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Fanny is a
Boston area entrepreneur helping companies create successful technology products
and nurture them through their launch and growth phase. Her consulting
company, octoScope, Inc., provides
services focusing on
product design and
advocacy.
In her last
two companies Fanny has built significant value through creating and promoting
winning products.
In 2001 Fanny
founded
Azimuth Systems,
 the
leading provider of Wi-Fi / WiMAX / LTE test equipment, and served as the company's
Chief Technology Officer for five years. As a result of her design and
advocacy work, the original wireless test platform that Fanny pioneered
at Azimuth has become the industry standard for physical and protocol
layer testing.
Before founding Azimuth, she managed the Agilent
Handheld Cable Testers and Network Troubleshooting Tools business unit
formed through the acquisition of Scope Communications. Prior to that, she was
VP of Engineering at Scope where she led the development of the technology that
was acquired by Hewlett Packard/Agilent.
Fanny spent
over 23 years in engineering and management
positions developing data communications and network test products. She
is actively involved with the industry standards work and is the founder
of IEEE 802.11T, the committee defining test metrics and methods. She
has been publishing articles and
presenting on data
communications technologies and test.
Fanny
has been awarded 4 patents.
In 2004, she received a Woman
to Watch award from Mass High Tech.
Mass High Tech
profile of Fanny
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"Fanny brings a strong combination of business savvy and technical
acumen to product development and entrepreneurial problem-solving
challenges. She has been particularly successful in her work with a
variety of standards-making organizations, consistently delivering on
strategic goals."
Peter Williams, GM, Agilent 1998-2001
CEO, Scope Communications, 1993-1998
"In founding Azimuth, Fanny has created a
winning product architecture that has become the de facto standard
platform for Wi-Fi test."
Rich Redelfs, General Partner
Foundation Capital
Former CEO, Atheros, 1999-2003
"The Azimuth products Fanny-san has
developed have reliable performance as well as well-designed structure.
I, as a person who have handled many RF products in the past, was quite
impressed with them."
Koichiro Fukumoto-san, CEO,
Toyo Corporation
"Ten years ago Fanny and her R&D team at
Scope created a family of capable and reliable network test products
that Agilent is still selling today."
Ed Richards, GM, Agilent 1993-2001
"Fanny has a rare combination of
technical depth, market savvy and excellent communications skills."
Menachem Abraham, Sr.
VP Product Development & CTO, Chipcom
1984-1995
"Fanny is a talented technology
entrepreneur with good common sense, solid technical background and
great writing skills."
Bob Mandeville, President, Iometrix
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Azimuth Systems
10/2001 – 7/2006
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Azimuth Systems, Inc. is the
leader in WiFi test systems for performance and functionality testing of
wireless devices and networks.
Hewlett-Packard/Agilent
Technologies (NYSE:A)
10/1998 – 10/2001
General Manager (4/2000 – 10/2001)
Research and Development Manager
(10/1998 – 4/2000)
The Agilent
Handheld Cable Testers and Network Troubleshooting Tools business
unit develops network and cable analyzers for installers and IT
maintenance technicians. Hewlett-Packard acquired this business from
Scope Communications where Fanny was VP of Engineering. The business
became part of Agilent following the split-up of HP in 1999.
- Responsible for P&L and management of
R&D and marketing teams developing the
WireScope family of hand-held network and cable analyzers
- Contributed to the development of
industry standards at IEEE, TIA, ISO and the ATM Forum
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Published and presented technical
papers
Scope
Communications (now Agilent)
1/1993 - 10/1998
VP Engineering
Scope Communications, Inc. was
the manufacturer of hand-held network and cable analyzers for network
installers and maintenance technicians. Scope was acquired by
Hewlett-Packard in October of 1998 and following the split-up of HP
became part of Agilent.
- Instrumental in creating business value
and helping to sell Scope to Hewlett Packard through designing and
advocating the product architecture, working on early stage product
development, building and leading the engineering team in the development of
the WireScope and FrameScope
- Managed engineering, customer service
and manufacturing
- Contributed to the industry standards at IEEE, TIA,
ISO and the ATM Forum, authored and presented technical papers
Star-Tek (now
3Com)
9/1990 - 1/1993
Principal Engineer
Star-Tek, Inc. was a
manufacturer of LAN concentrators for token ring, Ethernet and FDDI
networks. The company was acquired by 3Com in January of 1993 at which
time Scope Communications (see above) was formed and Fanny was appointed
VP of Engineering at Scope.
- Developed WireScope 16 - the first
generation of cable analyzer products that later became the foundation of
Scope Communications’ technology
- Started the development of FrameScope
802 Ethernet and token ring network analyzer that was later finished and
shipped under Scope
- Worked on Ethernet and FDDI plug-in modules for the
Focus series concentrator
Concord
Communications
8/1988 - 9/1990
Principal Engineer
Concord Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CCRD) develops solutions that monitor and qualify the operation
of critical Internet services.
- Developed broadband CATV-based modem and
Network Interface Card products
Chipcom (now
3com)
1/1985 - 8/1988
Engineering Section Manager
Chipcom was a manufacturer of
high-end enterprise hubs supporting Ethernet and other mainstream
networks. The company was acquired by 3Com in 1995.
- Developed CATV-based Ethernet RF modem
technology, including products such as Ethermodem III Bridge and Ethermodem
broadband transceiver for dual cable topology
Teradyne
6/1983 - 1/1985
Design Engineer
Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) is a
manufacturer of automated test equipment. Products include systems to
test and inspect semiconductors, circuit boards and software.
- Developed analog and RF subsystems for
the A300 automated test platform used to test digital video components in
the production environment
- US patent No. 7,075,893 Issued 7/06,
Continuation of patent No. 6,724,730
- US patent No. 6,724,730 Issued 4/04,
“Test system for Simulating a Wireless Environment and Method of Using
Same”, also approved internationally
- US patent #6,259,258 issued 7/2001, “Method and
Test Unit for Far End Crosstalk Measurements”
- US patent #6,198,292 issued 3/2001, “Crosstalk Test
Unit and Method of Calibration”
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
graduate electrical engineering courses (1983-1984)
- Columbia University (1983)
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
- Columbia University (1982)
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
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