Self-employed Consulting Resume

SUMMARY

Candidate is an Electrical & Communications engineer based out of his MA, U.S. home office and has twenty - three (23) years of experience with the communications industry; twelve of his most recent years are specifically in the Media & Entertainment services industry working with multi-service operators (MSOs) in Asia and Europe providing strategic guidance and mentoring the integration of technology components for enterprise and field solutions.

Candidate has assisted in most aspects of strategic MSO decision making, design, testing in both lab and field and deployment evaluation & tuning of end-to-end services for fiber based distribution & delivery including HFC and various flavors of FTTx. Starting with the first European rollout of triple play digital settop based on Motorola and SA architectures, Candidate has a wealth of experience in setting up the lab testing transitioning to the field and providing advice for fine tuning deployment. End-to-end lab setups of the headend have included equipment form multiple vendors including Motorola, SA, Pace, Seachange, Harmonics and Terayon.

Candidate has worked alongside teams as an architect and project manager both onsite and remotely with multi-site teams. Experience area includes digital settop based triple play service authentication, provisioning, billing and settlement design and field rollout, VoD services, DWDM, MPEG4 migration, peering & caching tradeoffs, digital rights management, conditional access alternatives, profiling and throttling of subscriber bandwidth consumption and in planning and carrying out technical vendor selection, evaluating and rolling out disaster recovery management, validating technology CAPEX and OPEX benchmarks and projecting technical market penetration costs.

’98-Current: Confidential (Strategic Technologist For Hire-Strategic Advisor, Technologist & Mentor)

‘86-‘98: Nynex Strategic Division (Architect, Project Manager), Gemini (Technology Advisor supporting process engineering, Due Diligence), Sapient (Systems Integration-Rapid Prototyping Technology Mentor)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Volunteer: Pine Street Inn, Boston, MA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Self-employed Consulting

Projects: Provided Lab service rollout testing planning, DTV Headend (Moto, SA), DPI (Ad

Insertion- Terayon, Seachange) and xVoD (nVoD, sVoD and tVoD) infrastructure

integration and monitoring support for numerous projects in Europe (Austria, Netherlands,

France, Sweden, Poland) and Asia-Pacific (Australia, Korea, Japan and India)

MSO Due Diligence evaluation (Competing CAS from Philips, NDS, Moto & SA), Lab testing (Philips-MS, Moto & SA with Liberate and OpenTV), Field Deployment Support (Moto & SA with Liberate and OpenTV)
RFI through selection via lab testing of Ad insertion equipment (Terayon, Seachange)
National headend, regional hub and superhubs and access edge modeling and testing in lab and field rollout
Provided key support helping architect and test scalable (DNS, DHCP, related services) Broadband network side for supporting HSD & interactive DTV provisioning, billing & Settlement (Open Source-primarily Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, Oracle; business and domain-specific middleware)
Designed and ran technical process for identification of root cause defects for field testing of digital video rollout on HFC, 24 by 7 timelines, QA and software engineering metrics to bear on multi-vendor headend centric lab setup
Assisted equipment developer with planning of EdgeQAM device features
Assisted NW equipment manufacturers technical product diligence of competitors Optical switches for video
Lab based matrix testing and comparison of six IPTV equipment suppliers along with three middleware options and four STB vendors
Created Lab based testing and evaluation of Settop boxes with FTTx (FTTC, FTTP in multi-access buildings and FTTH)
Analysis and projection of engineering costs for xDSL extension for specific delivery of TV program content in Switzerland and Germany
Assisted and lead numerous due diligences on emerging technology acquisitions related to IPTV equipment suppliers and measurement and monitoring of fiber and network assets and their field deployment potential
Assisted numerous end-to-end service bundling efforts by MSO product management teams for Broadband based video (OTT, CDN, Residential Entertainment) services

Representative Telecom Specific Projects

Circa

Nynex/AGS, Gemini, Sapient

Project: Telecom Equipment Manufacturer

Digital switch provisioning

Requirements gathering (FURPS, QFD), 120 GB Oracle V7 VLDB solution, digital switch provisioning. Spiral iterative methodology, MS Project.

Project: Major Computer Manufacturer (Telecommunications Subunit)

Central Office Voice Enabler Product

Rapidly prototyped (Unix/AIX, C) proprietary firmware based distributed communication solution to perform TCP/IP based voice application enabling; SDLC, ABT Workbench.

GTE Labs

TCP/IP Performance Modeling for delivery of voice, data, video using IBM's RESQ, Bell Lab's PAW

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