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Name: |
Kamran Mostafavi |
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408 356 4937 (Home) |
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408 656 6177 (Cell – Preferred) |
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Kamran.mostafavi@gmail.com |
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More than 10 years in managing hardware, firmware, and software projects. Includes people management, engineering management, engineering ODM Vendor management and engineering program management. Experience in various program management methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, and Feature driven development. SDLC, PLC, and phase exit approach in program management. |
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More than 5 years experience in managing continuation / sustaining engineering and working closely with customer support, product marketing, contract manufacturers, operations, and various engineering entities. |
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Solid technical background in routers, X86 servers, Linux, web application development and related technologies spanning more than 25 years of technology experience. |
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Software engineering, Firmware, c, Visual Basic, Php, Mysql, Javascript, Html and Test Automation scripting and programming in Applescript, Autoit, Python, and Linux shell. Skilled in class based as well as procedural programming methodologies. |
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Expert user of MS Excel, MS Project and MS Power point and Visio with programming skills to utilize advanced features of these tools. |
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Experience: |
2012 – Present; Apptify
Webservices Inc |
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Founder and CTO |
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Implement
business solutions for small and medium size businesses to enable growth and
office productivity. Technologies currently utilized include: MS office
automation, Website services and applications for medical and dental
professionals, Finance, Teaching/tutoring, and program/project management.
SAS websites include myusadentist.com and academyhelper.com |
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Implementation
based on LAMP stack, web frameworks and web services. |
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Implemented the
backend server based programs for myusadentist.com and academyhelper.com.
Technologies included Php and Mysql. |
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Implemented the
frontend client interface for myusadentist.com and academyhelper.com.
Technologies included Html, Css style sheets, Javascript, jquery, |
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Backend code implementations
included: client login, automated cron services to perform periodic tasks
such as sending appointment, event and task reminders, SMS phone and voice
messages, client invoices, payment submission to paypal, and automated
facebook page publishing application. |
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Client side
code implementations included: Time and event scheduler, Paypal interface for
payments, Google Map interface, Encryption module to transfer files over ftp,
Database extraction module utilizing ODBC. |
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Client / Server
implementation utilizing http calls, SOAP |
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Test Automation
and consultation for Spikes Securities Inc. Developed automated test tools to
improve tester productivity. Automated tests were configurable via .ini file.
Performed in depth performance analysis of security appliance, and memory
allocation / de allocation characterization. |
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Linux Server
administrative tasks such as software installation and system configuration. |
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2011 – 2012; Aoptix
Technologies, |
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Engineering Program
Manager |
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Responsible for program management of Aoptix’s Hybrid RF & Optical 2Gbps Intellimax point to point wireless transceiver platform. Led a team of senior managers responsible for hardware, software, mechanical, optical, product management, and manufacturing operations. Developed the program schedule, estimated program budget and product COGS. Collaboratively identified and mitigated program risks. Periodically presented status to executive management. |
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2010; Blade Network
Technologies, |
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Program Manager |
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Responsible for program management of BNT’s embedded switch platforms. |
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2000 – 2009;
Juniper Networks Inc. , |
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Senior (Engineering)
Program manager (September 2006-April 2009) |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments included: |
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As the owner of schedule, cost, and scope, I led program execution from concept to production, cross functional issue resolution, action item tracking, risk assessment, mitigation planning and communication across the organization (both up and down the management chain). As the keeper of the program phase exit requirements, I made sure that all cross functional deliverables were identified and completed in time to meet program objectives. I also led the determination of the program prototype allocation needs and owned the program budget. |
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Program Manager for “Juniper Control System”. This project competes with Cisco Secure Domain Router capability. The hardware platform is IBM Blade Center HT with HS21 Blades as CPU engine. The software platform is based on JUNOS. Led all program activities including the ODM vendor selection process, drafting of statement of work and generation of NRE agreement with IBM. |
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Program Manager for 10 x 10 Gig Ethernet Peripheral Interface Card (PIC) for Juniper’s Routers. This program involved working with engineering teams in multiple geographies and cultures as well as hardware and software development. |
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Program Manager for two programs under Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) Team: Feature set for Next Generation Multicast VPN support and MPLS Converged Services Support. Led program execution and overall management of problem reports, system test activities, and release to JUNOS operating system. |
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Senior ODM
Engineering Program Manager, Sustaining Engineering Manager |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments included: |
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Responsible for all phases of product life cycle (NPI and Sustaining) for Juniper routing engines (Intel CPU blades) as the HW Lead, engineering ODM program manager, and sustaining engineering manager. Charted the technical road map of 5 generations of routing engines (included road map for CPU, Chipset, Memory, HDD, and SSD). Led activities with product management and hardware vendors to select appropriate technology based on price performance requirements. Owned the HW specs for the routing engines. |
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Managed hardware vendors Kontron, Motorola and Accton to deliver products per spec (electrical, mechanical, environmental, functional, safety, EMI and NEBS compliance testing standards). Worked with technology partners such as Intel, Broadcom, and Freescale in determining product road maps and providing engineering support. Led key business activity in vendor selection, and drafting OEM/ODM/NRE agreements. Led business process creation for ODM/OEM engagement model from both strategic and tactical aspects. |
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Led the engineering resources within Juniper to integrate the routing engine into the routers. |
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Managed bug triage/tracking activities across multiple functions, companies and geographies. |
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Led the team to design changes resulting in continuous improvement of the routing engines. Examples included: ü Led technical discussions around HW parameters such as CPU cache size, total addressable memory, and IO that improved performance of the routing protocols and applications. ü Drove the performance team to evaluate improvements from one hardware generation to the next. ü Drove the JUNOS Kernel team to improve the reliability of the hard drive by allowing it to go into standby as often as possible. ü Based on customer feedback and RMA data, directed design changes to migrate to extended duty cycle hard drives and solid state drives (SSD). ü Led trouble shooting activity in issues related to cooling CPU at max utilization as well as reliability issues induced by shock and vibration, and JUNOS Kernel bring up on the routing engines. |
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Sustaining engineering manager for Juniper’s J-Series routers, routing engines, and forwarding engine. Worked closely with customer service department and contract manufacturers to resolve field and production issues. Managed design change qualifications, bug tracking, release to production, and RMA analysis. |
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1995 – 2000;
Hewlett Packard Company – Network server division, Cupertino, CA |
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Netserver Firmware
Architect (Intel CPUs) |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments included: |
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In order to improve our productivity, led the division to re-engineer NSD's software development life cycle. As part of this effort, I worked with firmware and hardware engineers to re-architect our products and processes to enable us to outsource some of our work to technology partners. |
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Instituted a Delivery and Quality Metric to measure performance of external software vendor. |
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Defined the firmware road map for NSD netservers. |
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Project lead for Common BIOS group of twelve engineers to deliver shared firmware services to platform teams. |
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Hold a technology patent on interrupt routing in servers. |
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Project leader |
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Assisted management team to define and form the in-house BIOS development team at NSD for enterprise and mid range Intel based Netservers. Led group of five engineers to deliver LH6000, LC3, LH Pro and LH 3 system software, NSD’s 6 way and multi processor Pentium III, Pentium II, and Pentium Pro Netservers. |
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Affected organizational change by championing new approach in system integration test process to improve testing of the Netservers. |
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Managed the technical relationship with Phoenix Technologies Ltd., the BIOS vendor. |
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Represented the platform team in cross-functional meetings such as system and bug review meetings for Netservers (LH, LH Pro, LH3, LC3, and LH6000). |
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United Way Chairperson for NSD. Managed a group of 8 team captains to run campaign. Improved the results over the previous year. |
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1993 - 1995; AST
Research Inc., |
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Senior Engineer |
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Responsible for design and development of PnP\PCI\DMI BIOS for AST desktop products. |
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1991 - 1993;
Perisys Technologies Inc., |
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Consultant and
Principal for a Start-Up Peripheral Development Company |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments include: |
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Managed a team performing product testing. |
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Managed a team preparing product documentation, and marketing and sales literature. |
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Supported product sales. |
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Designed MemoryMaster, windows based data base application for Simple Technology, a Memory Module manufacturer. MemoryMaster was used as a sales tool. |
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Designed the drivers for the DiskGenius and FloppyMaster cards, floppy/tape/IDE Controller cards that support two internal IDE hard drives and four internal floppy drives including the 2.88 MB floppy drive. |
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1987 - 1991;
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., |
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Group Leader - May
1990 – October 1991 |
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Principal
Engineer/Project Leader –December 1988 - May 1990 |
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Senior Engineer –
December 1987 – December 1988 |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments included: |
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Group Lead for a team of 8 engineers to customize the BIOS for a variety of IBM compatible clones. Tasks included: scheduling, supervision, and design review. |
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Project Lead for EISA BIOS implementation. Managed 4 engineers for the project. |
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Designed BIOS for a variety of chip sets made by Intel, Chips & Technologies, Headland, OPTI, and western digital. |
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1984 - 1987; Scully Electronic Systems Inc., |
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Design Engineer |
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Responsibilities and accomplishments included: |
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Complete design of the Scully Intelligent Tank Overfill Prevention System (ITOPS) from definition to implementation. This system is used in petrochemical industry. |
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Hardware and firmware design of communication and data acquisition software to network numerous controllers and personal computers. |
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Cooperated with the manufacturing department to resolve problems. |
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Education: |
Master of
Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bachelor of science,
Electrical Engineering, |
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Training: |
Acquired management training from Boston Training Resources (6-month program). Took several project management (PMI) courses at Hewlett Packard and Juniper Networks Inc including project management fundamentals, program and system management. PMP Certified since 2010 (certificate renewal in plan) |
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Hardware: |
Intel: 80x86, 8050 family, ATCA, IBM Blade Center, CPCI, Infiniband, PCI, PCI express, |
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Languages: |
Intel x86 assembler (real & protected mode), BIOS, Intel 8050 assembler, C/C++, MS-Windows (SDK), Pascal, Dbase, FoxPro, Access, Visual Basic, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Dreamweaver CS3, Linux shell script, Autoit. |
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Tools: |
Software: |
Excel, Microsoft Project, Clarity, Agile, Kernel Debugger, Microsoft Network Analyzer |
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Hardware: |
Bus analyzers, ITP, Oscilloscopes, Logic analyzers |
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