Palo Alto, CA
+1 224 234 1272
Shmuel.Silverman@gmail.com
www.Multinnovation.com
CTO / VP of Engineering
Multi Disciplinary R&D leader / Growth Strategies and Strategic Planning / Start-ups
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
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Created new sub vertical market adding $200M SAM (20%) - Recruited by Xilinx in January
2006 to lead the wireless vertical market team in a declining base station industry. Working against the market trajectory, opened new wireless sub vertical market by addressing customer needs and combining wired and wireless packet processing capabilities into a single product.
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Expanded business opportunities by $1B across 5 Years - As a Director in Motorola, orchestrated the creation and execution of a broadband business strategy and roadmap. Developed the system from initial phases through prototyping, standards and FCC approval, system demonstration, and customer field trials. Delivered a complete system to production and first
$150M contract.
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Change Cellular Networks - After 3 years of intense development, led over 120 engineers to demonstrate the first VoIP end-to-end cellular network, supporting five different air interfaces and video conferencing, on a voice-switching all-IP network in Geneva Telecom in 1999. The results of this technology breakthrough are being realized by all major 3G and 4G cellular standards, including EvDO to WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE.
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Innovations - Inventor of seven issued patents (and several pending) valued in multi million dollars across wide range of technologies including software, radio networks and systems architectures, and inked circuit based (nanotechnology inks) security solutions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Xilinx, Inc. San Jose, CA 2006-2009
Director - Principal Systems Architect
Led Xilinx’s wireless vertical market. Responsible for market penetration, product portfolio management and related corporate technology strategy activities.
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Led the wireless vertical market team to win several multimillion dollar opportunities and designs with customers worldwide (China, Japan and Europe).
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Innovated new business opportunities derived from merging wired solutions with wireless radio channel card with over $200M in new SAM for Xilinx.
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Established new platform inception process at corporate level; is now the way to define new products.
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Developed Xilinx corporate strategy process to bring together business, markets, product development, FAB, technology and financial strategies under a single process flow in line with mega trends and portfolio analysis.

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MOTOROLA, INC. Schaumburg, IL 1989-2006
Director of Advanced Technology and Development (2000 – 2006)
Directed multi disciplinary and cross design center teams of over 100 engineers in R&D, strategy, technical standards, and realization of multiple products: hardware, software, and complete systems.
 Expanded the sector’s business opportunities by $1B across 5 years through developing and executing broadband strategy and roadmap development for the public safety market.
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Shaped the public safety industry by leading FCC proposal and acceptance of 4.9GHz rules; later influenced 700MHz rules while driving development of TIA and IEEE standards for broadband public safety technology.
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Pioneered WLAN based technology at 4.9GHz and created High Speed Data (HSD) technology, generating over $150M per year in sales.
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Orchestrated development of first Push-to-Video solution over C-OFDM network in Washington
DC; demonstrated it to Congress.
Senior Engineering (Resource) Manager (1989 – 2000)
Led team of 120+ engineers in developing a whole IP based network for VoIP services; included 3G
BTS, 3G mobile, mobile applications, circuit gateway (H323), data gateway, IS41 gateway, class 5 connection server (TR303), gateway clients, and mobile IP.
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Enabled marketing of multi-billion dollar business by managing development of Motorola networks' technology demonstration in Geneva Telecom 1999.
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Authored key critical patent for Push to Talk over CDMA and GSM networks.
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Improved product development time to market by creating a unique evolutionary development process to handle rapid feature development through short cycles and timely customer input.
SCP MEDICAL, Tel Aviv, Israel 1985-1989
Co-founder & Engineering Manager
Led the development of first complete computerized HMO solution in Israel (IT technology).
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Successfully raised over $900,000 in investments over 2.5 years; built teams; developed product.
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Led development of UNIX-based patient, lab, and pharmacy management models including inventory and billing systems for a large HMO.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
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Multi disciplinary R&D leader with 20+ year career as an entrepreneur and innovator in business and technology. Leader with track record in building and restructuring R&D organizations with design centers distributed worldwide.
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Co-founder of a successful start-up in medical administration software. Led many cutting edge technology program realizations from early idea inception to market success.
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Strong team builder with expertise in cross industry collaboration, generating change, and creating new businesses.
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Visionary with excellent execution sense who gets the job done with high quality on time and within budget. Intuitive decision maker with broad and current knowledge in technology and marketing strategy.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Mathematics and Physics - Tel Aviv University, Israel

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PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS
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Authored over 40 technical publications and presentations both internal to Motorola and conference proceedings. The list is available @ www.multinnovation.com
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Co-author of several standards technical specifications on Network Management and
Communication Protocols
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Active US Patents:
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6,308,079 Method and apparatus for a talkgroup call in a wireless communication system
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6,324,572 Communication network method and apparatus
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7,006,508 Communication network with a collection gateway and method for providing surveillance services
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7,058,030 Method for performing a seamless handoff in a communication system
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7,130,427 Method for providing point-to-point encryption in a communication system
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7,382,757 Method for supporting a plurality of subscribers operating on different frequency bands using a single access point
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7,382,758 Medium access control for simultaneous channel communications
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Pending US Patents:
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20070280176 Method and apparatus for facilitating a fast handoff in a wireless metropolitan area network.
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20070159329 Information protection using a printed electronic circuit and laser impression
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20070150753 Information protection using a printed electronic circuit and mechanical impression
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20070140161 Multiple configuration communication apparatus
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20070130490 Information protection using properties of a printed electronic circuit
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20070116291 System and method for utilizing a proximity network system for providing wireless communication network authentication
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20070046459 Method and apparatus for asset tracking.