SUMMARY:

• A driven Solutions Architect with custom engineering and Systems integration within the cable customers utilizing modern day Over The Top architecture and Access architectures for video delivery to include Satellite, DSL, and LTE.
• 18 years of result driven, Quality Assurance (QA) team leader with over 14 years of Cable TV success, technical troubleshooting, Confidential and Cable Head - end expertise.
• Develop and architect solutions for MVNO/MVPDs integrate new technologies to achieve business goals while providing valuable services to their customers and subscribers. 11+ years Pre-Sales experience with Solution Architectures sales engineering (pre and post) would factor all compliance with Confidential, bi-directional and one-way cable systems, SCTE RF standards, as well as All Cablelabs standards and specification requirements for FCC certification as well as legacy Set top box encryption standards and deployment methodologies JCAS,DCAS,VGS etc.
• DevOps professional with proven record of success in establishing and maintaining business partnerships with key decision makers.
• Utilizing CICD Automation tools and agile methodologies for over 10 years. Ability to offer mutually beneficial solutions to drive account growth and revenues and consistently exceed profit goals.
• Having experience with Fortune 500 companies as well as mid cap’s and a very diverse background ranging from Zone Sales manager, Regional Sales manager to Divisional Sale Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: Microsoft Windows (95,98,NT,2000,2003,7,8), UNIX, Linux (desktop and embedded), VMS

Languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, XML, OpenStack

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, RDB, Oracle, Mongo, Cassandra MySql

Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Altova XMLspy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Video Engineer

Responsibilities:

• National Content Operations Support Center (COSC) video monitoring of national content on all of Charter and TWC video backbone and National Video Transport (NVT)
• Troubleshoot outages and document issues
• Perform nightly maintenance and host conference bridges to assure implementations, outages and scheduled site maintenance are done in a timely fashion while escalating and reporting critical issues to necessary executives
• Troubleshoot TWCTV application issues (OTT/IPTV) investigate, document and engage ACOE (applications center of excellence TWC application engineering) render break fix issues
• CDN support and surveillance of Velocix and Gemini CDN that service Time Warner Cable’s national footprint
• Generate MOPs for clients and site personnel for efficient maintenance
• VOD production support and maintenance and content meta

Solution Architect Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Pre and Post sales Customer Engineering (Customized solutions, implementation and support)
• Support Operational production issues with large Communication companies such as Confidential CVM/TRIO/Contour), Cablevision JCAS/VGS Charter DCAS/UHE Design, Lab implementation for production support, X1 R&D. expert with IP video systems, TV anywhere services, set-top box middleware, OTT applications,cloud DVR, ACR (automatic content recognition) and controllers DNCS/DAC
• Video distribution system engineering & design utilizing video encoding and measurement standards; MPEG2, MPEG4, HEVC, ETSI,TR 101 290 STCE 168 as well as state of the art streaming technologies HLS, DASH
• Familiarity with Video Codecs, eg HEVC, H.265 and container formats
• Robustly experienced with DevOps, Agile and CICD delivery
• Implementation of SDN and NFV utilizing vmWare, vRealize multiple node and clustered deployments, these Openstack .OVA deployments served as virtual content stores for 3GPP SGW, HSS, PGW, (PDN Gateway) System configuration and customization were a crucial portion of these deployments for EPC (Evolved Packet Core) Networks.
• Working implementation and experience with common Internet/Web and Platform/SaaS,PaaS,IaaS
• Languages and understanding of HTTP, Python,Perl, XML, Java, AJAX, PHP, REST, SOAP, XMPP, SAML and IAM, KgsGTP and Identity Access Management
• Cisco UCS deployment for data center virtualization VMware (HCS) VCE VXrail and EVO SDDC
• Ensure integrity of Company procedures by meeting Service Level Agreements under or on the contractual timeline
• Track and maintain vigilance on possible bugs that may arise within production (DevOps Model), Collaborate with software analysis team on prioritization of code enhancements and provide appropriate test environment meeting site specific conditions, work with cross functional DevOp teams to ensure integrity releases and versioning control

Cable Television laboratories

Responsibilities:

• Technologist within the IPTV and streaming media industries identifying new functionality and capabilities for product offerings and driving intellectual property in these areas, bringing intellectual property to industry standards and initiatives while harmonizing them with own product development
• Developed internal objectives and contributions to standardization activities in Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Open IPTV Forum (OIPF), Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Association, Reference Design Kit (RDK) management, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure industry specifications were aligned with products. Company representative in these industry initiatives.
• Directed product development to align with both best practices and standardization activities within the television and media industries resulting in products which matched industry technology requirements but retained individual characteristics. Presented directions in standardization and innovation to customers, regulators and governments.
• Review and implementation of new architecture strategy for media services product offerings based on Hyper-converged cloud technologies and automated workflows which are now used for setting product alignment and development roadmaps.
• Member of VOD Metadata working group and Open IPTV Forum's testing group, developed the testing & certification programs for compliance measurement against the published specifications and managed the strategic direction of an industry association with over 100 member companies
• Reduced power costs by 50 percent by virtualizing all legacy servers that no longer had vendor support (HyperV)with all initiatives such as OpenCable, OCAP, DSG and DOCSIS.
• Responsible for testing of Back Office Data Servers for New Rovi DTA products for Latin American Cable Market.
• PLTS and DTA product will begin Alpha Deployments in Argentina Dec 2012. obtained PMP and ITIL certification relevant skills for this project

Consultant at Verizon Network Services (VNS), Video Network Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Architected Customer Solutions to optimize performance of a Layer 3 converged network utilizing existing hardware in order to maintain stable network performance and adequate bandwidth capacity.
• Help implement customized solutions to manage change control policies and accountability
• Built custom solution for scheduled network maintenance to balance or augment network bandwidth.
• Gather requirements, create customized solutions for customer to easily Coordinate, deploy and optimize all new network services and technologies.
• Issue Project Authorizations, reports and presentation material related to network ·Provide technical leadership within the Business Unit

Systems Integration Consultant Sr. Video Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineer for CRAN
• Video Solutions Architect for CDN Deliveries
• Design triage methodologies to assist in efforts to Troubleshoot and isolate network issues within national footprint
• Transitioned to Video Engineering for On-demand (VOD) Interactive metrics and feature enhancement article authoring for Content storage and Session Resource Management and content compression
• Write specific Test plans for Interoperability testing utilizing switched digital platform ASPEN OCAP architecture
• OCAP middleware test automation, documentation and knowledge based articles for release note changes JVR 2.1-2.2
• Session Management (VOD) research and Development SRM, USRM, GSRM
• Test and report exit test engineering results along with metric and gap analysis reports on ECR’s and PCR’s

Senior Network Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed technical specifications for telephony solutions to address business problems: Bandwidth restrictions, existing infrastructure limitations, QOS and COS issues.
• Work to define solutions for BGP (Boarder Gateway Protocol) partnering issues and negotiations
• Developed detailed Performance Metrics for use in provider SLA’s
• Provided Process Flows and Process Management surrounding business interdependences
• Led all required Contract Negotiations with providers
• Designed and led all Systems Integration and Testing for required technologies
• IP Engineering and Network Design
• DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 development
• Switched digital video and switched broadcast video
• DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 implementation for return path (DSG) of digital subscriber Networks
• System wide Hardware and IOS upgrades
• Provided Training, documentation and education of Senior Time Warner staff of new network topology, implementation and RF combining network
• Evaluation and test engineering of:
• ATM to GIGE migrations
• Cisco 10K UBR and ONS 15454
• Riverstone, Cisco and Juniper L2/L3 switching
• BigBand BMR (Broadband Media Router) configuration
• Concurrent MHGS XoD servers, pitchers and recievers

Consultant Technical Project Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Oversee Network Infrastructure for Web Service Division - Project Dial Tone
• Evaluate IP Telephony solutions including: H248 and H323 Codecs
• Provided management and network oversight Nortel Passport 8600and Elteon Load Balancing switch
• Led client segmentation, research and analysis
• Performed all associated Gap analysis
• Understand client usage of platforms/channels to ensure functional parity prior to conversion
• Monitor and track progress of client migrations if applicable from legacy services to target solutions/products
• Provided all Technical Project Management from IP Telephony Engineering standpoint
• Risk and issues tracking and resolution
• Coordinate project status information with team
• Vendor Evaluation, Selection and Management

Broadband Activation Assignment and Inventory Services

Responsibilities:

• Fiber to the Premises Test Engineer- Test and Maintain, support and provision all equipment between the Fiber Central Office and customer premises. Implement Vendor specific engineering fixes. Software and hardware upgrades. Support all production Issues by dealing internally with As Senior lab engineer, a mock production environment for FTTP project was set up in the lab for production issues for developers to access minimizing downtime for customer outage and increasing product development by 35%
• As Senior Engineer, the Tampa Lab at the Tech Center was taken from an isolate internal test bed to a nationally certified test bed for MEVS, HIPC and FTTP development by other labs and gained recognition nationally by other labs as a primary test site, due to mirrored hardware setup’s in the field as well as latest software revisions on equipment that were in production, increasing project deliverables 25% faster than previous configuration. Handled 13 simultaneous national projects in or going into production, while providing technical assistance and test.
• IT Network Systems Broadband Activation. Assignment and Inventory Services
• FTTP (Fiber To The Premises project) Systems integration of optics and class 5 switches, packet trunking over ip (PT-IP) for FTTP (FIOS)
• EDFA testing and integration for IP TV (Motorola), Seachange and Motive Ad-insertion, VOD, COD, MOD servers, SBC integration, provisioning and test
• Enterprise IP telephony integration, Calea Avaya, IOBI, Cisco and Nortel Digital PBX’s Alcatel Digital Subscriber Access Muxes, Litespan and EMS. Lucent Optical Management System Brick devices CBX and FR9000 series equipments, Tellabs Optical transport Equipment, Juniper and Alcatel Optical Service and Lata Core Routers, Catena Online Edge DWDM, CWDM, Ciena ATM switches and EMS, Optical Line Terminals, Optical Network Terminals (ONT) EDFA

USA-United Space Alliance

• Technical project and vendor management
• Develop and maintain User Provisioning workflows, resource definitions
• Manage lab personnel and oversee Activation and Provisioning of remote network elements, Systems integration Liaison between corporate and the field responsible for communication directly with the Division.
• Complete Applications, Lease Amendments and Insurance requirements
• Oversight of design and architecture development of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks).
• Manage budgets, which included: individual project expenses, staff related expenses. Hardware maintenance contracts, Time card approval and expense accounts Coordinate and supervise Installation and/or maintenance contract technicians.
• Sales coordination of VPN products to DOD contract holders (Lockheed, Halliburton) to increase their network security measures, translating into additional maintenance contract revenues
• Manage new VPN and Bandwidth customer accounts for USA (United Space Alliance): Rolls Royce, United Technologies, Pratt and Whitney and Lockheed Martin.
• Manage Advanced Services infrastructure, including Regional Data centers, Local Data centers, Collocation centers and the Managed IP Network
• Interface with customer acquisition account executives from United Space Alliance - USA to insure quality and time lines were fulfilled to customer satisfaction. (Strong financial and accounting background, as well as have both business and technical (RUP, MS Project) knowledge
• Implementation of the servers and network using but not limited to: RIP, RIPv2, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS and MPLS

Digital Subscriber Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included installation of DBDS (Digital Broadband Delivery System) Consisting of DNCS (Digital Network Control System) configuration and deployment of Marconi/FORE, XYLAN (Alcatel) Cisco ATM switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches Cisco 2611, 4000, 4500 and 4700 series routers as well as River stone series routers.
• Motorola DSR4400 series satellite receivers Sun Microsystems E500 E450 E250 Ultra 1 and Ultra 5 enterprise servers Familiar with all of SA Broadband Integrated Gateways (BIG) Qam Modulators, QPSK MOD and Demod functionality, Power Key and reverse path node set segmentation and traffic management for CMTS and cable modem integrations Training MSO operations staff in hardware, channel lineup and pay-per-view provisioning, system maintenance and Backups * LAN integration with DNCS for Multiple Service Operators (MSO) * Billing integration for MVS, CICS and Tivoli framework for CBIS, CSG and Cable data
• Extensive knowledge of HFC Broadband network architecture, CMTS access and DOCSIS 1.x.
• Design and Implementation of HFC Network Forward and Reverse path, node switching and traffic Management
• Systems Verification and Test Management for new DNCS patch releases and overall infrastructure enhancement (conversion from ATM to 1GB Ethernet)