Principal Engineer Resume
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniA
SUMMARY:
A principal engineer/architect with 17 years of increasing experience designing large infrastructure environments.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Video, Voice, IPTV, VOD, DATA, CPE
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Network Operating Systems: RedHat, CENTOS, Ubuntu, Openstack, Debian, CEPH, VMWare, gluster
Hardware Types: Cisco Routers and switches, Cisco Pix Firewalls, Load Balancers, Riverstone Routers, Cable Modems, Sun, Dell PowerEdge, Spectrum Analyzers, QAM Analyzers, Network Analyzers, MPEG Analyzers,QPSK Modulators and Demodulators
Protocols & Standards: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, UDP, DHCP, TFTP, DOCSIS, EGIRP, RIP, OSPF, ATM, DVS178, ALOHA, Corba, DAVIC, Packet Cable Multimedia, SIP, Stun, COPS, SNMP, H263, G711, OpenCable
Programming Languages/Databases: C/C++, Shell Scripting, SQL, Sybase, Informix, Perl, Oracle RAC 11g, Splunk, MySql, Postgres
Applications: SnifferPro, Ethereal, Tcpdump, HP OpenView, Spectrum Server, wu - ftpd, yale-tftpd, sendmail, Apache, MRTG, TACACS+, ssh, pgp, nginx
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Principal Engineer
Confidential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Responsibilities:
- Designer and Architect of a distributed data store for our content delivery network.
- Responsibilities included vendor selection, hardware design and budget.
Confidential
Principal Engineer
Responsibilities:
- responsible for the Confidential program provided end to end leadership through the design and early deployment of the architecture, as well as meaningful contributions to the Standards Confidential .
- Additional responsibilities extended to other programs that leverage OCAP/MHP technology,such as 3rd Party Electronic Program Guides and sticky web services.
- 600+ Linux Servers using Oracle RAC,jboss, postgres and apache in a distributed architecture with active/active HA and site redundancy.
Staff Engineer
Confidential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Responsibilities:
- Installed and tested enterprise provisioning systems necessary for provisioning of Docsis Cable Modems, and customer premise applications.
- Created automation scripts to assist in performance testing.
- Managed deployment conference calls for the provisioning systems.
- Tested Packet Cable Multimedia and Cable Home devices.
- Evaluated Voice Over IP and Video Phone Technologies.
Integration Engineer
Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida
Responsibilities:
- Installed, Configured and managed three headends consisting of Confidential and Confidential ’s network infrastructures for a set - top box development company.
- Assisted in the development and test of Advanced Set-top boxes.
- Integrated, managed and maintained Ethernet and radio frequency networks consisting of SCO/Linux/Solaris and Windows machines for digital interactive, video data transmission and delivery.
- Installed a VPN solution, wrote data management tools and utilities used in daily operations.
- Implemented a distributed computing network for Confidential, Concurrent and NCUBE video on demand systems.
- Constructed a mobile video solution for industry trade shows.
- Created audit systems for verification and system testing.
Network Engineer
Confidential, Horsham, Pennsylvania
Responsibilities:
- Managed a technical support group.
- Setup and supported e-commerce solutions on Cobalt Linux.
- Wrote perl scripts, Maintained DNS, Support Shopsite, and FrontPage.
- Configured Apache Web Servers.
- Installed and configured mail servers.
- Installed and configured perimeter Cisco routers.
- Installed/Configured Solaris Jumpstart and HP Openview Servers.
Engineer
Confidential, Horsham, Pennsylvania
Responsibilities:
- Integrated billing systems with head-end/set-top box controllers.
- Wrote and tested shell scripts for report generation using SQL.
- Integrate 3rd party ISV software with set-top box platforms.
- Managed devices using SNMP management software.
- Configure TFTP/DHCP servers.
- Troubleshot and repaired HFC/Ethernet for video/data transmission.
- Configured Cisco/ Confidential DOCSIS routers for cable modem networks.