Sam Farroha

Background

About Sam Farroha

Chief Systems Engineer/Chief Architect, Technical Director with over 30 years Enterprise Systems Engineering/Architecture, project management and commercial/federal government research and development expertise. Broad experience researching, designing, and implementing complex systems and leading teams through lifecycles development. Extensive experience researching, designing, and implementing packet/circuit based communication architectures, digital signal processing systems, Avionic Communications and enterprise service-based architectures. Extensive experience in architecting secure custom cloud solutions and Heterogeneous computing to optimize processing environment. Leading architect designer and developer of cyber solutions in industry, government, and military environments. Leading research to optimize and secure 5G Wireless and beyond systems and capabilities. Coordinate customer interface, analyze and refine requirements to meet customer expectations and compliance. Develop strategies to resolve technical issues, identify/manage risk and organize teams to implement solutions. Develop trade studies and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA). Perform risk/benefit analysis on various alternatives to solve customer problems. Primary contributor in several National and International Standards and Specifications. Departmental leadership and resource management of multidisciplinary teams. Authored numerous standards and national and international publications and organized/chaired multiple conferences and technical forums. Senior Member & ACM, Member of Tau Beta Pi (TBP), Delta Sigma Pi (DSP), SPIE, NSPE. Specialties: Cyber Security, Mobile Communications, 5G Wireless, Systems Engineering, SoS, Enterprise Engineering/Architecture, Heterogeneous Computing, Heterogeneous cloud architecture, Networking, Network Security, Information Assurance, Cross Domain Services. Communications Systems, Hardware/Software Architecture, ESE, Project/Program management.