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Warren, Pa, Us

Warren, Pa, Us

Quincy, Us

- Manage US and Ontario based optical transport network engineers- Manage US and Canadian colocation, dark fiber and lit circuit vendor relationships- Develop training program for the optical transport team- Develop and implement various KPIs to measure performance and align US/Canada activities- Develop implementation and deployment process across the Cogeco/Breezeline footprint along with critical facilities team to expand and solidify standardized methods across the company.- Work with senior leadership and IP core engineering to develop strategic backbone IRU purchases and internal buildouts- Work with the Transformation Office and senior leadership to build project and program management processes in order to better align US and CA operations- Continue development of documentation initiative in order to build a baseline for Netbox deployment

Quincy, Us

- Manage remote and distributed network and optical transport engineering teams across the Breezeline footprint.- Manage colocation and transport (dark fiber, lit wave) circuit vendor relationships. - Implemented ticketing system (Jira) to allow individual contributors better time management and create appropriate KPI's for better reporting to senior leadership.- Plan network group budget in conjunction with expansion plans, growth areas and to support other internal verticals. - Manage and assess the utilization of colocation space and power resources to identify potential areas for expansion or new opportunities, resulting in savings of approximately $110,000 per month in OpEx.- Reduced support agreement OpEx by approximately $1.5m over three years. - Work with senior network and transport engineers and architect to determine near and long term capacity needs across the entire Breezeline footprint, including researching, negotiating and managing the implementation of long term fiber leases and lit wave circuits with third party vendors.- Work with critical facilities team and vendors to determine project priorities and timing.- Work with human resources and third parties to develop a training program and career progression path for Network and Optical Transport engineers- Begin implementation and data buildout of Netbox as the network automation source-of-truth and documentation control platform.- Begin development of several Netbox/Django plugins for in-house circuit ID generation, LOA (letter of authority) tracking, and personnel inventory control.- Designed automation architecture and developed proof-of-concept for use in presentation to senior leadership.- Work with engineers to review change request details including implementation and troubleshooting of MPLS, VXLAN, OSPF, BGP and other standard standard network protocols primarily using Junos and IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS based devices.- +43 eNPS amongst direct reports.

Quincy, Us

- Worked with individual contributors and other internal teams to develop continuity process documentation.- Worked with network operations and critical facilities group to develop disaster recovery policies and procedures.- Worked with senior routing engineers to develop a peering policy to grow direct peering traffic from approximately 60% to over 75% is less than a year.- Worked with internal senior engineering teams and architects to determine next generation routing and switch platforms and architectures- Initiated collaborative learning environment to foster knowledge transfer and allow junior engineer growth- Facilitated training and collaboration between third party vendors and internal teams to increase revenue opportunities

Quincy, Us

• Maintain and manage conditional access systems, including Arris DAC6000 and CASMR and associated servers. • Responsible for the delivery of high quality off-air, satellite, microwave, and digital transport programming up to the outside plant utilizing a variety of optical and electrical interfaces including but not limited to coaxial cable, microwave, fiber optic transmission, and CAT6. This includes the installation, construction, operation and break-fix remediation, with root cause analysis of all equipment associated with the headend• Design and implement various, large-scale IGMPv3 video distribution networks across long haul optical networks via Cisco and Arris technologies.• Transact headend inspections; Ensure all cabling, equipment installation, power and cooling is in compliance with corporate standards. Implement approved methods of procedure.• Troubleshoot communication architectures, topologies, hardware, software, transmission and signaling links and protocols.• Setup and operate legacy headend equipment including but not limited to signal processors, modulators, demodulators, IRD's and IRT's• Responsible to analog and digital channel level measurement and quality testing along with periodically testing of equipment and quality of signal throughout the network.• Install, maintain, and perform testing and required documentation of emergency alert systems.• Implement and properly document with guidance all required internal engineering and FCC mandated PoP testing.• Maintain required logs, records and other documentation in compliance with company and FCC (Federal Communications Commission) technical requirements.• Support and maintain protocol compatibility standards, develops and implements network enhancements.

Quincy, Us

Work closely with field techs and customer service in determining and repairing the source of signal impairments.Install and align multi-feed satellite dishes. Including fine tuning of feed horns and replacement of LNBs.Install, replace, and align various types of off-air antennas for VHF and UHF television and radio reception.Maintain, adjust and document video carrier levels, audio video ratio, depth of modulation, audio deviation.Utilize test equipment for variety of measurements including: satellite alignment, RF levels, signal to noise, carrier to noise, low frequency disturbances, depth of modulation and audio deviation. Perform proactive and reactive monitoring of all the fundamental tasks required in the testing and analysis of all elements of the network equipment and facilities.Setup and operation of headend equipment including but not limited to: signal processors, modulators, demodulators, satellite receivers, integrated receiver descramblers, digital receivers, transcoders, combining and splitting networks, laser transmitters, fiber optic receivers.Setup and operation of cable modem termination systems, cable modems, and basic networking equipment. Work with network engineers to facilitate proper operation, maintenance, and restoration of high speed data network.Test and maintain facility enviromentals, backup powering systems- including generators, uninterruptible power supplies, and temporary feeds.

Warren, Pennsylvania, Us

Consult for small business and non-profits with their technology needs to give them experience and knowledge of a large organization for limited or no cost.

Englewood, Co, Us

• Provide factory and field level, vendor technical representation for network and wireless/satellite system deployments to US military units, assuring systems passed stringent government acceptance testing with no failures.• Assist government representatives in testing functionality of Cisco enterprise-grade network equipment and creating configuration templates to include with each system deployed to allow fast and easy routing and switching set up for the end customer, including IPsec, EIGRP, BGP, DMVPN, multiplexed voice and data, as well as packetized voice traffic, over NIPR (non-secure) and SIPR (secure) government networks.• Install and test wireless/satellite modems (including iDirect, Linkway and EBEM modulation schemes), assuring they met government and manufacturer specifications for deployment to various US military organizations.• Document, analyze and troubleshoot system and individual equipment anomalies for vendor and manufacturer records.• Verify that individual components of wireless/satellite systems, being deployed meet government, vendor and manufacturer specifications, including Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) modems, antenna control units, high power (HPA), solid state power (SSPA), traveling-wave tube (TWTA) and low noise amplifiers (LNA), block down/up-converters (BDC, BUC), power drive units (PDU) and frequency stabilization references (10 MHz references).• Verify that individual baseband components of network and wireless/satellite systems meet government, vendor and manufacturer specifications, including fiber-optic to serial modems and converters, fiber-optic to Ethernet modems and converters, and Cisco routing and switching equipment.

Global, Us

• Provide on-site subject matter expert (SME) support for SWAN (Support Wide Area Network) and VSAT-L (Very Small Aperture Terminal – Large variant) satellite and network systems, WPPL (Wireless Point-to-Point/Multi-point Link) line-of-sight WLAN (wireless local area network)/WAN (wide area network) extension system, as well as Solaris server applications. Including over 450 on site visits, requiring SME support to troubleshoot and diagnose system issues.• Analyze and provide network optimization and management techniques to military-grade networks using various test equipment, including Rohde & Schwarz, HP and Agilent spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, Fluke multi-meters and cable testers, and FIREBERD 6000/8000 traffic analyzers.• Provide operational and maintenance support for WPPL IPv4 network applications using Redline AN50e and AN80i wireless modems, including various 802.11 standards and OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) antennas.• Develop and provide documentation of system specifications, installation procedures, backup and recovery, and test methods for SWAN, VSAT-L, and WPPL systems.• Provide configuration and troubleshooting for large scale, IPv4 network configuration using IPsec, EIGRP, BGP, DMVPN, multiplexed voice and data, as well as packetized voice traffic, over NIPR (non-secure) and SIPR (secure) government networks.• Provide pre-deployment testing, troubleshooting and maintenance support to 64 satellite and network systems to allow for an over 93% success rate on missions.• Provide classroom and field training to approximately 110 Marines with varying degree of technical knowledge on various satellite and network systems.• Assist III MEF Systems, Planning and Engineering (SPE) section in planning, designing, configuring and optimizing large-scale, military-grade IP network and transmissions architecture using Microsoft Visio and Systems Planning Engineering and Evaluation Device (SPEED) link analysis software.

Provide in the field vendor representation for customer concerns, satellite, wireless and network equipment testing using various test equipment to provide appropriate technical solutions.Provide vendor and customer ordered satellite, and network training to varying levels of technical audiences.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Design, configure and troubleshoot large scale, military-grade IP networks, including Windows laptops, Cisco routing and switching devices, SonicWall firewalls, bulk and line encryption and Cisco Call Manager.• Design, configure and troubleshoot military-grade transmissions and multiplexing systems, including Promina 400/800 and FCC-100 multiplexers, and various satellite and line-of-sight, terrestrial transmissions systems, including SWAN, WPPL, AN/MRC-142, AN/GRC-239 (TSSR), and TRC-170.• Design, configure and troubleshoot large scale, military grade voice solutions, including REDCOM PBX/VoIP solutions, and Cisco Call Manager.• Performed link analysis and optimization using SPEED and FIREBERD 6000/8000 link analyzers.• Operate and troubleshoot military radio links using PRC-119, PRC-117 and PSC-150 radios.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Operate, maintain and troubleshoot military grade transmission networks including SWAN-B v2, AN/MRC-142, AN/GRC-239(TSSR), and Global Broadcast Service(GBS) using multiplexing equipment FCC-100 and Promina 400/800.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Operate, maintain and troubleshoot military grade multi channel and single channel transmission equipment including: AN/GRC-239(TSSR), AN/MRC-142,138,148 and 145, AN/TRC-170, AN/PRC-119,117,150,104,152, AN/PSC-105, INMARSAT, and BGAN.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration

Diploma, Single Channel And Digital Wideband Transmissions