SUMMARY:

• 20+ years experience in roles as developer, professional Services team lead, integrator, systems sales engineering, lead architect. 20+ years overall experience in systems engineering/integration and software development including full SDLC experience on multiple platforms.
• Professional fluency and extensive project experience with C/C++, Python, Perl, SQL, NoSQL. RDBMS(Oracle, Postgress, MySQL).
• Strong data analytics skills. Proven expertise with Confidential technologies; Confidential compression/encoders DVB/ATSC, Adaptive bitrate protocols; HLS, DASH, Smooth Streaming Subject matter expertise in CDN and Origin architectures DAI/ SCTE 35/104. Confidential, Cisco/SA and IPTV head ends, experience with most Confidential and DRM solutions.
• Expertise in analysis of video compression using Confidentia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consulting Principal Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, coordination of integration and implementation of solutions for next generation Confidential video architectures.
• Extensive integration experience with Ericsson, Cisco, Confidential video pipeline solutions.
• Daily work with HLS, DASH implementations from Satellite/Terrestrial ingest to client/subscriber delivery.
• Extensive use of Python and the Linux toolset in Docker and SDN, virtualized environments (vmWare, Open stack), for prototyping and creation of frameworks for automation of integration, testing and operations procedure. Extensive use of AWS S3 SDK.
• Subject matter expertise in the video space.
• Agile/Scrum environment, extensive use of Service Now, Jira, Confluence and other collaboration tools for project management liaison.

Confidential

Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive integration and solutions architecture, sales engineering and project work with major MSO’s
• Big data mining and analytics using Oracle and SQLserver., Apache Hadoop.
• Authorship of White papers, Methods of Procedure, requirements.
• Use of development tools i.e. Jenkins, Github, Jira, Java, Perl, F# and Python.
• A focus on architecture and implementation of solutions.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Field service, support and engineering services for Confidential on a contract/retainer basis.
• Extensive work with Confidential, encoders, groomers and Video real - time encoding systems.
• Designed implemented and managed a professional services solution for Confidential involving video content ingestion for Confidential video delivery.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Staff Sr. Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a wide range of projects, including long-term international projects involving multiple spoken languages and differing television standards.
• Involved in a variety of duties, including Field & Sales Engineering and complex systems integration.
• Significant work with Confidential encoding/transcoding and streaming software and hardware.
• Deployment of Confidential and capture solutions in Cisco/SA( Confidential ), Confidential and hybrid headend environments.
• Integration work with Confidential, and Confidential .
• Detailed analysis of Confidential transport streams and diagnosing/resolving complex high-performance networking issues in the context of video capture and delivery.

Confidential, Duluth, Georgia

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for 6 person staff providing product support, software customization and consulting services for the digital Confidential industry. Team leadership responsibilities entail resource allocation, professional development & mentoring, authoring of quotes, Statements of Work and detailed requirements/design documents.
• Frequent customer facing with an emphasis on support and identifying potential product and/or consulting services sales opportunities.
• Daily hands-on programming and system administration using Java J2SE 1.3-1.4, CORBA, Python, Perl, bash, Postgres SQL, Oracle 8i and various gnu tools in Linux and Solaris environments.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• C++ and Java development of Pegasus- Confidential compliant server components under Solaris 8. Utilizing J2SE 1.4 SDK(NIO), CORBA, gnu toolset(g++, gdb .) and Apache components i.e. log4j.
• Extensive mixed language network programming as well as Oracle 8i programming using JDBC.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing & implementing custom internet services for DSL customers including Instant Messaging, VoIP, teleconferencing and e-mail.
• Responsibilities include extension and customization of the Confidential Commercial Server entailing the design and implementation of external multi-threaded processes and shared libraries. UML design work utilizing Rational Rose CASE and design patterns and the authorship of design and research documents.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation and maintenance of software components for network command & control ( Confidential ) of Digital Video Broadcasting head-end components (QAM/QPSK modulators) using C++, Informix RDBMSunder Sun Solaris 7 & 8. OOA/OOD with Rational Rose CASE.
• Server components utilize multi-threading, RPC, events & messaging, load-balance & queuing algorithms focused on control of MPEG2 DVB & ATM networking protocols. member of a team researching embedded Linux as an STB platform.
• Performance of code reviews, authoring of design documents and presentations to groups of mixed technical backgrounds.

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed & maintained Visual C++/MFC GUI applications written for use with advanced two-way pagers and cellular phones.
• Embedded development using RTOS on SPARC Dragonball processor.
• Kernel-mode NDIS miniport development utilizing MS Confidential .
• Responsible for Confidential user-mode driver programming utilizing Win32 Platform SDK for Win 95/98 and NT 4 through 2000b.
• Windows95/98 DDK, VxD VCOMM port driver development.
• Utilized OOD/OOP methods (UML).
• Authored formal design documents.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Developer (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team that built and maintained a distributed cellular billing system in an IBM RS/6000 SPII environment using OSF-DCE and AIX.
• Full life-cycle design and development.
• Responsible for class & object design & implementation using C++(IBM xlC), Paradigm+ CASE (UML), Sybase SQL Server, Rogue Wave Tools.
• Designed, coded & maintained various sub-systems including multi-threaded billing-process components and Virtuoso/AS400 interface. IBM CMVC used for version-control and tracking.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of a network communications API(APPC/CPI-C & NetWare) and Extensive coding on the MS Windows, IBM AIX RS/6000 and OS/2 platforms using C++, MQSeries, NetWare SPX SDK and DB2 embedded SQL.