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Donald A. Stanwyck
10528 344th Ave NE
Carnation, WA 98014
Tel: (425) 788-8239

Fax:(425) 642-8084

Email: don@stanwyck.com

SUMMARY

Twenty-five years in telecommunications, data communications, standards participation, and engineering management.  Familiar with wireless, cable, and wireline technologies.  Ten plus years international business experience and familiar (not fluent) with multiple languages.  Wrote first frame relay standard, designed/developed/installed world’s largest private wireless PBX, have led industry standards activities, adjunct graduate school professor for many years.

EXPERIENCE

 

February 2004 to present

Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft.  Member of Corporate Interop and Standards Group assisting internal client organizations with business justifications and strategies to support standards engagements.  Represented Microsoft on the INCITS Executive Board. 

 

August 2003 to January, 2004

Partner, Stanwyck Enterprises.  International telecommunications, data communications, and project management consulting.

 

Nov. 1999 to July, 2003
IP Unity, Milpitas, CA. Vice President, Technologies and Standards. Responsible for strategy, product architecture, solution architecture, selecting and managing partnerships and customers, overseeing interoperability trials, scheduling roll-out of product, providing technical guidance. Also responsible for product marketing, channel management, and support for Asian sales. Represented IP Unity at CableLabs, ISC, IETF, and other organizations. Member of the ISC TAC (2000-2002).  Member of several PacketCable committees.

 

Aug. 1995 to June 2002
University of Colorado, Denver, CO. Honorarium Faculty. Teaching senior and graduate courses, primarily data communication theory and implementation courses, in Engineering/Computer Science and Business (MIS). Supervisor for theses and independent study projects in the area of data communications.

 

Jan-Nov 1999
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Denver, CO. Member of Technical Staff. Lead architect for Lucent Cable Communications, worked with CableLabs and internal product houses to define architectures and interfaces for voice over IP and cable telephony.

 

Jan 1993 - Dec 1998
Lucent Technologies/AT&T, Bell Labs, Denver, CO. Member of Technical Staff - Designer, architect, and systems engineer for two different wireless PBX products: CT2 and PHS technology. Responsible for globalization, homologation, system design and architecture. Led cross-location teams to determine signaling architecture for new technology network designs. Key contributor to technical architecture study of new access technology for new network services. Participant in architecting a new concept switch designed for higher bandwidth switching applications. Developed and taught internal courses on data communication and network architecture. Represented AT&T on IEEE 802.14 committee on cable-based access protocols.

 

Mar 1989 - Dec 1992
AT&T Bell Labs, Singapore (International Assignment). Founding faculty at the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS) (an MS-granting accredited graduate institute). Developed and taught courses in Data Communication technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, OSI, ISDN, LANs, MAN, FDDI), Structured Analysis and Design, UNIX and C. Developed and managed a 10-month (520 contact hour) practicum. Managed and trained local faculty to take over teaching and course development duties. Developed and taught commercial short courses (3-5 day) on ISDN, B-ISDN, OSI, LAN/FDDI Technology and UNIX. Implemented UNIX device drivers. Taught implementation of protocols and hardware drivers. Provided consulting and training to industry, including the Singapore Ministry of Defense, Ngee Ann Polytechnic University, and the Information Technology Institute/National Computer Board (Singapore). Installed a multi-vendor FDDI-based campus network at Ngee Ann Polytechnic connecting more than 30 servers and over 1000 personal computers.

 

Jun 1985 - Mar 1989
AT&T Bell Labs, Denver, CO. Member of Technical Staff. Represented AT&T and the United States State Department to CCITT Study Groups VII (data networks), VIII (telematic terminals), XI (ISDN signalling), XVII (modem protocols), and XVIII (ISDN architecture and interworking). Represented AT&T to the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), Electronics Industries Association (EIA), and ANSI committees on digital networks. Led AT&T internal committees on data network standards to reach agreement on direction across business units. Elected by industry representatives to vice-chair of ANSI T1S1.2 (ISDN Access Protocols). Editor of several CCITT, ECMA, and ANSI standards including CCITT Recommendations Q.920, Q.921, Q.931, ANSI standard T1.602. Liaison officer between CCITT Study Groups VII and XI on ISDN Data Standards. Reviewed AT&T internal designs for consistency with standards. Coordinated internal positions on standards proposals. Received AT&T Architecture Award for contributions to AT&T's ISDN Interfaces Architecture. Developed PC-based tools to support the standards work. Contributor to, and editor of, world's first frame relay standards (ECMA TR/PMA, ECMA standards 102 and 103).

 

Jun 1987 - Mar 1989
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Member of Graduate Faculty, Instructor in Telecommunications Department. Developed/taught graduate course on Telecommunications Standards. Provided thesis supervision for theses covering optical networks and LAN technologies. Served as departmental program advisor.

 

Apr 1982 - May 1985
AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL. Member of Technical Staff. Designed and led implementation of new Call Features for Central Office Switches (1AESS and 5ESS). Provided planning and project direction for Export Project Development. Conducted ISDN and CCITT SS#7 feasibility and implementation studies for 5ESS Export. Prepared responses to international tenders. Prepared video-taped courses on ISDN protocols for internal 5ESS training.

 

Nov 1974 - Nov 1978
U. S. Air Force, Taiwan and Maryland. Chinese-Mandarin Linguist. Provided translation of spoken Chinese-Mandarin to English.

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D. student, Business (Organization and Management), Capella University, coursework completed 2006.

 

M.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 1984. Emphasis in Database systems.

 

B.S. Computer Science, Oregon State University, 1982. Emphasis in Compilers and Languages, secondary emphasis in Systems Programming. Honors Graduate.

 

Defense Language Institute of Monterey (CA). 2 courses, 2 diplomas in Chinese-Mandarin. 1975 and 1978.

 

Shichinohe-Kotogakkoo, Shichinohe, Japan. Rotary Club foreign exchange student. 1972-73.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Academy of Management member

 

IEEE member. Served as Vice-Chair IEEE Singapore Section Communication Chapter 1992 Committee. Served as Secretary of IEEE Singapore Section Communication Chapter 1991 Committee. Served on ICCS/ISITA'92 Organizing and Technical Programme Committees.

 

SCTE member.

 

SIP Forum member.

Other Interests:

 
  • Pilot - Land, Single-engine, Instrument Airplane
  • Pilot for Angel Flight West (www.angelflight.org)
  • Scuba Diver - Advanced open-water certified

PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, PATENTS

 

PRESENTATIONS (selected subset, excludes standards presentations, short courses, etc.):

 

Focus on Standards - VoIP, Internet Telephony, San Diego, October 3, 2002

 

Decomposing the Media Gateway, VON Europe, Helsinki, June 13, 2002

 

VoDSL - what does it need to succeed?, VON Europe, Helsinki, June 12, 2002

 

Standardizing the Softswitch, VON Europe, Helsinki, June 10, 2002

 

The Softswitch Consortium Architecture, SuperComm, Atlanta, June 3, 2002

 

Protocols and Standards - What's happening in VoIP?, NCTA Softswitching, Minneapolis, May 3, 2002

 

Voice over Cable, VON Europe, Helsinki, June 13, 2002.

 

MGCP vs. SIP for Media Servers, Softswitch Expo, Chicago, December 6, 2001.

 

IP Services: Next-Generation Opportunities, NCF 2001, Chicago, October 30, 2001.

 

PSTN/IP Gateways and Softswitches, Fall VON 2001, Atlanta, October 15, 2001.

 

Deploying Media Servers for the Delivery of Softswitch- Enabled Services to the Business and Residential Markets, SoftSwitching Conference, Cannes, September 18, 2001.

 

Interoperability Between Softswitches and Gateways, SoftSwitching Conference, Chicago, July 23-25, 2001.

 

On Feature Servers, Application Servers, Media Servers, et al, SoftSwitching & Signalling (a Marcus Evans conference), London, June 27-29, 2001.

 

Service Requirements in VoIP Networks, International Softswitch Congress, Amsterdam, December 14, 2000.

 

End-to-end (Vo)IP, How do we get there?, VON, Session 15, August 2000.

 

Requirements for an access protocol for Cable-TV network based services, IEEE 802 Cable TV Study Group, Vancouver B.C., March 10, 1994.

 

DBDQ, The protocol of MAN, IEEE Communications Chapter (Singapore), April 24, 1992.

 

Broadband ISDN and Related Technologies (Frame Relay, SMDS, SONET/SDH), Singapore Ministry of Defense (DMO), April 9, 1992.

 

An Introduction to ISDN, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, March 6, 1992.

 

An Introduction to ISDN, Singapore Computer Society, August 22, 1991.

 

Session Chair, Sessions 2 (OSI Conformance Testing) and 12 (OSI Protocols), ICCS '90, November 5-9, 1990, Singapore.

 

Session Chair, Session 6 (Networks through to Broadband), CommunicAsia 92, June 2-5, 1992, Singapore.

 

PUBLICATIONS (selected subset, excludes standards proposals, etc.):

 

~, PacketCable and the Road to Cable Telephony, Internet Telephony Magazine, August, 2002

 

~, Deploy And Deliver: Media Servers And Softswitch-Enabled Services In The New Network, Telecommunications Magazine, February, 2002

 

~, MGCP Package for Voice-enabled IVR Systems, ISC, April 2000 (revised May 2000)

 

~ and Dr. A. Haley, ISDN - What is the real standard?, ICCT '92 (Beijing), September 1992.

 

~, Dr. A. Haley, Dr. M. Kazmi, Dr. N. Tsao-Wu, and C. Yung, An effective curriculum for teaching Software Engineering, ICCT '92 (Beijing), September 1992.

 

~, ISDN - A Candy-Wrapper Technology, IT-Works '91 (Singapore), 3 December, 1991.

 

~ and Dr. A. Kujoory, OSI Connection- and Connectionless-Mode Communications, ICCS '90 (Singapore), November, 1990.

 

~ and Dr. A. Haley, Networking at the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS), Information Technology Journal of the Singapore Computer Society, Volume 3 Number 3 September 1990.

 

~, Island-wide ISDN - four major issues that Singapore companies must consider first, IT-Singapore Vol. 2 No 2 February 1990.

 

~ and A. Severson, Evolving standards for packetized communications in the ISDN, ICCS '88 (Singapore), November, 1988.

 

~ and F. Burg, ISDN Packet-Mode Bearer Services: X.31 and LAPD, SOUTHCON 1986 (Orlando), March, 1986.

 

PATENTS (issued)

 

US Patent 6,847,618 (Method and system for distributed conference bridge processing).  The invention provides a method and system for distributed conference bridge processing in Voice over IP telephony.