ERIK LECKNER

San Diego, CA 92008 • Honolulu, HI 96812 • Orange County, CA 92614 • Silicon Valley, CA

mobile: +1 949 244-6501 • e-mail: erik.leckner@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE

Positions: Chief Technology Officer (CTO); VP of Engineering; Director of Engineering; Senior

Development Manager.

Role: Seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering position,

Senior Development Engineering Manager which is focused on being the leader of new technology

products within an organization; create momentum and drive the success of a company’s technology

products; advocate the adoption of technology products to strategic partners and the community;

participate in technical and design discussions with technical executives both internally and at

strategic partners to ensure best practices during implementation and/or manufacturing; lead the

design of newly envisioned products.

Current Location: San Diego, CA.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Currently a Chief Technology Officer for a high-tech startup and a Senior Engineering Manager for a

high-tech mobile video/audio company. Founder of two high-tech companies.

Provided technical leadership, design, architecture and engineering as a Chief Technology Officer,

Lead Product Designer, Director of Engineering, Senior Engineer, and Senior Architect for application

servers, mobile devices, mobile applications, mobile software, e-commerce servers,mobile servers,

Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) development and engineering efforts from

original conception to delivery to the customer including management instrumentation of network

devices, Big Data solutions (including Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Pig, Hive, Big Table,

MongoDB, Cassandraa), turnkey management solutions for packet telephony andmanaged services,

publish-subscribe notification services, ad-serving and digital advertising and marketing systems,

financial transaction systems, management systems for Voice over IP networks, broadband access

networks, and provisioning of residential subscriber services.

Companies include Boeing, Tango.me, TIBCO, Capital Group Companies, Verizon&VerizonWireless,

Modello, Mobileti, Ericsson&Sony-Ericsson, NASA, NRL, DOD DARPA, AT&T, Google Certified Partner

in Advertising and Marketing, Fujitsu Data Networks, and Seagate Technology.

Early-stage engineer for three successful startups which have gone IPO. Founder and designer of the

Modello product line.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• Multi-Threaded Software Design + Development (C / C++, Java, C# .NET, ARM, OOA&D)

• Mobile Devices & Software (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME)

• Application Servers (Java, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, JDO, JPA, JMS, C# .NET, WCF)

• Caches (Memcached, ehCache, Redis, etc.)

• Big Data (Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Cassandra, MongoDB, HIVE, PIG, Big Table)

• Analytics (Analytics™, Google Analytics™, Coremetrics™)

• Mobile Video (OpenMAX, Audio/Video, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC)

• Audio Signal Processing (Voice activity detection, Noise reduction, Speech coding, Voice signal

enhancements, Assembly language optimization, ARM CPU architecture)

• Data Architecture (Hadoop, NoSQL, SQL)

• Database Management (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Informix, Ingres, SQL Server, Objectivity, Versant,

ObjectStore)

• Digital Advertising

• Digital Marketing

• Digital Signage

• Industrial Product Design

• International Standards Author for International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

• International Standards Author for European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Tango.me (Mountain View, CA; San Diego, CA)

Senior Engineering – 2012 - Present

• Multi-Threaded Software Design + Development (C / C++, Java, C# .NET, ARM, OOA&D)

• Mobile Devices & Software (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME)

• Experience with mobile - including mobile applications on Android, iOS, Windows mobile, social

mobile networking, mobile animations, mobile H.264 video and audio, and mobile gaming space.

• Extensive cross-functional software experience (mobile, Internet, Big Data, audio).

• Experience with large-scale consumer applications or services.

• Experience with Scrum and Agile development methods.

• Passion for clean user experiences and UI talent.

• Experience with the design and implement highly scalable features for Java and C++ servers.

• Advanced knowledge of Java and MySQL.

• Knowledge of Object Oriented Paradigms.

• Experience with mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile).

• Interface with engineers, engineering managers and product specialists to understand their needs.

• Solid experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Java and C++).

• Solid experience in custom ETL design and implementation.

• Experience working with a Map Reduce and MPP systems.

• Experience with schema design and Dimensional data modeling.

• Ability to write efficient SQL statements, NoSQL related statements, and to analyze data to identify

deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies.

• Experience in strongly analytical environment including big data processing and analysis.

• Experience with Hadoop technology stack layer: Hive, HDFS, Map/Reduce, Pig, Cassandra, as well as

classical SQL environment.

• Experience with Java, C++ and Android software development.

• User interface (UX) experience producing visual product specifications.

• Experience in C/C++ and Java multi-thread development.

• Experience performing multi-platform development across CPU architectures.

• Extensive C/C++ development experience.

• Experience with OpenMAX on Android.

• Extensive Java development experience with Java Native Interface.

• Android Native application development experience with Android NDK.

• iOS (iPhone OS) application development experience with Objective-C.

• Android Native and Java application development with NDK and SDK.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Android,

iPhone, iPad, iOS, Objective-C, Ehcache, Memcached, Windows Mobile, Qualcomm 8×60,8×55,

Samsung Hummingbird, NVidia Tegra series

Company Confidential (San Diego, CA)

Chief Technology Officer, Founder – 2012 - Present

• Multi-Threaded Software Design + Development (C / C++, Java, C# .NET, ARM, OOA&D)

• Mobile Devices & Software (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME)

• Managed and led the Mobile Computing Design team that is responsible for defining, architecting,

and delivering disruptive, next generation, mobile computing platforms with the goal of creating

powerful mobile systems that close the gap between today’s advanced SW features and the existing

incremental, cookie cutter offerings - platforms deployed in company’s portfolio of Android, iOS,

Kiosk, and Digital Signage based electronics products.

• Set the technical direction for Mobile Computing across Mobile Devices, led and managed the

evolution of the systems architecture, and made appropriate technology choices.

• Taken a hands-on approach to the entire product development life-cycle: developed project and

resource plans/schedules, performed day-to-day project management to ensure successful, on-time

releases, assisted the engineering teams in accomplishing all tasks, demonstrate downership and

accountability for the entire process.

• Implemented processes and metrics to ensure that the mobile computing solutions in Android,

Windows Mobile, and iOS devices are leading edge and with world class performance.

• Fostered a culture of creativity, big thinking, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence.

• Evangelized new technologies and ideas to the team and broader organization.

• Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, delivery,of a large scale, high

performing, technically complex, reliable and robust SW platform.

• Demonstrated, extensive experience in mobile devices systems.

• Significant experience contributing to a senior management team. This includes participation in

strategic and business planning, product strategy, operations, sales, marketing, and overall business

direction.

• Fostered a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a motivational

environment.

• Worked effectively with product managers, project managers, engineers, and the senior

management team to allocate engineering resources appropriately across various projects, juggling

current customer/prospect needs with longer term product roadmap needs (weighing, balancing, &

communicating the trade-offs as necessary).

• Set the technical direction for the team, drive the evolution of the systems architecture, and made

appropriate technology choices.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java, Product Design, UI design, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop,

MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HDFS, HBase, Android SDK/Android NDK, Objective-C, iPhone, iPad, iOS,

Ehcache, Memcached, Windows Mobile, JDO, JPA.

A Google Certified Advertising Partner (San Francisco Bay Area)

Chief Technology Officer – 2009 - 2012

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with responsibilities & vision for a market leading email + mobile

gateway software and service company for reliable messaging and reporting for brand name

companies and Fortune 500 companies in the digital marketing and advertising space on all

platforms.

• Chief Technology Officer reporting to the chief executive officer (CEO) focused on technical design

+ technical engineering within an engineering + design organization in furtherance of the company's

future digital marketing and advertising objectives. Engineering for gateway and cloud-based

software and services.

• Deep technical experience & strong command of industry trends & leading practices in both.

• Led and managed all solutions to drive the company’s portfolio of digital advertising andmarketing

solutions and the evolution of next-generation advertising and marketing technologies.

• In-depth experience in a digital advertising, data, digital marketing, and analytics.

• Ability to grasp strategic initiatives of target accounts and to formulate project / product offerings

effectively.

• Leadership and consensus-building abilities with a proven track record of coordinating and

mobilizing resources productively.

• Experience in handling complex and large datasets using both BigData NoSQL and SQL solutions.

• Experience of B2C, B2B data, and Direct Marketing .

• Related Skills: C/C++, C# .NET, Java, Java EE, Spring, Digital Marketing, Digital Advertising,

Hibernate, Hadoop, MapReduce, Big Table, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Hive, Pig, HDFS, MapReduce,

JDO/JPA, Ehcache, Memcached, Android, Objective-C, Windows Mobile.

Boeing (Anaheim, CA)

Senior Engineer Manager – 2007 - 2008

• Software development product management experience in several of areas: C/C++, Embedded

Linux, Real-Time Operating Systems, Object Oriented Design and implementation, COTS software

integration.

• TS/SCI (Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information) Level clearance position.

• Technically led the design, prototype, and engineering of various wireless radio communication

network management systems of the Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) project within Boeing's

Integrated Defense Systems.

• Led technical design and software engineering reviews and discussions.

• Experience and expertise including Software Defined Radios, Joint Tactical Radio

Systems (JTRS) Waveform Development, and Software Communications Architecture.

• Led technology demonstrations and presentations to Boeing internal and company external

organizations, including DOD and subcontractors as part of the DOD DARPA JTRS program.

• Prepared and participated in daily and weekly briefings, technical meetings, tactical and strategic

planning with other functional areas and upper management.

• Responsible for code reviews from engineers within sub organization involving Rhapsody, OMG

CORBA, Network management, element management, device management, C/C++, GreenHills

Integrity OS, C/C++ on Windows, Linux, MPEG-2 video parsing/decoding, H.264 video

parsing/decoding, MPEG-2 Transport Stream multiplexing/demultiplexing/analysis, MPEG-4 Systems

multiplexing/demultiplexing/analysis, Multithreaded programming, and STL.

• Provided communications systems engineering expertise on the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)

program.

• Developed and analyzed requirements, conducted system level and component level trade

studies. Reviewed and assessed contractor designs for software-programmable radios.

• Conducted studies on alternative radio/system design approaches.

• Related Skills: C/C++, CORBA, Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), Embedded Linux, Radio,

Cellular, Telecommunications Management Networks.

Capital Group Companies (Irvine, CA)

Principal Architect & Engineer – 2007 - 2008

• Experience in architecting highly performant, customer facing, 24x7 distributed C/C++ and Java

systems with a focus on capacity planning, performance management, and high availability.

• Deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, concepts and best practices.

• Broad technical aptitude and knowledge specifically on distributed middleware design patterns and

architectural best practices.

• Experience working with cloud and 3rd party web infrastructure providers.

• Ability to track trends in the industry with both vendors and competitors.

• Broad understanding of the digital channel including how organizations are leveraging new

technologies and strategies to deliver integrated experiences across multiple devices and

destinations.

• Understanding of engineering, operations and project management processes and methodologies,

including common roles, responsibilities, and key deliverables.

• Worked on engineering team to develop next-gen trading system for BEA Weblogic web server,

integrating several legacy trading systems into a single system.

• Deep technical experience & strong command of industry trends & leading practices in both

engineering & infrastructure architecture with respect to messaging communications systems.

• Extensive use of Java, J2EE, Java EE, Kodo, C++, Persistence Software, Memory caching, Memcache,

JDO, SQL, object-oriented programming, and Unix/Linux/Windows shell scripting.

• Assisted with proof-of-concept reviews and performance-testing and stress testing. Investigated,

designed, programmed in Java/J2EE/C++, implemented with new

technologies and solutions related to equity trading communication systems.

• Managed the technical aspects of core concepts, and worked closely with Engineering and Subject

Matter Experts.

• Interacted with other groups to coordinate architecture & definition of future projects to address

product roadmap requirements. Led technical design and software engineering reviews and

discussions BEA WebLogic, Oracle, J2EE, Java EE, .NET, C++, LAMP, Java, RDBMS, Persistence Software,

JDO, JPA, Memcache, TIBCO Messaging/RV, and CORBA.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java, Java EE, Spring, JDO, Rendezvous, JPA, MySQL, Oracle

Mobile Telecommunications and Internet (Silicon Valley, CA; San Diego, CA)

Chief Technology Officer, Senior Engineer, Co-Founder, 2000 - 2012

• Managed and led the Mobile Computing Design team that is responsible for defining, architecting,

and delivering disruptive, next generation, mobile computing platforms and applications.

• Design and implement client code for location-based services on smart phones

• Coordinated and led with server-side engineers to design efficient, flexible APIs for mobile based

platforms.

• Led development for software for major mobile platforms (iPhone, iPad, J2ME, Native C++,

Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, etc.)

• Clients: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Kyocera, Apple, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Cingular Wireless,

T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, MapReduce, Android, Objective-C,

Windows Mobile.

Seagate Technology (Scotts Valley, CA; North San Jose, CA)

Director of Engineering, Engineering Research – 1999 – 2003

• Managed and led the Technologies Group within Seagate Technology in San Jose and Scotts Valley.

• Led research projects within the following areas: i) Software Defined Systems; ii) Networked

Systems for Cloud computing, including virtualization technologies.

• Instrumental in the software and/or hardware design of experimental systems.

• Performed theoretical and architectural studies e.g. of scalability aspects.

• Projects involved collaboration with colleagues in USA, as well as interaction with relevant

technology groups and industrial partners.

• Direction of the day-to-day work of the group to ensure timely delivery of results and experimental

systems.

• Planning and monitoring of research projects.

• Worked with the management team to ensure good coordination in a global research environment.

• Participation in making of research strategy and long term directions.

• Responsible for the external presentation of results.

• Discussion with internal stakeholders at Product management and engineering departments.

• Interactions with customers, suppliers, industrial and partners.

• Solid experience from system implementation, (SW and protocols, Operating systems, etc).

• Practical experience in delivering projects and a capability of managing very qualified researchers.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java, Java EE, TIBCO.

iPass (Milpitas, CA)

Principal Architect – 1998– 1999

• Co-authored ITU-T ETSI TS 101 321: "Telecommunications and IP Harmonization Over Networks

(TIPHON): Inter-domain subscriber authentication, authorization, routing and usage exchange" [ETSI

TIPHON OSP], implemented today for Voice-over-IP by Networking and Telecommunications OEMs,

including Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel Networks, Motorola, Cisco Systems, Ascend, 3Com, and Siemens.

• Designed and developed systems for Voice-over-IP, IP roaming, IP telephony call routing, network

management, billing, settlement and 24x7 network monitoring services to ISPs and

telecommunication carriers, global Internet roaming, corporate remote access/VPN, IP fax, IP

telephony.

• Designed and implemented systems conforming to standard ETSI, ITU, and IETF

specifications for communication across telephony and IP networks for transferring Internet

telephony pricing, routing, authentication, authorization, and usage information using XML for

messaging.

• Participated in standardization activities, worked closely with standards bodies, standards

representatives, and industry organizations such as ETSI, ITU, and others as needed.

• Technical experience in OSS/FCAPS, telecommunications management

network (TMN), international transmission systems, TL1/CMIP/SNMP.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java

Fujitsu Data Networks (North San Jose, CA)

Principal Architect & Engineer – 1997 – 1998

• Technically led requirements, use case analysis, design, documentation, implementation of

components for Network Management and Element Management Systems for Broadband OSSs

[related to Fujitsu FLEXR, Fujitsu FLEXR-EM, Fujitsu FLEXR-NM, Fujitsu NETSMART network &

element management products]. Worked with a project development team of 30+ telecom engineers

involved in the development of Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) systems for

wire-line and wireless Base stations (LTE, Wi-Max, 3GPP).

• Worked with development manager and director for definition of future projects to address

network & element management product roadmap

requirements and discovery of patents related to technology of products.

• Technical experience in OSS/FCAPS, telecommunications management network (TMN),

international transmission systems, SNMP, CMIP/CMISE, TL1, general telecommunications principles,

broadband networking technology (ATM) and architectures (HFC, FTTC, ADSL), general networking

concepts (circuit v. packet switching), connection oriented v. connectionless systems, synchronous v.

asynchronous communication, event/notification/fault management, client/server, Guidelines for

Defining Managed Objects (GDMO), Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1).

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java.

Ericsson/Sony-Ericsson (Menlo Park, CA)

Senior Engineer – 1996 – 1998

• Technically led requirements, use case analysis, design, documentation, implementation of

components.

• Participated as a member of both the development and the system architecture team

guiding Ericsson LMD’s research contributions in Menlo Park, CA and Copenhagen, Denmark and,

which promoted and advanced the use of standards within the telecommunications management

network (TMN) standards industry for Wire-line and Wireless Base stations (LTE, Wi-Max, 3GPP).

• Technical experience in FCAPS, telecommunications management network (TMN), international

transmission systems, SNMP, CMIP/CMISE, TL1, general telecommunications principles, broadband

networking technology (ATM) and architectures (HFC, FTTC, ADSL), general networking concepts

(circuit v. packet switching), connection oriented v. connectionless systems, synchronous v.

asynchronous communication, event/notification/fault management, client/server, Guidelines for

Defining Managed Objects (GDMO), Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1).

• Implemented managed objects related to ITU-T TMN Recommendation M.3100, authentication, and

authorization to resources [managed object operations].Responsible for advanced prototyping,

design, technical leadership, and implementation of work related to new technologies, such as OMG

CORBA, Object Adapters for Persistent Storage [ODBMS, RDBMS], SNMP agents, TL1 object mapping

[Lumos TL1 Agent /Workshop].

• Developed Network management, Element management solutions, allowing for end-to-end

provisioning, fault and performance analysis across networks, using multi-technology and

multi-vendor products and networks, with integration capabilities, providing easy integration with

customers' existing systems.

• Programmed using C/C++, Java, OMG CORBA, distributed client-server & event-notification based

systems, TL1, SNMP, CMIP/CMISE, CLI, GSMO/ASN.1, Rational Software UML, RDBMS, and ODBMS

technologies.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java.

Verizon/Verizon Wireless (Arlington, VA)

Senior Engineer – 1995-1996

• Technically led requirements, use case analysis, design, documentation, implementation of

components.

• Participated as a member of both the development and the system architecture team.

Technical experience in FCAPS, telecommunications management network (TMN), international

transmission systems, SNMP, CMIP/CMISE, TL1, general telecommunications principles, broadband

networking technology (ATM) and architectures (HFC, FTTC, ADSL), general networking concepts

(circuit v. packet switching), connection oriented v. connectionless systems, synchronous v.

asynchronous communication, event/notification/fault management, client/server, Guidelines for

Defining Managed Objects (GDMO), Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1).

• Implemented managed objects related to ITU-T TMN Recommendation M.3100, authentication, and

authorization to resources [managed object operations].

• Responsible for advanced prototyping, design, technical leadership, and implementation of work

related to new technologies, such as OMG CORBA [IONA Orbix], Object Adapters for Persistent

Storage [ODBMS, RDBMS], SNMP agents, TL1 object mapping [Lumos TL1 Agent /Workshop].

Developed Network management, Element management solutions, allowing for end-to-end

provisioning, fault and performance analysis across networks, using multi-technology and

multi-vendor products and networks, with integration capabilities, providing easy integration with

customers' existing systems.

• Programmed using C/C++, OMG CORBA, distributed client-server & event-notification based

systems, TL1, SNMP, CMIP/CMISE, CLI, GSMO/ASN.1, Rational Software UML, RDBMS, and

ODBMS technologies

• Related Skills: C/C++.

NASA (Washington, DC)

Senior Engineer – 1992-1995

• Designed and implemented real time communication systems, software and advanced

technologies for Space Transport Systems (STS).

• Designed and implemented software systems for Far UV Camera, Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb

Imager (SSULI), High Resolution Airglow/Auroral Spectrograph (HIRAAS), Remote Atmospheric and

Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) experiments.

• Related Skills: C/C++, Java.

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Online Course and Seminars in Computer Science, Languages, Complexity Theory, C++, Java, Data

Structures & Algorithms

2010-2013

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Computation Structures

Practical Programming in C

Introduction to C Memory Management and C++ Object-Oriented Programming

Algorithms

Introduction to Communication, Control, and Signal Processing

Artificial Intelligence

Programming in Java

Programming in C++

Software Engineering

Software Engineering for Web Applications

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

Programming Using Python

User Interface Design and Implementation

Data Communication Networks

Principles of Digital Communication

Distributed Computer Systems Engineering

Advanced Data Structures

Distributed Algorithms

Advanced Algorithms

Stanford University

Online courses in Computer Science

2006 – 2013

Advanced C++ Lecture Seminars with Bjarne Stroustrup

Big Data Processing

Advanced C++ Seminars

Cross-Platform Development in C++

Advanced Java Seminars

Advanced Project Management

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University of California Irvine

Online courses and Seminars in Computer Science

2006 – 2012

Advanced C++ Seminars

Advanced Java Seminars

Advanced Android, iOS Seminars, Courses

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

George Mason University

Master's degree program, Mathematics + Computer Science

Consortium Program: University of Maryland, College Park (Computer Science Courses)

George Washington University (Algebraic Topology, Artitifical Intelligence)

1991 – 1995

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Theoretical, Nuclear, High Energy,Mathematical

Physics

1990 – 1991

VPI & SU, UVA REU Program

B.S. & B.A., Mathematics, Computer Science, Architecture, Industrial Product Design, Physics

1983 – 1991