Advanced Video Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Regarded as a Subject Matter Expert in Arris/Motorola digital headend technologies with excellent systems knowledge and expertise.
I posses a high level of knowledge in installation, integration, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the following equipment and protocols demonstrated by my position as the lead headend Staff Engineer and Lab Architect for the facility when employed there.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Headend: Digital Headends, DAC6000, RADD6000, MPS, SEM, NE, CAP, APEX, IRT, KLS, OMs, C6u, C8u, RPD, ARPD, NC, CS1000, CMTS, SDM, and various encoders. HFC Networks.

Video: Video Conditional Access Systems, MPEG2, MPEG4, QPSK, transcoding & other related technologies, IP video delivery technologies using IP GigE, and ASI.

CMTS: Arris, Motorola, Cisco, and Nortel.

Other: Motorola (Vertasent) SDV systems in both ISA and NGOD modes.

Spec: DOCSIS & DSG (DOCSIS Set top Gateway), TR - 069

Protocols: IPv4, IPV6, TCP/IP protocols, IP multicast (ASM and SSM), routing, VPNs, encrypted tunnels, Provisioning IPv4 and IPv6 DOCSIS devices using Incognito DHCP, DNS, and CFM and Cisco CNR. Created custom TLVs. ALOHA

Box: Motorola DCT, DCX, DCH, OCAP, RDK & DVI settops, Slingbox

VOD: Seachange architectures and operations.

OS: Unix, Linux, & Windows operating systems.

Equipment: Spectrum Analyzer, Oscilloscope, DVM, Sencore/Adherent/Textronix stream analyzers and players. Smartbits packet generator. & Sprirent DOCSIS analyzer.

Hardware: Rack and Stack equipment, Power, ASI, fiber, and Ethernet cabling. Cisco routers, switches and firewalls, Foundry routers and switches, Juniper firewalls, Tandberg demodulators, upconvertors, and PSI/SI remultiplexers, Broadcom and Barco Modulators and Upconvertors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Advanced Video Engineer

Video Engineering.
Update and modify EIA/frequency spectrum.
MPTS to SPTS transport conversions.
Service moves.

Confidential

Sr DAC Engineer

Upgrade Confidential systems and headends.
Replaced RADDs with CSS RADDs
Changed IP addressing on Arris/Motorola headend equipment throughout entire region.

Confidential

Senior Staff Engineer

Primary technical resource in charge of 10 digital cable TV headends supporting ATSC and DVB test and development environments for customers worldwide.
Designed and built out a lab as needed that encompassed 10 headends for a digital settop box development and test facility.
Configure associated network infrastructure to interconnect these devices within Arris/Motorola and through encrypted network tunnels to customer’s sites.
Managed technicians to provide support lab and testers and developers.
Responsible for architecture of complex headend infrastructure including HFC devices, servers, and network technologies.
Perform integration, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of multiple complex HFC headends and related infrastructure including multiple vendors’ equipment.
Qualification of other vendor’s equipment in Motorola’s lab for use in customer’s production headends.
Network administration of all lab IP needs including VPNs and firewall access.
Participate in customer issue replication.
Develop solutions to satisfy new and obtuse needs required for development of set top boxes resulting in unorthodox and untried configurations to accomplish the development goal.
Document new and existing system infrastructure.
Developed and implemented re-organizational plan to more efficiently respond to, and complete, developer and test organization requests for headend support.
Engineered, coordinated, and staffed lab relocation resulting in no plant down time for developers and testers.
Installed first Motorola lab and production DVB cable headends in Europe. Provided technical and troubleshooting support. Acted as a liaison between customers and development teams before, during, and after commissioning of the headends.

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