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Mimi Tam
Brookline, New Hampshire
Mobile: 603-571-5301
e-mail: mimi.tam@ieee.org
US Citizen, Justice of the Peace


PROFILE
•	Experienced in software (and embedded software) engineering. Expert in software development processes, applications and tools to provide immediate value and contribution to projects and problem solving. Used to firefighting time-sensitive customer technical problems. Work very well under pressure.
•	Many years of technical and management leadership experience in forming technical direction, architecture, implementation, testing and deployment; as well as for projects and people. 
•	Substantial experience in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Agile/SCRUM and have been responsible for releasing many commercial products. Knowledge in Digital Six Sigma (yellow belt).
•	Very effective in producing high-quality software, on-time and on budget.
•	Specialized Skills: 
	Telecommunications and Wireless Protocols; participation in Standard Bodies (e.g. ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, 3GPP, 3GPP2, WiMAX Forum, IEEE 802xxx). Also, legacy circuit switch era technologies e.g. GR-303, V5.2.
	C, C++, embedded C and C++, Java, OOD, OOA, UML
	Deep understanding and solid working experience in scalable systems and dealt with network and system performance including throughput, latency, memory, CPU utilization, and resource analysis.
	Knowledge in Virtualization technologies and enterprise VMware products. 
	End-to-end Telecom and/Wireless Networking design and implementation
	Software Virtualization, SOA and SaaS.
	Distributed systems, location-based, policy-based and routing-efficiency-based software 
	JADE/WADE web services and ontology technology for autonomous systems.
	Data Mining, Ontology technologies for Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Expert Systems design and implementation.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
      
Octoscope (www.octoscope.com)
Mobile Applications – Technical Lead
•	Wireless / Mobile Application Business Development and Design Architect.
•	SoA using ESB in SaaS research and development. R&D also on Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
•	Attend IEEE 802 Standard workgroups, WiMAX forum, TV White Spaces and other wireless related committees.
•	Prototype wireless applications backend processing in C, C++.

02/2008 – 11/2008 Mutualink, Inc. Westford, MA – very hands-on director of engineering
•	Functioned as architect, engineer, business development manager, and product /project manager on a RF-based collaborative adhoc system used in emergency situations.
•	Individual contributor (C, C++, Assembler) in churning out codes for 1st call scenarios before turning demo to production software – sharing voice, data, video, text, in real time in mesh networks formed by law enforcement agencies.
•	NMS, EMS, OSS development projects.
•	Explored Agent-based architecture for transforming existing code base.

04/2006 – 02/2008 Motorola, Inc. Lowell, MA 
End-to-end Systems and Networks architectures, also as an IP SME (Subject Matter Expert)
•	Worked on a Data Modeling Tool for dimensioning and predicting heavy-tailed Internet traffic.
•	Worked on many end-to-end wired and wireless network performance optimization projects.
•	Also worked on numerous device performance projects for mobile handsets.
•	Worked on SoA projects, WorkFlow Engines and projects in Data Mining.
•	Worked on end-to-end wireless networking systems from the Radio Access Network (e.g. WiMAX, CDMA, Metro WiFi, 3G. 4G/LTE. etc), backhaul MPLS transport, metro WiFi to the backend IP / IMS core networks.

10/2003 – 04/01/2006 Sentito Networks, Inc. Acton, MA – Team Leader and Software Architect
•	Responsible for leading forward looking and strategic development initiatives in addition to serving as the lead architect, designer and developer on critical path features. 
•	R&D-ed on Fixed-Mobile Convergence and IMS development.
•	Support customer live production systems in any performance issues. 

10/2000 – 10/2003: Integral Access, Inc. Chelmsford, MA – Signaling embedded Software Team Lead
•	Worked on projects in the areas of ISDN, Signaling protocols, V5.2 and GR-303 products.
•	Be the engineer resource at customer sites (Germany, Kazakhstan) for the V5.2 offerings.  

9/1998 – 10/1999: Ezenia, Inc. (VideoServer, Inc.), Burlington, MA
Principal Software Engineer / Project Lead
•	Worked on Videoconferencing software in SIP and H.323 including GateKeeper, NetServer  & MCU boxes in C and C++.
•	Worked on the design and implementation of ITU-T standard protocols H.323, H.221, H.245 and other IP RFCs.
•	Worked on the Data Sharing protocol (T.120) on the white-boarding & application-sharing features. 
•	Participated in working groups of Standard bodies including ITU-T, IETF, etc.

6/1997 - 9/1998: PictureTel Corporation, North Andover, MA
Principal Software Engineer / Project Leader
•	Worked on the design and development of a H.323 Server product including Gateways, Configuration tools, Bandwidth Management, Endpoint / Workgroup Provisioning and Call Center features.
•	A key member in the SIP development team for the SIP version of the H.323 product.
•	Project lead for a web-based client product for the Gatekeeper Server. 

8/1994 - 6/1997: IBM – Lotus Development Corporation, Westford, MA
Principal Software Engineer/ Project Leader
•	Worked on Imaging applications and tools including Fax Servers, Image Viewer, OCR and Scanning applications for Domino.
•	Worked on Pager Gateway, early version of SMS.
•	Worked on the integration of the One-Way Pager and SkyTel’s 2-way pager with Lotus Domino server.

7/1989 - 8/1994: IBM - Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Senior à Principal Software Engineer 
•	Worked in the Multimedia Team on the Intel ProShare Camera R&D for Desktop PCs & Integration of multi-media with Lotus Notes.

EDUCATION

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management – Certificate Series:
o	Executive Management Strategy and Innovation 
o	Executive Management in Technology Operations and Supply Chain Management 

	Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization
	Developing and Managing a Successful Technology 
	Product Strategy 
	Reinventing Your Business Strategy
	Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy
	Managing Complex Product Development Projects
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	University of Wales, Robert Kennedy School (Swiss) – completing MSc (Master of Science) for Advanced Technology and Business Management. 

	1982 Jinan University – BS equivalent in EEE (Electrical & Electronic Engineering) and Economics.

	1983 – 1998 – Completed over 50 independent EE graduate & professional level programs in Advanced Computer Technology and Engineering at various universities including Northeastern, MIT, Harvard Extension and Boston University; while working full time.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

•	Senior IEEE Member (8/1995 – Present) – Current NH Section Industry Liaison chair
•	Society of Women Engineers (life-long member)
•	Federation of American Scientist (life-long member)
•	International Executive Guild Member (1/1999 – Present)