Lead architect for monitoring Verizon Wireless Cloud Platform Edge Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Edge, Core, Webscale and Far Edge Infrastructure Monitoring

Lead analytics and analytics planning for the Solutions Planning team, developing solutions with R, Hadoop, Spark 1.5.2, and in-house and commercial tools.• Design and develop software for Femtocell placement• Perform data analysis of end-to-end network monitoring data• Develop statistical models to project network equipment capacity needs

Lead Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics development and analysis for Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), presenting results to Operations, Product, and Technology teams and senior management.Major Projects:• Partner with Operations, Product, and Technologies teams, and vendors, to develop and implement metrics to quantify customer experience of media delivery• Architect and develop suite of Python and R programs to analyze media delivery metrics, presenting analysis weekly to Operations, Product, and Technology teams• Initiate and lead Hadoop POC in lab, as foundation for more extensive data analysis• Partner with vendors to improve media delivery infrastructure and media delivery metrics• Present results of projects to collaborating teams and senior management, in presentations and documents

Lead development of fault isolation software for Layer 2 Switched Ethernet Services (SES), from business requirements stage through system requirements, development, user acceptance testing, and production.Major Projects:· Switched Ethernet Services (SES) Virtual UNI (V_UNI), to reduce access circuit costs, currently in production· System requirements and initial testing for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) over SES, to enhance subnet efficiency and reliability, currently in production· Service Activation based on Ethernet Standard ITU-T Y.1564, ensuring customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met for latency, throughput, and frame delay variation, currently in development· Enhanced Service OAM based on Ethernet Standard ITU-T Y.1731, currently in developmentRoles, Capabilities, and Accomplishments:· Partner with Verizon Technologies and vendors to implement new Ethernet standards for Cisco and Alcatel Lucent switches and NIDs· Collaborate with inventory team on XML design of data structures and testing of new services· Identify and address issues in fault isolation software for >49K Layer-2 SES circuits, with several hundred faults analyzed each week· Design and develop Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and UNIX scripts· Mentor team members on Layer 2 Switched Ethernet technologies· Write documents describing SES circuit structures and fault isolation, and present to a variety of audiences

Led development for circuit fault isolation software • Designed and implemented parsing and results presentation for SES Layer-2, and Layer-1 cross-connect fault isolation, in Java, in system with 250K lines of code• Designed and implemented fault isolation for new services, including Frame Relay and Long-Distance Private Line, in a large Expert System (in Art Enterprise LISP) (> 1M lines of code), including test request generation, result interpretation, diagnosis, and creation and management of regression cases

Senior Member of the Network Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning Group• Planned capacity for wide-area TCP/IP network for Genuity AS-1 subnet, including traffic modeling, resiliency and latency analysis, and cost optimization• Led investigation of new technologies• Designed and developed algorithms and software tools for capacity planning and quality of service analysis• Reduced the time required for the capacity planning cycle by a factor of three

• Led consulting activities on behalf of Fortune 500 customers in finance, energy, and retail• Principal developer for state-of-the-art tools for network design and analysis, in LISP• Researched and implemented network design and performance analysis algorithms• Designed and developed genetic algorithms for optimizing network link sizes• Served as UNIX system administrator