Steve Kellner Email & Phone Number

Plano, Texas

Main function is to manage the lab environment so it is available for both internal testing and the hosted lab services provided to external customers within SLA terms. - Monitor lab nodes and restore service as needed, conduct RCA investigations to reduce nodal outages. Share findings with SMEs as needed and implement changes to better the uptime.- Continually investigate, evaluate, and implement improvements to the network infrastructure; e.g, add Web based apps for resource monitoring and booking, orchestrators for automation, & other "ease of use" ideas brought up by end users.- Continue to convert the physical nodes to Virtual Machines within the data center, including strategic planning for management as the SDDC grows; additionaly consult to other organizations for virtualization uses.

Richardson, Texas

Testing capacity and performance of new software/hardware releases for MSC (packet core). Responsible for creating and maintaining tools for automation of call model changes and equipment maintenance and data collection. Also responsible for raising Change Requests against faults, testing fixes, collecting performance data, and keeping various network elements loaded and patched with current loads. Equipment includes: Media Gateway, Gateway Controllers, Call Agent, & switches.

Richardson, Texas

Provided technical support for CDMA carriers in North America. Support functions included problem analysis & fault identification, assisting in hardware change out, configuration questions, assistance with upgrades & software patching. Focus was on voice core nodes, with emphasis on Media Gateway both MGW/GWC signalling (H.248) and voice quality trouble resolution.

Richardson, Texas

Tested capacity and performance of new software/hardware releases for MSC/HLR. Main responsibility was to create and maintain tools for automation of call model changes as well as building the messages and state machines for the evolving IOS call models. Also responsible for raising Change Requests against faults, testing fixes, collecting performance data, and keeping various network elements loaded and patched with current loads. Equipment includes: MTX, MGW, eBSC (MSS15K), USP, Ethernet Routing Switch, GWC

United States

Installed & Commissioned all components encompassing the Radio Access Network of CDMA Networks (from initial deployment to network extensions); region prime for MSS15K (ATM switch) in the CDMA deployment. Performed extension work on the MSC, of both the front end and peripheral equipment; including an AIX based billing system, and Solaris enterprise servers.

Ft. Huachuca, Az

Developed and reviewed lesson plans, trained and tested personnel on an electronics system consisting of digital communications channels, RISC workstation/server, UNIX based Ethernet LAN, and RF linked encrypted WANs. Performed fault isolation and repair of these systems.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Information Systems, 3.94

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Wireless Telecommunications, 4.0

Overall winner of Electronics Design Competition 2004

Associate Of Arts (Aa), General Studies