SUMMARY:

Over 15 years’ experience in computer engineering, hardware qualification and software quality control. Over 6 years integration experience with Confidential video products for digital cable headends. Eight years’ experience in the design and development of web sites and internet consulting. Two years’ experience in ETV and interactive services for cable television.

SKILLS:

• Cable Headend Architecture
• Digital Video: Confidential, QAM, Confidential
• Streaming Media
• ETV Carousels
• Interactive Television
• EBIF
• CoDF
• Computer Hardware
• Hardware and Software Testing
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X
• Systems Engineering
• Systems Integration
• Systems Administration
• Web Applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Alticast: AltiSynchro EPG/SI

Arris: D5 Universal EdgeQAM

Blankom: Multiplexer, Scrambler, Modulator

Cisco: CMTS

Motorola: DM6400 (MUX), APEX (QAM), OM2000 (OOB), DCCG, DAC (Terminal Operation)

Confidential & Confidential: TS Broadcaster, TSMonitor

Sencore: Confidential Streaming and Analyzing

Softel: MediaSphere, ADF Scripting

Other: TSReaderPro, Dektec StreamXpert and StreamXpress, EBIF Broadcast Streams

Basic IP Networking: Network Diagrams, NIC setup, Wireshark Analysis

Digital Keystone: Murano HTTX HPNX Pro

Programming: SQL CSS HTML ColdFusion Zilog Z8 Assembler Intel 8032 Assembler

Databases: MySQL

OS: Windows Server Mac OS X Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) Solaris 10

Office Productivity: MS Office Visio Project Google Apps

Adobe: Photoshop Illustrator Premiere Pro After Effects Encore Audition Creative Suite Captivate

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project Engineer for Confidential redesign project.
• Implemented new HD and SD architecture for E, Style, G4, Sprout and TVOne services.
• Daily operation and maintenance was greatly simplified for Confidential and Confidential .
• Worked with key Confidential and Confidential management and engineering teams to coordinate implementation of redesign.
• Prepared Transport Stream analysis, system schematics, rack profiles and cable wiring lists.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained full transport stream configurations for both carousels. Built and maintained CreativeOps Rosie and Confidential QC rack.
• This project allowed the creative team to quickly render and verify Canoe apps on a Confidential prior to production play out. Completed on schedule.
• Provided video engineering support and systems integration for Technical Operations, Creative Operations and Ad Operations.
• Lead server administration for two major production monitoring tools. Scaled environment to three additional servers to monitor additional programmer networks. Acquired all hardware BOM requirements and price quotes
• Improved team knowledge for Creative and Technical Operations teams by creating comprehensive documentation on shared Wiki.
• Documentation covered Ops headends, installation guides and user guides.
• Wrote comprehensive testing procedures for RFI, Polling and Trivia products that lead to reduction in creative QC duration.

Confidential

Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Travelled extensively scaling the Canoe footprint by performing RFI testing at many Confidential and Time Warner headend sites.
• Performed service assurance testing by verifying IAM, SMS and IAF data returned by Confidential and Time Warner STBs.
• Prepared detailed project proposals including cost analysis for digital headend solutions.

Confidential

Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integrated various video equipment products for digital cable headend systems.
• Prepared detailed project proposals including cost analysis for digital headend solutions.
• Experience with the setup and configuration of Alticast AltiSynchro, Arris D5 UEQ, Cisco CMTS, Conax CAS7.
• Project lead for driving CableCard ATP testing at CableLabs for Conax USA.
• Performed CableCard interoperability testing at CableLabs for Tivo on DVR STBs which brought new releases to market.
• Worked with customers such as Alticast, AMD, Axcera, Blankom, Conax, Confidential & Confidential and Tivo.

Confidential

Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for Board and Confidential level qualification of multimedia TV tuner products for PC platform.
• Performed hardware validation and functional testing of the first OpenCable tuner for Windows Vista/7.
• Successfully performed OpenCable pre - certification testing according to Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) at CableLabs. Working together with Microsoft, Digital Keystone and Solekai Systems we launched the product on schedule.
• Developed detailed testing procedures and reports based on Engineering and QA team feedback.
• Built mini video headend for streaming and broadcasting QAM video to PC tuners.

Confidential

Senior Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Performed GPU Confidential hardware validation and qualification using in-house software diagnostics and benchmarking applications. Some software testing also performed as requirement for stressing Confidential hardware.
• Evaluated hardware schematics, performed diagnostic testing, evaluated 2D and 3D visual display quality under DOS and Windows environments. Informed engineers of hardware issues to avoid production fallout and field failures.
• Researched graphic Confidential and graphic memory performance through temperature, voltage margin and endurance stress tests within regulated environment chamber. Used 3D test loops to stress GPU and memory hardware.
• Collaborated with firmware development teams to understand bug fixes, feature changes and upcoming releases. Strong understanding of graphic BIOS/firmware qualification procedures. Prevented many production issues by collaborating with engineers and recommending solutions.
• Performed system level testing using motherboards from various industry vendors. Owner of all test procedures. Trained co-op students to perform compatibility testing based on set guidelines by the engineering team.
• Created extensive test procedure templates for qualification of desktop and multimedia products. Improved qualification procedures through analysis of existing methods and consulting with board engineering.

Confidential

Embedded Firmware Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed firmware for Zilog Z8 microprocessors, used in residential and commercial burglary alarm systems for Confidential marketplaces.
• Developed and tested 1000 zone alarm systems for Securitas Sweden and the Norwegian military.
• Lead developer for DSC Confidential hottest selling fixed icon glass keypad
• Began in Software QA group, and moved to embedded firmware development team.