Lokesh Kumar

Current

Partner at Plexus Solutions & Techiewaves

Past

CTO at Pervacio, Inc
Engineer IV at Verisign
Manager at Wireless Matrix inc

Staff Engineer at Prism Communications Inc
Team Lead at network programs
Team Lead at Shyam Telecom Ltd
Engineer R&D at Punjab Communications Ltd

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Education

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Lokesh Kumar’s Summary

- Extensive experience in enterprise grade wireless data project management
- Part of management teams at startups, building next generation applications
- Software project management experience in startup and large organizations, on varied platforms, including J2EE/Spring, C/C++, embedded systems, networks and application of these technologies to Telecom domain
- Wireless technologies experience including wide area networks, wireless LAN networks, satellite networks
- Ruby Rails with Lucene/Solr for search applications

Lokesh Kumar’s Specialties:

Project Management, Enterprise Grade Wireless Systems, Software Development, Embedded Systems, Java Spring, Ruby on Rails

Lokesh Kumar’s Experience

Partner

Plexus Solutions & Techiewaves

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Software Development
CTO

Pervacio, Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year )

Device Management startup
Engineer IV

Verisign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 2005 — April 2006 (9 months)
Manager

Wireless Matrix inc

(Public Company; Wireless industry)

May 2000 — July 2005 (5 years 3 months)

· Helped the executive team develop future product strategy, which will allow the company to evolve to enterprise mobility solution provider from network services provider.
· Led porting of Linux Kernel and U-boot boot loader to custom hardware and development of application platform.
· Managed Communication Software department for effective resource allocation and functional excellence, across different projects.
· Ported interactive mobile satellite data (ISPD) network software from VME boards running pSOS to off the shelf rack mounted servers running optimized Linux.
· Stabilized ISPD network by modularizing Network Access Processor into two sub systems.
· Developed middleware products, which eased customer application integration with wireless network.
· Helped develop X.25 to IP protocol conversion gateway.
Staff Engineer

Prism Communications Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Software development for Satellite Packet Data Network.
Team Lead

network programs

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — December 1998 (2 years )

· Implemented HDLC, Q.921 and UART drivers for MPC860 based boards using C in object oriented paradigm, used in Airspan wireless in local loop system. Object oriented design facilitated code reuse across other sub systems.
· Interacted with Fujitsu’s Engineering Team to understand FETEX 150 CMOC software maintenance requirements came up with solution and presented to Fujitsu’s higher management.
· Integrated Fujitsu’s EA1000 ATM switch into VirtualView network management system, thus providing single provisioning and monitoring platform.
Team Lead

Shyam Telecom Ltd

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1992 — December 1996 (4 years 4 months)

· Interfaced with India’s Department of Telecom to understand radio system requirements, and translated them to module level requirements.
· Designed and Implemented TDM/TDMA controller on programmable logic devices, simulated and implemented QPSK modem for fixed wireless multi-access system, one of the first products to provide remote telephony for rural India.
· Implemented QPSK modem, digital base-band processing subsystem on PLDs, pulse code multiplexers, radio frequency modules for point-to-point radios, operating in UHF and microwave frequencies, one of the first indigenous products for back haul communication.
Engineer R&D

Punjab Communications Ltd

(Wireless industry)

June 1990 — August 1992 (2 years 3 months)

R&D engineer for UHF and Microwave radios.

Lokesh Kumar’s Education

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

B.Tech. , Electrical Engineering , 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Lokesh Kumar’s Interests:

Thinking about problems-big and small, whynot.net, understanding innovation process, Wireless device management

Lokesh Kumar’s Groups:

National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra Alumni
Mobile Insiders
TEN - Top Executives Net
Global Worker
Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide
Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE)...6,000+ members & growing!
India Leadership Network
Mobilists (Innovators in mobile industry - 3900+ members)
Telecom Executives Business Network
! NRI (NON RESIDENT INDIANs) - Largest and Earliest Platform to Reunite NRIs, PIOs, and OCIs
Entrepreneurs in Central VA
NoVAJUG
Enterprise Mobility
Recommender Systems
Positive Psychology Professionals
Mobile Data Association Discussion Group
Business Psychology at work: open your mind to effective business solutions