Scott Pickett has more than 17 years in engineering and management, spanning technologies from embedded software and reconfigurable logic to networking and communications systems. He has led development of several industry-first systems and networking products, including multimedia product solutions (802.9), multiprotocol VoIP gateway, integrated communications platform, and PCMCIA Ethernet card. Mr. Pickett is a founding member of the Softswitch Consortium, has served as co-chairman of the Softswitch Consortium Technical Advisory Council, and contributed to the IETF RFC on MGCP. Prior to co-founding Vertical Networks, Mr. Pickett served as director of development for National Semiconductor's LAN division and held positions with Fairchild Semiconductor and General Electric. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. |