C.V.'s of the Principal ComSysDes Consultants
Jose Alvarellos: Systems Architect and experienced technical leader, 30+ years experience. Principal Engineer and ComSysDes co-founder.
Jose Created and sustained development organizations. Ample experience in all areas of product development of the telecom and datacom markets, from conception to launch into Manufacturing. In addition to the electrical development, the hands-on experience includes packaging, agency approval, document control, customer trial, statistical Manufacturing processes, etc. Ten+ years directing development of telecom products including T1 multiplexers and wireless telephony. Highly energetic individual, enjoys engagement with start-ups or very dynamic environments in the development and manufacture of products for the telecom/datacom industry.
Career Highlights
Extensive experience in:
* Systems Design - digital, analog, telecommunications, data communications.
* Mixed Technologies - video, RF, DSP, analog and digital; system thermal and mechanical issues.
* Strong in Fundamental Engineering, well rounded in support of Physical and Biological sciences.
* Manufacturing Support: - Documentation Control, Test Engineering
* Schedule Generation - systematic approach for reliable schedules.
* Communications - with customers and marketing department.
* International - complex business negotiations
* Creation of development environments from ground up
* Agency approvals - UL, TUV, FCC, design for approval
Positions Held
Principal Engineer and General Manager: 1999-present: ComSysDes LLC (Fremont, CA)
Consulting Engineering company specialized in computer and communication business. Assisted client companies in system and hardware design. Coordinated and directed a team of independent professionals in several engineering disciplines. Contributed and personally performed detail design of numerous cards and sub-systems. Consulted in system topics ranging from cooling and chassis design to foreign telecom agency compliance testing.

Director of Hardware Development, Engineering Services & Customer Support: 1994-1998 Diva Communications (Oakland, CA):
Pioneer company in the Wireless Local Loop business. Contributed to the architecture and personally designed several key system cards. Built, organized and managed the H/W Development and Engineering Services groups. Managed the UL, FCC and TUV product approvals. Created the Test Engineering group and did its successful spin off to a new Manufacturing facility. Contributed to the successful first international product deployment in the field.

Director of Product Development: 1987-1993 Telco Systems (Fremont, CA). Responsible for the system architecture and subsequent development of the first CCITT/CEPT E1 PCM multiplexer developed in the company. Run for two years most of the Engineering department (H/W Development, Document Control, Component Engineering, Agency Approvals, Mechanical Design, Sustaining Engineering and Firmware Development). Streamlined the development process by choice of development tools, some developed in-house. Responsible for the system architecture and the subsequent development of a new product line. Evaluated partnerships with foreign companies and acquisition of technologies. Direct responsible for the successful integration of a new product line acquired from outside the company. Trained in "Time to Market" and Crosby's "Total Quality Management" methodologies.

Other Relevant Experience: Held senior positions doing electrical development, architecture or Systems Engineering at the following companies: N.E.C. America, Transmission Development Division (San Jose, CA), Telestream Corporation (Mountain View, CA), Avatar Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Packet Technologies Inc. (Cupertino, CA), Information Solutions Inc. (San Jose, CA), Hasler Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Amatrix Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Education
  • University of Buenos Aires: Electromechanical/Electronic Engineer (equivalent to MSEE).
  • Many specific technical and management courses completed, foreign and domestic, before and after graduation for various employers.
Personal Data
  • Married, father of four children (three already graduated from college); Argentine citizen, permanent US resident in Fremont, California
  • Other languages: Spanish (native language), Italian (read, speak), Portuguese (read, speak).
  • Enjoy skiing, jogging and reading.
Terry Fernandes: Versatile designer and hands-on manager, 15+ years of experience. Sr. Design Engineer and ComSysDes co-founder.
Terry Very well rounded experience in all facets of the hardware development process: design, implementation, agency approval tests, manufacturing launch and support, testing, sustaining. Familiarity with real world product issues acquired in supporting field installations and maintenance. Very good experience in hardware / software integration. Successful hands-on manager, team member or sole contributor as the project needs may dictate.
Career Highlights
Extensive experience in:
* Systems Design - telecommunications, data communications and digital.
* Mixed Technologies - DSP, analog and digital.
* Manufacturing Support: - Test Engineering
* Field support - national and international customers
* Agency approval testing - UL, TUV, FCC, thermal
Positions Held
Manager, RSC Hardware Development, 1994-1999; DIVA Communications, Oakland, CA: - Team member responsible for the design and development of the Radio Switch Controller (RSC), a subsystem serving as the Controller/Central Office Interface of the DIVA 2000 Wireless Local Loop.
- Personally designed and developed various adapter cards that allowed third party VME [Motorola, PRI, etc.] cards to conform to the RSC proprietary functional specs, as well as Central Office Equipment standards.
- Responsible for the development and tracking of project schedules and coordinating with Engineering to staff and status projects.
- Responsible for conducting pre-compliance FCC type tests, and obtained UL/TUV and FCC approvals.
- Supported field trials of the DIVA 2000 System in Xinjiang, China.
- Supported the transfer to Manufacturing in the building and testing of various Cards.
- Designed the RSC Backplanes and two 68302 based cards (a TMS320C50 based Voice Processing Card and an Basic Rate ISDN card).
- Managed and technically contributed to the development of a MC68360 based E1 Interface Card and the PCB design of various other cards.
- Developed Manufacturing Test Procedures for all RSC Cards.

Member of the Technical Staff, 1993-1994; Andrew VSAT Systems, Fremont, CA - Designed a synchronous data interface based on the MC68302 processor for the SWAN system, a TDMA Satellite Wide Area Network.
- Implemented all the necessary hardware to meet RS232, RS449, and V.35 specifications.
- Assisted in the final hardware and software development for a 9600 baud fax modem interface.
- Designed and implemented digital filters for a voice processing card based on the TMS320C25 Digital Signal Processor.

Digital Hardware/Firmware Engineer, 1989 - 1993, ISS Engineering Inc., Palo Alto, CA - Team member that developed the PageSat 200, a DSP based FDM-FM satellite data and audio receiver.
- Wrote and supported software, initially developed by Consultants, for both the TMS320C25 DSP and 8051 Processors.
- Responsible for final DSP software debug and qualification for a Group2 AM weather FAX modulator and demodulator.
- Developed the hardware and 8051 controller firmware for the UDI-200, a V.29/V.27 satellite data interface.
- Assisted in the DSP software development and code optimization for a Single Side Band transmitter and receiver.
- Designed: FIR and IIR digital filter, using ASPI's digial filter design package; designed phase-locked loops, VCOs and mixers; and automatic gain control routines.
- Modified 8051 code to program new PLL synthesizer devices, and to meet new product specifications and enhancements.
- Designed digital circuitry supporting the TMS320C25 and 8051 processors.

Electronics Engineer, 1986 - 1989, CXR Telcom (formerly Anderson-Jacobson), San Jose, CA - Designed and developed various modem products for domestic and European markets.
Education
  • Bachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA June 1986.
  • Associate Of Science, Engineering Technology, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA June 1984.
Personal Data
  • Married, father of one boy; US citizen; born in Kenya, resident in San Bruno, California.
  • Other languages: Swahili (read, speak).
  • Enjoy running, outdoors and reading.
Jose Alvarellos Jr.: Specialist in Physical Systems, Software Engineer and ComSysDes co-founder.
Jose Jr. Specialist in Computer Simulations, Physical Systems analysis and Thermal Simulations. Instrumental in providing ComSysDes with the scientific depth required by the complex nowadays communication systems. Bridged the gap between Engineering and pure Science in the practical hi-tech applications.
Positions Held
Software Engineer, Space Systems Loral, Palo Alto, CA.: * Implementation and design of an Analysis and Planning software for satellite operations. Duties include programming in FORTRAN for the mathematical/algorithmic parts of the program (orbital determination, orbital propagation, thruster firing sequences, etc.) and C++ for the GUI part of the software.

Research Assistant, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA. Worked in various basic science research projects: Computer simulation of solar plasma. Writing, debugging and optimizing the FORTRAN code, running the simulations and interpreting the resulting data. 2) Assistant to the Planetary Rings Node at NASA Ames (http://ringside.arc.nasa.gov). 3) Study of stability of distant natural satellites of Jovian planets/Celestial Mechanics (this research led into M.S. thesis).

Part Time Faculty Instructor, San Jose State University (Physics Department). Various duties, among them: 1) Teaching of lower division undergraduate physics laboratories. 2) Taught a calculus-based physics lecture in the Fall semester 1996.
Awards
  • Certificate of Achievement at NASA Ames’ Space Science Division.
  • Student winner of the annual Division of Dynamical Astronomy student thesis contest (gave a talk at the 1996 Division of Dynamical Astronomy’s 1996 Washington D.C. meeting).
  • Several published papers in the topics of orbital dynamics
Education
  • Master of Science, Physics (Concentration in Computational Physics), San Jose State University, August 1996.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Physical Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, May 1993.
Personal Data
  • Amateur astronomer.
  • Enjoy soccer, computing, swimming, skiing, photography, playing the guitar and reading.
  • Other languages: Very fluent in Spanish (native speaker). Read, write and speak Russian.
Ahmad Marashi: Product Testing Group Manager.
Ahmad Ahmad Marashi joined ComsysDes in January 2002 to manage the Product Testing Group. Prior to joining ComsysDes, Ahmad Marashi served as System Test Verification manager at Lucent Technologies from December 1998 to December 2001, Project lead at Diva communication from December 1995 to December 1998 and PQA Project lead at ROLM PBX system from June 1987 to December 1995. Ahmad Marashi received BSEE & MSEE degree (in Digital signal processing & Filter Design) from State University of Long Beach, California. His experience during these years is as follows
Career Highlights
Extensive hands-on experience in:
* Communication Protocols: AMPS, TDMA, T1, E1, SS7 signaling, Call processing, Digital signal processing.
* Instruments: Ameritec Bulk generator, Hammer, Catapult, HP 8595A Spectrum Analyzer, SAGE. * Languages: ”C”, SQA,
* Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, X.25, Routers
Positions Held
Lucent Technologies (Milpitas, CA):
  • Managed application and system verification test groups on different releases for Call Application Unified voice messaging projects.
  • Managed for supporting the field and development groups to analyze and reproduce the customer problem that occurred in the field.
  • Managed and supported the corporate voice mail system.
  • Managed the remote PQA group in Bangalore (India) site and he was responsible for disassembling and moving two entire Lucent PQA labs to Bangalore (India).
DIVA Communications (Oakland, CA):
Worked on product testing and software quality assurance of the Diva 2000, a complex end-to-end Wireless Local Loop system for voice, fax and data:
  • Responsible for testing, fault-isolation, and debugging problems at the module, component and a system level comprising RSC (Radio/Switch controller), MBS (Modular Base Station), SMS (System Management Software), SLSU (Single Line Subscriber Unit), MLSU (Multiple Line Subscriber Unit) and third party equipment such as: DLC, Telco E1 back-haul.
  • Involved in maximum call capacity testing of the system (Voice, Fax, Data) using Automated test tools.
  • Performed RF testing using HP 8595A spectrum analyzer, telephone parameter testing using Ameritec AM8E call analyzer and TIMS tool.
  • Wrote the Procomm scripts and QuickLink for Data and Fax automation testing.
  • Provided remote and on-site technical support to field teams at China Xingjang Province and Kazakhstan.
Siemens ROLM Communications
  • Responsible for development of test plans and methodologies for pricing, quoting, and configuration Windows-based GUI Off-Line Tools for the Siemens PBX.
  • Wrote scripts for Off-Line tools using SQA.
  • Project lead for Digital and analog trunk on ROLM and Siemens PBX systems.
  • Project lead VRU (Voice Response Unit) interfacing with IBM host, CallPath and ROLM Phone Mail and Automatic call distribution.
Education
  • BSEE, State University of Long Beach, California.
  • MSEE (in Digital signal processing & Filter Design) from State University of Long Beach, California.
  • Other Training and Achievements: ROLM CBX 9751 Maintenance, VRU (Voice Response Unit), ISDN and T1 Carrier Seminar, Signaling System #7, Catapult, Hammer, Voice over IP class, Management courses.
Personal Data
  • Other languages: Fluent in Farsi (native language), fairly fluent in Turkish.
  • Personal Data: US citizen, team player, flexible.
John Moore: Director of Business Development.
John Moore John Moore joined ComsysDes in 2006 with the mission to bring the company to a new level of business and service. John brings to the table his unusual blend of engineering and business background. While working from his own company, Montara Sales, he accepted the responsibility of Director of Business Development at our company.
Career Highlights
  • John Moore spent 10 years working at equipment manufactures in the Silicon Valley, California, including pioneers such as Brocade and David Systems, as an Electronics Hardware Engineer. He then went on to obtain his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Rochester with an emphasis on Marketing and Finance.
  • As an electrical engineer John has led the successful development of several data communications products. His recent work has been in business development and includes the sales and marketing of engineering services.
  • Past successes have included sales, promotion, and support of capital equipment, patented processes, and software. John has worked in several industries including those involving semiconductor manufacture, consumer electronics, information technology datacenter, nutritional supplement, and plastics.
  • Since the year 2001, John has been engaged full-time in technical marketing as a sales representative.
Education
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Oakland University, Michigan.
  • Masters in Business Administration from the University of Rochester
Personal Data
John lives with his wife in North Carolina, near Research Triangle Park, in Southwestern Wake County. Outside of work, John enjoys equestrian sports, volleyball, rollerblading, mountain biking, and biographical studies.

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