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ASSOCIATES
Jack Van der Star, BAsc., MASc., P.Eng., is President and Founder of Vanderstar Engineering & Associates, has over 30 years of relevant telecommunications industry experience and is a world class telecommunications systems designer and project manager capable of undertaking all aspects of system engineering, equipment procurement and commissioning of IP based telecommunication networks. Jack in his 30 year career has undertaken the successful design, procurement and commissioning of integrated communications networks involving microwave, satellite, fibre optics, IP based broadband wireless, telephony, mobile and integrated multimedia systems. Jack has been the CTO for several manufacturing companies of wireless products specifically in Wi-Fi, WiMAX and mmWave technologies and has an extensive experience in RF design and in the successful commercial development of whole product solutions. | Paul Cheng |
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Over the previous 10 years Paul was the China in country manager for Motorola Orthogon in charge of the Shanghai office responsible for developing sales channels and responsible for the homologation of the the company's product with the Chinese regulator. Prior to this Paul managed Alvarion's relationship with Seimens as their Telecom Account Manager and was a major contributor to the company being positioned as the No. 1 fixed broadband wireless access vendor for the Chinese market. Paul's notable achievements include being the lead RF network design engineer of the largest fixed wireless access project in China (Sichuan Telecom PMP FWA Project) and being the Project Manager for Vecima on their WiMAX deployment involving 28 basestations and 5000+ clients for their client Husky Energy's as part of their real-time management system for improving the operational efficiency for their Lloydminister area oil facilities. Paul is a professional engineer in the province of Saskachewan.
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Paul Cheng, B.S., M.E., P.Eng., is an Assocoate of Vanderstar Engineering & Associates, has over 22 years of relevant telecommunications industry experience as a senior RF network engineer and project manager capable of undertaking all aspects of design and deployment of IP based telecommunication networks. Paul has undertaken the successful design, procurement and commissioning of integrated communications networks involving PDH/SDH microwave, LMDS, WiMAX, Land Mobile, SONET, ATM and IP protocols both in North America and internationally. | Shawn Lightfoot |
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Over the previous 5 years, Shawn has held senior development leadership roles, including Director of R&D at (Honeywell)in incremental revenue. In this position Shawn streamlined the embedded and firmware engineering efforts and reduced on-going product support costs through the implementation of cross-functional product sustaining team. Shawn also lead a team in the release of a $30M/year key product redesign effort through to volume manufacturing on time and on budget with the incorporation of six sigma design tools and methodology for improving quality and reducing manufacturing variability. Prior to this Shawn was the VP Technology and Director, IP technology for WI-LAN one of the early radio manufacturers in the 900MHz to 5.8 GHz supplying the industrial communication market. Shawn led a team of over 50 engineering professionals in the development of their broadband wireless products and provided the direction from concept to product release. Shawn was responsible for adding multiple protocols (proprietary, WiFI & WiMAX) to WI-LAN's technology platform that included the hardware and firmware integration of the various MAC & PHY modules using discrete and VLSI System on Chip (SoC) implementations. Shawn received his technologist degree from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technolgy.
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Shawn Lightfoot, is an Assocoate of Vanderstar Engineering & Associates, has over 20 years of relevant industry experience as a senior Project/Development Team Manager capable of leading interdiciplinary wireless product design teams. Shawn has been directly responsible for multiple product engineering teams in the development and life cycle support of high volume portable wireless products with volume in excess of 300,000 per year. Shawn is a highly versatile and self-motivated technology professional with tremendous depth and breadth of expertise in wireless product design, support, manufacturing and engineering management. Shawn has extremely strong communication skills and has a proven abilty to create a strong and effective development teams through his leadership.