Michael Lynes

Current

• CEO at Eutectics Inc.

Past

• Vice President – Project Management at iRadius.com Inc.
• Director – Software Engineering at RADVision Inc.
• Telco Manager – Engineering at Bogen Communications Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer at VBand

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Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Company

Michael Lynes’s Summary

Twenty year track record of engineering project success. Twenty five overall years of working experience in industry. Extensive expertise in embedded systems development and design. More than ten years of Executive Management experience. Five years in Startup ventures – Top Level Executive responsibility. All phases of Project Execution and Product Roll Out, including Marketing, Design, Specifications, Business Plan Development, Project Scheduling and Management. Technical Sales and Business Development.

Michael Lynes’s Specialties:

Custom USB Phone Development. OEM Manufacturing, VoIP Softphone interfacing

Michael Lynes’s Experience

• CEO

  Eutectics Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)

  Michael D. Lynes
  co-founder, President and CEO of Eutectics. http://www.eutecticsinc.com
  
  Eutectics designs and manufactures the most extensive line of USB Telephone devices - ranging from simple Handsets to fully fuctional Speakerphones and Cordless Phones.
  We have integration to nearly all of the most popular softphone applications, for both Enterprise and Consumer users.
  Eutectics mission is to create phones to bridge the gap between PC's and VoIP - making a seamless user experience.
  All of our phones are manufactured under strict quality control in the Far East.

• Vice President – Project Management

  iRadius.com Inc.

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

  September 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 4 months)

  iRadius was an Internet Startup with unique concept, proprietary technology and design. I was the second employee of the company and carried the concept from the damp napkin stage to operational Beta Launch in 14 months. Built and Trained complete US and key members of International Management Team. Managed Product Research, Business Plan and concept, Marketing Concept, Consultant Management, Budget Planning and Tracking, Project Architecture and design. Managed Multi-national development including in-house and Consultant Teams.
  Helped start, hire and train internal International development group (Israel). Wrote and filed patent documentation.

• Director – Software Engineering

  RADVision Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 1999 — December 1999 (10 months)

  Responsible for Creation of RADVision-US Software Engineering Development Department. Focus on Carrier Class VoIP Telephony based on IETF-MGCP/MEGACO and H.GCP/H.248 protocol specifications.
  Direct report to Vice President of Engineering. Management of staff of eight engineers. Personally interviewed and hired complete team in three months.
  IETF/ITU-T contributor to the MGCP/MEGACO specifications.
  Responsible for Departmental budget of $1.7M
  Full organization of department including equipment procurement, systems setup, development environment and tools.
  Development/Design responsibilities for MGCP based protocol stack. First production release scheduled for Q4-99.

• Telco Manager – Engineering

  Bogen Communications Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; BOGN; Telecommunications industry)

  April 1996 — March 1999 (3 years)

  Direct management of Embedded Telephony development department, reporting to the Vice President of Engineering. All phases of product specification, design and development. Personnel management of one third of engineering department staff (seven people).
  Original design of patented APS2000 automated paging system, including low level drivers. Design and development of APS 2000 PCI in PROCOMM ASPECT script language.
  Schedule/Resource management. Test/Debug support. Alpha and Beta site management. Product Rollout. Patent definition, review and attorney interface.
  Original Design and development of patented DRDX remote downloadable MOH system. (PBX peripheral). Personally responsible for saving MiniMail, embedded PBX voice mail project. Project was eight months behind schedule the day I was hired, with over 300 outstanding alpha test problems. Product was released to production in 2 months with no outstanding bugs.

• Senior Software Engineer

  VBand

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1989 — 1995 (6 years)

Michael Lynes’s Education

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  BEEE , Electronic Engineering - Computer Science , September 1979 — June 1983

Additional Information

Michael Lynes’s Websites:

• My Company

Michael Lynes’s Interests:

VoIP Telephony, crystals and minerals, turtles, new media (YouTube), Diesel Trucks, Tennis

Michael Lynes’s Honors:

An OnHold Device – DRDX patent issued.
An Automated Paging Device – APS2000 patent pending

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