Staff Engineer
Duties include equipment evaluation and specification, design, documentation, integration, and maintenance of digital cable and Telco head-ends to include DOCSIS CMTS and Verizon FiOS network emulation. Assist with integration of third party vendor equipment to include servers and virtual servers. Specify, configure, install, and maintain switches, routers, and firewall. Verify product specifications by performing tests on QAM/IP set-top-boxes. Review design documentation, produce and perform test plans, and assist with fault isolation. Worked as a technical adviser for the QAM/HLS Streamer/Transcoder test team which eventually supported Verizon FiOS transcoding and other new projects. Currently concentrating on infrastructure tasks to support various engineering teams and projects.