Keith Cole Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Report directly to CEO & executive management.• Responsible for various product management and strategy roles.• Responsible for business development in key accounts and developing customer relationships.• Lead and support all global company sales & sales engineering efforts and manage channel partners.• Responsible for the new product introduction process and outbound marketing content.• Direct the technical and customer support team.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Responsible for the systems engineering, integration, and technical support roles for strategic sales opportunities working closely with customers to extract requirements and implementing solutions based on their needs.• Perform competitive analysis of the optical transport and packet based test and measurement industry.• Create and review project and marketing requirement documents.• Provide product specifications and information for marketing collateral.• Recognized as a subject matter expert on company products and their applications.• Responsible for mentoring and training other company employees on the telecommunications test and measurement industry.• Schedule and perform field verification and acceptance testing for new product introductions.• Create training material and present to customers, channel partners, and internal coworkers.• ISO 90001:2008 Quality Lead – responsible for all aspects of the quality system.

Clearwater, Fl

• Implemented all aspects of the Quality and product System Test departments.• Responsible for managing the System Test/QA group throughout the entire product life cycle beginning with design, then implementation, production, and maintenance of all projects.• Engaged in software/firmware/FPGA/hardware integration and system testing of broadcast quality HD/SD MPEG video servers, decoders, encoders, switches, and interface modules.• Provided sales and applications engineering support for company products.• Performed competitive analysis of MPEG distribution systems and test equipment.• Responsible for developing automated test equipment systems based on various industry standard development tools.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Responsible for managing the System Test group throughout the entire product life cycle beginning with design, then implementation, production, and maintenance of all projects.• Engage in software/firmware/FPGA/hardware integration, functional, system, end-to-end, and environmental testing of products under development including Ethernet/IP, OTN, SONET/SDH, PDH/T-Carrier, Fibre Channel, GFP, jitter, OTDRs, OSAs, WDM optical telecom test and measurement equipment and EMS/NMS monitoring systems.• Responsible for all company manual and automated test plans, test cases, and test procedures for R&D, System Test, Production, Sales Engineering, and Customer Support teams.• Utilize industry leading test tools to create automated test equipment platforms for product development, system testing, and production verification.• Research and procure test and measurement equipment and infrastructure required for the design and validation of products under development.