Kevin Mcbride Email & Phone Number

United States

Senior Technology Architect within the CTO organization --Focused on evolution and development of platform and systems to enable seamless consumption of hybrid-networks and hosting of Edge Compute for general-purpose workloads/applications and next generation Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Inferencing systems. Excited to be joining Speedcast after my many years focused on fixed-networking assets and research and development of NFV/SDN/Cloud technologies... Standby for further details ;)

Denver, Colorado, United States

Enabling customers and vendors to discover and leverage a new frontier of proximity-based/latency-boundary based networking, compute and storage technologies and beyond through exciting emerging technologies. I am a futurist with a vision to design new technologies that enable the Lumen Platform and our Customers with solutions that are secure, scalable, drive cost-savings and meet the demands of changing requirements for network access and services.

Greater Denver Area

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Greater Denver Area

Working on next generation carrier IaaS to enable/host SDN, NFV, Big Data and NaaS ecosystems creating unified cloud architectures. Designing cutting edge carrier/service/communications-provider technologies enabling full programmability and software abstraction levels.Experience with Deployment of OpenStack and other Container Management systems on various compute type surfaces in multi-server and single-server deployment configurations. Interested in consumption of various other programmable hardware by OpenStack including IoT/telemetry/data gather SDR FPGA(s), low-powered processor systems and other consumable compute and hardware surfaces for imaging/control/assimilation.

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for principal role in designing, developing and implementing core testing infrastructure systems and performance/synthetic subscriber simulation labs, supporting scale of 750k-­‐1M subscriber simulation with service “consumption” experience testing/performance analysis of CenturyLink full product offerings (IPTV, DATA, VOICE, OTHER).Supported full deployment (from ground up) of Mediaroom 1.1 Production-­‐replica in new testing facilities to reproduce full upgrade steps before execution in production network. Attended Mediaroom 2.0 training sessions at Microsoft’s Mountain View training facility for deep-­‐dive technical education on the management , deployment, security and operations of end-­‐to-­‐end Mediaroom environment.Supported several rapid-­‐prototyping projects and “broke records” on full end-­‐to-­‐end setup times for several initiatives requested by leadership for immediate review/testing. Supported team/peers on architecture-­‐design of parallel lab projects related to new systems growth, management of routing/switching network within the lab environment and lab automation to reduce cycle times. Provided management with full technical breakdowns for executive approvals for projects and procurement activities. Supported team with procurement of gear/materials for projects and budget requests for new technology initiatives.Lead full end-­‐to-­‐end testing and team coordination of Multiscreen technology vendors with testing covering Multiscreen Content Handling -­‐-­‐ingest, processing, distribution, and presentation Content Acquisition, Content Management (CMS), Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content Distribution, Video on Demand (VOD), Live Content Streaming, Ad Insertion, Video Web Portal/Client Presentation and full CDN design/testing.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Responsible for Sr./Lead role in designing, developing, and analyzing overall architecture of the CenturyLink data network including IP, Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV, CDN and MPLS products. Provided high-­‐level integrated architecture solutions that meet performance, scalability, reliability, cost and security needs. Coordinated design and integration of total system including subsystems within project deadline/schedule.Provided consultation to Regulatory teams for items related to FCC US Broadband Report “Need for Speed”/SamKnows. Attended meetings at FCC and participated in debates and resolution amongst several ISPs MSO(s), Telcos, related to testing dynamics and fairness based on product/technology delivery types and avoidance of network enhancement systems such as T-­‐Cache, CDN diverts and other technologies. Lead/Directed deployment of systems within CenturyLink’s network to provide fair/accurate reporting of network performance during the consumer testing for SamKnows.Represented company in several product / technology expo/trade shows and user groups, invited to several UK/Euro conferences related to IPTV /DATA Subscriber Management and Evolution of static configuration to Dynamic Subscriber Instantiation model via integration with full AAA subscriber-­‐aware backend. Participated in several initiatives related to “Network API” and At-­‐a-­‐glance subscriber intelligence gleaning for Operations Support/Technical Support centers and API calls related to transactional services where QoS may be applied or subscriber un-­‐aware provisioned service bandwidth is utilized to provide enhanced services (Gaming, VOIP/VIDEO CONFERENCING/PRESENTATIONS-­‐BUSINESS SERVICES, etc.).

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Responsible for lead role in designing, developing, and analyzing overall architecture of the Embarq' data network including IP, Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV/CDN/ and MPLS products. Provided high-­‐level integrated architecture solutions that meet performance, scalability, reliability, cost and security needs. Coordinated design and integration of total system including subsystems within project deadline/schedule.

Orlando, Florida Area

Performed Unix system administration on servers supporting Embarq customers and Network Services organization. Participated in all aspects of system deployment, from initial planning and into normal lifecycle management of servers in the network. Led opportunities to reduce operational costs for Embarq by enhancing systems to improve customer operational efficiency and by utilizing virtualized components.Extended Focus:§ Designed/implemented/maintained fully redundant production network architecture for mission critical systems located within data centers and across multiple central offices in our network footprint.§ Completed and participated in extensive formal planning and documentation for all activities and projects.§ Held lead role within the systems team/coordinated day-­‐to-­‐day task for each system administrator while still staying engaged in technical role.§ Participated directly with MFN consortium in the design of systems and data center network to support the MyFlorida Network.§ Oversaw complete build out of a new data center in Tallahassee, Florida which was stood up production within 3 months to support customer requirements and system growth.§ Worked directly with planning on determining approach to monitoring server/app/network exhaust for network systems.§ Provided SME level experience for Netcool team to support demands of evolving/rapidly growing network.§ Oversaw surveillance model design for health and performance monitoring on a variety of enterprise and service provider router/switch/IAD elements.§ Worked with National Engineering team to provide systems architecture design for new network services being deployed.§ Experience with providing clear and concise documentation to management to assist with decision making regarding newsystems/applications or resolution of issues.§ Managed multiple projects and engaged systems administrators to provide support as appropriate to complete several parallel running activities.

Job Description: Patrol officer, assigned to the 3rd Precinct “South”. Normal patrol duties include traffic law enforcement, responding to calls for service, self initiated activities, neighborhood watches in high crime/narcotics areas. Also member of Bike Patrol/Community Policing Unit and Honor Guard Unit.

Job Description: Designed and administered critical network monitoring systems implementing the Micromuse Netcool Suite, HP Openview and self written scripts to query system status and connectivity. Maintained and administered device element managers (Copper View EMS, Turnstone, Marconi EMS, Adtran EMS) on SUN/UNIX systems and WIN 2k Server Platforms. Administered 5ESS DRM/ASM on SUN/UNIX platform for OAM&P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning) solution and surveillance of the 5ESS Switching Network. Automated backup scripts for network appliances for remote system configuration storage of all network node configurations for disaster recovery or hardware failures. Dealt with the service providers for trouble tickets for Frame Relay, T1, DS3, OC3, ISDN, BRIs and other network connections.

Job Description: Directed live television/infomercial shows. Edited commercial spots and infomercial packages on non-linear Media 100 and AVID systems. Performed on location filming of infomercials/commercials with Betacam SP field camera and lighting/sound systems. Assisted in all aspects of show production (audio, set design, switching, and lighting).