SUMMARY:

An Engineering Professional with 15 years of hands on project - level experience and 10 years of Router/Switch Network engineering experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware Familiarity: Cisco Routers - 1600, 1700, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3745, 3845, 4000, 7200, and 7500 Series; Cisco Catalyst Switches - 1900, 2900, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4000, 4500, 5000, and 6500 Series; Cisco Security Products - PIX 515/520/535, and VPN 3000; VG248 telephone switch, 79XX IP phones) Siemens PABX 9571, telephony servers and RAID Array subsystems. 3COM series 3300, 4300 and 5500 switches.

Video Equipment: (Scientific Atlanta) SA9850, SA9228, (Motorola) SEM2000, SE-2000IP, SE-1010IP, DSR4520, DSR4410, CAP 1K, Apex 1K, OM2000, DAC6000, (IneoQuest) Singulus, (Terayon) DM6400 (Tut Systems) Astria 2200, Seachange POST, and (Tektronix) MTM400, and Miranda iControl Video Network Management.

Protocols: VPN IPSec Tunnels using 3DES and IKE with RSA Signatures/CAs, RSA Encrypted-Nonces, and Pre-shared Keys combined with AH/ESP and MD5/SHA Authentication/Encryption; Design and Configuration of Dial Plans, Dial Peers, and Digit Manipulation for VoIP; H.323 Applications using Gateways and Gatekeepers; Cisco Call Manager (AVVID); CiscoWorks2000 applications using SNMP and community strings; Access Control including PIX Firewalls, ACLs, NAT/PAT; Neighbor Authentication for OSPF, RIPv2, and IGRP; HSRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP4 and EIGRP routing; VTP, VLAN, STP, ISL trunking; VoATM, VoFR, ISDN, PPTP, MPLS and L2TP.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• QA hardware/software regression testing for commercial - level devices ( multi-dwelling digital adapters (mDTAs) running on the Confidential network using the Confidential ’s Quality Control software for test planning and test cases.
• Analyzing system failures to determine root cause failures.
• Setting up DAC lineups and channel maps, OM-2000 frequencies and DSAN, mDTA & minimDTA configuration files to comply with test requirements.
• Setup of mDTAs and minimDTAs for lab regression and stability testing.
• Regression testing of digital termination adapters (DTA).
• Worked with LABOPs to create DAC lineups and channel maps for general testing of mDTAs, minimDTAs, and DTAs.

Confidential, Conshohocken, PA

Video STB Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Debug and evaluation of Teleplan’s Automated Set Top Box Tester developed by Confidential & Confidential as an eight-up tester for testing OCAP enabled STBs.
• Ran initial Gage Capability and production throughput studies.
• Performed hardware evaluation, software audit and economic feasibility of STB tester.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Video Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data-mining of the Confidential Oracle-based Hyperion and Everstream application databases for the purpose of national capacity planning of the Confidential Video-On-Demand system.
• Write custom queries and reports to determine actual bandwidth requirements of VOD & SDV Service Groups level.
• Generate weekly executive summary detailing VOD operations emphasizing hardware delivery failure to aid system configuration design.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

System Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System Integration and Test of Confidential ’s End-to-End Cable Video Lab.
• Network design, configuration and debug of ASI-based and IPTV - based prototype video distribution systems for use by Confidential FIOS cable TV.
• Configuration of all devices within SHE, VHO and VSO lab installations including VOD, IRDs, SEMs, TMX, DAC6000, Cisco Switches, and upconverters (Tut Systems Astria & RGB SEP-48). Develop and document test plans.
• Develop and document test techniques for Video transport stream analyzers.
• Execute & debug test plans within target dates.
• Write executive reports for customer evaluations.
• Develop tests plans, configure and debug Network Management System.
• Design and build Confidential VHO-10 IPTV Video Hub Lab, provision all multicast (VHO, PEG, EAS, local OTA HD, MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 Compression) video data streams carried on OC-192 fiber optics links.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform Site Survey, design networks for Cisco Catalyst 3560, 4000, and 4510R multilayer switch and 3COM 3300, 4300, and 5500.
• Perform switch configuration, installation, troubleshooting for infrastructure upgrades of existing facilities, and new building installations.
• Lead field engineer overseeing vendor installations of Avaya G700 systems for telephony upgrades and new building installations.
• Lead engineer for State-wide fiber optic upgrades.

Confidential

Lead Network Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead field engineer for the installation of new VOIP telephony systems based on Cisco 3745 & 3845 Catalyst 6506, and Catalyst 3560 routers/switches for field offices.
• Responsible for the site survey, equipment inventory, installation, test, debug, and repair of supporting telephony Cisco AVVID Servers (Call Manager, Unity, etc….) and telephones (79XX Series).
• Team Lead responsibility for installation technicians.
• Responsible for decommissioning the existing PABX system and legacy equipment inventory.
• Lead field engineer working at both the regional datacenter and remote offices for a beta site project for multiline T1 load-balanced expansion project.
• Responsible for the field installation of new T1 interface and shakedown of installation and test procedures.
• Installation, debug, and site cutover of failover systems consisting Avaya VPN Concentrator, Cisco routers and switches. Debug and repair of other failed installation sites.
• Lead Field Network Engineer for Router\Switch upgrade of SmithBarney offices. Upgrading from Cisco 2500\Catalyst 5000 to Cisco 3745\Catalyst 6506 or multi-Catalyst 3550 router\switch systems. Responsible for coordinating the activities of cable and network technicians and site surveys.
• Responsible for decommissioning the existing PABX system and legacy equipment inventory.
• Team lead for ten-week Windows NT to Windows 2000 office migration of Servers and Workstations.
• Primary responsibilities include pre-cutover inventory and installation, debug and repair to new remote office Server.
• Assessment of manpower requirements for workstations installation.
• Onsite supervision of installation technicians.
• Debug, repair, and assessment of workstation replacements.
• Onsite helpdesk support following Friday night cutover.
• Assessment of user problem and corrective action or escalation to appropriate NOC technician.
• Responsible for the equipment inventory of decommissioned legacy servers and workstations.
• Field engineer upgrading and field repairs of automotive test equipment.
• Field engineer for site surveys, installation, debug, and repair of various router and switch projects.

Confidential

Field Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for the relocation of remote offices.
• Responsible for the installation team reinstalling Remote Office Servers, Workstations & VOIP.
• Responsible for onsite helpdesk support following Friday night cutover.
• Assessment of user problem and corrective action or escalation to appropriate NOC technician.
• Installation, setup and test of Point of Sales LAN\WAN Routers and wiring for new commercial sales facilities.
• Site surveys for Windows NT\Novell to Windows 2003 server and Windows 98 to Windows XP workstation migrations.
• Windows NT\Novell to Windows 2003 server and Windows 98 to Windows XP workstations migrations and office relocations.
• Image migration of Windows Servers and workstations for remote sites.
• Responsibilities range from initial site survey and assessment for labor variables in determining cost of proposed projects, team lead of migration technicians and post-migration helpdesk support.

Confidential, Camden, New Jersey

Product Development and Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Redesign equipment for startup venture pursuing a mission to manufacture a tire-recycling machine with a primary target market of small metropolitan and developed rural areas; improved the design of the product, reducing the number of components by 70% and fabrication time by 80%.
• Developed Venture Capital Proposal and Business Plan; analyzed operation projected cash flows; raised startup Capital from debt financing markets, banks, SBA and other small business agencies; established operation targets.

Confidential, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

System Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for the delivery of new capital projects, telephony switch backplane test system; remote access modem test system; UL1459 validation testing; telephony server manufacture, test and software setup and validation; transfer of six product lines to plant, each maintaining 100% functionality, schedule requirements and below-budget status; team leader for manufacturing ESD compliance; improved profitability of operations through the design, installment, and implementation of eight new capital projects; managed a team of PABX test system technicians.
• Supported all PABX test systems’ hardware and software maintenance, supported all in-circuit board test systems’ hardware and software (Teradyne 1800, Confidential 3070 & 3065, Factron 733, Zentel 810 through 850); developed PABX backplane programs and performed hardware maintenance; software\hardware support for in-house ISDN telephone functional test system, power supply test systems; redesigned and programmed all UL1459 compliance test systems; developed manufacturing & test programs for Windows NT, 2000 & Unix Telephony servers and their supporting network; developed a Windows 98-based program from the ground up written in C++ and LabWindows to test the external access modem for PABX systems.
• Supplied for all in house technicians for the operation all equipment installed and\or transferred to and from other manufacturing sites. Trained all technicians in trouble shooting techniques for all test systems and the products the systems tested.
• Part of the team which integrated in-house manufactured PABX systems, network management and telephony servers to primary WAN distribution routers and multilayered switches; systems ranged from main campus HRSP redundant 6500 multilayer switch configurations with firewall modules, and\or HSRP redundant 7500 series with
• PIX firewalls & VPN concentrators to simple remote office configurations with a single Cisco 1600 router; translate system requirements into an integrated voice over data system with a PABX switch with associated servers (Voice Recording Servers IVR, ACD, Cisco ICM, and Voicemail) integrated to a WAN router and\or multilayer switch with associated servers (network management (CiscoWorks 2000)) and telephony servers; test completed systems with bulk generators and protocol analyzers.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

System Engineer \ Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed PC-based test equipment for high-altitude RF weather instruments; developed test results database; improved process control system for automotive components; member of product development team that redesigned company’s RF weather instruments; increased company’s gross margin through a 50 %production throughput increase of automotive components.
• Supplied user support; maintained LAN hardware resources (PC, printers, RAID stacks, and tape drives); performed backup operations; performed desktop applications installations; Novell 3.12 system with Windows NT 3.51 servers.
• Supplied for technical personnel in the operation and troubleshooting of test systems; supplied for factory floor operators using manufacturing equipment; supplied to users of installed desktop applications.