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 personnel for the GeoProbe System Health product. This system tracks the traffic and performance of GeoProbes in fixed and wireless networks around the world. Languages used are mainly Python, Perl, Java, Linux bash shell, C shell, Korn shell and Windows Batch files. I fix bugs and provide troubleshooting and configuration support.Provide customer support for the Active Assurance (Direct Quality) product, which telecom companies use to ensure that their networks are working well. This includes email and phone troubleshooting, upgrading software, and fixing bugs in the software. Languages used are C++ and HTML.Customer supported include Comcast, Century Link, Cricket, Telecom Austria, Verizon Business, Kabel Deutschland, Rogers, Mobinil, Vodafone Hungary, O2 UK, Vodafone, and many more.

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 Classic Film Festival.I provide 16mm films for screenings for the Kansas Silent Film Festival, the North Texas Theater Organ Society, First Methodist Church in Richardson, and other groups showing classic films.I have provided movie stills for over a dozen books covering film history, usually in the silent era.My article on silent film comedian Raymond Griffith was published in Classic Images magazine in 2005.

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, Videotron and Bell Canada.In addition, I have written hundreds of automated tests to test every SPML provisioning command and every subscriber and Non-Subscriber database field that can be modified. These tests are very useful for troubleshooting provisioning problems and testing new software versions.

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 new development that reused code from earlier projects. Programs typically had 10K to 100K lines of code. • 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, AIS Thailand, Rogers in Canada and many others. Frequently wrote requirements and revised software at customer sites for last-minute customer requests. • 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).• Managed schedules on multiple, concurrent projects, meeting all deliverables on time and under budget.• Programs written in C and C++ running under HP Nonstop (NSK) and UNIX (Tandem OSS and cygwin). Programs developed with GNU C/C++ compiler, Microsoft Visual Studio, or HP Nonstop C compilers. Wrote scripts to control programs with UNIX scripting and TACL. Some programs used TCP/IP sockets, ssh, ftp, secure ftp, Perl, CORBA messages and ASN.1 messages.

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 switch software quality after initial release.• 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 total.• 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.• Programs written in C running under UNIX and VxWorks operating systems or FORTRAN running under VAX. Database programming using the Recital SQL database package.

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

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