Seeking full-time employment in the area of datacom and/or video streaming with an aggressive team focusing on embedded solutions.
Career
• Solid experience in video streaming.
• Solid experience in embedded system development.
• Extensive experience in hardware bring-up, device drivers and BSP.
• Strong experience with communication protocols (serial and IP)
• Ability to work under pressure.
Core
Competencies
Roku, Boxee, XBMC, Web Service, REST, SOAP, Linux, pSOS, LynxOS, VXWorks, uCos, solaris, pharlap, Diab, Greenhill, gcc, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, PPP, SCTP, ICMP, TFTP, NAT, 4.x BSD, LAN, socket layer, ethernet, PowerPC, MIPS, Switch fabric, Vitesse 872, IBM NP4GS3, Vitesse IQ2000, Intel IXP1200, gdb, ddd, dummynet, ethereal, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, protocol analyzer, SS7, STP, C/C++, Assembly, Ada, php, NP picocode, Javascript, Python, MKS, CPLD, PIC, Clearcase, continuus, source safe, svs, STS, cmPlus, MySql, SQLite, AR7, Wi-Fi, SIP, SLIC, SLAC, encryption.
Keyword
Summary
Director of Engineering, NVALEO LLC, Austin, TX, 07/10 – Present
Produced software prototype to raise the first round of funding. Responsible for all aspects of development and implementation of a comprehensive product strategy and hiring of product development organization. Architected the first generation of the back-end streaming platform. Designed a RESTful web service hosted in Amazon Web Service. Responsible of IT department as well.
Sr. Software Development Engineer. Zarlink/Legerity (contract and permanent), Austin, TX, 02/2006 – 07/10
Responsible for the IP, web server, UI, database software components of a Wi-Fi SIP phone. Also, involved in the SIP protocol support. Implemented new features to an existing SLIC software base. Ported on a few different projects the SLIC software to a new platform using a different processor and RTOS. Developed many homebrew software for in-house usage. Defined a software architecture to store application software in ROM allowing to patch any of it in RAM. Software profiling and performance analysis. Added SNMP support to line tests software library.
Embedded Software Engineer. Fujitsu Networks Communication (contract), Richardson, TX, 10/2005 – 02/2006
Wrote TL1 commands, management entities and inter-process communication for OSPF-TE neighbors object in a metro optical system.
Software Designer. Mediatrix Telecom, Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, 03/2005 – 10/2005
Responsible for the implementation of Wi-Fi functionalities and provisioning inside of a VoIP access devices. Implementation of most 802.11b and 802.11g features including security (WEP, WPA, 802.11x), access control list, QoS WME and privacy.
Traveling around the world. Sabbatical, 12/2003 – 01/2005
Member of Technical Staff. Voiceramp, Richardson, TX, 05/2003 – 10/2003
Implemented statistics module inside of the product. The module consisted of a database for storing, updating and retrieving statistics; CLI and API based functions to allow configuring statistics module and retrieving statistics, calls to third party stack.
Software Engineer. Covaro Networks, Richardson, TX, 05/2003 – 10/2003
Responsible for various device drivers and system level communication protocols.
Software Engineer. IP Infusion, Cary, NC, 11/2001 – 07/2002
Implemented a platform abstraction layer to POSIX-based application. Abstracted the IPC services, hardware related functions, references to system specifics. Redesigned the memory management module. Enforced coding standard. Tested under VxWorks 5.4. Implemented a shim layer between ZebOS routing suite and Teja’s control plane API. Demonstrated pairing with a Cisco router. Worked as a technical leader on Vitesse IQ2000 network processor project. Updated the existing control plane software to support IPv6.
Sr. Software Engineer. Dallas Technology Group (Consulting firm), Richardson, TX, 01/2000 – 10/2001
• Customer 3: Metera Networks, Richardson, TX
Implemented device drivers on a set of service cards. Ported third-party software API through RPC-like interface. Implemented alarms and monitoring.
• Customer 2: Alcatel USA, Plano, TX
Developed a thin layer API to interface between IETF SCTP protocol reference implementation and Alcatel proprietary upper layer API. Contributed to IETF CTP reference implementation. Implemented platform level on in-house implementation.
• Customer 1: Fujitsu Networks Communication, Richardson, TX
Implemented the central component of an IP transport type-of-product using fiber optic carrier (POS).
Held various low-level software development positions, 03/1998 – 12/1999
Employment
History
Carleton University, Bachelor, Electrical Engineering – Computer Stream, 04/1998
Fourth Year University Project : Universal Hockey League Scheduler.
Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Bachelor, Psychology, 12/1999
First Year Psychology
Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima Peru, 03/2005
Intensive spanish program
Education
History
• Developed a variety of websites over LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySql-php) : e-commerce, wikiMedia, etc.
• Extensive traveling worldwide.
• Well-read on French, German and French Canadian literature.
• Fluent in French and English.
• Intermediate spoken Spanish.
Activities
And
Interests
References available upon request
References
Hello, my name is Mario Hébert and I currently hold the position of Director of Engineering at nValeo in Austin, Texas. I received my bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
I am a Software Engineer with 15 years of experience working for companies whose products use embedded micro-controllers or personal computers. I have developed embedded software for military applications, telephony, networking and consumer electronics products. I have also developed web based front-end and back-end applications. My programming experience has been mostly in C and Assembler, but I also have a strong background and have written in C++, C#, Visual Basic, Perl, PHP, Python, Javascript, Java and a few other scripting languages.
My embedded experience includes PowerPc, MIPS, Motorola as well as Intel micro controllers. I’ve worked on projects using TCP/IP, SONET, SS7 and Profibus protocols. I am also experienced with networking protocols such as SCTP and SIP. I also have a strong background writing device drivers for a variety of devices communicating with I2C, SPI, PCI and discrete bits.
In the last few years I have developed an interest in video streaming. I am interested in all aspects of this industry including CDN integration, cost projection, security, user-agent support, video formats, encoding, streaming capacity, etc.
I am a skilled problem solver and I have a solid background in hardware design, as well as reading and drawing schematics. Writing diagnostic routines and bringing up prototypes is one of my strong areas. I’m a quick learner and I’m not afraid to utilize new tools and technologies.
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