Vice President Engineering at Crescendo Networks
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Amit is responsible for research and development and quality assurance activities at Crescendo Networks. He has over 14 years of experience in managing and designing complex data communications and telecommunications products. Prior to joining Crescendo, Amit was Hardware Director at Corrigent Networks, a subsidiary of Orckit Communications (ORCT). Amit also held key positions in board design, FPGA design and System Engineering within the research and development teams of Telrad Networks and Chromatis Networks, which was later acquired by Lucent Technologies (ALU). Amit holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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