Senior Director, Technical Standards

Douglas Knisely is a Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm, where he focuses on driving the success of Open RAN in various industry organizations and on advocating for effective policies, tools, methodologies, and licenses for open-source software in standards development organizations. His efforts have led to greater cooperation among major software communities and industry standards organizations to coordinate 5G RAN, Core Network, and Open RAN software stacks. He serves on the advisory board of the Open Air Interface. He is an active technical contributor in the O-RAN Alliance, where he is currently one of the co-chairs of the Software Development Focus Group, and to Spectrum Sharing industry standardization activities, including serving as an active contributor and member of the Board of Directors for the WInnForum. He has an extensive background in cellular industry standards, having led several radio and core network efforts in 3GPP2, 3GPP, Broadband Forum, Small Cell Forum, and other groups. Douglas played a key role in driving the initial Femtocell standardization activities for 3GPP and 3GPP2 3G and 4G radio technologies and Femtocell device management, and made significant contributions to the seminal industry standards for Femtocells and Small Cells, as well as leading MAC standardization for cdma2000 2G, 3G, and 4G radio standards. His early career activities included architecture and development management for early multiprocessor blade computing systems and communications and protocol architecture, design, and implementation.