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San Jose, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Networking and Cloud systems consulting.

New York, NY, US

* Co Led Design and Engineering work on Firefly's Sunrise high resolution display ( Nominated to Times 100 best inventions of 2019 https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2019/5733147/firefly/ )* Provided IC consultant services on EE/ME/QA/MFG to hardware engineering team and manufacturing ODM partner* Led Engineering team integration with expanded.

New York, NY, US

* Worked with product team to set technical requirements and project path for all greenfield software development.* Scaled US engineering team from 0 to 8. Spun up initial Istanbul based engineering team as a contract to hire* Designed and implemented backend advertising scheduling system (python3, postgres, GCP, swagger)* Designed and implemented display.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Guided Engineering team through acquisition by Perk.com.
• Worked with Product Design and Developer Relations teams to plan and set engineering pace and goals.
• Acted as technical liaison between Engineering and expanded international QA/support.
• Architected transition for back-end API's from a monolithic XML-RPC system to REST-based microservices (Laravel/Docker on AWS).
• Served as sole Systems Administrator for all internal and public facing services.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained application build queuing system (patent pending).

San Francisco, CA, US

• Owned and Operated Pacific Custom Installations, a high-end Audio/Video installation and customization contractor.
• Designed and installed cabling for audio, video, and data distribution.
• In a project management role, organized job site time tables, worked with clients and their general contractors.
• Worked with my partner designing, integrating and automating audio/video systems integration.
• Managed various sub-contractor relationships and managed work dependencies to keep projects on schedule.
• Designed and wrote technical and user documentation, and aided in end user training.

US

• Consolidated network architecture with existing team.
• Researched, set up and supervised the installation of the company’s first passive optical network run. Initial network involved 20km of fiber layout, to 15 endpoints.
• Set up and configured several Linux (debian) servers for web caching (squid) and general use.
• Taught a class for the Network Operations Team on network design and capacity planning. Used curriculum of my own design.
• Interfaced with government liaisons to plan fiber routes and initial deployment sites.

• Performed back-end maintenance on a large-scale wireless network spanning 8 tower locations.
• Led projects to deploy additional broadcast locations, increasing the service area to 12 locations.
• Worked with Lucent access points to optimize performance over distances up to 20 miles (32 km).
• Assisted the engineering lead in deploying traffic analysis software and interpreting the generated statistics (ntop, and cacti).
• Maintained documentation of all access point locations.

• Installed, configured, and maintained customer networks, including multi-access point configurations and IP-based video distribution systems.
• Supervised installation of physical plant, including UTP, Coaxial, and Fiber optic cabling during implementation phases.

• Maintained wireless networks at many POPs.
• Often tasked with finding a “creative” solution for getting data into strange places (above light fixtures, etc) without significant installation costs.
• Worked primarily on my own, self-managing objectives and setting up appointments.

• Managed a Windows NT domain, Web servers, internal test servers, all computer systems, Nokia firewall, and general computers/networks.
• Assisted in the launch of the first product. Including rack and stack of new hardware expansion, to deployments of wireless network infrastructure.
• Scaled infrastructure up and down to meet financial requirements in start up environment