SUMMARY:

• Over 19 years of experience in Confidential industry working on both Vendor and Service side of the industry.
• Designing and Implementing Core Network Architecture and IPv6 deployment.
• Long - range network evolution - scale, hardware, features, topology, cost reduction.
• Product Architecture and Strategy Team Lead for 10 years. Three architects reporting to me.
• Task force member of NG-EPON (802.3ca) group at IEEE. Also contribute to other organizations such as CableLabs, SCTE, INTX, etc.
• Architect/Lead on DOCSIS 3.1 CPE. Responsible for the product strategy and the final end to end solution.
• Lead Architect on the Confidential -B gateway platform, worked on Confidential requirements with Confidential vendors and also on the initial proof of concept.
• Responsible for providing technology guidance on FTTH solution architecture. Responsible for Network Infrastructure planning at 3 Fiber trails in USA.
• Research member on other key initiatives, such as Wi-Fi improvements, Remote PHY and CPE virtualization. Used Automation tools to test end-to-end setup.
• Contributed to Product Requirements Document (PRD) for products deployed in Commercial Services.
• Created Technical Requirements Document (TRD) for emerging technologies.
• Technical Lead of DevOps team, handling the Retail CPE portfolio.
• Created system proposals, feasibility/alternative analyses with software and hardware selections, and performance and transaction analyses.
• Contribute to RFI/RFP evaluation of Broadband CPE vendor proposals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: OSPF, Confidential, MPLS, ISIS, Metro Ethernet, 802.1q

Tools: Jira, Confluence, JDK, Selenium, Confidential, JSON, Python, TR-069, SNMP s: FTTH, DOCSIS 3.1, CWTS, CCNA, CCNA Security, CWNP (In progress)

Organizations: IEEE: 802.3 voting member, Confidential Labs, SCTE, NAMIC, Local ToastMasters group

Technical Papers: Virtualization of CPE functionality - Confidential Labs

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Engineer - Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• 10 plus y ears of strong experien ce at Confidential Warner Confidential, with a focus on improving customer network and providing solutions to increase Confidential revenue.
• Analyze emerging technology trends in Wi-Fi (802.11ac,ax,ad), 5G mm-wave access/FTTH, LTE-U etc. and support Confidential ’s representation in WFA and CableLabs.
• Analyze 3rd party products for ACS and Wi-Fi SON that support Confidential ’s Wireless strategy for customer retention and improvement in end user experience.
• Actively involved in CPE Virtualization and Home Automation. Developed prototypes and POC for executives.
• New Business services using L2TP protocol, worked on network architecture and router configurations for deployment. Supported Confidential project for HIPPA privacy. Involved in provisioning, design, and managing the firewall deployment, rules migrations, and firewall administration
• Involved in IPv6 implementation across the Confidential network.
• Migration of the IPv4 Confidential configuration to IPv6 Confidential configuration, configuring Confidential peers. Worked on both Confidential and Confidential routers.
• New configuration for Confidential CRS routers across Confidential network.
• Design and implementation of Virtual network for provisioning systems.
• Architected and implemented DPI using Sandrine routers.
• Involved in optical network expansion project across Confidential footprint using Infinera and Ciena routers
• Collaborate and work with peers in a cross-functional team spanning other business units and organizations in the development on next Generation CPE devices.
• Manage vendors and suppliers to negotiate pricing and requirements of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and OLA to reduce cost.
• Reviewing and contributing to the architecture of Small Cell Backhaul project.
• Worked on DOCSIS 3.0 pr oject plannin g and testing requirem ents. Worked on customer issues.
• Worked on Ethernet over DOCSIS project, co m p lete d im ple menta tion of 2 phases and planning for the next phase. Got nom inated to MVP for this project.
• Worked on Media Connect Project. Created test procedures and use cases from the requirements submitted by ATG - West. Also involved in planning and deployment.
• Work with the vendors directly to resolve the issues and get them committed in fixing the bugs and providing new software within limited Confidential frame.
• Experience in test automation tools and knowledge of business domains
• Identified and recommended areas for process and business improvement
• Worked closely with QA team to develop test plans, test scripts, conduct cross-functional reviews and participate in end-to-end testing.

Confidential

Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Over 6 and half years of strong experience at Confidential, with a focus in providing software solutions on different technologies and platforms.
• Experience in test automation tools and knowledge of business domains.
• Ability to propose define and implement software test processes.
• Support and Test Web based Voice over IP product of Confidential Systems, the web applications tested were for Confidential ), SIP Proxy servers, Call Manager, SIP phones, Confidential Multimedia gateways and Confidential routers.
• Lead sustaining team to work with customer implementation and resolving their issues.
• Automate test cases using tools such as Eagle (scripting), Winrunner and Loadrunner. Also used Perl and Shell scripting for that.
• Write test plans and create new test cases. Used standard templates and also used Test Director to create test case

Confidential

Senior Confidential Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test the web based billing interface for CWCI.
• Test the financial application used by CWCI customers.
• Manage customer network connected via LAN or WAN.
• Automate the test cases using Perl and shell scripting.
• Setting up the provisioning for the different features, e.g. 800 call, etc.

Confidential

Assistant System’s Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for feature development and sustenance activities.
• Primarily involved in sustaining the Centrex Product
• Solved PRS/CSR relating to problems in CALL PROCESSING

Environment: C++, PROTEL, HP-UX, SOS, OCTAVE Crescendo Test Head, DMS100, Object Oriented Design, HP 9000/712 Workstation, mentor, Softphone