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Fran?ois Cardinal is a Canadian electrical engineer and telecommunications executive with over 30 years of experience. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from ?cole Polytechnique de Montr¨¦al. His career history includes various senior leadership roles in engineering, project management, and product development for technologies including 4G LTE, WiMAX, GSM, UMTS, and wireless networks. He has extensive international experience, including an assignment managing wireless products in Nortel's France office.

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Fran?ois Cardinal Language: French & English Citizenship: Canadian EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering Science, ?cole Polytechnique de Montr¨¦al 1983-1987 in Electrical Engineering CAREER HISTORY Senior Project Advisor / Leader, BTS Systems Jan 2009 - Present Hitachi / KDDI first multi vendor CPRI radio integration, project leader. Partnership development and transition planning. 4G BTS LTE Senior R&D project manager May2008 ¨C Dec 2008 Project management, URM2-4 content definition, CPRI integration, project definition, tracking in support of Verizon ph4 trial and pre-commercial ramp up. Senior functional manager ¨C WIMAX Radio Software & BTS Systems Dec2006 - May 2008 Accountable for delivery of first Wimax Radio Software. Ramped Ottawa and China team to support multiple parallel radio development. Drove product simplification and accelerated development velocity by optimizing radio software integration. Re-organized and split team to 3 line manager. Senior manager ¨C RNC platform & evolution ¨C LTE architecture Dec 2005 ¨C Dec 2006 As part of platform evolution led the investigation during the opportunity phase and preparation for a strategic readiness on evolution of current RNC1500 from Passport to ATCA. Increased focused on NGMN and LTE and jointly work with product management to define key requirements. Studied and provided recommendations on network migration options, analyzed impact of mobile broadband video distribution and traffic growth on processor roadmap. Developed proposal for LTE migration and network evolution and completed functional decomposition analysis. Participated in platform convergence effort and engaged with a number of technology vendors to asses ATCA readiness, computing capabilities and migration options for next generation RNC. Made detail proposal on multi-mode RNC / gateway in support of migration plan. Senior functional manager for the GSM IN/TCU Spectrum BSCe3 development Oct 2004 ¨C Nov 2005 Re-organized the Ottawa GSM IN/TCU software development team. Provided technical leadership and introduced process improvement to resolve multi-site communications issues. Accountable for GSM IN/TCU SW deliverables. Set software quality improvement goals and improved overall response to critical field issues. Drove team and manage successful delivery of GSM IN/TCU V15.1 on time and with quality. Launched V16 project definition and SW re-architecture design activities to address robustness issues of IN/TCU BSCe3. The release later established a new baseline in IN/TCU BSCe3 quality level addressing key customer issues. Ramped up externalization program by transferring support functions and code ownership to Infosys growing the team in India from 11 designers to 25 in less than 6mts. Provided training and the ability to deliver more features. Ramped down Ottawa dev team and re-deployed key individuals to Nortel development position. Lead system architect GSM Turbo program Jun 2004 ¨C Oct 2004 Led the technical direction and provided recommendation for GSM Turbo in Ottawa. Delivered technical assessment of GSM portfolio and provided recommendations on platform evolution. Provided technical leadership and training to GSM team. Francois Cardinal Page 1 18/11/2009
RNC Senior Project Manager ATT Wireless R&D customer leader (RCL) Feb 2003 ¨C June 2004 From Feb 2003 to Jun 2004 lead UMTS UA3.2 release targeted to AWS. This included customer engagement to fully understand requirements and building consolidated R&D plan. Program had many constraints in time and technical complexity with new E911 UE assisted AGPS localization services on RNC. Project was very successful in meeting AWS commercial launch in 4 markets with 1200 eNodeB and 10 RNC deployed, this cleared AWS / DoCoMo liability and allowed Cingular merger to proceed. AWS gave Nortel the highest post deployment score ever given to a vendor. RNC senior project manager Oct 2002 ¨CJune2003 SS7 Stack migration; As RNC senior project manager, lead SW re-architecture effort to migrate SS7 stack from Control Node to the Passport Inode platform. This involved multi-site software development and technical coordination between team in Ottawa and France. RNC senior project manager Feb 2002 ¨COct2002 On my return from France, led integration of first 1900MHz mobile and organized GSM/UMTS technical demonstration during Nortel Networks 3GSM usergroup where 150 key wireless customers were able to visit the Ottawa technology lab and witness the latest developments. International assignment to Nortel France as Senior Manager Product Management GSM/UMTS Wireless Networks Jan 2000 to February 2002 I managed a small team of product/program manager with responsibility for the BTS S8000 GSM portfolio. I became the lead project manager for the new iBTS platform. This platform is a next generation BTS evolved from CDMA metro cell and GSM S8000 completely redesigned for UMTS application. Responsibilities included: product definition, overall project management, risk management, launch of new product variant to respond to market dynamic, customer interaction, coordination of multidisciplinary teams, R&D, Engineering, Commercial solutions, Operations. In 2001, I became the IPTL (Integrated Project Team Leader) for the iBTS and was responsible for the introduction and first customer shipment. The BTS were ship in advance of module completion and full testing. In June 2001 became task force leader to achieve first UMTS voice call in a live network on August 2nd 2001. Responsibilities included coordinating multidisciplinary team, R&D, integration, early deployment and communicating progress to executive and account team. Outcome was successful and this became a pivotal milestone for Nortel Networks UMTS development. For the first time, a test mobile was brought outside the lab and drive test over several iBTS (nodeB) deployed in a real customer network environment. Senior Manager Development, Broadband Wireless Access, Wireless Networks, January 1998 to Dec 2000, Nortel Ottawa. Member of Al Javed¡¯s cabinet. Development prime for first packet based air interface product to support LMDS BWA. Drove development and innovative implementation for request grant scheduler with dynamic bandwidth allocation in millimeter radio frequency. Product was optimized for packet transport in a point to multipoint systems operating at millimeter frequencies. The system consisted of ATM services (CBR and VBR) carried over variable burst length compatible to Ethernet frame. The concept included developing and leveraging DOCSIS MAC, developing physical layer specifications and adapting protocol to support wireless millimeter wave radio propagations while operating and supporting CBR legacy traffic. As senior development manager for this new air interface, responsibilities included forming, building, growing the development team, preparing and managing the R&D budget of ~$15M. This also included responsibilities for R&D, planning, program commitment and meeting customer delivery. Provided direction for product definition, competitive Francois Cardinal Page 2 18/11/2009
product analysis, engaged in customer technical exchanges and standard activity. Managed and reviewed project plan and objectives and tracked detail schedule, reviewed technical issues and provided forward vision for product evolution. Full project and functional accountability. Successfully managed a team of ~50 designers, managers, architects and completed implementation of product. Team was multidisciplinary and consisted of HW, SW and system design. Development outcome lead to several filed patents and a joint development proposal with Bay Networks to provide an IP end-to-end evolution to wireless DSL. Product was successfully trialed and commercially launched in several customer network operations and generated revenues of $150M. Senior Manager System Architecture, Proximity Multimedia, Wireless Networks, July 1997 to January 98, Nortel Ottawa. As senior manager of a small system architecture team, worked closely with product management and account teams to identity product and network requirements for ILECs (like Teligent). Developed and managed OEM partnership for point to multipoint system. Supported customer trials and provided technical and product requirement evolution. Manager Radio Systems & PLM, High capacity microwave radio, Broadband Networks, June 1996 to July 1997, Nortel Ottawa. Partake into development of proposals for Broadband Wireless accesses (LMDS). This included a complex network architecture connecting CPE/Base station to the PSTN/DPN network using ATM over 28 GHz radio channel. Review and guide technical content of system architecture for an STM-1 digital radio (RF degradation budget, digital signal processing, Network management & real time software). Meet with customer on low and high capacity digital radio product. Develop competitive analysis of low cap market. Visit and assess possible OEM vendor. Develop strategies for development of low capacity radios within Nortel. Manage system design group. Manager RF Design, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa January 95 to June 96 Prepare Gate 0A and Gate 1 R&D deliverables for low capacity millimeter wave radio development. Support senior management in defining strategic investment for future development. Partake in proposal of a high capacity 170 Mb/s 128 QAM digital radio. Gate 1 passed. Review of various modulation schemes and prepare low capacity product architecture. Lead a team of senior designer for a millimeter wave digital radio proposal. Organize and plan for a millimeter wave technology demo. Manage the RF design group for the Digital Microwave Radio; hired designers, planned and organized work for the development of 6GHz 512 QAM radio. Build up RF design expertise within the group. Team leader RF Design, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa March 93 to January 95 ? Lead a team of 2 designers on the design of a 38 GHz active Fet mixer using a balance approaches. MMIC design technology used 0.15 um pHemt. An IEEE paper was subsequently published at IMS-96. Francois Cardinal Page 3 18/11/2009
? Member of team to elaborate advanced lowcap digital radio architecture for PCS/ Cellular backhaul application. Performed preliminary system analysis, SNR calculation, link budget for RF and modem module. ? Mentor and coach power amplifier designers within the radio wireless design group. ? Prime on the development of Transmit module for SDH 540 digital microwave radio. Supervised other designer in the development of LNA, Down Converter and stabilized Oscillator. ? Proposed and designed a low cost packaging concept for the development of a new transmit module for low cap radio. Supervised two other designer in the design of IF (70 MHz) control circuitry (amplifier, monitoring circuit, accurate power control, log detector, PLL), linearization concept, PCP design and microwave circuit design. ? Supervised a junior engineer in the development of a 8 GHz 20W SSPA. Design Engineer, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa September 90 to March 93 ? Design a new low loss high efficiency combiner for a 40W SSPA at 5 GHz. Load pull analysis of Mesfet under large signal condition and characterization of non linearity with variable load using constant rms power sweep. Design of highly linear 40W SSPA in the 3.5-4.2 GHz band. ? Design of 140 MHz IF AGCs, slope control, amplifier and predistortion circuitry using a 360 degree phase resolver and cuber with Surface Mount technology. Prime for the development and factory support in volume production of the integrated transmitter unit. Provided yield improvement technique and redesign of Log detector circuitry for higher accuracy and better performance over temperature. Test Engineer, Manufacturing and new product introduction, Northern Telecom, Transmission Div. Saint Laurent. March 88 to September 90 ? Team leader for the introduction of a new 512 QAM digital microwave radio in volume manufacturing. Wrote $1.5M CFA for test equipment and provided guidance to BNR during initial design stage of the RF modules. Elaborated test strategy for the RF and IF assembly. Participated in the module and system trouble shooting for the techtrial of 512QAM digital radio. ? Part of a design team for fast development of 6.4-7.2 GHz RF module to upgrade the current 64 QAM radios. Power FET evaluation and IF amplifier design. Design of notch filter and crystal oscillator at 70 MHz. ? Responsible for IF and RF test for digital microwave radios (64 QAM and QPRS). Introduction of new design (DRO, SSPA, UP/C) in manufacturing. Assessment of design for testability and manufacturaility. Yield analysis and unit troubleshooting to support ongoing production. Publication ¡°A HIGH PERFORMANCE BROADBAND MMIC PHEMT RESISTIVE DRAIN MIXER FOR 28-40GHZ BAND PCN APPLICATIONS¡±, Francois Cardinal, Hongming An, Ingrid Mag, Russell Smith, IEEE 1996 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits Symposium, June 16-18 1996. Francois Cardinal Page 4 18/11/2009
Training / Courses ? Management and leadership training, ? Senior management and leadership training, ? Behavioral interviewing ? Leadership through people skills ? Risk management ? Successful negotiations ? Hybrid and Microelectronic Design (10/90) Niagara Technical College, Ontario. ? Non Linear RF Circuit Design (02/90) UCLA, Los Angeles ? Additional Nortel Networks training track Francois Cardinal Page 5 18/11/2009

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  • 1. Fran?ois Cardinal Language: French & English Citizenship: Canadian EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering Science, ?cole Polytechnique de Montr¨¦al 1983-1987 in Electrical Engineering CAREER HISTORY Senior Project Advisor / Leader, BTS Systems Jan 2009 - Present Hitachi / KDDI first multi vendor CPRI radio integration, project leader. Partnership development and transition planning. 4G BTS LTE Senior R&D project manager May2008 ¨C Dec 2008 Project management, URM2-4 content definition, CPRI integration, project definition, tracking in support of Verizon ph4 trial and pre-commercial ramp up. Senior functional manager ¨C WIMAX Radio Software & BTS Systems Dec2006 - May 2008 Accountable for delivery of first Wimax Radio Software. Ramped Ottawa and China team to support multiple parallel radio development. Drove product simplification and accelerated development velocity by optimizing radio software integration. Re-organized and split team to 3 line manager. Senior manager ¨C RNC platform & evolution ¨C LTE architecture Dec 2005 ¨C Dec 2006 As part of platform evolution led the investigation during the opportunity phase and preparation for a strategic readiness on evolution of current RNC1500 from Passport to ATCA. Increased focused on NGMN and LTE and jointly work with product management to define key requirements. Studied and provided recommendations on network migration options, analyzed impact of mobile broadband video distribution and traffic growth on processor roadmap. Developed proposal for LTE migration and network evolution and completed functional decomposition analysis. Participated in platform convergence effort and engaged with a number of technology vendors to asses ATCA readiness, computing capabilities and migration options for next generation RNC. Made detail proposal on multi-mode RNC / gateway in support of migration plan. Senior functional manager for the GSM IN/TCU Spectrum BSCe3 development Oct 2004 ¨C Nov 2005 Re-organized the Ottawa GSM IN/TCU software development team. Provided technical leadership and introduced process improvement to resolve multi-site communications issues. Accountable for GSM IN/TCU SW deliverables. Set software quality improvement goals and improved overall response to critical field issues. Drove team and manage successful delivery of GSM IN/TCU V15.1 on time and with quality. Launched V16 project definition and SW re-architecture design activities to address robustness issues of IN/TCU BSCe3. The release later established a new baseline in IN/TCU BSCe3 quality level addressing key customer issues. Ramped up externalization program by transferring support functions and code ownership to Infosys growing the team in India from 11 designers to 25 in less than 6mts. Provided training and the ability to deliver more features. Ramped down Ottawa dev team and re-deployed key individuals to Nortel development position. Lead system architect GSM Turbo program Jun 2004 ¨C Oct 2004 Led the technical direction and provided recommendation for GSM Turbo in Ottawa. Delivered technical assessment of GSM portfolio and provided recommendations on platform evolution. Provided technical leadership and training to GSM team. Francois Cardinal Page 1 18/11/2009
  • 2. RNC Senior Project Manager ATT Wireless R&D customer leader (RCL) Feb 2003 ¨C June 2004 From Feb 2003 to Jun 2004 lead UMTS UA3.2 release targeted to AWS. This included customer engagement to fully understand requirements and building consolidated R&D plan. Program had many constraints in time and technical complexity with new E911 UE assisted AGPS localization services on RNC. Project was very successful in meeting AWS commercial launch in 4 markets with 1200 eNodeB and 10 RNC deployed, this cleared AWS / DoCoMo liability and allowed Cingular merger to proceed. AWS gave Nortel the highest post deployment score ever given to a vendor. RNC senior project manager Oct 2002 ¨CJune2003 SS7 Stack migration; As RNC senior project manager, lead SW re-architecture effort to migrate SS7 stack from Control Node to the Passport Inode platform. This involved multi-site software development and technical coordination between team in Ottawa and France. RNC senior project manager Feb 2002 ¨COct2002 On my return from France, led integration of first 1900MHz mobile and organized GSM/UMTS technical demonstration during Nortel Networks 3GSM usergroup where 150 key wireless customers were able to visit the Ottawa technology lab and witness the latest developments. International assignment to Nortel France as Senior Manager Product Management GSM/UMTS Wireless Networks Jan 2000 to February 2002 I managed a small team of product/program manager with responsibility for the BTS S8000 GSM portfolio. I became the lead project manager for the new iBTS platform. This platform is a next generation BTS evolved from CDMA metro cell and GSM S8000 completely redesigned for UMTS application. Responsibilities included: product definition, overall project management, risk management, launch of new product variant to respond to market dynamic, customer interaction, coordination of multidisciplinary teams, R&D, Engineering, Commercial solutions, Operations. In 2001, I became the IPTL (Integrated Project Team Leader) for the iBTS and was responsible for the introduction and first customer shipment. The BTS were ship in advance of module completion and full testing. In June 2001 became task force leader to achieve first UMTS voice call in a live network on August 2nd 2001. Responsibilities included coordinating multidisciplinary team, R&D, integration, early deployment and communicating progress to executive and account team. Outcome was successful and this became a pivotal milestone for Nortel Networks UMTS development. For the first time, a test mobile was brought outside the lab and drive test over several iBTS (nodeB) deployed in a real customer network environment. Senior Manager Development, Broadband Wireless Access, Wireless Networks, January 1998 to Dec 2000, Nortel Ottawa. Member of Al Javed¡¯s cabinet. Development prime for first packet based air interface product to support LMDS BWA. Drove development and innovative implementation for request grant scheduler with dynamic bandwidth allocation in millimeter radio frequency. Product was optimized for packet transport in a point to multipoint systems operating at millimeter frequencies. The system consisted of ATM services (CBR and VBR) carried over variable burst length compatible to Ethernet frame. The concept included developing and leveraging DOCSIS MAC, developing physical layer specifications and adapting protocol to support wireless millimeter wave radio propagations while operating and supporting CBR legacy traffic. As senior development manager for this new air interface, responsibilities included forming, building, growing the development team, preparing and managing the R&D budget of ~$15M. This also included responsibilities for R&D, planning, program commitment and meeting customer delivery. Provided direction for product definition, competitive Francois Cardinal Page 2 18/11/2009
  • 3. product analysis, engaged in customer technical exchanges and standard activity. Managed and reviewed project plan and objectives and tracked detail schedule, reviewed technical issues and provided forward vision for product evolution. Full project and functional accountability. Successfully managed a team of ~50 designers, managers, architects and completed implementation of product. Team was multidisciplinary and consisted of HW, SW and system design. Development outcome lead to several filed patents and a joint development proposal with Bay Networks to provide an IP end-to-end evolution to wireless DSL. Product was successfully trialed and commercially launched in several customer network operations and generated revenues of $150M. Senior Manager System Architecture, Proximity Multimedia, Wireless Networks, July 1997 to January 98, Nortel Ottawa. As senior manager of a small system architecture team, worked closely with product management and account teams to identity product and network requirements for ILECs (like Teligent). Developed and managed OEM partnership for point to multipoint system. Supported customer trials and provided technical and product requirement evolution. Manager Radio Systems & PLM, High capacity microwave radio, Broadband Networks, June 1996 to July 1997, Nortel Ottawa. Partake into development of proposals for Broadband Wireless accesses (LMDS). This included a complex network architecture connecting CPE/Base station to the PSTN/DPN network using ATM over 28 GHz radio channel. Review and guide technical content of system architecture for an STM-1 digital radio (RF degradation budget, digital signal processing, Network management & real time software). Meet with customer on low and high capacity digital radio product. Develop competitive analysis of low cap market. Visit and assess possible OEM vendor. Develop strategies for development of low capacity radios within Nortel. Manage system design group. Manager RF Design, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa January 95 to June 96 Prepare Gate 0A and Gate 1 R&D deliverables for low capacity millimeter wave radio development. Support senior management in defining strategic investment for future development. Partake in proposal of a high capacity 170 Mb/s 128 QAM digital radio. Gate 1 passed. Review of various modulation schemes and prepare low capacity product architecture. Lead a team of senior designer for a millimeter wave digital radio proposal. Organize and plan for a millimeter wave technology demo. Manage the RF design group for the Digital Microwave Radio; hired designers, planned and organized work for the development of 6GHz 512 QAM radio. Build up RF design expertise within the group. Team leader RF Design, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa March 93 to January 95 ? Lead a team of 2 designers on the design of a 38 GHz active Fet mixer using a balance approaches. MMIC design technology used 0.15 um pHemt. An IEEE paper was subsequently published at IMS-96. Francois Cardinal Page 3 18/11/2009
  • 4. ? Member of team to elaborate advanced lowcap digital radio architecture for PCS/ Cellular backhaul application. Performed preliminary system analysis, SNR calculation, link budget for RF and modem module. ? Mentor and coach power amplifier designers within the radio wireless design group. ? Prime on the development of Transmit module for SDH 540 digital microwave radio. Supervised other designer in the development of LNA, Down Converter and stabilized Oscillator. ? Proposed and designed a low cost packaging concept for the development of a new transmit module for low cap radio. Supervised two other designer in the design of IF (70 MHz) control circuitry (amplifier, monitoring circuit, accurate power control, log detector, PLL), linearization concept, PCP design and microwave circuit design. ? Supervised a junior engineer in the development of a 8 GHz 20W SSPA. Design Engineer, Radio transmitter and receiver design, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa September 90 to March 93 ? Design a new low loss high efficiency combiner for a 40W SSPA at 5 GHz. Load pull analysis of Mesfet under large signal condition and characterization of non linearity with variable load using constant rms power sweep. Design of highly linear 40W SSPA in the 3.5-4.2 GHz band. ? Design of 140 MHz IF AGCs, slope control, amplifier and predistortion circuitry using a 360 degree phase resolver and cuber with Surface Mount technology. Prime for the development and factory support in volume production of the integrated transmitter unit. Provided yield improvement technique and redesign of Log detector circuitry for higher accuracy and better performance over temperature. Test Engineer, Manufacturing and new product introduction, Northern Telecom, Transmission Div. Saint Laurent. March 88 to September 90 ? Team leader for the introduction of a new 512 QAM digital microwave radio in volume manufacturing. Wrote $1.5M CFA for test equipment and provided guidance to BNR during initial design stage of the RF modules. Elaborated test strategy for the RF and IF assembly. Participated in the module and system trouble shooting for the techtrial of 512QAM digital radio. ? Part of a design team for fast development of 6.4-7.2 GHz RF module to upgrade the current 64 QAM radios. Power FET evaluation and IF amplifier design. Design of notch filter and crystal oscillator at 70 MHz. ? Responsible for IF and RF test for digital microwave radios (64 QAM and QPRS). Introduction of new design (DRO, SSPA, UP/C) in manufacturing. Assessment of design for testability and manufacturaility. Yield analysis and unit troubleshooting to support ongoing production. Publication ¡°A HIGH PERFORMANCE BROADBAND MMIC PHEMT RESISTIVE DRAIN MIXER FOR 28-40GHZ BAND PCN APPLICATIONS¡±, Francois Cardinal, Hongming An, Ingrid Mag, Russell Smith, IEEE 1996 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits Symposium, June 16-18 1996. Francois Cardinal Page 4 18/11/2009
  • 5. Training / Courses ? Management and leadership training, ? Senior management and leadership training, ? Behavioral interviewing ? Leadership through people skills ? Risk management ? Successful negotiations ? Hybrid and Microelectronic Design (10/90) Niagara Technical College, Ontario. ? Non Linear RF Circuit Design (02/90) UCLA, Los Angeles ? Additional Nortel Networks training track Francois Cardinal Page 5 18/11/2009