I am an experienced product designer, wireless telecommunications (WCDMA and LTE) engineer, embedded system engineer, and web designer/developer. I take early-stage ideas and work with small, talented teams incubate and commercialize these ideas. Specialties: Software engineering, embedded systems, wireless networks, web development, web design, technical product management

Senior Software Engineer @ ImpaQt is Qualcomm's employee innovation program. I lead teams of engineers and product designers through the incubation process. My expertise is in software engineering and product management. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Incubation Engineer @ We take early-stage ideas and bring them into reality. From August 2013 to June 2014 (11 months) Modem Software Engineer @ Supported compressed mode measurement layer on WCDMA physical layer searcher team Designed, implemented, and verified cell measurement, ranking, and pruning algorithms for LTE cell searches Designed and implemented set management and acquisition algorithms to support DC-HSUPA feature set Managed UE operations when not in a call on idle mode team From June 2011 to August 2013 (2 years 3 months) Interim Engineering Intern @ Worked on Inter-Radio Access Technology team to manage switching between GSM, WCDMA, and LTE networks From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Software Developer @ Designed and implemented academic web applications for college students Played pivotal role in design and development of online studying flashcard application, which has since been used to create over 1 million flashcards Applied statistical theorems to develop new ways to present existing data Designed document reviewer used to review over 150,000 user-generated documents Created feasibility studies and mockups of new features Administrated targeted advertisement management system From May 2008 to August 2009 (1 year 4 months) Founder, Developer @ Started a web site designed to enable anyone to design, build, and deploy a professional web site without writing code. Pitched the idea to VCs in spring 2009 From April 2007 to April 2009 (2 years 1 month) Web Developer @ Designed, built, and maintained several non-profit and university-related web sites as a part of a small team From April 2008 to September 2008 (6 months)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics Minor @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University From 2007 to 2011 Zach Rattner is skilled in: Android, C++, JavaScript, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, XML, PHP, MySQL, Java, C, CSS, HTML 5, Web Development, Linux, JSON