SUMMARY

Technical leader and results-oriented systems architect with over 12 years of ex

perience in designing and building software systems in the Computer and Telecomm
unications industries. Actively involved in defining next generation IPTV standa
rds. Experienced in managing and coordinating geographically diverse development
projects with a proven track record of on-time delivery. Interfaced extensively
with industry partners and customers on various collaborative technology projec
ts. Excellent presentation, inter-personal, oral and written communication skill
s. Awarded 17 U.S patents and several more patents pending.
SKILLS
LEADERSHIP
Experienced technical lead for cross-organization and geographically diverse te
ams.
Lead delegate representing company interests in various IPTV standards organiza
tions. Collaborated extensively with industry participants in defining the stand
ards.
Primary Point of Contact responsible for managing the collaboration with extern
al customers and partners on several technology initiatives
Excellent presentation, oral and written skills
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software Engineering : Requirements gathering and analysis, End-to-end Systems
Design and Architecture, System interface specifications
Technologies: Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) / related standards (RTSP, IG
MP,HTTP, ETSI TISPAN/OIPF IPTV), Targeted & Advanced Advertising /related stand
ards(SCTE 130, SCTE35), Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Advanced Applications
, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) / related standards (SIP, XCAP, SIMPLE), Media C
ontroller Protocols (MeGaCo), Network Management (SNMP), Traffic Management, OSI
Model, Embedded Platform Security, Network Security ( firewalls, IPSEC, TLS, A
LGs)
Languages: C, C++
EDUCATION
M.S in Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I), N.Y.2000
Bachelor Of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering, Bangalore University
, India.1997

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Motorola Corporation, Oct 2006 Present
Advanced Technology Office, Ann Arbor , MI
Roles: Principal Staff Software Engineer/ Senior Staff Software Engineer
Technical Lead & Architect on Several Innovative Advanced Advertising and IPTV R
elated Technology Initiatives
Member of core architecture team responsible for project definition, use cases
description, architecture, design, system interface specifications and technical
management. Lead architect in many initiatives.
o Areas of Focus include innovative Targeted Advertising solutions for fixed an
d mobile environments, IMS based IPTV , NGN SocialTV Applications on IP Set-Top
-Boxes, 3-screen Seamless-Video-Mobility Applications, Identity Management and P
ersonalization services
o Projects spanned cross-business units, included geographically dispersed teams
and involved external customers and partners
o Conceptualization Prototypes demonstrated thought leadership and accelerated p
roductization
Engaged extensively with external customers/ partners in defining system level
requirements and interfaces, Statement of compliance and managing overall system
integration schedule
Awarded a Bravo award from program management team for my individual dedication
, leadership and collaboration across global architecture and development teams
during system design, development, integration and demonstration phases, IPTV se
t-top box and portal deliverables have been arriving on-time with high reliabili
ty
Lead Standards Delegate from Company to IPTV standards organizations
Defining next generation IMS-IPTV architecture and protocol standards
o Lead delegate from Motorola to European Telecommunications Standards Institut
e (ETSI) Telecoms & Internet converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Netwo
rk (TISPAN) standards Architecture and Protocols Working Groups responsible for
defining the Next Gen IPTV Standard for fixed networks
o Collaborated with representatives from other telecommunications operators and
vendor companies in defining a common set of standards
o Provided technical background support to the delegates representing Motorola a
t the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF)
Awarded the Outstanding Performance Award from Motorola in recognition of outst
anding performance in global standards activities
.
Motorola Corporation, Aug 2005 Oct 2006
Core Networks Division (CND), Tewksbury, MA
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Lead Designer and Developer of the Media Controller Manager for IMS based networ
ks
Lead designer and implementer of the Media Controller Module (MCM) of Converged
Services Gateway (CSG) for IMS based networks.
o The MCM managed the media setup between communicating endpoints and interfaced
with a third party Media gateway controller using MGCP and MeGaCo as media con
trol protocols
Awarded a Bravo Award from the Interoperability and Test (IOT) team for my cont
ributions in helping the team setup and integrate CSG into existing infrastructu
re

Intel Corporation, July 2000 Aug 2005

Corporate Technology Group (CTG), Hillsboro, OR
Role: Senior Network Software Engineer
Architect and Developer of Next-Generation Cross-Platform Manageability Solution
s
Member of core team of architects responsible for defining and prototyping an e
xtensible, low-level platform manageability interface for secure collection of p
latform sensor data, platform diagnosis and event management
o The prototype was developed on an intelligent XScale-based IO controller runn
ing Linux on an IA32 based host platform.
o Worked closely with product teams in driving the interface definitions into n
ext-generation of management products
Researcher on several Platform and Network Security Research Initiatives
Member of core platform security research team responsible for researching and
prototyping innovative platform and network security techniques and accelerating
the adoption of these R&D efforts into our products
o One of the designers of an embedded platform hardware / firmware based solutio
n for detecting, identifying and preventing anomalous system/network activity wi
th minimal performance impact. Developed prototype on an XScale based co-process
or on a IA32 based system
o Researched and prototyped techniques for a generic and extensible application
aware endpoint firewall. Developed algorithms for intelligent packet flow proce
ssing using protocol state machines and context-aware selective deep packet insp
ection. This was prototyped as a Windows NDIS intermediate driver.
o Developed a distributed solution to detect and thwart a DDoS attack using sour
ce based tracking and implemented novel fast network packet scanning algorithms.
Evaluated impact of hard offload of these techniques
o Technical lead on project for setting up a malware analysis lab. Responsible
for guiding and leading intern project to build a malware analysis lab for study
of real worm/virus behavior
Lead Developer on Network Platform Virtualization Capabilities
Lead developer responsible for implementing a virtual Gigabit Ethernet controll
er module on a hypervisor model based Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) on Linux. Th
e module virtualized the Intel Gigabit Ethernet controller register set includin
g the TX and RX DMA engines.
The virtual Gigabit controller module was used to evaluate Intels Virtual Machi
ne Extensions (VMX) for IA32 processors that support Intels Virtualization Techn
ology (Intel VT)
Developer of a Distributed Network Management Solution
Member of team that developed an automated discovery and active network measure
ment & analysis technology
Implemented a web-based central management server that was responsible for coo
rdinating and controlling the distributed clients. The server was implemented as
a Windows COM service with a SOAP/XML based management interface.
Technology was licensed to an external customer
Wipro Infotech Sep 1997- Nov 1999
Global R & D Division, Bangalore, India
Role: Software Engineer
Developer of an SNMP Agent And Manager
Member of team that implemented an innovative object oriented design for an SNM
P agent for a network switch
Won customer appreciation award from Lucent Technologies, USA
Worked at customer site to successfully integrate the solution into their infr
astructure
HONORS & AWARDS
Recipient of University Topper Award, Bachelor Of Computer Engineering, Bangal
ore University, India, 1998
17 U.S Patents Awarded and several more pending
Received several company awards in recognition of my contribution to various pr
ojects
STANDARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Contributed to the following TISPAN NGN IPTV release2 specifications ETSI TS 1
82 027 (IMS-IPTV Architecture), ETSI TS 183 027 (IMS-IPTV Protocols), ETSI TS 18
5 009(IPTV STB architecture)
Co-authored IETF Internet-drafts on SIP/RTSP based signaling (in RFC editors q
ueue)
Priya Rajagopal.P , Parmar.P , Sahita.R, Protocol Decode Based Stateful Firewal
l Policy Definition Language, proceedings of the IEEE Policy 2004 conference, Ne
w York, June, 2004
Durham.D , Rajagopal.P ,Vicente.J , Building Intelligent Traffic Engineering So
lutions, IFIP Conference On Network Control & Engineering for QoS, Security And
Mobility (Net-Con 2002), Paris, France, Oct, 2002
Rajagopal.P, Durham, D., Govindarajan, P., Larson, D., Sahita, R.. Elimination
of DDOS Attacks Using Programmable Network Processors, technical paper, Intel De
veloper Networking And Communications journal, 2002
Natu. N, Rajagopal.P, Kalyanaraman. S, GSC: A Generic Source-based Congestion C
ontrol Algorithm for Reliable Multicast, Journal of Computer Communications, Vol
24, No. 5-6, March 2001, pp. 575-589
VISA STATUS
Permanent U.S Resident
REFERENCES
Available on request