QA Lead Resume

SUMMARY

Over 30 years of experience managing and supporting Labs for various companies.
Over 30 years of Integration with various Vendors in the Cable Industry.
Over 30 years of Video and Conditional Access Engineering Experience specializing in HFC/RF infrastructure along with Arris formerly Motorola and Cisco CAS expertise.
More than a decade staging and executing Video, Docsis, CPE devices and Interactive demonstrations for Confidential and their strategic partners.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Tested and QA’ed ICOMS to Amdocs billing conversion for Production deployment. This includes Provisioning and Activation of settops.
Build new Arris to Cisco solutions for Guide data flow for HD and SD DTA’s.
Manage Arris DAC 6000, CASMR, OAM&P and Docsis equipment, network equipment to provide integration of new Products and software release for deployment.
Manage Cisco EC controllers, DBDS system and DTACS and test new solutions for deployment.
Assist in testing new TIVO release candidates before releasing to Production.
Maintain backups for Headend controllers and VMware servers.
Maintain RF combining for Arris and Cisco distribution plants.
Maintain Fiber headend distribution for all RF Plants.
Manage preloading of various Arris and Cisco settops with the latest firmware and module codes.
Maintain Final Configuration documentation, which includes device, network, Visio drawings for Production Deployment.
Manage local network infrastructure.
Evaluated new hardware such as Harmonic Prostream, Monroe EAS, Trilithic EAS, Arris Products and software releases before deployment.
Testing of new multicast muxes before releasing to Production.
Worked with various vendors for remote testing and integration of new Products.

Confidential

Advance Video Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported Labs in the Confidential Center and remote distribution feeds.
Managed Corporate Demonstrations and Events for Executives on and off Confidential premises.
Maintained all forms of CPE equipment and interconnecting networks.
Arris and Cisco CMTS, Conditional Access (DAC/DNCS and all supporting infrastructure).
Video processing (APEX, SEM, GQAM, Encoders, Decoders)
Data and video networking including Multicast, Docsis, CPE devices, IPV4 and IPV6
Video - on-Demand and OTT systems
Partnered with Confidential Joint Ventures to provide development and production features to the Confidential Center Demo room for Brian Roberts and Business Executives.
Architected Proof-of Concept RF combining in support of all demonstrations given to internal Confidential product groups
Extensive Legacy, Docsis and XFinity X1 Settop performance testing and live demonstrations.
Hands-on experience with development of Legacy and Confidential X1 codes on both Motorola and Cisco environments.
Pre-release software testing and validation prior to customer trials.
Provided specifications for and evaluation of vendors which included architectural design, operational, and product requirements.
Collaborated with the Network and Systems Engineering teams to appropriately engage in the integration of core network and system services in product solutions.
Provided essential analysis to improve the efficiency of deployed systems.
Provided Technical Bulletin and Installation documentation for Trial teams.

Confidential

Technical Staging Supervisor / Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported Staging Center Headend equipment including Scientific Atlanta DNCS and the Motorola DAC.
Lead Engineer during the installation of 15 VOD Systems at MSO facilities throughout the U.S.
Supported local and satellite content distribution systems (CDN)
Tested and verified latest software and hardware releases prior to beta-release.
Supported Network Operation Center (NOC) and provided technical expertise as required.
Configured UNIX workstations, including drive partitioning and loading of Operating Systems.
Created and maintain checklist and verification documents for the complete end-to-end VOD system.
Generated technical bulletins for interim solutions to open issues.
Submitted problem reports to engineering for system defects.
Configured Cisco networking equipment to support LAN communications.
Managed and configured Windows NT servers to support local LAN communications.