Customer Interaction

• Engage customers, identify needs, and formalize requirements
• Present design proposals – demonstrate differentiating capabilities
• Train customers to use sophisticated electronic equipment
• Develop communication channels via http web sites

Product Design/Development

• Design programmable hardware and application/embedded software
• High level design, performance requirements, functional description
• Analyze feature/cost/schedule trade-offs, develop risk mitigation plan
• On-time, on-budget delivery of products to meet market requirements
• Process: Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), Product Specification (PS), High Level Design (HLD), Design Estimate (DE), Design Documentation (DD), Product Test Plan (PTP)

Teaming

• Collaborate with engineers, marketers, salespeople, and management
• Ability to guide and coordinate cross-functional teams

Implementation

• Software development
• C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Protel, Assembly
• Source Development, Control, Debugging 
• Client/Server, TCP/IP Sockets, GUI (X Windows), OOA, OOD
• Hardware development
• VHDL, ABEL
• XACT, MAX PLUSII, Powerview, Synplicity, Fusion/Speedwave
• Xilinx FPGAs, Altera CPLDs, PLD and PROM FSMs
• PCI, VME, SCSI
• 80x86, 68xxx, r3xxx, SPARC
• Documentation/Test
• FRS, PS, HLD, DD, PTP, interface/maintenance manuals
• Test plans/procedures (draft and execute test/integration plan)

Standards and Protocols:

• Wired: PSTN, ISDN, T1/E1, SONET, ATM
• Air Interface: CDMA, 1xRTT, CDMA2000, TDMA, GSM, GPRS, UMTS
• VoIP/Multimedia: H.323, SIP, MGCP
• Service/QOS: MPLS, RSVP, DHCP, AAA (In an IP-based RAN)
• Transport: TCP, UDP
• Network: IPv4, IPv6
• Data Link: Frame Relay, ATM, LAPD, PPP, SLIP
• Physical: Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring

Platforms:

• PC: Windows NT/2000, UNIX/Solaris, device driver development
• RTOS: VxWorks, (multiple proprietary RTOS's)