⦁ Test development candidates feeding back on issues and improvements to R&D team.⦁ Carry out the formal validation through the life cycle of release candidates until release, then add them to the website. Also supplying upgrades and if necessary doing upgrades to the customer base.⦁ Act as Primary Customer care contact supporting the existing customer base and potential customers running Evaluations.

⦁ Integral part and work closely with the Media Processing Software Product (MPP) development team. ⦁ Test development candidates feeding back on issues and improvements to MPP team.⦁ Responsible to install, and continually maintain, the systems and IP multivendor networks being used to the develop and validate the live IP streaming (MPP) products.⦁ Carry out the formal validation through the life cycle of release candidates, until product release.⦁ Run handover training for the products, including integration of them to other systems and networks, to the relative support teams via workshops or using video conferencing.⦁ Just delivered a new method of a hands off, ground up build, upgrade and downgrade process for the latest Linux COTS based servers.⦁ Act as Customer support to the tier-3 engineers, and working directly with customers as required.Current Experience: Grass Valley Audio Live (IP), Grass Valley Alchemist Live (SDI and IP), GV File (File Based) , Grass Valley Orbit, Grass Valley IQ-UCP (SDI/IP), and working with Phabix-QX/SX, TEK test equipment.Operating Systems: Centos, Ubuntu and Windows Server 2012. - System installation, management and integration.Broadcasting Test and Validation Networking Environment:Cisco, Mellanox Switches. - TCP, UDP, RTP (IGMP), DNS, DHCP, SAMBA, RIP, OSPF. SMPTE 2022 & SMPTE 2110

Delivered and integrated NSN services and solutions to telecommunications companies - nationally and internationally.Experience with:- HPUX, Solaris and Linux. (DNS, DHCP services, NFS, SAMBA, SAN config/connectivity)Cisco, Juniper switches, Checkpoint Firewalls,F5 load balancers, VMWare ESXi, VirtualBox and Linux KVM

System and Network Administrator for HP and SUN Unix systems.Promoted to Installation and Integration engineer Successfully delivered projects to Telecommunication companies in Europe, Middle East/Africa and the far East.

System Integration specialist of proprietary systems, and when they became single source maintainer, a Tier-3 support specialist for HP and Motorola HW and SW.