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Steve Lombardi is Vice President of Engineering, responsible for the design, development, and delivery of Mintera's 40Gb/s product line. His product design and development expertise reflects over 20 years of key leadership positions in delivering carrier-class and enterprise products for the telecommunication markets.Steve joins Mintera from Airvana where he led the activities to establish and introduce an advanced product for the emerging Fixed Mobile Convergence market. Prior to this, Steve was Vice President of Engineering at Smartlink Radio Networks where he was responsible for leading all next generation product development efforts to provide interoperability solutions for the public safety and commercial markets.During 2000-2003, Steve was Vice President of Engineering at PhotonEx, a 40Gb/s long haul transport start-up company. He successfully led the efforts to produce and deliver the industry's first commercially available 40Gb/s core optical transport system.Prior to PhotonEx, Steve held senior engineering management positions at Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, and Cabletron Systems. At Cabletron Systems, Steve was instrumental in establishing an industry-leading ASIC development team that produced first-pass ASICs for the SmartSwitch9000 product, which won 'Best of Show' at the 1995 Network+Interop event. The product line went on to produce record-breaking revenue for Cabletron and helped grow the company well beyond a $1B business.Steve started his career as a senior engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation where he designed, developed, and provided worldwide manufacturing and customer support for networking products.Mr. Lombardi holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. | 