Technical Professional tasked with developing/maintaining robust, standards based, multi-vender video teleconferencing and High Definition (HD) live video streaming/recording hardware and software solutions.Accomplishments:• Significantly improved overall availability/reliability of internal infrastructure. Infrastructure improvements were a combination of migrating server and database hardware to fault-tolerant virtualized equivalents, retiring obsolete systems in favor of more economical commercial cloud solutions, migrating our data backup solution to a mainframe solution, etc.• Explored cloud-based solutions to upgrade our in-house live streaming solution. Selection settled on a cloud streaming solution from IBM Video (Ustream) to replace our in-house live streaming solution. Ustream provides an economical robust solution that has demonstrated scalability to support thousand-plus viewers globally. Along with university related streams, this system has successfully been used for high profile events with The Discovery Channel, International Space Station (IIS) and SpaceX.• Ground-up redesign and implementation of a portable, live video streaming system for use throughout Texas. The system supports multiple camera/video sources and provides High-Definition video streaming for global distribution and also supports modern video teleconferencing applications such as Zoom.• Developed and launched completely redesigned, PHP-based web site for EBS’s Trans-Texas Videoconference Network (TTVN). New web site was to accommodate new teleconferencing management software and database format.

Consulting electrical engineer tasked to evaluate and develop an industrial grade, point-to-point network solution for global deployment. Solution needed to comply with all global regulatory standards. Design focus was on spread-spectrum RF data transmission solution which involved my technical negotiations with strategic industry partners.

Consulting electrical engineer tasked to design/develop electronic systems for Deaton’s clients. Position requires extensive interaction with clients to determine the design’s requirements, restrictions, etc.Accomplishments:• Redesigned entire electronics subsystem for Pratt & Whitney’s proprietary, photo-multiplier tube (PMT) based, computed tomography (CT) x-ray scanner. Redesign included new power distribution subsystem, higher PMT high-voltage stability, and greatly improved signal-to-noise parameters through redesign of all system PCBs. Enhancements provided exceptional system performance improvements which allows for thicker/denser objects to be scanned. System’s targeted operational life is 20 years.• Responsible for the electronics design/development of a military-grade, rechargeable, Lithium Ion battery powered, Infra-Red (IR) beacon and video camera subsystems for the ‘US Army Tactical Automatic Landing Tracking System’ field enhancement prototype.• Developed PIC based prototype for a disposable, battery driven medical device used to dry fascia tissue during eardrum reconstruction surgery.

System Functional Integration (SFI) Lead Engineer responsible for IBM’s Power-5 High-End mainframe products. Engineering head responsible for post-silicon hardware RAS (Reliability, Accessibility & Serviceability) and pervasive test/verification of the Central Electronics Complex (i.e. CPU, cache & memory controller and interconnecting ‘fabric’ ICs) used in IBM’s System p (AIX/UNIX) and System i5 (i5/OS) servers. Principle Engineer for Power-5/Power-5+ Bring-Up Vehicles (BUVs) used for CPU/cache IC’s alpha and beta testing.Accomplishments:• Developed & implemented post-silicon design verification testing for pervasive and RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) functions found in IBM’s POWER-4 & POWER-5 high-end CPUs and chip sets (cache, memory controller, I/O controller, etc.). Position required detailed knowledge of IBM’s distributed switch (fabric), I/O bus and memory bus. Developed/Introduced test automation which reduced multi-month testing to multi-week testing with increased test coverage.

Responsible for management and design of next generation, multi-protocol, router and switch hardware targeted for enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.

Responsible for new-product project management and design of, highly redundant, SCSI and Fibre Channel based drive array solutions targeted for vendor independent workstation, mainframe and SAN environments.

Responsible for technical management and PCB designs for new product design/development of multiple x86 class servers and server options within a time critical environment. Design skills included successfully meeting all UL, FCC and CE certifications.

Television systems design engineer responsible for design and implementation of custom and broadcast grade television systems for astronaut training and space shuttle support at NASA's Johnson Space Center and Dryden facilities.

Hardware maintenance and operation of television and FM radio broadcasting and transmission equipment. Chief TV/FM transmitter engineer.

Hardware maintenance and operation of television broadcasting and transmission equipment.