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Technical Marketing (Qualcomm Research): Leading the business aspects of multiple R&D projects with clear emphasis on evaluating their potential for becoming new successful businesses for the company. Collaborating closely with chipset and licensing business units to seek alignment and fit of R&D projects within their near and long term strategic and business objectives.
Areas of support include due diligence, market research, competitive analysis, revenue and cost model creation, RFP process, value proposition refinement, use case development, customer engagement and feedback, and preparation of collateral material including white papers, demos, demo videos, and technical marketing material.
Projects are related to low power sensors for smartphones, wearables, drones, robots, and internet of everything, touch and gesture systems, biometric systems, 802.11ah/Zigbee/Zwave/802.15.4, 802.11ac/MU-MIMO, 3G/4G Wi-Fi interworking, LTE-Advanced, HSPA+, and 3G repeater.

Project management and technology consultant. Optimized the development approach of mobile products based on Qualcomm's satellite-DO chipsets (MDM9600/MSM7x30).

Research on state of the art security (AES) in 100G optical communications links.

Technical marketing and competitive analysis of WiMAX chipset products.

ASIC Project Lead. Mobile Station Modem SoC ASICS: Chip Lead for various complex high-volume ASICs. Responsible for the successful development cycle from concept to mass production including RTL coding, Synthesis, Back End, Tape out, Testing, and Bring up.