SUMMARY:

• A driven Solutions Architect with custom engineering and systems integration within the cable customers utilizing modern day over the top architecture and Access architectures for video delivery to include Satellite, DSL, and LTE.
• 17 years of result driven, Quality Assurance (QA) team leader with over 14 years of Cable TV success, technical troubleshooting, tru2way and Cable Head - end expertise. Develop and architect solutions for MVNO/MVPDs integrate new technologies to achieve business goals while providing valuable services to their customers and subscribers.
• 11+ years Pre-Sales experience with Solution Architectures sales engineering (pre and post) would factor all compliance with tru2way, bi-directional and one-way cable systems, SCTE RF standards, as well as All Cablelabs standards and specification requirements for FCC certification as well as legacy Settop box encryption standards and deployment methodologies JCAS,DCAS,VGS and DOCSIS.
• DevOps professional with proven record of success in establishing and maintaining business partnerships with key decision makers. Utilizing CICD Automation tools and agile methodologies for over 10 years.
• Ability to offer mutually beneficial solutions to drive account growth and revenues and consistently exceed profit goals. Having experience with Fortune 500 companies as well as mid cap’s and a very diverse background ranging from Zone Sales manager, Regional Sales manager to Divisional Sales Manager.
• Key competencies include: Product Management, Conditional Access, 3GPP/EPC/CDN, Content Management, Virtualization, Converged Cloud Platforms, FTTP/FTTH, Big Data Analytics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS & Languages: RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Solaris, TSBroadcaster, ActiveVideo, C, C++, PERL, Python, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, XML, OpenStack, elkSTACK (elastic)

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, RDB, Oracle, Mongo, Kassandra MySql, Postgresql

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Manager Cloud Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting agency executive management, division directors, and information technology (IT) staff and leading project tasks, resources, including State personnel and deliverables.
• Use of appropriate project management tools, reports, templates, mentoring, training, and coaching to IT project teams.
• OverSight of Cloud Services and deployments (SaaS,PaaS and Iaas) Big Data Analytics (Conviva, Hadoop, Elastic, Splunk, Kibana)
• Work directly with agency staff, as well as vendors and, when necessary, other development and engineering groups in fulfilling and carrying out the requirements of assigned IT projects.
• Utilize project management best practices (LEAN/Agile) including risk management, quality management, change management, change control and communication.
• Managed by providing leadership, collaboration, supervision, training, guidance and support to all IT project team members on assigned projects.
• Lead efforts for ensuring agency compliance with the companies ISO project management policies and standards.
• Implementation and support of IPTV applications (OTT/IPTV) investigate, document and engage additional resources such as development to assist in break fix situations expert with IP video systems, TV anywhere services, set-top box middleware, OTT applications, cloud (cDVR), ACR (automatic content recognition) and controllers EC/DBDS/DNCS and DAC
• Analyze CDN Engineering, integration, deployment and support
• Generate MOPs for clients and site personnel for efficient maintenance
• VOD production support and maintenance and content meta
• Field Operational support for vendors such as Confidential, Arris and Ericsson

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

ENGINEER III Solutions Architecture

• Pre-and Post-sales Customer Engineering (Customized solutions, implementation and support) Robustly experienced with DevOps and Agile Methodologies
• Support Operational production issues with large Communication companies such as Cox Communications CVM/TRIO/Contour), Cablevision JCAS/VGS Charter DCAS/UHE Design, implementation, production support, Comcast X1 RDK. expert with IP video systems, TV anywhere services, set-top box middleware, OTT applications, cloud DVR, ACR (automatic content recognition) and controllers EC/DBDS/DNCS and DAC
• Video distribution system engineering & design utilizing video encoding and measurement standards; MPEG2, MPEG4, HEVC, ETSI, TR101 290 STCE 168 as well as state of the art streaming technologies HLS, DASH
• Working understanding and implementation of Video Codecs HEVC, H.264,265 and container formats
• Implementation of Software Defined Networks with NFV (Network Functionality Virtualization)
• Functional understanding and development of API’s REST, SOAP, JMS, JAX, JNDI. Use and understanding of PERL, Python scripting
• Cloud Services and deployments (SaaS,PaaS and IaaS) Confidential UCS, UCSM and ECS deployments
• Ensure integrity of company procedures by meeting Service Level Agreements under or on the contractual timeline
• Track and maintain vigilance on possible bugs that may arise within production (DevOps Model), Collaborate with software analysis team on prioritization of code enhancements and provide appropriate test environment meeting site specific conditions, work with cross functional DevOp teams to ensure integrity releases and versioning control

Confidential, Louisville, CO

Technologist

• Developed internal objectives and contributions to standardization activities in Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Open IPTV Forum (OIPF), Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Association, Reference Design Kit (RDK) management, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure industry specifications were aligned with products. Company representative in these industry initiatives.
• Directed product development to align with both best practices and standardization activities within the television and media industries resulting in products which matched industry technology requirements but retained individual characteristics. Presented directions in standardization and innovation to customers, regulators and governments.
• Review and implementation of new architecture strategy for media services product offerings based on Hyper-converged cloud technologies and automated workflows which are now used for setting product alignment and development roadmaps.
• Member of VOD Metadata working group and Open IPTV Forum's testing group, developed the testing & certification programs for compliance measurement against the published specifications and managed the strategic direction of an industry association with over 100 member companies
• Power cost reduction by 50 percent by virtualizing all legacy servers that no longer had vendor support (HyperV) with all initiatives such as OpenCable, OCAP, DSG and DOCSIS.
• PLTS and DTA product began Alpha Deployments in Argentina Dec 2012. obtained PMP and ITIL certification relevant skills for this project

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Systems Engineer

• Fiber to the Premises Test Engineer- Test and Maintain, support and provision all equipment between the Fiber Central Office and customer premises. Implement Vendor specific engineering fixes. Software and hardware upgrades. Support all production Issues by dealing internally with As Senior lab engineer, a mock production environment for FTTP project was set up in the lab for production issues for developers to access minimizing downtime for customer outage and increasing product development by 35%
• As Senior Engineer, the Tampa Lab at the Tech Center was taken from an isolate internal test bed to a nationally certified test bed for MEVS, HIPC and FTTP development by other labs and gained recognition nationally by other labs as a primary test site, due to mirrored hardware setup’s in the field as well as latest software revisions on equipment that were in production, increasing project deliverables 25% faster than previous configuration. Handled 13 simultaneous national projects in or going into production, while providing technical assistance and test.
• IT Network Systems Broadband Activation. Assignment and Inventory Services
• FTTP (Fiber To The Premises project) Systems integration of optics and class 5 switches, packet trunking over IP (PT-IP) for FTTP (FIOS)

Confidential, Atlanta

EC/DBDS/DNCS Video Engineer

• Responsibilities included installation of DBDS (Digital Broadband Delivery System) Consisting of DNCS (Digital Network Control System) configuration and deployment of Marconi/FORE, XYLAN (Alcatel) Confidential ATM switches, Confidential Ethernet Switches Confidential 2611, 4000, 4500 and 4700 series routers as well as Riverstone series routers.
• Billing integration for MVS, CICS and Tivoli framework for CBIS, CSG and Cable data
• Extensive knowledge of HFC Broadband network architecture, CMTS access and DOCSIS 1.x.
• Design and Implementation of HFC Network Forward and Reverse path, node switching and traffic Management
• Systems Verification and Test Management for new DNCS patch releases and overall infrastructure enhancement (conversion from ATM to 1GB Ethernet)