Michelle Beck - Palomar College
Michelle Beck - Palomar College
Michelle Beck - Palomar College
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• Solved critical field issue investigating Base Station resets and quickly delivered systemic characterization and planning<br />
guidelines to the customers in India, Egypt, South Africa, and China. Led a team of 7 engineers across multiple international<br />
Motorola divisions by performing task breakdown, task assignment, creating risk assessment plan and developing strategies.<br />
• Defined systems and software architecture, interface between software and firmware and designed next generation radio<br />
platform that supports GERAN evolution,leading a team of 6 engineers across multiple international Motorola divisions.<br />
Standards Delegate for Second Generation Radio Access Network protocol definition 2000-2003, 2006<br />
• Created standards strategy, influenced proposals that Motorola had IPR’s, minimized standards churn.<br />
• Authored several Motorola contributions including R5 GERAN architecture, VoIP over EDGE, DTM, BSSGP flow control<br />
improvements, 2G-3G handovers which were accepted by 3GPP (3G partnership program) telecommunication standard body.<br />
• Recognized with Three Motorola awards for global standard activities.<br />
Principal Staff Engineer, GSM Networks 2000 – 2005<br />
• Defined product roadmap liaising with EMEA and APAC global marketing and product management teams by defining<br />
technical and market requirements; estimated product feature development cost and release cost between $5M to $10M,<br />
created and presented technical solutions to top tier customers to help in business development activities.<br />
• Defined solutions and designed algorithms that enabled inter working of second and third generation wireless networks by<br />
leading a team of 5 engineers across multiple Motorola international locations. Created and maintained functional<br />
requirements, architecture and, design and algorithm for features like seamless inter working across technologies, improving<br />
call setup time, increasing signaling channel bandwidth, packet control channels.<br />
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES Whippany, NJ<br />
Contractor, Cellular Infrastructure 2000<br />
• Designed common base station platform architecture for CDMA, GSM and UMTS wireless technologies, with a focus on<br />
reusing the peripheral devices and interface<br />
• Acted as solutions lead to architect the software for radio access network and the radio platform while ensuring that the<br />
architecture was valid via technical reviews<br />
AT&T SHANNON LABS Florham Park, NJ<br />
Contractor, Applied Research 1998 –2000<br />
• Engineered an inter-operable voice over IP network based on H.323 protocol, SIP/MGCP, created technical requirements and<br />
designed architecture specification for H.323 based network solutions where multiple vendor H.323 equipments can coexist<br />
and inter-work. Led the discussions with vendors, proposed technical solutions to standardize AT&T favorable solutions at<br />
standards like ETSI TIPHON, IMTC iNOW.<br />
• Researched and analyzed 802.11 based solutions for an enterprise based voice and data solution, voice access ports (VAP)<br />
using IS136/ISDN-BRI.<br />
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES Whippany, NJ<br />
Contractor, Integration and Feature Test 1997 – 1998<br />
• Created test plans, designed and developed test cases, including developing models for reliability and code coverage and<br />
executed tests for the second generation digital cellular network functions.<br />
MOTOROLA INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD Bangalore, India<br />
Software Engineer 1994 – 1997<br />
• Senior team member in the design, development and integration of a performance monitor test tool to test second generation<br />
(Japanese) wireless infrastructure equipment. Test tool had two simulators, base station simulator and switch simulator.<br />
Successfully designed, developed and integrated these tools at customer site for PDC and CDMA technologies.<br />
EDUCATION<br />
KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NORTHWESTERN, UNIVERSITY Evanston, IL<br />
Master of Business Administration June 2011<br />
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Bangalore, India<br />
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering 1994<br />
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS Madras, India<br />
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics 1990<br />
PATENTS<br />
• Method and apparatus for traffic management in a wireless network – US patent application 20100315950<br />
• Method and apparatus for tracking data packets in a packet data communication system - US patent application 20030231598<br />
• Method and System for establishing a multiple transfer mode session – US patent application 20080026755
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