SUMMARY:

• Deploy Complex Hardware and Software | Enhance Lines of Business
• Adapt to changes in business needs, plans, and schedules.
• Passionate about technology and innovation.
• Apply critical thinking to creative solutions and troubleshooting.
• Always customer focused.
• Organized to support multiple activities and plans.
• Apply team spirit across units and skill sets.
• Punctual with steady work ethic.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Multiple Cable & Network Platforms
• Networking IP / TCP & UDP Principles
• Cable TV, Coax, Fiber
• RF Transmission, Satellite | MPEG, Transcoding, Streaming
• Cloud, Server, VM, Container Systems

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

• Automation with Ansible - DO407
• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Introduction to CoreOS Linux and Containers
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition)
• VMware / vSphere class and experience
• MS Office Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word
• Configured Windows Server and Cent OS
• VBA, Python, Bash

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led Engineering Team to configure over 3K video transcoding VMware servers in 24 data centers on 24 Converged Regional Area Networks (CRAN) to stream MPEG - 4 video streams to mobile, computer, and TV customers.
• Project created IP streaming of 13.3K local MPEG-4 video services.
• Developed VBA configuration scripts, saving 32 hours per data center deployment.
• Created PowerShell scripts, saving 56 hours for each data center deployment.
• Deployed 169 Dell “640” servers across 56 locations, coordinated with multiple technicians and networking teams, and adjusted deployment due to change from “630” to “640” server platform.
• Saved $20M maintenance costs by completing on schedule.
• Provided 9 months of tier 3 support for 444 video streaming servers. Tasks included troubleshooting, ordering hardware, providing repair procedures and support for remote team repairs, hardware ordering, validating, returning to operation and closing tickets.
• Eliminated backlog of over 500 open issues.
• Improved operational performance of Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform.
• Recovered stalled project by organizing and managing integration team to deploy new functionality of 350 INVIDI ad insertion systems across 17 regions and 27.65K MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 video streams. Adapted deployment plans to complete partial configurations while local teams completed infrastructure upgrades.
• Broke deployments into multiple schedules, allowing work to progress on available tasks.
• Completed project 3 months early.

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Manager, Lab Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed, and executed build out of multi-million-dollar Quality Assurance Lab, encompassing 2.7K sq. ft. of scalable floor plan design, cable and rack systems, power and environmental systems, telephone switch and multiple hardware components.
• Planned and coordinated with multiple project teams, verifying equipment was designed, installed, and configured to support multiple projects and test teams.
• Established procedures and documentation, ensuring each test bed was properly updated and maintained to meet Development and QA team’s needs.

QA Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and executed test plans based on use cases tied back to system requirements.
• Tested cable National Access System (NAS) ability to command and control cable video processing devices Confidential headend, consumer electronic systems, and settops.