7/2008
Dr. Eric Burger E-Mail: eburger@standardstrack.com
Index
Commercial Experience.................................................................................................................................. 2
Boards, Industry Forums, and Research Management.......................................................................... 5
Academics............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Published Patents............................................................................................................................................. 7
Representative Trade Presentations........................................................................................................ 7
Representative Technical Publications and Monographs................................................................. 8
Representative Standards Publications.................................................................................................. 9
Professional Affiliations and Service.................................................................................................... 10
Community Service.......................................................................................................................................... 11
Random Interests............................................................................................................................................ 11
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Acting General Manager, Communications Products Division 2/08 to 5/08 Deputy CTO and 1/07 to 5/08 |
BEA Systems Lead team of 260+ individuals addressing the real-time
network software market. Worked on business plan for telecom business unit
and did internal evangelization. Created integrated service provider /
enterprise technology and market strategy. Turn around group from being at
50% of plan to achieving 150% of plan, growing revenues over 5x in a year,
including a strong plan for growth over the next three years. Deputy CTO of a publically traded (NASD:BEAS) 4200+ employee,
$1.5B middleware software company, responsible for technology vision, market
evangelization, intellectual property generation, organization change, and
research with a focus on the telecommunication vertical market, which
represented 28% - 40% of revenues, depending on accounting practice.
Briefings with CxO level executives in the telecom and financial industries,
resulting directly in multiple sales ranging from a $2MM sale to a 3.5 year,
$72M contract. Worked with university researchers to identify and acquire
technology and personnel. Did diligence on over 15 companies. I am the public
face of the company, with numerous keynote addresses at technical and
marketing conferences, as well as interviews with the press and analysts.
Reported to the Corporate CTO (EVP). Oracle completed the change in
control with BEA in May 2008. |
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Chief Technology Officer, Cantata 10/06
to 1/07 Chief Technology Officer, Brooktrout 4/04
to 10/06 |
Cantata Technology, Salem, NH CTO of a 360+ employee private equity (Oak Investment Partners, TowerBrook Capital Partners, Greenview Associates, and Anschutz Investment Company) enabling technology company, responsible for technology vision, market evangelization, and corporate technology positioning. Established “Virtual Office of the CTO,” drawing experts from R&D and marketing to create a cohesive vision for current products, identifying new technology directions and potential acquisition targets, and covering major standards and industry organizations without imposing undue overhead on the organization. Established and ran Advanced Development, separate from Engineering, to build proofs of concept, quick customer demos, and direct research projects internally and at universities. Worked with customer and end-user CxO’s at both carriers and large enterprises. Lead Cantata’s IMS and Video strategies, as well as how to transition the company to address the migration of our customers from TDM to IP. Worked closely with strategic partners such as Vodafone, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Nokia, Lucent, Motorola, BEA, Oracle, IBM, as well as major research institutions worldwide. Successful experience dealing with internal inward-focused, legacy CTO’s and Chief Architects. Created and administered patent program that tripled Brooktrout’s 20 year-old portfolio in the span of 18 months. Participated in ISO 9000 audit. Participated on earnings calls and educational seminars for the financial community, as well as technical presentations, papers, conferences, speaking, and so on. Split time between Cantata’s major development centers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and California, as well as supporting global offices, customers, and partners. Cantata’s focus is on building enabling technology for telecommunications applications, spanning TDM, hybrid, and IP networks. Successfully drove the Brooktrout Technology (NASD:BRKT) merger with Excel Switching, in a private equity transaction that created Cantata Technology, for a $120MM increase (2x) in market cap. Reports to the CEO. 3rd and 4th successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues. |
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Founder and Chief Technology Officer 9/00 to 4/04 |
SnowShore Networks, Inc., Chelmsford, MA Externally focused CTO, building a venture-backed (Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, Vesbridge) company from 3 co-founders to a high of 72 employees.. Defined the architecture, created the vision, lead the technology, and evangelized the reality for IP enhanced communications infrastructure products for service providers. Created buzz, industry credibility, and good will toward SnowShore in the technical and service provider community. Generated leads and help close multi-million dollar financing and business deals. Inventor of the SIP-controlled Media Server and the Applications and Services Infrastructure concept, which is the dominant enhanced-services development and deployment model for the Next-Generation Network. Realized these concepts and standardized them in international bodies such as the IETF and W3C. Regular speaker at industry and technical fora. Created and administered patent program that generated over 12 applications (6 have issued to date). SnowShore’s focus is on building highly scalable, IP- and Web-oriented, carrier-class, SIP-based voice and video media processing servers. Reported to the CEO. Brooktrout Technology acquired SnowShore in April 2004. Recognized as a top-25% outcome for the venture class of 2000. Second successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues. |
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Chief Scientist 06/98
to 9/00 |
ADC/Centigram Communications
Corporation, Maryland Technology Center,
Rockville, MD Lead the Maryland Technology Center of a 375+ employee public company (NASD:CGRM). Determined and promoted strategic technical direction for the entire company. Responsible for technology assessment for the corporation by identifying and pursuing promising avenues of research and technology acquisition strategy. Represented Centigram on international and domestic standards bodies. Created and administered patent program that doubled Centigram’s 15-year-old portfolio, including successful defense of a $30M IPR infringement suit, resulting in excellent terms for the company. Principal contributor for design of real-time Web-based interactive multi-media products. Developed Unified, Internet-based Messaging strategy, including wireless technologies. Technical lead for VoIP and IN/AIN efforts. Responsible for technical and commercial negotiations with strategic partners. Directly involved with sale of company to ADC, which resulted in a nearly 10x increase in market cap. Reported to the Exec. VP Engineering. ADC purchased Centigram in June 2000. |
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Vice President |
The Telephone Connection, Inc., Rockville,
MD Managed all aspects of telecommunications product design, development, deployment, feature pricing, feature definition, launch planning, and partner relations. Responsible for demonstrating to prospective customers how our solutions meet or exceed their requirements. Typical VP-Level P&L and personnel responsibilities, restarting company at six employees and growing it to 32 employees. Established strategic relations with vendors and customers, resulting in the award of a $150M contract. Shared VP Marketing role with VP Product Development, including RFP response, pricing and positioning. Started as Director, Engineering; promoted to VP in March of 1996. Reported to the CEO. Centigram purchased The Telephone Connection in June 1998 (see above). |
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Manager, |
Cable & Wireless Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA Manager and principal engineer for a broadcast and high volume broadcast facsimile switch service. Managed technology transfer of 500,000 lines of C code running in a distributed TCP/IP environment to my in-house engineering organization. Reduced engineer turnover from an average tenure of 9 months to 18 months. Work with other divisions of Cable & Wireless, primarily in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Managed group of 18 people. Reported to the Director of Software Development and the VP Engineering. |
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Consultant |
MCI Telecommunications Corporation, McLean,
VA Directed a staff of engineers for high volume real-time on-line transaction processing for MCI’s Intelligent Network, creating the first effective architecture that today is known as a SoftSwitch. Directed and participated in research and development of transaction-oriented applications design for massively parallel supercomputer platform (nCube). This was a technical and commercial success. We were able to demonstrate call processing capacity that could process more than all of the global inter-exchange and international traffic for enhanced services. This resulted in a dramatic reduction in MCI’s network equipment costs. |
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Engineering |
Valid Logic Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA Sales Executive, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (8/89-9/90). Responsible for a large, strategic account (largest electronics firm in Europe); landed largest order for Valid in 1989. Confounded #1 competitor (Valid at that time was #2) – stopped all sales from their largest account for three quarters. Member Of The Technical Staff, Diest, Belgium (9/86-7/89). Established European Corporate Research Center. Delivered 500,000 lines of C code. Engineering Program Manager, San Jose, CA (7/85-9/86). Responsible for PC-based products; became 40% of shipments in first year. Engineering Project Manager San Jose, CA (11/84-6/85). Responsible for largest release in the company’s history, restoring quality to a product that was known for bugs. Sr. Software Engineer San Jose, CA (6/84-6/85). Created MOS Simulation tools. Considerable customer interaction. First successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues. This company is now one of the top ten software companies in the world (Cadence Design) |
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Research Engineer |
Texas Instruments, Inc.,
Central Research Laboratory, Dallas, TX |
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Chairman of the Board of Directors 2003
- present |
SIP Forum The SIP Forum is dedicated to promoting the use of
the SIP protocol, by working with industry, academia, and the IETF. Board member since 2003. Elected Chair 2007. |
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Board of Directors and VP Asia 2002 - 2007 |
IMS Forum The IMS Forum is the
premier organization dedicated to advancing the state of the art in packet
telephony technology and implementation. This is the successor organization
to the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) and the
International Softswitch Consortium (ISC). |
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Advisory Board |
Voice
Over IP Forum of Japan, Tokyo, Japan The VFJ is dedicated to the promotion of VoIP in
the Japanese market. |
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Board of Advisors |
Sigma
Systems, Toronto, Canada Sigma
Systems is a leader in Operations Support Systems (OSS) for the
communications industry. |
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Board of Advisors |
AGNITY,
Freemont, CA |
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Board of Advisors 2000
- present |
Mobera
Systems,
Milpitas, CA Mobera is a core product development corporation
with facilities in Chandigarh, India focused on the telecom, life sciences,
and logistics industries. |
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Board of Directors 2000
- 2004 |
Information
Appliances International, Falls Church, VA IIA manufactured equipment and systems for the
PDA’s and wireless devices. |
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Board of Advisors 1999
- 2000 |
Vivexchange.com, Milpitas, CA A B2B e-commerce company; sold to Commerce One.
Recouped 100% of equity, a major feat at the end of 2000. |
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Research Mgt. |
George
Mason University, Fairfax, VA |
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Adjunct Professor Computer Science |
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Computer Science Department) |
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Lecturer Information Systems |
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (Fac. CCEW) |
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Lecturer |
Association for Computing Machinery
Professional Development Seminars, Washington, DC |
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Ph.D. |
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL |
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Doctorate
in Education |
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA |
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M.B.A. |
International
Business Management,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
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S.B. |
Electrical
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA |
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(no
degree) |
Music
Performance, The Juilliard School PCD, New York,
NY |
• Burger, E., Hughes,
J., and Penny, D.: Low Latency Packet Processor, US 7,330,900
• Burger, E. and Van Dyke, J.:
Universal Voice Browser Framework, US 7,149,287
• Burger, E.: System and Method for
Performing Signaling-Plan-Specific Call Progress Analysis, US 7,139,380
• Burger, E. and Womer, M.: Cache for
Large-Object Real-Time Latency Elimination, US 6,988,169
• Burger, E., O’Connor, W., Spitzer,
A., and Wessler, B.: Network-Based Disc Redundancy Storage System and Method, US 6,779,082
• Burger, E., Kimball, J., O'Connor,
W., Taylor, N., Parikh, S., Pax, C.: System And Method For Locating Subscribers
Using A Best Guess Location Algorithm With Enhanced Location Determination, US
6,678,366, AU3676001, WO
0160033
• Burger, E. and Spitzer, A.:
Distributed Telephony Resource Management Method, US 6,477,172, EP 1061725
• Parikh, S., and Burger, E.: System
And Method For Call Management With Voice Channel Conservation, US 6,408,177, WO 0160032
• Nestoriak III, J. and Burger, E.:
Enhanced Telephone Service System with Secure System and Method for E-Mail
Address Registration, US 6,353,852, CA
2391315, IL 147844
• Burger, E. and Kimball, J.: Voice
Call Processing Methods, US 6,353,660,
WO 0165813
• Shankarappa, V., Burger, E., and
Nestoriak, J.: Service Platform With Secure System And Method For Subscriber
Profile Customization, US 6,266,690,
CA2391315, WO 0108022
• Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: System
and Method for Providing User Input Information to Multiple Independent,
Concurrent Applications, US20050185773 (Allowed and scheduled for publication)
• Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: Remote
Control of Device by Telephone or Other Communication Devices, US20060039389
• Robbins, K. and Burger, E.:
Controlling an Output While Receiving a User Input, US20060247927
• Filreis, J. and Burger, E.:
Facsimile Transmission Authentication, US20080016356
• Filreis, J. and Burger, E.: System
and Method For Authentication of Transformed Documents, US20080016358
• Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: System
and Method for Providing User Input Information to Multiple Independent,
Concurrent Applications, US20080107246
Other patents pending (not yet published by the USPTO). Other patents
issued world-wide.
• Regular Presentations to Voice on the Net, China Softswitch Forum, SIP
Summit, Connectivity Forum.
• Invited Keynotes at China SIP
Summit, China VoIP Forum, CommunicAsia, International SIP.
• Invited Keynotes at ACM MNCNA
(Middleware), IEEE NGMAST.
• Regular Presentations to IEC IN/IP
World Forum and SuperComm; Multiple IEC TecForum Chair.
• Invited Member, ITU Workshop on the Future of Voice
• Burger, E., Frieder,
O., Efficient Residential Consumer Device Interaction With Network
Services, IEEE Transactions on Consumer
Electronics, (53) 1, February 2007, pp. 100-107. [Journal]
• Burger, E., Frieder,
O., A Novel System for Remote Control of Household Devices Using Digital
IP Phones, IEEE Transactions on Consumer
Electronics, (52) 2, May 2006, pp. 575-582. [Journal]
• Chowdhury,
A., Frieder, O., Burger, E., Grossman, D., and Makki, K., “Dynamic Routing
System (DRS): Fault tolerance in network routing”, Computer Networks and
ISDN Systems (31) 1-2, 1999, pp. 87-97. [Journal]
• Burger, E., A New Interprovider Interconnect
Technology for Multimedia Networks, IEEE
Communications Magazine, (43) 6, June 2005, pp. 147-151.
• Burger, E., Frieder,
O., Efficient Residential Consumer Device Interaction With Network
Services, 2007 International Conference
on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2007), January 2007, pp. 50-51.
• Burger, E., Frieder,
O., A Novel System for Remote Control of Household Devices Using Digital
IP Phones, 2006 International Conference
on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2006), January 2006, pp. 183-184.
• Burger, E., Frieder,
O., Network Traffic Reduction for Transport of User Signaling
Information, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006),
January 2006, pp. 1057-1062.
• Chowdhury, A., Burger, E., Grossman, D., and Frieder,
O.: DRS: A Fault Tolerant Network Routing System for Mission Critical
Distributed Applications, Proceedings
6th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks,
August 1997, pp. 106-113. [Nominated for Best Paper]
• Burger, E.: Multinational Issues in R&D Management, Technology Management: the New
International Language, October 1991.
• Burger, E.: The Use of Unix Software Tools for Automatic
Program Generation, Proc. 1st Sun Expo, March 1990.
• Burger, E. and Dedene, G.: Economics of Point
Acceleration, Proceedings 1st
European Design Automation Conference, February 1990, pp. 424-428.
• Orhtman, Jr., F.: Softswitch: Architecture for VoIP,
McGraw-Hill, 2003. [Monograph; Technical Editor]
• Burger, E.: Program
Construction in the UNIX Environment, The George Washington University,
1994. [Textbook]
• Burger, E.: UNIX
System Calls and Inter–Process Communication, The George Washington
University, 1994. [Textbook]
My Erdös number is 3 (Ophir FriederÞFrank
HararyÞPaul Erdös)
• Burger, E., WITHIN Search Extension to the IMAP
Protocol, RFC 5032, IETF, September
2007.
• Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Media
Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) and Protocol, RFC 5022, IETF, September 2007.
• Burger, E. and Dolly, M., A Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Key Press Stimulus (KPML), RFC 4730, IETF, October 2006.
• Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Media
Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) and Protocol, RFC 4722, IETF, October 2006.
• Burger, E., A Mechanism for Content Indirection in
SIP Messages, RFC 4483, IETF, April
2006.
• Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Basic
Network Media Services with SIP,
RFC 4240, IETF, December 2005.
• Camarillo, G., Burger,
E., Schulzrinne, H., and van Wijk, A., Transcoding
Services Invocation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Using Third Party
Call Control (3pcc), RFC 4117, IETF,
June 2005.
• Barbir, A., Burger,
E., Chen, R., McHenry, S., Orman, H., and
Penno, R., Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Use Cases and Deployment
Scenarios, RFC 3752, IETF, April 2004.
• Burger,
E., Critical
Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter, RFC 3459, IETF,
January 2003.
• Burger, E., Candell,
E., Eliot, C., and Klyne, G., Message Context for Internet Mail, RFC 3458, IETF,
January 2003.
• D. Burnett et al., Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML)
Version 2.0, W3C, March 2004.
• RJ Auburn et al., Call
Control Markup Language (CCXML) Version 1.0, W3C, June 2005.
Member (1984), Senior Member (2000),
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Next
Generation Mobile Applications, Services And Technologies (NGMAST) 2007
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Steering Committee Member, Boston Section IEEE/CS (2001-2004)
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Executive Committee Member and Chapter Liaison, Northern Virginia
Section of IEEE (2000).
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Participant in the SET/IEEE Congressional Visits Day, 2000, 2005, 2007,
2008.
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Member, IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy
(2005-present)
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Invited speaker for Northern Virginia Communications Society and Joint
Greater Boston Area IEEE Computer Society / Greater Boston Chapter ACM.
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IEEE Mentor
Member (1976), Senior Member (2006),
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Program Committee Member, ACM Middleware for Next-generation Converged
Networks and Applications (MNCNA) 2007
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Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM) 2008
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ACM Mentor
Member and Patron (2006), American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Advisory Committee Member and Benefactor
(2000), The Internet Society (ISOC).
Advisory Committee Representative (2000-2006), The
World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Academic Member (2003-2006), Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Member (1999), Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education (AACE).
Charter Member (2005) Teksia
Technical Committees:
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Chair,
IETF SPEECHSC Work Group (Speech Services Control)
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Chair,
IETF LEMONADE Work Group (Mobile and Unified Messaging)
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Chair, IETF MEDIACTRL Work Group
(Media Server Control)
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Director, IETF Applications Area
Review Committee
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IETF sipping, sip, simple, opes, midcom, megaco, vpim, ifax work group
participant
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W3C Voice Browser Work Group (VoiceXML, CCXML), Multimodal Interaction
Work Group (MMI)
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IEEE POSIX Standards Group (P1003)
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ITU-T SG-D
Reviewer for:
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