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Kim Nimon

Education

1980                     University of Arkansas        Fayetteville, Arkansas

B.Sc. Computer Science

 

Professional experience

1996 - Present               Nimon Consulting, Inc.            Dallas, Texas

President

§     Served as President for a private start-up software technology company specializing in human capital development.

§     Served as Vice President of Operations for a public start-up communications company, whose product portfolio included DLCs, LAN/WAN interconnection devices, and multi-media communication products.

§     Served as member of an interim engineering management team and was responsible for the creation of a new satellite development group for a telecommunications vendor.

§     Served as interim project manager for a major telecommunications vendor to develop a project plan for a large architectural enhancement to a Signal Transfer Point.

§     Served as project director for a major inter-exchange carrier to manage the definition of architectural requirements for equipment in a new network.

§     Founded a firm that provides telecommunications software, hardware, and overall system design consulting services.

1987 - 1996                   DNA Enterprises, Inc.                Dallas, Texas

Executive Vice President

§         Managed the analysis and design of hardware, software, and DSP for a new generation 16K circuit switch.

§         Managed the analysis, design, code, and integration test of a fabric subsystem for a 96K cross connect system for a major telecommunications vendor.

§         Served as Director of software development for a special services switching system provider.

§         Created and managed a DSP technology group, which provided off-the-shelf solutions for common DSP telecommunication problems as well as custom development.

§         Designed and managed the development of a maintenance subsystem for a redundant fault-tolerant Service Control Point that utilized equipment from a major telecommunications vendor and a major data processing vendor.

§         Developed architecture for a high-speed packet switch used for inter-processor communications within a large telephone switch. Designed the high-speed packet transfer protocol and related firmware.

§         Managed the development of a high capacity inter-processor communication subsystem development project.  Provided design leadership for maintenance, operating system, and firmware subsystems.

§         Managed the design and planning effort for a private virtual central office.

1984 - 1987       DSC Communications Corporation   Plano, Texas

Software Engineering Manager

§         Responsible for architecture, key design elements, staff and resource plan for DSC's Message Transport Network subsystem used on most of their products.

§         Managed the development, test, and integration of the maintenance subsystem for a Class 5 central office.

1984 - 1981                   Texas Instruments                     Dallas, Texas

Member of Technical Staff

Patents and publications

§         U.S. Patent No. 5,432,781 "Synchronous Node Controllers for Switching Network" July 11, 1995

§         U.S. Patent No. 5,291,480 "Synchronous Node Controllers for Switching Network" March 1, 1994

§         U.S. Patent No. 5,218,602 "Interprocessor Switching Network" June 8, 1993

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