Donato Mitrani

8416 Spence Ct, North Richland Hills, TX 76182

469-235-4242
dmac259e@westpost.net
SUMMARY
As an experienced leader in software R&D on mobile devices, results and excellen
ce are my main motivators, and I aim for both in everything that I do. I strive
to ensure that my contributions to the company bring measureable business value,
and I find great satisfaction effecting change and successfully leading teams.
Not one to rest on previous successes, I am self-motivated and driven to greater
responsibilities and opportunities to positively influence a challenging and dy
namic marketplace.
SKILLS PROFILE

* Effectively leads large teams of engineers and multiple projects delivering bo

th company strategic goals and product time to market
* Excellent people skills with a proven track record developing teams and direct
ing work at remote sites
* Collaboration and simultaneous execution of multiple R&D projects involving de
liverables from several countries
* Effective at both initiating and closing projects (full product life cycle) wi
th specialized experience at transferring technologies between teams and reducin
g costs without sacrificing deliverables and TTM
* Technical proficiency in Multimedia (audio/video) streaming and IP telephony
technologies and managing embedded SW and RTOS development projects
* More than 12 years experience in the smart phone and telecommunications indust
ry
* Accurate planning and administration of short term planning and multi-million
dollar budgets
* In depth knowledge of Multimedia frameworks including Real Networks Helix (Sym
bian OS, Maemo OS), GStreamer (Symbian OS, Meego (Linux based)), Mobile TV (DTV
technologies and global standards) and Symbian Multimedia frameworks

SPECIALTIES
Technology Strategy Planning, Architecture and Technology RoadmappingMultimedia
Video and Audio Technologies and codecs, Wireless Technologies and streaming pro
tocols (HTTP, RTSP)
Industry Standard API development (Java, JSR234, JSR135, OpenMax IL/AL/ SL ES, Q
T, Phonon)
3rd party API and SDK planning
Extensive customer interaction
Mobile TV DTV Technologies and Standards (OMA BCAST, DVB-h)Open Source SW portin
g and contribution (Helix, GStreamer, Symbian Foundation MMMW)

Heading SW Organizations and Programs

UX / UI / GUI development
Engineering management and R&D program execution
Software development: C, C++
Object oriented design / UMLApplication engine and Middleware development, HW Ad
aptation SW
Agile development process / Scrum practioner / Scrum for Enterprise
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Nokia Inc.
Head of Multimedia Middleware/Senior Manager, Symbian Devices
1997-current
Nokia, Inc., Irving, TX
2007-2010
* 3 Years experience as head of Symbian OS (RTOS) Multimedia Middleware teams re
sponsible for video streaming and audio technologies on Symbian smartphones.
* Garnered the reputation among our peers and recognition from VPs in the compan
y as having the best software development team in terms of ways of working, pro
cesses, high performance output and on time delivery
* Effectively managed multiple teams and programs globally in Dallas, Mexico, an
d India, including both Nokia employees and subcontractors. Successfully deliver
ed Multimedia solutions for both internal and external customers including 3rd p
arty services, Nokia partners, and Network Operators in various countries.
* Participated in collaboration meetings with CTO and other leaders from the top
3 Hong Kong telecom operators for rollout of video services and roadmap sharing
* Led an initiative of several teams to develop video strategy and long term pla
nning proposals covering a broad scope of initiatives including software archite
cture renewal, API evolution, inclusion of open source projects to the Symbian s
oftware platform, and next generation feature development in the video technolog
y domain.
* Successfully initiated a program focused on evolution of the Multimedia archi
tecture to the next generation through uptake of Open source components and Indu
stry standard APIs (Khronos based OpenMax IL and AL/SL ES) resulting in architec
ture adoption across the company and OSes (Symbian and S40)
* Worked on a program promoting the utilization of common Multimedia frameworks
(GStreamer and Helix) across multiple smartphone OS: Maemo/Meego (Linux based OS
) and Symbian
* Lead the program to bring GStreamer (open source port) to Symbian devices and
delivered to the Symbian Foundation
* Supported a broad set of Multimedia applications including on-device clients a
nd network hosted solutions.
* Delivered Symbian software platform assets including Real Networks Helix engin
e Symbian port (DNA Client), Mobile TV security and recording engine, audio engi
nes, native Symbian Multimedia frameworks (audio and video plugins), as well as
a full offering of both native Symbian and standards-based Multimedia API.
* Planned and administered multi-million dollar budgets for local and remote R&D
operations
* Ramped up new teams at remote sites enabling successful transfers of maintenan
ce and new technology development
* Migrated the Dallas and Bangalore MM development teams from waterfall software
development process to Agile/Lean development processes and oversaw the evoluti
on of our team and project leads to become Certified Scrum Masters and Product O
wners
* Development of Video and Audio strategy and roadmaps for Symbian based product
s
* Represented Nokia video development as a member of the Metadata Working Group
(MWG) of key video and imaging companies (Apple, Adobe, Sony, Cannon, Microsoft,
Nokia)

Software Project Manager, S60 Multimedia

2003-2007
Nokia, Inc., Irving, TX
* 4 years experience as a R&D SW Manager of S60 Multimedia Audio projects delive
ring to S60 2.x, 3.x and 5.0 software platforms. Audio projects included both ap
plication UIs and a broad scope of middleware components. Applications included
FM Radio, Voice Recorder for 3.x and 5.0, and Voice Recognition. Middleware comp
onents included Audio Enhancements for all releases, Platform Security support f
or 3.0, Effects APIs, VoIP Audio Service APIs/framework and audio Codecs includi
ng AAC, eAAC+, AMR, MP3, 3GP and WMA. Demonstrated effective collaboration, cons
ultation, and technical communication with many teams within and outside of Noki
a including Symbian, TI, Samsung, Fring, Skype, and others.
* Implemented the rollout of agile SW development principles with Scrum during 2
007, successfully migrating the audio engine development team to adopt agile met
hodologies
* Provided development and technical support to multiple VoIP SW companies throu
gh Forum Nokia including developer workshops and individual support, enabling su
ccessful launches of 3rd party VoIP clients to the S60 product markets for 3.0 a
nd 3.1 platforms
SW Team Lead / System Engineer / SW Engineer
1997-2002
Nokia, Inc., Irving, TX
* 2 years experience as Team Lead and System Engineer of Audio SW projects for N
okia S60 smart phone products. Projects included speaker dependent voice recogni
tion and digital audio SW projects
* MMS Protocol SW: Developed protocol SW components for Multimedia Messaging Se
rvice using UML and C++ for Nokia S40 products.
* EDGE/EGPRS Protocol SW: Developed layer 2 (RLC/MAC layer) data protocol SW for
GSM and TDMA mobile systems using Telelogic's Tau development suite in SDL.
* Developed data compression and decompression algorithms in ANSI C for use in S
DL environment.
* Developed and integrated UI software applications for GSM mobile phones using
Object Oriented C MetaCase tool.
Texas Instruments Inc./ Raytheon Systems
1995-1997
Software Engineer
Lewisville, TX
* Developed a test SW user interface and data processing software for an antenna
array
* Developed device drivers for test equipment and ran SW analysis on collected d
ata

EDUCATION

Electrical Engineering B.S.

1995
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
GPA 3.704
Graduated Cum Laude
RECOGNITION

Nokia, Inc

* Nomination and Completion of the S60 Leader Program

* Nomination to the Inspiring Leader program in Nokia.
* Certified Scrum Master, Agile SW Development (2007)
* Received peer awards for management
* Received recognition as a member of the 1999 team of the year for role in soft
ware development on the first internet ready mobile phone in Nokia