Khaldun Karazoun
Director of Engineering - Member of Technical Staff- Audience Measurement Nielsen Inc.
- Role
- Director of Software Engineering at Nielsen
- Location
- Tampa, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Khaldun Karazoun
Experienced R&D manager with over 25 years of progressive and successful technical leadership, people management, client facing and extensive vendor software integration experience. Domain knowledge:Audio WatermarkingBroadcast Technology and EquipmentOEM Software Integration Mobile products and Mobile enterprise solutions.Patents:Holds 5 solo Patents and 3 co-author Patents. Management:Hands-on technical leader.Managed engineering organizations ranging from 10 to 50 people direct reports and over 100 people in project organization in multiple locations. Successfully managed many development projects producing Audio Watermarking products for the TV and Radio markets, also produced4 mobile devices and 2 wireless software solutions.Built many development and management teams including a program management office for Nokia.First in the industry:• First integrated GSM phone with WAP over CSD (Circuit Switch Data), which was one of the first internet connected mobile phones - (Nokia)• First S60 Mobile phone with Symbian 2.2 - 2004 (Panasonic)Specialties: • Software Product development using Agile and other SDLC methodologies.• Program Management practitioner• Audio technology and Broadcast industry practitioner.• Mobile phone product development with extensive software development experience• Symbian / S60 GSM / GPRS software development• R&D and engineering management, staffing, budgeting, etc.
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
Sep 2025 — Present · Tampa, FL, US
Engineering Leader driving the development of Audio Watermarking, Encoding and Decoding of the Nielsen Technology for Broadcast and Client Integrations.
Education
University of South Florida
MS, Electrical Engineering
1991 — 1995
Tennessee Technological University
BS, Electrical Engineering
Skills
- Cdma
- Wireless
- Project Management Office (Pmo)
- 3g
- Team Management
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Umts
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Symbian
- Team Leadership
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Digital Signal Processors
- Vendor Management
- Temporary Placement
- Mobile Communications
- Software Project Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Integration
- Program Management
- System Architecture
- Mobile Devices
- Embedded Software
- Mobile Technology
- Sdlc
- Pmo
- Pmp
- Enterprise Software
- Budgets
- Gsm
- Agile Project Management
- Testing
- Product Management
- Mobile Applications
- Cellular Communications
- Software Engineering
- Software Design
- Project Management
- Telecommunications
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