PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Sovernet operates a high capacity fiber-optic network in Vermont that connects the largest markets in the state.

Responsibilities: Assessment of backbone network needs, customer access needs, network design, network maintenance, writing RFP's, reviewing RFP responses, selecting vendors, writing system certification acceptance test plans, implementing system certification test plans, vendor selection for backbone transport network equipment, customer access equipment, and network test equipment needed to provision and maintain customers access leveraging GigE services with transparent NID capabilities that support Y.1731, RFC2544 Performance Verification , RFC 1564 SLA-CIR/EIR/CBR/EBR , RFC 6349 layer-4 Monitoring , Y.1731 client end to end , 802.3ag MEP/MIP, 802.3ah MEP/MIP functionalities across a DWDM, OTS/OTN, 10G to- 100G backbone transport systems that can migrate/scale up to 400 Gig services as the technology evolves.

Project: The Vermont B-TOP Broadband Telecommunications Opportunity Program is federally funded project from the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Association, Broadband Telecommunications Opportunity Program NTIA / BTOP in excess of 48 million dollars. These funds are from the national stimulus package in an effort to modernize the telecommunications infrastructure in rural America, create jobs, and stimulate production of US made products throughout the United States through July of 2013.

The scope of Vermont project is to build a fully integrated state of the art, statewide telecommunications network interconnecting thousands of local, state and federal offices over a next generation shared optical transport network utilizing multi-degree, passive , ROADM Reconfigurable Optical add/drop Multiplexing DWDM colorless backbone transport services that support GigE customer access arrangements, while integrating legacy OC-N SONET/POS, legacy DS3 services, ADSL/DSL services, Ethernet over GFP/VCAT, and legacy protection switching: LAPS/UPSR/BLSR services. The new network will be a true OTS optical transport system which provides true DWDM Colorless, directionless technologies, utilizing MEF Metro Ethernet Forum recommendations that are compliant with ITU 802.3ag/802.3ag MIP/MEP recommendations using ITU 8031/ITU 8032 protection switching standards, while providing GigE services with OTN strong FEC capabilities at a cost effective price point.

The core transport network design is based on the Ciena OME 6500 MSPP platform as the backbone optical transport infrastructure with Ciena 5150 feeder/concentrators providing uplinks from customer based Ciena 39xx CESD NIDS leveraging the Metro Ethernet Forums MEF Y.1731 recommendations for managing customer access equipment with ITU 8031 linear protection switching, ITU-8032 Ring Protection switching, with IEEE 802.3ah, 802.3ag test access capabilities ranging from 1gE to 100gE services end to end. All transport DWDM wavelengths will be compliant with the ITU- Grid for C-band Blue and Red with 50 GHz, or 100 GHz channel spacing either through transponders and EDFA line amplifiers.

Equipment Knowledge: Ciena OME6500, Ciena 5150, Ciena 39xx products, JDSU 8000, JDSU 6000/4000 systems for fiber characterizations, fiber scopes, fiber light sources, fiber cleaners, Summitomo single and mass fusion splicer's, fiber distribution panels, equipment racks, fuse panels, fiber jumpers, tracers, station clocks BITS , EXFO power meters/light sources/OSA, SunRise Telecom test equipment, digital scopes for optical eye pattern characterization, SFP's, XFP's, OWL Power meters and light sources, Noyes power meters/scopes/light sources, JDSU 5800 1Gig through 100Gig analyzers, JDSU OSA inband/out of band OSNR test equipment, fiber characterization testing PMD/CD/ORL/IL optical line testing. Lucent legacy WavesStar products, Cisco 15454, Cyan Z33 Z77, Adtran, Cisco Switches, Accedian NIDs, Fujitsu DWDM systems, Tellabs DWDM systems, Alcatel/Lucent 1830 system.

Special Skills: System test, systems integration, systems installation, system provisioning, pre and post sales support, project management, network engineering, systems engineering, network operations

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Co-founder:

• Built the company from the bottom floor up, hired 10 additional employees's, and designed a Next Generation, SONET based, Multi-Service Provisioning Platform MSPP .
• Responsibilities included writing business plans, presenting the business plan, executing against the business plan, managing the companies CAPEX OPEX budgets, purchasing, payroll, marketing, margin analysis, competitive analysis, providing a long term vision for the company, providing executive leadership, and negotiating terms and conditions of contracts with employee, investors, and vendors.
• As chief technical officer my responsibilities included the hiring of strategic engineering disciplines defining the product from conceptualization design of our BlackWidow/1000, Next Generation, Multi Service Provisioning Platform. Other responsibilities included: writing the products functional requirements documents, product development schedules, determining the cost of goods COGs , creating the bill of materials BOMs , and overseeing and reviewing the systems Gerber's. Additional responsibilities included managing the efforts of the R D engineering team, defining and developing the products differentiating factors, trade marking, and patent filing.
• Presently I hold the pending patent for the Programmable Fabric Management Protocol PFMP created and written by Craig Tate and intended for use between Next Generation, SONET, MSPP platforms across an all Optical Network. PFMP is an algorithm, which automatically adapts and adjusts to users on demand needs for throughput capacity across networks, creating flexible throughput capacity on demand through constant negotiation between interconnected MSPP platforms.
• Special Skills: SONET OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192, DS3, DS1, ISDN, TCP/IP, ATM. OSPF, MPLS, BGP-4, IS-IS, GFP/VCAT-LCAS, G.709 Wave Wrapper, H323, G.711,G.703, G.704 G.732, G.733, G,736, Lap-D signaling, DWDM CWDM.
• Test Equipment: All W G/Acterna Optical/SONET analyzers, TTC SONET/Optical Analyzers, All Agilent SONET/Optical Analyzers, CAT-3 CAT-5 Wiring Standards, Digital Lightwave Analyzers, extensive Parametric Conformance test equipment, optical light meters, etc.

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Senior Embedded System Engineer

• Embedded system testing, compliance testing, system certification, and system quality assurance SQA , of their Multi Service Provisioning Platform MSPP family of products. Each Coriolis product was tested against the new ITU G.7041 Generic Framing Protocol GFP/VCAT , ITU G.7042 Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme LCAS standards.
• Products were tested against AT T's existing performance standards such as: AT T internal standards, Belcore GR-XXX, and applicable international ITU-XXX specifications. All equipment was thoroughly tested for non-disruptive services, backwards compliance to existing infrastructure, transport service standards, and enterprise applications. Other responsibilities included writing detailed test plans, reviewing test plans, executing test plan, and reviewing the results with senior Coriolis management.

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Systems Certification Test Engineering, DSL-Lab

• Responsibilities included compliance testing, system certification, system quality assurance SQA , of all vendors Multi Service Platform MSP's equipment sponsored by AT T for evaluation. Each vendor's equipment was tested against AT T's performance standards such as AT T internal standards, Belcore GR-XXX, and internal standards ITU-XXX specifications. All equipment was thoroughly tested for non-disruptive services, backwards compliance to existing infrastructure, transport service standards, and enterprise applications.
• Wrote, reviewed and executed test plans, and reviewed the results with AT T marketing vendors, and AT T senior management.
• Worked in the AT T DSL Digital Subscriber Lab in Middletown, NJ performing Next Generation Network testing and certification on multiple vendors' equipment Lucent DWDM 80G 160G,Cisco ONS1549, Nortel . Our function as a group is to define the future technologies, which will be rolled out into the AT T network infrastructure over the next 6 to 12 months. Very detailed test procedures are written to certify each product for compliance to the following specifications Jitter Tolerance, Jitter Transfer, Jitter Generation, SONET OC-3 though OC-768 compliance testing, SONET Parametric Conformance testing, and SONET performance monitoring compliance testing. All vendors are put through a very thorough evaluation period and tested against all applicable SONET and DWDM Telcordia GR-253, GR-499, GR-1244, GR-1230, GR-1400 Series of network Specifications.

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Tier 3/4 Technical Support

• Provided customer tier-3/4 technical support PI for the 400g DWDM systems.
• Supported AT T directly with the certification testing of Lucent LCT SONET multiplex equipment as an LTE, the Lucent DDM1000/2000 as an LTE and the Lucent 40g 400g DWDM ultra long haul optical transport systems. All products were tested and certified against Telcordia GR-253, GR-499, GR-1230 BLSR , GR-1400 UPSR , GR-1244 Synchronization , and ANSI T1.105, ANSI T1.231. All products were tested for compliance using Hewlett Packard OmniBer 718, OmniBer 719, HP- CERJAC SONET Test Set, W G ANT-20E SONET analyzers and TTC 310m SONET analyzers

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Network Management

• Tested Optical and SONET network configurations. Tested new 400g DWDM hardware, Bandwidth Manager BWM hardware 2.5g and 10g.
• Provided trade show support, customer demo's and wrote equipment certification test plans for SONET against Bellcore GR-253/ANSI T1.105 specifications and DWDM.
• Wrote customer acceptance test plans, performing customer acceptance testing, re-certification of existing feature sets of Optical Networking Group ONG products.
• Tested for compatibility between Lucent products and competitive equipment, such as Cisco, Alcatel, Nortel, and Ciena.

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Systems Tester, IP6400 Project

• Wrote test plans for the IP6400 OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48c interfaces.
• Wrote system requirements for hardware engineers to develop the SONET interfaces. Was instrumental in selecting specific chips sets for the IP6400 router SONET card, SER/DES , SONET Framers, and SONET Transceivers.
• Worked collaboratively with the developmental engineers to test POS card, IP over ATM card, and wrote the APS 1:1, 1:N, UPSR, BLSR requirements document for the SONET interfaces for the IP6400. Worked on developing and specifying a mesh topology configuration restoration technique for the IP/6400 IP/64000 using PNNI in the SONET over head bytes B4 through B12 .
• Identified product problems, wrote ECO's, and tracked problems through Lucent MR system.