My Career as a Math Major Tony de Paolo VP, Technology QUALCOMM, Inc. October 26, 2000

Education Started at UCSD Revelle College as a Physics major Ended up in Warren College as an Applied Math major BA Applied Mathematics, 1982 Minor in Physics (Astrophysics) Minor in Philosophy (Logic)

Work at UCSD Revelle Cafeteria (!) OASIS tutoring center Math department - Undergraduate TA for pre-calculus

First Job 1982: Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) in Point Loma as a DoD Scientist –Fourier analysis of dolphin “speech” –Digital voice messaging –Autonomous vehicle internal network –Fixed array SONAR systems –Command and Control networks –Tactical decision aide software

Second Job 1986: M/A-Com Linkabit as an Engineer –Digital signal processing for defense satellite modems, modulation and coding –Began MSEE degree at UCSD in 1988 –Leave of Absence from Linkabit in , finished MSEE at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY

Third Job 1990: QUALCOMM as a Senior Engineer –OmniTRACS satellite communication system Digital Signal Processing Satellite Range and Doppler Estimation Overall system engineer - International deployments –Worked my way up to VP, Engineering Managed a group of 200 engineers of all disciplines Managed a $50M budget –Currently back in a pure technical role

Upper Division Subjects Used in my Career Fourier Analysis Probability Statistics Real Analysis (Galois Field) Orbital Mechanics

Graduate Subjects Used in my Career Stochastic Processes Digital Communication Information Theory