Curriculum Vitae; Anders Löwinger
Svensbyvägen 41 B
94473 Piteå, Sweden
Mobile: +46 72 206 0322
anders@abundo.se
http://www.lowinger.se/
http://www.abundo.se/
Summary
Hardworking with excellent skills in software/hardware and their interactions. Experienced
with network communications, network design and routing protocols. Built and architected
routers, both chassis and pizza-boxes. Competent and practiced presenter both in front of
customers and at conferences. Good problem solver. No task is too hard, yet failed to solve
any problem I’ve been assigned. Fast learner and teaches myself to solve problems if needed.
Works equally well alone or in team. Computers and data communication is both my personal
interest and work. Skilled manager, very good at managing highly competent people. Long
experience as project manager and Scrum/Product Owner methodology.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Abundo AB - Founder, owner and Senior
Consultant
September 2011-Present
Consultancy services in broadband networks, IT management, software and product
development.
PacketFront – System Engineer and
Research Manager
June 2008-April 2011t
SCRUM Product Owner for two of the development teams, one in Stockholm mainly working
on future solutions and products (GPON, L2 residential access) and one in Shanghai handling
the embedded operating system in PacketFronts routers/switches. Closely working with
Product Management, developers and the other in Systems Engineering to write the Product
Backlogs and driving the development of the products and the solutions forward.
PacketFront – Research Manager
June 2007-May 2008
Manages the Research Team with two people under me. Scans the market, vendors, trade
shows, product announcements etc for new and interesting technology that we evaluate and
potentially sends to Product Management for implementation. Chief architect of an ATCA
chassis based GPON router/access switch (sorry to say cancelled after 6 months of
development due to financial reasons).
PacketFront – Manager Systems Engineering
March 2005-May 2007
Managed the Systems Engineering team with four people under me; two in Stockholm, one in
London and one in Shanghai. Interface between Product Management and rest of R&D.
Clarified requirements, wrote implementation proposals, system solutions, whitepapers,
presentations, use cases etc. Evaluated vendors and hardware components, such as ASICs,
memories etc for new platforms. Followed standardization work in IETF, ITU-S15, DSL
Forum, MEF to be up to date on the latest market trends and requirements. I was the key
persons building the ASR5000 product, an successful NPU based access/edge router. I also
was responsible for selecting vendor and evaluation when developing the ASR10000 router.
Evaluated and selected CPU for the cost reduction of the CPS200/300 CPE switch. Been part
of many COST reduction projects for products such as ASR4000, ASR5000, CPE.
PacketFront – Product Manager Engineer
March 2004 – February 2005
Collected requirements, both internally and from customers. Identified use cases. Clarified
requirements and scoped implementations. Worked with both Embedded
Systems/Networking and Management systems, including High-Availability products.
Xelerated- Senior System Engineer
March 2001-February 2004
Designed and developed the fast path code in the X10 Network Processor for bridging, IPv4,
IPv6 and MPLS protocols, using PISC assembly language.
Designed protocol specifications between fast path and slow path. Designed APIs controlling
the Network Processor such as boot, configuration, application load, TCAM/SRAM
management, and the fast path processing in the control plane, closely following relevant
forums such as IETF and Network Processor Forum.
Created both internal and external documentation such as “implementation proposals” to the
ASIC team, “X10 NPU User guide”, “IPv4 and MPLS Application notes”, “IPv6 Service
Card” and targeted Application notes for customers.
Performed usability studies of the hardware verifying that the ASIC could be used to build
core, edge and metro routers. Screened surrounding chips that is needed to build systems such
as Switch Fabric, TCAM, SRAM and control plane processors.
Cisco US/San Jose, Senior Software Engineer
April 2000 – February 2001
Responsible for designing, developing, testing, maintaining, and documenting new features in
the IOS ISIS routing protocol. Responsible for reviewing code as well as both internal and
external documentation related to routing protocols. Assisted in mentoring new members in
the group. Followed, participated and contributed in IETF, NANOG and other relevant
seminars and forums.
Cisco Sweden, Consulting Engineer EMEA North
November 1999 – March 2000
Responsible for optical and core router technologies in the Nordic region targeting Service
Provider and major Enterprise market. Tested and implemented new products, both hardware
and software and was "the" focal point for these technologies in my area. Educated the
System Engineering sales force and customers via advanced workshops. Talked at major trade
shows and seminars. Some keywords: DWDM, SONET/SDH, ATM, POS, DPT/SRP, MPLS
(VPN) and all types of routing protocols such as ISIS, OSPF, BGP and PIM.
Cisco Sweden, System Engineer
November 1997 – October 1999
Responsible for several major Service Providers in Sweden. Assisted customers to implement
new IOS features such as CEF, QoS and network design. Worked out expansion plans with
customers. Introduced and explained new hardware and software.
Tele2 / Swipnet, Sweden. Senior Network Architect.
April 1994 - October 1997
Responsible for product development, backbone maintenance and expansion, International
BGP routing policy and network security. Decision maker and member of the core staff
advising the board in technical questions. Routing: BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, IGRP, and
RIP. IBM SNA configuration (SRB, SDLLC, DLSW, STUN), Multiprotocol IPX, OSI, X.25
tunneling. Wrote programs for management, installation, configuration control and statistics.
IBM Sweden. Network support
January 1992 - March 1994
Supported IBM partners on Novell Netware, LAN Server, PC based TCP/IP products, 8209
Ethernet <-> Token ring bridge, OS/2, integration of DOS/Win/OS2 with Novell and other
IBM products such as 3270 and 5250 emulators.
Dataline, Stockholm. LAN installations
July 1988 - December 1991
Manager for technical/installation department. Installed NOS, OS and cable systems such as
Token-Ring, Ethernet and ARCnet. Educated customers. Created installation policies for the
company.
Dataline, Software development
September 1987 - June 1988
Developed a reservation system for taxi centrals. Implemented using Turbo Pascal, x86
Assembler and Btrieve database manager together with Novell Netware for multi-user
operation. Installed both the hardware and the software at customer premises.
Military Service
Trained sergeant.
June 1986 - August 1987
Skills
Data plane, control plane protocols and related:
IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, MPLS/VPN, CLNS
802.1d / Bridging, PWE3, VPLS, QoS/CoS, diffserv, intserv
BGP, ISIS, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, PIM-DM, PIM-SM, IGMP, DNS
ADSL, EPON, GPON G.984
LDAP, Radius, SOAP/XML, REST
Hardware, Interconnects and related
ATCA PICMG 3.1 with IPMI and the different backplane options/buses.
PCI, PCI-X, PCI-Express, SPI-3, SPI-4.2, RGMII, GMII, SGMII, XAUI
NOR & NAND Flash, SRAM, DRAM, TCAMs
Operating systems:
Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Win7
Windows 2003 Advanced Server, Exchange 2003, Active Directory
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Cisco IOS, PacketFront iBOS
Programming languages:
Higher level: C, C++, Java, C#
Script:
PHP, Python
Lower level: 68k, 80x86, some MIPS32 assembler
Applications, development tools
Mindtouch Core, Joomla CMS, Alfresco explorer/share
GCC, GDB, Makefile
Eclipse, Netbeans, Tomcat
Visual Studio C/C++ & C#, .NET, QT and QTCreator
Trivia:
Built one-board computer from scratch as school project back in 1986 based on a Motorola
68K CPU. Wrote boot code and a basic monitor using assembler.
Education
Aug 1982 - May 1986
Swedish "Gymnasium"
Focus on physics, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science.
Other
UGL – Utbildning, Grupp, Ledarskap
UML 2.0 for realtime systems
Senior adviser to PacketFront IT
- Writing scripts, managing and implementing intranets, user and group management,
email, and spam management (greylisting)
- Integration of Asterisk and frontend email systems to MS Active Directory
- Built a client VPN solution based on OpenVPN with AD integration and dynamically
firewall/IPTables updates using Python.
- Built many internal web based systems for project management, feature requests etc using
a mix of Java and PHP
- Managed policies for PacketFront firewall and intra-office VPNs.
- Wrote a cross-platform time reporting application using Java & Swing at the client, PHP
& MySQL as server backend.
- Rewrote the time reporting application using C++ and QTCreator.
- Responsible (evaluated, selected, installed, integrated with AD) the internal CMS based
on Joomla 1.0
- Responsible (evaluated, selected, installed, integrated with AD) the internal CMS version
2 based on Mindtouch Wiki