Work history

  • Present, incubating
    • Defined the technical direction: Layer-2.5, MPLS-based Ethernet and application-aware services
    • Produced most of the product and feature requirements, and coordinated technical issues between engineering and sales teams
    • Acted as the technology conscience for senior engineering staff
    • Worked with key customers and partners directly
    • Contributed technical proposals in various standard bodies when time allows
  • 2002 – 2004 (24 months), Principle Engineer, Project Lead, Core Networking Division, Ciena Corporation
  • 2001 - 2002 (18 months), Member of Technical Staff, Routing Group, Juniper Networks
    • Designed and developed a number of MPLS scalability and redundancy features. Some of the deployed features were RSVP refresh reduction (JUNOS 5.1), MPLS fast switch-over (JUNOS 5.3), and RSVP-TE fast reroute (JUNOS 5.4).
    • Invented and designed the original lsp-ping (because its draft would include both of my first and last names).
    • Worked on the PacketStar project on traffic engineering and COPS
    • Researched on scalable reservation signaling mechanisms and UNIX operation systems (kernels).
    • Researched on data networking: signaling protocols (RSVP, SIP), QoS (IntServ, DiffServ), network policies (COPS) and IP switching.
    • Developed RSVP and DiffServ from scratch for IBM router products.
  • 1991-1995, Staff Engineer, Project Lead, IBM
    • Designed and developed the entire stack of Frame Relay UNI/NNI, SMDS UNI and ATM PVC/DXI.
    • Led a development team to help the deployment of Frame Relay services to IGN.
    • Built routers for NSFNET and IBM Global Network (IGN): the last “owner” of T960 T1 and Ethernet that had powered NSFNET, ANS and IGN. 
 

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