem to support redundant fault-tolerant parallel
processing systems.
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Designed, and served as chief architect for, a large
multi-rate cross-connect system that included SONET, DS3 and DS1 services.
Responsible for introducing object-oriented analysis and design techniques
as well as Smalltalk and C++ into the client's development program.
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Patented an SS7 call control arbitration scheme.
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Design and developed a 32K redundant matrix subsystem
capable of 1,000 matrix transactions per second.
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Led integration test activities for several projects
including a large Class 4 tandem and a Class 5 central office.
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Designed a test software development environment to allow
hardware engineers to develop diagnostics without the aid of programmers.
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Designed a system software automatic regression tool suite.
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Designed a Call Platform prototype and associated
development environment to support a programmable switch. Demonstrated the
capability of developing a new call feature in less than one day. The
system supported features such as automatic call delivery and automatic
call back.
1974 - 1981
Action/Honeywell
Dallas, Texas
Director of Software Engineering
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Designed various subsystems in a store and forward data
communication switch.
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Responsible for design and project management of a 4K tandem
switch used as a distributed corporate network communication facility.
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Designed proprietary network communication and management
scheme similar to SS7.
1972-1974
Industrial Nucleonics
Columbus, Ohio
Member of Technical Staff
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Designed embedded process control systems
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Designed an object methodology for control algorithms
