Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
• 20+ years of experience in the telecommunication industry, focusing towards design, implementation and maintenance of mobile communication systems for 2G, 3G, LTE and NR. • 15+ years of experience in customer and supplier communication. 4 years the direct interface to customers for system engineering topics on Rel. 11 to Rel. 14 products. • Direct manager to a multi-sited and multi-cultural system engineering team of 20 experts, responsible for defining features, interfaces and the control architecture on PHY level. • Rich knowledge in communication systems, 3GPP standards, software development lifecycle and creation of architecture and interface specifications. • Strong expertise in the overall PHY FW architecture and concepts for features and KPI optimizations. • Lead architect for the entire audio architecture including speech, music, bluetooth, voice memo, audio streaming and sound enhancements for different sample rates. • Development of speech and audio codecs like AMR, MP3, AAC, WMA and audio features like polyphonic sounds and equaliser. • Experience in requirement management, defect tracking, PHY specification release management and software deliveries to customer. • Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Able to handle successfully customer requests and escalations under stressful project environment.
System Architect, algorithm development, concept engineer for wireless technologies (LTE, IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n), broadband access technologies (VDSL2, g.vector, ADSL), and home networking (ITU g.hn). Project and team lead for international, multi-site developments. Deep understanding of system architectures for communication systems, crosstalk and interference cancellation. Specialties: System architecture, physical layer technologies, wireless and wireline communication systems, project management, team lead, system simulations in Matlab, C++
FW architect for LTE projects for release 8 to release 14 : • Technical lead of a multi-site team in US, India, China and Germany of about 15 people: o Definition of L1 control architecture for FDD/TDD o Definition of interfaces between PS and L1 o Concept development and implementation of 3GPP- and non-3GPP features o Timing analysis, memory and complexity estimations • Concept design of the following features: o eMBMS, Carrier Aggregation, IRAT handling, measurement scheduling, etc. • Optimization of power consumption at PHY level. • Supporting trace and debug topics, also onsite at customers in US and Korea. • Direct customer support through weekly alignment meetings, onsite support, organisation and leading of workshops, presentation of concepts. • Ensuring the accuracy of effort estimations and delivery timeline for PHY features. • Implementation of parts of the L1 PHY controller in C++. • Requirement management. Direct manager of a multi-sided and multi-cultural team of 20 experts : • Definition of the annual targets and long term career plans together with the team members. • Annual appraisal talks • Regular 1:1 meetings and team meetings • Resource planning for the different projects. • Alignment with the higher management on project targets. • Interviews and hiring of applicants for open positions.
Overall FW/SW architect for 3G telecom and multimedia projects
Overall FW/SW architect for 2G/3G telecom and multimedia projects.