Keith Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Pinellas Park, Fl, Us

San Jose, California, United States

•Support, Design and create a Lab environment for Training and Certification to be used for the CableOS platform including DOCSIS/CMTS, CCAP, Video Core Distribution, PON, Arista and Juniper L2/L3 routing and networking with the Remote PHY infrastructure.•Travel to customers sites here in the Americas, EMEA etc. to support CableOS and relevant training lab and classes for new and current CableOS deployments and Certification Program.•The CableOS infrastructure is a creation of server hardware and virtual software including Cloud-Native to supplement and create a complete converged CMTS/CCAP, network, video, internet and VoIP platform using Remote PHY and PON technologies.•Implementing CableOS network utilizing the Arista and Juniper platforms for HFC and DAAS distribution.

San Jose, California, United States

Work remotely from home in Florida and travel to customers sites here in the Americas, EMEA etc. to support CableOS and relevant training lab and classes for new and current CableOS deployments

Denver, Colorado, United States

•Support, Design and Configuration of the Digital TV and IPTV network infrastructure including the Legacy BHN, Legacy TWC and Charter markets. •This details the mapping the incoming video source, whether it is a MPEG2 or H.264 source to the final distributed multicast feed to one of over 27 million residential or commercial customers.•Implement, configure, maintain and troubleshoot multiple video applications on Unix, Linux and Microsoft based servers that provide a Digital Video Distributed platform including Big Band, Cisco, Arris, Concurrent, Harmonic, IBM, Motorola, Tektronix, Samsung and Scientific Atlanta. This includes appliance and VMware based compute.•Work with the manufacturers design engineers on issues and design builds that are related to their systems and software that has been developed, tested, certified and deployed in the Charter markets including the former L-BHN markets•My team is responsible for the design, architect and initial deployment for the $70 million plus budget related the SDV, Session Resource Management and QAM platform (SDV/VOD) • We were instrumental in the design and system implementation of new platforms for the addition of DOCSIS 3.1, CCAP and Spectrum Guide.

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Previously worked on the global support of Tyco's Security IT Infrastructure including design, management, and implementation and monitoring of our global network.• On-site customer and vendor support and development for the IP based video surveillance product line including Intellex, VideoEdge, Victor and CCure products.•Support and configuration of several IP and analog cameras and IP Encoder manufacturer’s.•Support, management and configuration of several Storage manufacturers on DAS, NAS, fibre and iSCSI systems including EMC, AD, Intransa, HP, Hitachi and others for DVR and NVR storage.•Support for the engineering team providing Q & A testing, Level 3 product support, network and system design for the support and engineering labs of our Windows 2008 Active Directory, Linux and Unix including Cisco’s Virtual Infrastructure.•Directly involved with the global design and implementation of over 40 firewalls using Checkpoint's NGX Cluster XL, SSL Extender, Management Console and Provider 1 series on the Edge, UTM and Nokia platforms. •Continued support, management and design for the BlueCoat Proxy servers, MoveIt servers, WSUS 3.0 servers, EPO servers, VMware servers and Cisco network security including WiFi. •Team member with managing our Networking and Windows engineers in overlapping technologies requiring company and security policies. •Global network monitoring to anticipate, negate and find network issues and intrusions. •Continuing studies and education with Checkpoint at the present towards my CCSE.

Sunrise, Florida, United States

Assist in all phases of management, support, installation and design of customer's data and voice needs. Develop a strong base in all areas of Nortel and Cisco data and network, optical, convergence, VoIP and applications.•Working with sales/engineering in design, configuration and support of Nortel and Cisco data, optical and VoIP network systems. •Team leader in design and setup of the LAN/WAN and VoIP lab environment created to simulate and emulate a customer's network. •Team member with our training department on building and the design of the Nortel BCM and Succession IDL classrooms. •Design, installation and support of ShoreTel VoIP systems. •Team member with our sales engineers on the Cisco Call Manager and Avvid VoIP projects. •Received my certifications from Nortel (NNCSS), Cisco (CCNA) and attended the Microsoft MCSE 2003 Security Boot Camp.