Paul Barrett Email & Phone Number

Paul Barrett is a VP of Engineering at NETSCOUT. His areas of responsibility include NETSCOUT's service assurance and cybersecurity software applications and the associated software quality assurance functions.Prior to moving into this role, Paul was CTO for the Enterprise and Federal Government side of NETSCOUT's business. Paul has over two decades of expertise in the analysis of network communications – areas of focus have included the human perception of voice and video transmission quality, the health of applications and services delivered over IP networks, and most recently cybersecurity. Paul joined NETSCOUT with the acquisition of Psytechnics Ltd in 2011. Paul was Head of Engineering for most of his 10 year tenure at Psytechnics and was CTO when the company was acquired. Prior to that Paul worked at BT Labs, primarily on voice transmission for GSM and 3GPP. Paul has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for much of that time. Between 2005 and 2016, Paul was appointed to a number of ITU-T study group vice-chair and working party chair positions; he was also the United Kingdom’s head of delegation for these study groups for much of this period. The ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. Paul is a named inventor on 20 patent applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE in the United States and a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET in the United Kingdom. Paul holds a master’s degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York in the UK.Specialties: real-time network analysis, unified communications, end-user experience measurement, digital signal processing, encryption, software development, international standards and intellectual property.

Listed skills include Video Processing, Video Conferencing, Unified Communications, Gsm, and 11 others.