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`dchrissan@gmail.com
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`Douglas A. Chrissan
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`(408) 823-9976
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`2011–present
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`2009–2011
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`Engineering and Intellectual Property Consultant
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`Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA (MXIM)
`Engineering Director, Video Processing
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`Keystream Corporation, Mountain View, CA
`Vice President, Engineering
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`Texas Instruments, Sunnyvale, CA (TXN)
`Program Engineering Manager, DSP Division
`Systems Architect, DSL
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`8x8, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (EGHT)
`VP Engineering, Netergy Microelectronics group
`Director, Signal Processing Algorithms
`Manager, Audio Algorithms
`Senior Software Engineer
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`Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing)
`Masters Fellow and Member of Technical Staff
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`EDUCATION:
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`Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
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`M.S.E.E., University of Southern California
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`B.S.E.E., University of Southern California
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`EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
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`Twenty years of communications, multimedia and networking experience with expertise
`in communication systems, embedded software, Internet server and client software,
`mobile device software, audio/video processing and system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.
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`Engineering and Intellectual Property Consultant
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`2016-present
`TQ Delta
`Expert Witness for TQ Delta (Plaintiff), Civil Actions 1:15-cv-00611-RGA
`through 1:15-cv-00616-RGA (deposed once for this case).
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`2011–present
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`TQ Delta Exhibit 2004
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`Arris Group, Inc. v. TQ Delta, LLC
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`Expert Witness for TQ Delta (Patent Owner), IPR2016-01006, -01007,
`-01008, -01009, and -01160.
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`2014
`Monster, Inc.
`Expert Consultant for Monster, Inc. (Defendant), Civil Action No. 13 Civ.
`8229 (KBF) (S.D.N.Y.) (case settled)
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`2013-present
`Intellectual Ventures
`Expert Witness for IV (Plaintiff), Civil Actions 1:13-cv-00116-LY (deposed
`once for this case), 1:13-cv-00118-LY (case settled) and 1:13-cv-00119-
`LY (case settled).
`Expert Consultant for IV (Plaintiff), Civil Actions 1:12-cv-00193-LPS and
`1:13-cv-01668-LPS through 1:13-cv-01672-LPS.
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`2013-2015
`Wiffledan, Inc. (a.k.a. Vhoto, acquired by Hulu)
`Designed and implemented image processing and computer vision
`algorithms on iOS devices for selecting the most appealing images from
`a video sequence. These algorithms are used in the Vhoto application,
`available as of 2014 from the Apple App store.
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`2011-2012
`Cavium, Inc.
`Managed customer engineering for WiFi-enabled wireless remote display
`receivers, including the Samsung AllShareCast wireless remote display
`dongle.
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`2009–2011
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`Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA (MXIM)
`Engineering Director, Video Processing
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`Managed and developed the MAX64380 High-Definition H.264 Video
`Compression/Decompression Integrated Circuit from inception to production.
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`Managed and developed the MAX64180 High-Definition H.264 Video
`Compression/Decompression Integrated Circuit from inception to production.
`This product was used in many internet-connected camera designs for security
`cameras and TV webcams (cameras connected to Smart TVs).
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`Managed and developed the iZon camera for Stem, Inc. using the MAX64180.
`This first-generation, WiFi-connected security camera was available as the Stem
`iZon product in Apple stores as of 2011.
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`Managed the development of several Skype TV Webcam designs; these designs
`enable Smart TVs to run Skype natively as a videoconferencing application on
`the TV. The first of these designs, for Samsung, was the first Skype TV webcam
`product in the market (2010).
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`Keystream Corporation, Mountain View, CA
`Vice President, Engineering
`(Company ceased operations in Dec. 2009)
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`Managed an agile team of Internet software engineers in the development and
`release of company’s SmartAd platform, an ad delivery system to users’ web
`browsers.
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`2009
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`Implemented computer vision algorithms for detecting, tracking and classifying
`objects in videos.
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`Texas Instruments, Sunnyvale, CA (TXN)
`Program Engineering Manager, DSP Division
`Systems Architect, DSL
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`2004–2009
`2003–2004
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`Managed the development and release to production of the UR8 Digital
`Subscriber Line (DSL) ADSL2/VDSL2 residential gateway product, including all
`hardware and software components. This work included substantial contributions
`to the architecture and design of TI’s TNET7531 and TNET7530 multi-core, DSL
`transceiver integrated circuits and related software. UR8 was a $20M+ product
`development including 100 engineers at multiple worldwide sites, with first silicon
`released to production and all software delivered on schedule.
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`Authored the TI White Paper “Uni-DSL™: One DSL for Universal Service” (see
`publications section below).
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`Managed the ~$50M divestiture of TI’s digital subscriber line IC products to
`Infineon, including IT, technology transfer, support, operations and product
`engineering.
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`8x8, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (EGHT)
`VP Engineering, Netergy Microelectronics group
`Director, Signal Processing Algorithms
`Manager, Audio Algorithms
`Senior Software Engineer
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`2000-2003
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`Directed a team of silicon, software, hardware and applications engineers in the
`development of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Video-telephony software and
`semiconductor products.
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`Substantially contributed to the Vision Compression Processor EX (VCP-EX)
`integrated circuit, the Audacity-T2 Voice-Over Internet Protocol Processor
`integrated circuit and the Audacity-T2U Voice-Over Internet Protocol Processor
`integrated circuit. The Audacity-T2 and T2U were in production and used in
`designs worldwide for more than ten years.
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`Managed major software releases and hardware product lines, enabling
`company’s OEM customers to develop VoIP products including the Ericsson
`DRG-22 Ethernet Residential Gateway, the Telsey Ethernet Residential Gateway
`and the D-Link DPH-100 IP Phone.
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`Architected the design and managed the development of a DSP core for
`audio/video processing. This DSP core was licensed by ST Microelectronics and
`led to a $27M investment in the company by ST.
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`Managed company’s IP portfolio of ~50 patents and patent applications.
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`Designed and managed and designed the implementation of the G.7xx ITU
`speech compression algorithms on four different DSP architectures
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`1988-1993
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`Hughes Aircraft Company
`Masters Fellow and Member of Technical Staff
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`Designed and developed a digitally synthesized, bandwidth efficient 800 Mb/s modem
`under a NASA Lewis Research Center contract.
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`Provided pre-sales technical and design support for commercial satellite programs,
`including the Aussat (Australia) and Palapa (Indonesia) programs.
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`Designed communication payload circuits for the Milstar satellite program.
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`PUBLICATIONS:
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`Douglas Chrissan, “Uni-DSL™: One DSL for Universal Service,” Texas Instruments White
`Paper, SPAY018, June 2004.
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "A Clustering Poisson Model for Characterizing the
`Interarrival Times of Sferics," Radio Science, 38, 17-1 to 17-14, 2003.
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "A Comparison of Low-Frequency Radio Noise
`Amplitude Probability Distribution Models," Radio Science, 35,195-208, 2000.
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`Chrissan, D. A., “Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Low-Frequency Radio Noise and
`Improvement of Low-Frequency Communications,” Final Technical Report D179-1, Space,
`Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory, Stanford University, ONR Grants N00014-
`92-J-1576 and N00014-93-1-1073, August 1998. (Ph.D. dissertation)
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "Diurnal Variations of Globally Measured ELF/VLF
`Radio Noise," Tech. Report D177-2, Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory,
`Stanford University, ONR Grants N00014-92-J-1576 and N00014-93-1-1073, July 1997.
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "Seasonal Variations of Globally Measured ELF/VLF
`Radio Noise," Tech. Report D177-1, Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory,
`Stanford University, ONR Grants N00014-92-J-1576 and N00014-93-1-1073, December 1996.
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "Seasonal Variations of Globally-Measured ELF/VLF
`Radio Noise," Radio Science, 31, 1141-1152, 1996.
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`Chrissan, D. A., and A. C. Fraser-Smith, "Seasonal Variations of ELF/VLF Radio Noise at
`Arrival Heights, Antarctica" Antarctic J., 30, 368-369, 1996.
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`PATENTS:
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`Douglas A. Chrissan and Rajarathinam G. Subramanian, “Varying pulse amplitude
`multi-pulse analysis speech processor and method,” U.S. Patent 7272553, Sep 18,
`2007.
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`Bryan R. Martin, Ian John Buckley, Philip Bednarz and Douglas A. Chrissan, “Voice-
`Over Internet Protocol Processor,” U.S. Patent 7,120,143, Oct. 10, 2006.
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`HONORS and AWARDS:
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`Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Graduate Research Fellow, 1994
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`Hughes Aircraft Masters Fellow, 1988-1990
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`National Merit Scholar, 1984-1988
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