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Hamid Ahmadi
Chief Architect, Motorola
Hamid has over 25 years of research, development and management experience in the area of telecommunication, IP networking, wireless communications and network security.
Named as Motorola’s Chief Architect in January 2006, Hamid previously served as the Vice President of Technology and CTO in the Global Communications Sector at IBM Corporation. As lead technologist and CTO for the sector, he was responsible for formulating technical strategy for each of these industries by identifying new growth opportunities to enable customers transform their IT and networking infrastructures using IBM integrated solutions based approach. Some key areas of focus included networking and services transformation for creating a unified architecture and service delivery platform for providing all services over internet infrastructure, broadband wireless access (WiFi, WiMax and EVDO) technologies, digital content management and distribution, end-to-end-security architecture, IMS based multimedia services solutions and a unified middleware platform for delivery and services integration.
Prior to re-joining IBM, Hamid was Vice President of the Global Network and IP Services Planning and Development organizations at AT&T Labs for 5 years. He is credited with having conceived the architecture and managed the development of AT&T Global IP network for all aspects of systems engineering, design, planning, and services realization supporting the needs of the network through service applications (layer 1 – layer 7) in support of security and managed services such as global VPN and MPLS offerings. His organization was responsible for global development of AT&T’s transport network, AT&T’s IP backbone, global VPN, VOIP solutions and broadband access services. Hamid was also Vice President and Chief Technology Architect, Internet and Networking Systems.
Prior to joining AT&T, he was with IBM for 15 years, where he was the Director of Security and Networking Research at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His department there was responsible for research in the areas of communications systems, fast packet switching architecture, IP and data networks, mobile networking, cryptography, Internet security and security vulnerability analysis. He was responsible for research and development efforts that led to two IBM Wireless LAN products. He was also co-inventor of IBM Prizma Switch technology that has been deployed in several gigaswitch routers such as Celox Networks and Alcatel. In 1994, he was the recipient of IBM’s Outstanding Innovation Award for Prizma Switch technology.
Hamid is an IEEE Fellow. He served on the Board of Directors of Packeteer®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR), a leading provider of application performance infrastructure systems for 4 years. He also served on the advisory board of Airespace, a wireless switched based company which was recently acquired by Cisco Networks. He is on the Industry Advisory Board of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and UCSB. He was an Executive Board Member of the International Computer Science Institute at University of California, Berkeley. He served as founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, guest editor for the IEEE JSAC and was technical editor for the IEEE transaction on communications. He is also adjunct faculty at Polytechnic University of NY.
Hamid received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY, in 1976, 1978, and 1983, respectively. |
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