Doug Walker

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About Doug Walker

Have over 20 years of experience in product development in the Networking and Telecommunications industries. Recent Systems and Software architecture, customer requirements development and design team management in the mobile and wired networking equipment industries. Have expertise in product and feature investigation, solution and requirements definition, project leadership, software developer management, collaboration and product delivery. Technologies: Communications systems, IP protocols, switching, Ethernet, wireless, device drivers, multi-core software design, inter-chassis and inter-slot messaging systems, off the shelf hardware systems such as ATCA, systems work with custom hardware and design for reliability and serviceability. Also experienced with networking system that split control from forwarding similar to Software Defined Networking (SDN). Architecture and Design: Collaborating with hardware and software design teams on high level design decisions, driving agreed upon architectures, architecture specs, lower level design decisions, the review process, technical risk assessment and tracking and problem solving. Customer interaction: Working with customers on requirements; negotiating requirements taking into account scope of effort, hosting reviews and creating consensus. Negotiating high level testing scope, reviewing performance results.