Professional Summary
(978) 764-5196
ggirard@girardcp.com
Mr. Girard is a computer and network architectural specialist
concentrating on voice, video, data and facsimile transmission systems
for the telecommunications industry. He has eighteen years of
industrial R&D experience developing computer hardware and software
systems for microprocessor platforms. He has provided technical
leadership for both basic research and engineering projects. Most
recently his research and developments have focused on emerging
voice-over-packet telecommunications network architectures, including
network-based enhanced services platforms and switching systems within
IP-based carrier networks.
Mr. Girard has been a regular speaker at industry events and standards
body meetings where he has presented original work and offered
perspectives on various telecommunications technology topics. He has
extensive experience introducing new technology to senior technical
staff at major telecommunications carriers, including
SBC Communications,
Verizon,
BellSouth,
Qwest,
Global Crossing, WorldCom, Sprint,
Allegiance
and
NTT
in Japan. As a recognized innovator in the telecommunications
industry, and as a corporate CTO and entrepreneur for more than seven
years, Mr. Girard manages intellectual property at all levels:
contributions range from advising corporations and organizations on
the process of patenting new developments to authoring the technology
disclosures used for patent filing purposes. He has worked extensively
with
Fish & Richardson, P.C.
(Boston) on intellectual property issues since 1995 and with
Hale & Dorr, LLP
(Boston) on business-related legal issues since 1997.
Mr. Girard was most recently CTO of
Accensus,
a privately funded technology venture he co-founded in September 2001.
Prior to Accensus, Mr. Girard co-founded
IPeria
(Burlington, Massachusetts) in 1995. As CTO of IPeria, he was
responsible for advance technology research and new product
development. During his first three years at IPeria, he focused on the
development of the IPeria Service NodeTM product
architecture, including its core Virtualized Multimedia Connection
SystemTM technology.
Since founding IPeria in 1995, Mr. Girard has filed four US technology
patents, three of which were the result of his research at IPeria and
have since been commercially deployed as part of that company’s
product offering. From 1990 to 1995, he worked in the software
industry developing first data communications, then telecommunications
products: from 1992 to 1995, he participated in the design and
implementation of
PictureTel’s
(PCTL) first standards-based videoconferencing system, and from 1990
to 1992 he developed TCP/IP data communications software products for
Ungermann-Bass
Corporation under contract for
Microsoft Corporation
(MSFT). From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Girard’s R&D efforts focused on system
software development, real-time operating systems, and biomedical
instrumentation supporting real-time visual display technologies.
Mr. Girard studied biochemistry and computer sciences, attending the
University of Vermont, Merrimack College and Northeastern University.
Mr. Girard’s more recent innovations have resulted in the following
intellectual property filings:
Distributed Class 5 Edge Switching System for Voice-Over-Packet
Multiservice Telephone Network
(US and foreign patents pending April 2001 [amended April 2002],
serial #10/122,589)
Apparatus and Method for Telephony Service Interface to Software
Switch Controller
(US and foreign patents pending January 2000, serial #60/185,549)
Integrated Telemessaging System
(US and foreign patents pending January 1997, serial #60/077,422)
Virtualized Multimedia Connection System
(US and foreign patents pending August 1996, serial #08/703,463)
