Consultant and Developer. Numerous small scale projects consisting either of providing subject matter expertise, or Web Development.

• Provided product written assessments and analysis of suitability of client products to Cable and Broadband business domain.
• Designed and delivered a tutorial and overview of Cable and Broadband business and architecture for a company considering investment in Cable and Broadband.
• Delivered data driven Web 2.0 based web sites based upon Java, Web Services (WSDL/WSIT), Struts, JSP, JSF, XHTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, MySQL, and iBATIS on Tomcat or Glassfish.

Consultant / Manager of EMEA Sales Engineering. Sigma is a systems and service OSS platform for managing provisioning tasks and integrating billing systems with service provisioning platforms. As the sole technical representative in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), I was responsible for engaging European cable operators in a technical sales role.

• Customer visits. Technical representation, sales support, preliminary analysis.
• Executive recommendations and feedback regarding Sigma's systems and positioning.
• Initial IPTV kickoff proposal and justification.
• EMEA tradeshow representation. Setup, demos, and customer engagement.

Senior Director of Software Systems, Advanced Engineering. As a member of Advanced Engineering I was responsible for defining and deploying new interactive services and features on the Time Warner Platform. I played a key role in rolling out VOD, and other interactive applications. This included the definition and maintenance of the overall system software architecture, as well as driving vendors to implementation of specified features and enhancements. Systems included: the BMS (Business Management System), AMS (Asset and Content Management Systems), VOD/Video Server, Client Application Server (including STB resident client applications), Conditional Access Systems (SA DNCS, and GI/Motorola DAC), Network Management and Operations Systems. Interfaces and protocols included: ISA, SSP, LSCP, CBI, MSA, ADI, and BOSS/BAS among others.

• Coordinated, authored, and drove vendor implementation of multiple versions of the specifications listed.
• Managed and coordinated multiple vendors in implementing complex systems on time and to specification.
• Justified and managed a multi-million dollar annual budget for vendor development of features/enhancements.
• Primary representation of Time Warner for next generation architecture at CableLabs and NGNA.
• Worked collaboratively/effectively with operators including: Brighthouse, Comcast, Cox, Charter, and Rogers.
• Actively contributed to OCAP and CableCard strategy, architecture, and specification.
• Collaborated with Roadrunner staff regarding next gen DOCSIS provisioning and OSS architecture selection.
• Liaison to IT organization for coordinating interdepartmental implementation activities.
• Received two patents.

Independent Consultant to CableLabs. Working closely with major cable operators and vendors, CableLabs defines and promotes industry standards, and certifies compliance. Working with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, and other MSO’s, I was responsible for driving industry consensus in the development of a back office interfaces. The result of this effort was a consensus requirements document and prototype web services API.

• Performed initial feasibility analysis, including operator consensus and coordination.
• Drove requirements process resulting in an agreed to requirements specification.
• Designed and authored initial web-services API specification.

Director, Systems Analysis, ExciteAtHome was the worlds largest Broadband Internet Service Provider. The Systems Analysis team works closely with constituent users including MSO’s, vendors, and in-house customers, as well as the @Home development community defining features, capabilities, and architecture.

• Designed, and authored platform and interfaces for retailer integration.
• Designed and authored architecture and extensions to support set-top provisioning.
• Designed and authored Billing System interface to enable self-provisioning and set-top provisioning.
• Product definition of operational tools, including CSR tools and network diagnostics.
• Represented ExciteAtHome at CableLabs B2B initiative.

Group Program Manager, WebTV, a subsidiary of Microsoft, provides World Wide Web and email access to subscribers using television. In entering the Cable TV arena, integration, consolidation, and extension of services offered by WebTV with those of CATV platform providers was necessary to supply the subscriber a compelling service.

• Designed and specified COM based extensions to WebTV extensions for CATV.
• Made presentations to Multiple Systems Operators and potential partners.

Lead Systems Engineer. Americast was a partnership which included Walt Disney, Bell South, Ameritech, Southern Bell Corporation, and Southern New England Telephone Company delivering Near Video On Demand over MMDS and HFC broadband architectures. Responsibilities included developing a data model for Walt Disney’s unique program guide. Also responsible for vendor management in multi-platform multi-vendor target environment. Vendors included: Zenith, Nagra, Divicom, Lysis, Scientific Atlanta, IMake, CSG, CableData, and others.

• Designed and specified data model and systems for unique DVB compliant guide data.
• Authored billing and control interface for managing subscribers and services.
• Drove MSO's to an agreed upon requirements specification.

Independent Consultant to Teledyne Electronics and Zenith Electronics. Consulting to Zenith I developed several specifications for systems which were ultimately developed and deployed. Consulting to Teledyne I provided guidance for applying their secure scrambling technology in a consumer oriented market. I was primarily responsible for the design of their conditional access system.

• Wrote specifications and white papers for conditional access and control software.
• Standards body representation.

Software Group Leader. From software engineer to group leader for diverse projects in cable television control systems and related technologies. Projects ranged from developing upstream and downstream transaction processing control systems modules to managing the software development of Zenith’s digital solutions.

• Zenith Representative to DAVIC and CEMA.
• Developed and deployed software for spooling guide application and data to set-tops.
• Developed upstream impulse purchase transaction processing software.
• Developed downstream control and conditional access transmission software.
• Three patents received.

Southern Illinois University, BS in Computer Science

Southern Illinois University, AS in Electronics Technology