Six Sigma Black

Ali Elahi

(M) 480-***-**** · ******@***.***

LinkedIn Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-elahi-ph-d-8690b535/

Extensive architecture, design, and testing experience in embedded systems in commercial and DoD applications. Experienced in Model Based System (MBS) engineering processes, Agile/SAFe and system/ module ownership of requirement definition, design,validation & verification and life-cycle management. Highly skilled in problem solving and trade off studies for delivering systems that are based on the best engineering design practices to meet and exceeds customer requirements/expectation. Experienced in deployment support and system operation maintenance (diagnostic and dash-boarding) tools/environment. People leader managing teams and ensuring project planned work product are carried out in a timely manner with high quality. Experienced individual contributor taking on challenging issues and utilizing my deep technical experience to solve problems.

·Subject Mater Expert in 4G/5G wireless cellular network modem design, Wi-Fi, MQTT, NFC, BT, Satellite, wireline networks

oConnected Vehicle, Infotainment, ADAS, Autonomous architecture utilizing the latest industry hardware platform and SW methodologies

oTaking product level requirements and decomposing into System/Sub-system, Functional, and Component levels with up and down traceability, ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliant design.

·Expertise in SDLC in Agile / SAFe, waterfall methodologies and processes;

·Experienced in Use Case analysis and PlantUML tools, trade study and business plan development

·Drives innovation that redefines industry standards of success, spearheading visions, organizations, and products

·Pushes boundaries of possibilities in rapidly evolving markets, blending latest technology with high-value R&D

·Provides 360-degree perspective, striking optimal balance between interpersonal, writing, and IT realms

·Tackles most complex issues to arise, quickly devising effective, out-of-the-box, and comprehensive solutions

·Builds powerhouse multidisciplinary and/or ad hoc teams, and loyal customer and referral bases, translating technical concepts to people on all levels, and uniting all on best-in-class missions, practices, and goals

·Held Secret US Government Security Clearance, issued by Department of Justice (expired in 2011)

Certification & Awards:

·Agile/SAFe certified,

·Six sigma black belt,

·Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)

·Fully trained and experienced with requirement management and design database (Rational RTC, DOORS / DNG, JIRA, Confluence)

·SDLC expert in Agile / SAFe, waterfall methods and processes

·Professional Engineer (inactive)

·Many company and customer awards, including “on me”, “Team Player” and achievements, mentoring, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer and white paper presentations.

Member of Technical Staff, Principal System Engineer, Associate Research Scientist, Associate Professor· System Architecture · Software Architecture · Business Development · Network Architecture · Product Line Development & Evolution · Proposals · Cost/Benefit Justifications · Presentations · Writing & Documentation · Team Building · Cross Functional Coordination

EDUCATION

·PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama

·MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama

·BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mississippi State University, Miss State, MS

AWARDS & HONORS & MEMBERSHIPS

·One defensive publication, approved and soon to be published by GM (SMS Critical Event Stateless Header Compression)

·Motorola Standards Participation Award for contribution to 3GPP2 Quality of Service Standards

oAuthor of Change Request (CR), 3GPP2 TS23.107 Multi-Level Priority and Pre-emption

·Many Company and Customer granted awards, including “On Me”, “Team Player” and achievements, mentoring, knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Transfer and White Paper Presentations

·“Benefits of a Hybrid Agile/SAFe and Waterfall Process Approach to SW development”, work in progress

INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS

·Ability to think creatively – Like to take on challenging issues and not stop until a solution is found

·Expert at communication system interoperability, especially Telematics, modems and data center remote command and control and data sharing / transport.

·Accomplished technical writer and Subject Matter Expert in Quality of Service in Wireless Communications

·Outstanding oral and presentation communication skills

·Skilled in recognizing and communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions

·Track record of working on highly advanced technologies, principles, theories, and concepts that result in new business for the company.

·Expert at writing white papers to explore a topic area.

·Experienced at working new and modified standards through standards bodies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·Expert level 4G/5G wireless protocol knowledge

·Expert in Time and Sync and time distribution protocols

·Expert in consumer SIM design and deployment for connected vehicles

·Experienced with safety and regulatory / regional requirements

·Design and analysis of high availability systems

·Broad cross domain experience and understanding, software, systems, hardware, and networks

·Experienced with embedded real-time software development & systems

·Experienced with the hardware level architecture of embedded computers

·Skilled at capturing top level requirements and documenting them in DOORS, DNG, RTC, JIRA, Confluence, and other tools

·Skilled at modeling systems using UML and structured techniques

·Skilled at ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, correct, and are operationally defined; ensuring that requirements meet operational, schedule, and cost constraints

·Expert at partitioning systems into sub-systems such that salient concerns are separated, and the system is robust yet amenable to future technology insertion

·Expert at creating use cases and scenarios for documenting system ConOps and for writing test cases

·Experienced creating product descriptions using Product Requirements Document (PRD)

·Experienced writing product design documents, both high level and low level

COMPUTER SKILLS

·Computer Languages: C, C++, Java, Python.

·Office Tools: Power user of Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Project, Access

·Systems Engineering Tools: IBM Rational Tools DOORS/DNG/RTC, UML Modeling, OpNet modeling tools

POSITIONS HELD (Most Recent First)

General Motors, Feature Owner and Sr. System Engineer - August 2016 – August 2024

·Architecture and functional requirement definition and analysis of Vehicle Intelligent Platform (VIP) that is App, pub / sub service based, configurable that can be calibrated in a dynamic distributed command and control from the Back Office.

·Utilizing App/GPIO/Core embedded platform that is software defined to allow remote services management and ensuring system operation and upgrades are achieved via push and pull operations from a remote data center via Over-The-Air (OTA)

·Allowing best industry practices of monitoring/log capture, transport and big data analytics / data mining in the data center

·Use of open AI tools to analyze and perform optimization when there is uncertainty and events are non-deterministic.

·Design, development of Infotainment Analytics, an Android based serviceability to collect / reduce and transfer user Human Machine Interface and preference built into the Infotainment system

·IPv4/v6 planning and support in SW system interfaces

·Capacity and performance modeling

·Standards and regulatory compliance analysis and enforcement via shall requirement statements

·Architected vehicle’s infotainment analytics system. HMI and App user interaction data enabler to collect and transport connected vehicle via IoT hub message broker to data center for big data analytics/behavioral studies and archiving in hot and cold storage.

·Requirement analysis and management in DOORS and CRs in RTC, authoring system, architecture and Design Failure Mode Analysis (DFMEA) specifications. Ensuing compliance to security and user data privacy policies.

·Served as subject matter expert in Telecomm, cellular, capacity, QoS, availability, reliability in meeting user service expectation. Transition from current infotainment support to autonomous vehicle and ensuring regulatory and safety requirements are met and product delivery meets planned deployment schedules.

HiMex, Member of Technical Staff/Product Manager, Scottsdale, Arizona - 2013-2016

Embedded software and application integration to back-end infrastructure. As a telematics Usage Based Insurance (UBI) provider device manager responsible for GPRS/CDMA/BTLE/GPS enabled dongle architecture and its integration with the backend system residing on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for decode, rules engine, user interface and actuary database for scoring and archival. Ensuring data type and frequency of collection (reporting profile), acknowledged UDP/IP messages transport to the gateway for decode, rules engine for trip generation, crash detect reporting and diagnostic trouble code (DTC) are to spec and meet end-to-end requirements.

·Successful deployment of CalAmp LMU3000, LMU3030 device in several states by American Family, Metlife, Mapfre and several pilot programs currently in progress. Novatel 3060 device development complete and ready for deployment. Scripting is employed to match custom data reporting in order to arrive at optimal streaming and burst data transport to meet accuracy and precision without exceeding data plan cost.

·Co-inventor of a priority queue scheduling scheme patent for serving UBI and Crash data buffers allowing crash notification (MEMS’ g-force accelerometer and acoustic sensor readings exceeding set thresholds) to take precedence over UBI without any loss of data.

·Offering telematics dongle security and assuring carrier that all available measures are taken to minimize risk of hacking or remote command and control of the vehicle by offering device access control, application layer and over-the-air interface encryption.

·CalAmp LMU3010 BLE performance validation when utilizing SPP over BT to ensure acknowledged UDP transport and segmentation and reassembly of BT L2 frames between the dongle and the smart mobile device cellular stack are within spec and meet service delivery requirements. Also to ensure optimal power consumption as LE per standards group body was meant for IoT and not streaming and voice with real-time latency and packet loss requirements.

·AWS app server capacity planning to ensure right level of redundancy/load balancing, failover and operational health monitoring (Icinga) REQs, availability/reliability and SLA were met and to spec.

Comcast Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 2011-2012

Senior system engineer working with engineers and design and system operation to ensure standards and quality of service were built in and met. The system to have a back end data collection, reporting and dash-boarding of daily user experience / trouble tickets and network performance data. The database and the user interface data reduction and analytics was customized for technical and management to view and assess historical network operation performance and take action to update software by corrective action in a development environment. Had to coordinate and work in a cross functional team to ensure the upgrade were fully vetted and tested in test markets to ensure operational readiness.

General Dynamics Decision System, Scottsdale, Arizona – 2000. 2011

Principal System Engineer working various DoD (US Army, US Navy satellite and command and control system communication, FAA, and Coast Guard) projects, led various project lifecycle roles starting from PRD, Arch and System/Subsystem, Functional and component levels. Responsible for requirement definition generation and upload to deb (IBM Rational Product DOORS) and defect Management (RTC). Working with architect and SMEs to fully understand the design tradeoffs and performance analysis so that as incremental development was done that design requirements were met before reviewed with customer. Involved in change request and product enhancement as new capabilities were identified / shared with customers. Responded to request for information (RFI), proposal submission, authoring technical sections of the doc and supporting cost benefit analysis during the submission process. Spent the last five years working on Mobile User Objective System Ground station development and architecture, security certification and network operation design.

MOTOROLA SATCOM, Chandler, Arizona – 1997 - 2000

Principal System engineer working Iridium, Teledesic, Celestri, Aspira and other satellite programs working closely with architect and subject matter experts to ensure product and design (HW and SW) were defined, analyzed and designs. To meet business and customer application needs. Authored a change Request to 3GPP2 (R99) TS23.107 Priority and Preemption standards. Co-inventor of two patents and timing and sync white paper. Six sigma and DFMEA lead for ensuring failures were identified and mitigated early on as part of the design avoiding late rework and increased cost and schedule delay.

US Naval Air-warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland – 1997 (Summer Research)

Research associate leading capacity and quality of service modeling and simulation of an ATM cell network and fiber channel in a data fusion environment supporting target tracking and recognition system data transport to a data center.

Publications:

•Defensive publication, approved and soon to be published by GM (SMS Critical Event Stateless Header Compression)

•Motorola Standards Participation Aware for contribution to 3GPP2 Quality of Service Standards

•Author of Change Request (CR), 3GPP2 TS23.107 Multi-Level Priority and Pre-emption

•“Benefits of a hybrid Agile/SAFe and Waterfall Process Approach to SW development”, work in progress

•“A Capacity Optimization Strategy for Bandwidth Constrained IPv4/IPv6 Communication Networks”, work-in-progress.

•“Parallel Architecture for Image Tracking System,” IEEE Southeastcon1997.

•“A Relational Database Approach to Functional Implementation and State Reduction,” Proc of ASEE Conference 1996.

•“A Fault Tolerant 5B/6B Code,” IEEE Southeastcon1996.

•“Demand Priority Scheduling for Dynamic Channel Allocation,” Proc of ASEE Conference 1996.

•“On Properties of Hurwitz and Positive Real Functions,” IEEE Southeastcon1993.

•“Neural Network Approach to Channel Equalization,” Workshop on Neural Network, Academic/Industrial/NASA/Defense, Auburn University, 1992.

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