John K. Gamelin

Professional Experience

Mangrove Systems, Inc

Wallingford, CT

February 2004 - August 2005

Mangrove Systems is startup developing integrated transport and layer-2 (ATM, Ethernet, Frame Relay, IP/PPP/HDLC) service access equipment for telecommnications carriers using MetroMPLS™ technology.

Held position of Vice President - Technology, responsible for all software and product assurance testing.

• Built the team from eighteen software engineers to more than 50 engineers and six managers.
• Led the team from early product development platform to first general availability release for the Pirahna product family in thirteen months. The products have successfully trialed in multiple Tier-1 and Tier-2 carriers.
• While managing the overall software activities, maintained direct first-level supervision of a network management development team.

Tellium, Inc.

Oceanport, NJ

May 1997 - December 2003

One of the original founders of Tellium in 1997, a startup originating from Bellcore's Optical Networking program. Co-drafted initial business plan.
Tellium was a public telecommunications equipment supplier of intelligent switches for metro and core networks. Merged with Zhone Technologies (ZHNE).

Held position of Vice President - Engineering, February 2002 - December 2003.

Held position of Assistant Vice President - Engineering, March 2000 - February 2002.

• Responsible for product development of Aurora Optical Switch, Aurora Multi-Service Transport Switch (MTX) and Aurora 32 product lines.
• Managed teams from seventy to two hundred twenty-five engineers from concept to field deployment.
• Responsible for all aspects of development including systems engineering, hardware development, software development (embedded and network management) and systems verification testing.
• Successfully deployed over four major releases including industry-pioneering features:
  • first shared-mesh (StarNet) network operating system
  • optical virtual private networks management (O-VPN)
  • the largest capacity optical switch (1.28 Tb/s) available commcercially
• Achieved major releases every six to nine months.
• Qwest, Cable & Wireless and 360 Networks deployed over $350M of the Aurora Optical Switch

Held position of Director - Hardware Development, July 1999 - February 2002.

• Led team of fifty engineers in all hardware development efforts for cross-connect products.
• Developed award-winning Aurora Optical Switch in fifteen months, including the first commercial 10 Gb/s for cross-connect switches.

Held position of Manager - Transport Product Development.

• Led team of over twenty hardware and software engineers, going from specification to development and manufacturing transfer of 64-channel WDM terminals, in-line amplifiers and reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer network elements in eighteen months.
• Responsible for product definition, architecture, system engineering, planning and development of entire optical networking transmission product line.
• Completed successful lab evaluation with a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC).

Bellcore

Red Bank, NJ

September 1992 - May 1997

Bellcore was the research and engineering organization for the Regional Bell Operating Companies.

Held position of Senior Scientist in Applied Research, Optical Networking.

• Was technical team leader for development and field trials of DARPA-funded Multiwavelength Optical NETworks (MONET) and Optical Networks Technology Consortium (ONTC) projects.
• Responsible for complete development of prototype reconfigurable 4-Fiber Bidirectional Line-Switched Ring (BLSR) Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM), and 6x6 (8 λ) Wavelength-Selective Cross-Connect (WSXC) network elements for MONET Local Exchange Testbed.
• Wrote GUI craft terminal software.
• Co-developed packaging for a monolithically integrated multichannel laser array transmitter used in the ONTC Network Access Module.
• Responsible for complete system qualification of the compact 20 Gb/s 8-channel WDM module that received the R&D Magazine 100 Award for innovative commercializable technology achievement.
• Conducted successful exploratory field trials of WDM and SONET OC-192 equipment in RBOC facilities such as Bell Atlantic and SBC.