Bruce Calvert Email & Phone Number

Allen, Texas, United States

(Formerly Tektronix Communications) Provide technical support, add new features, and fix bugs for the Administrative Console of the nBA "Big Data" project for telecommunications service providers. Languages and products used are Java, Elasticsearch, Elastalert, Ansible, and Haproxy on Linux. Provide technical support for Service & Delivery and Sales.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I introduce classic films for the Fort Worth Public Library, the McKinney Classic Film Festival, the North Texas Theater Organ Society, and the Lone Star Film Society. My online presentation for the Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival in Niles, California is below.I provide film memorabilia for display for the Kansas Silent Film Festival and the McKinney.

Irving, Texas USA

Providing 3rd-Level technical support for the NSN (formerly Apertio) HLR front-end product as well as the back-end HLR, AC and HSS databases. These systems run under Solaris UNIX and Suse Linux, using LDAP for the database and SPML for provisioning. I assist many telecom carriers in North and South America such as Sprint, Verizon, Time Warner Cable.

Brady, Texas

Provide technical expertise in the renovation of a 1927 movie theatre. Serve as projectionist and host of classic film shows featuring silent films, cartoons, and westerns to raise money for the restoration. Write stories for the newspaper on the theater restoration and promote the theater and film shows as a guest on the radio.

Plano, Texas And Brady, Texas

• Developed custom migration and provisioning applications for HLRs (Home Location Registers) and EIRs (Equipment Identity Registers), critical to the projects from requirements stage through delivery. Most programs were.
• Successfully performed 150+ migrations of up to 5 million subscribers including other data records with limited downtime. Customers routinely praised my work and requested my services for subsequent projects.
• Identified customer requirements based on needs, which led to the accurate development of design, procedure, and user-friendly documents used throughout the projects.
• Supported sales teams with technical presentations and Q&A sessions during the pre- and post-sales process, ensuring customers’ technical needs were met in the closing of the deal.
• Consistently integrated applications with hardware engineers and customer personnel on-site at locations all over the world: Verizon, AT&T, Rural Cellular, Suncomm, Pelephone Israel, Vodacom South Africa, H3G Austria.
• Partnered with sales and management teams in developing bids, estimating labor costs, and answering technical questions on the proposals, which resulted in winning numerous bids (companies listed above).

Richardson, Texas

• Investigated and fixed a list of 100+ software bugs and implementation problems within six months. Greatly increased customer satisfaction with the secure switching telecom system. Responsible for complete digital.
• Corrected design and code problems for call processing software, switch database, and circuit board EPROMs, ensuring functionality of all systems ongoing. These systems had 500K to nearly 1 million lines of code in.
• Integrated switches with engineers and military personnel at air force bases around the world, the Pentagon, the White House and within the State Department; ensuring government contractual obligations were met.
• Received Top Secret SCI Security Clearances (now lapsed).
• Trained and supervised a staff of two who efficiently cleared software problems and developed new features on existing products. Interviewed new hires and participated in performance reviews.
• Served on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Software Improvement team for two years. Improved software quality from level one in all areas to levels two and three for specific software quality areas.

Farmers Branch, Texas

• Designed and programmed custom accounting functions, fixed asset, payroll, and inventory programs that were implemented in various businesses. Assisted customers with questions and issues with these topics.
• Dealt with customers experiencing problems due to software bugs or missing requirements. Improved software by fixing problems in the product line.
• Supervised and trained a staff of two, overseeing the custom programming of the accounting software which met specific customer requirements.

Bs, Film, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Jester Dormitory Film Society

Education record