Ralph Minter

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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

•Deployed Cisco Digital Media Manager application to help manage, program, and distribute digital media to displays and through proprietary and other IP networks to servers/desktops in multi-site locations.

•Created formal technical documentation for systems and equipment installation, configuration, operation and maintenance.

•Designed and managed multi-site electronic security and voice/data (Telecom) systems and networks.

•Principal engineer with over 16 years of systems, product and project engineering/management experience.

•Directed multi-million-dollar projects which covered the preparation and monitoring of detailed project plans for hardware, software, electrical and production operations in multi-site and multi-task development environments.

EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

•Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and Intelligent Information Network (IIN).

•Layers 2, 3, 4 and 7 (Multi-layer) switching technologies.

•Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3560 and 2960 switches.

•LAN & WAN Architecture and Management.

•OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP, TCP, and UDP

•ACLs, QoS, CoS, Secure Shell, and Sticky port security

•Project Engineering/Management.

•VLANs, VPN, MPLS, PPP, Frame Relay, FDDI, Trunking, EtherChannel, and UTP/fiber cabling standards

EDUCATION:

•Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Graduated, Magna cum Laude

Prairie View A&M University

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS*:

•Secondary Math Teaching License

•Certified Cisco Network Associate (CCNA)

•Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers*

TRAINING & TECHNICAL SKILLS:

•Final-test & Probe hardware and software designs.

•Low Voltage Power Distribution/Management Products, and PCB layout & BOM generation.

•Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD, UNIX and C++, FrontPage & HTML.

•Technical writing & Performance Consulting.

•SAP, Business Continuity Plan & QC story for problem solving, FMEA & Controls Analysis Process.

•Fire protection, Life safety, Fiber, CCTV and RFID

•Data, Voice and Wireless Networks, ISDN, ATM, and Premise Distribution Systems & Cabling Plant.

•Standards of Business Conduct, Export Control Awareness, & Procurement Integrity.

•Ethics & Compliance Training (Global Anti-Bribery, Information Security, and Respect in the Workplace)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Garland ISD Aug 2014 – Present

Math Instructor/Head Girls’ Soccer Coach

Prepared and delivered math learning materials and project for students. Incorporated real-life classroom competitions like Stock Market Investments. Coached varsity girls’ soccer and mentored JV coaches on new soccer tactics and techniques. Scheduled and led teams to soccer tournaments and leagues.

ARINC, INC. Jan 2009 – Dec 2013

Principal Engineer

Performed complete enterprise-wide integrated security systems project engineering and management comprising the following:

Pre Contract Award: Perform Support Role to Business Development.

•Provide the following: Design Block Diagram, Generate Pricing Model, Generate BOM, Presentation to Customer during Bidding Process, and Write Specifications & Statement-of-Work for the Project:

Post Contract Award: Project Kickoff Meeting.

•Block Diagrams: Design Preliminary and Final (released after complete system delivery) Block Diagrams showing Host Server Cabinets, Video Cabinets, Network Cabinets, Main Concentrator/Mux Cabinets, Remote Concentrators, Access control junction boxes, Camera junction boxes, Main access portals, SOC, Operator consoles, Network connections and types, and System locations, Conduct weekly project milestone meeting with customer.

Cabinet Design:

•Host Server Cabinets: These cabinets show Host servers, active directory servers, client servers, terminal servers, Symmetricon Sync server, KVM Switches (Belkin, AdderView, Avocent, etc.), TriGeo SIEM, Nitro SIEM, Cisco IPS, Cisco ASA 5510, etc. Servers and workstations are loaded with Lumension, Acronis, Norton Antivirus, Domain Time II, etc.

•Video Cabinets: These cabinets show video media servers (Cisco Broadware and NICE), video display servers, video distribution amplifiers, fiber distribution panels, video/IP encoders, NICE DVRs, KVMs, Code mergers/translators, video/data transceivers, etc.

•Network Cabinets: These cabinets show Cisco 2960, 3760, 4500 & 6500 switches, N-Tron Ethernet media converters, GE/Fiber Options media converters, Transition Networks media converters and switches, POE Injectors, etc.

•Concentrator/Mux Cabinets: These cabinets show the Mercury I/O, access control and intelligent control, and serial communications multiplexer boards, Acopian and Phoenix Contact power supplies, ABB/Entrelec terminal blocks, N-Tron and Fiber Options media converters, IDS contacts, etc.

Digital Media (IPTV) Manager

•Deploy Cisco Digital Media Manager and ARINC IP-based media-management applications to help manage, program, and distribute digital media to displays (Cisco Digital Signs and Cisco Cast) and through proprietary IP networks to desktops (Cisco Show and Share).

•Use Cisco, Axis and NICE digital media encoders to provide live and event-driven (on-demand) streaming of digital media across IP networks with multiple encoding formats, inputs, and monitoring functions.

Other Designs and Functional Requirements:

•Design cabinet, junction-box, access control, video, IDS and network assembly and wiring.

•Generate assembly (and BOM) and wiring drawings (DWG and DXF) for equipment, systems and network design (using SharePoint).

•Network Design for access control, IDS and video systems.

•Console Design based on size and location of equipment and systems.

•Generate Environmental Data for cabinet, console and junction-box equipment and systems.

•Write Proposal and Statement of Work for bidding.

•Generate PR and approve PO for equipment and systems purchasing (using OnBase).

•Train Supplemental Personnel.

•Fabrication of junction boxes and consoles.

•Assembly of Cabinets.

•Staging (including floor planning, rack and cabinet placement, equipment/systems installation, cabling and burn-in, testing, etc.) of Cabinets and junction boxes, access control and video equipment/systems.

•Factory and Site Acceptance Test (covering points check, security tests and checks, systems operation and performance, cabling and wiring integrity, access control and logic operation, specifications conformance, documentation accuracy, etc.)

•Hardware and Maintenance Training.

•Packaging of equipment and systems: labeling, boxing, bubble & shrink wrapping, strapping, palletizing, etc.

•Shipment of equipment and systems (with accompanying inventory and packing lists).

Access Portal Design:

•Turnstile Logic design with modes of operation shows input and output signals used to interface between turnstiles, access control and alarm systems. 4P1T relays are used to control tandem turnstiles. There are multiple tandems for each bank of access, egress and ingress turnstiles. These relay types are further used to create logic control for lock-down, bypass and evacuation and other functions.

Control Panel design with panel functionality as below:

•Lock-Down mode utilizing arrowhead EAO “emergency stop” button locks all turnstiles in both directions and disables all pushbuttons and key switches.

•Evacuate mode utilizing Medeco High Security key switch locks all turnstiles in the forward direction, unlocks all turnstiles in the reverse direction and sends a signal that shunts the turnstiles to stop alarm generation for access and ingress turnstiles; egress turnstiles remain in normal mode.

•Lock Turnstiles mode utilizing EAO lock pushbuttons locks down selected access, egress, and ingress turnstiles.

•Open Search mode utilizing EAO momentary pushbutton unlocks selected material handling access door.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC. Aug 1997 – Nov 2003

Electronic Security Engineer/Manager

•Engineer and managed electronic security, wireless and other systems for TI/Raytheon separation project. The separation project covered north Texas sites in Dallas, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, Richardson, Sherman, and Love Field & Grayson County airports.

•Helped improve enterprise security through the application of reusable models, definitions, vendor-neutral interoperability specifications and best practice guidelines; the model helped address the convergence of electronic security, IT data/voice systems, and other corporate systems. Worked on expanding the scope of security systems to include the integration and interoperability of physical access, logical access, video surveillance and storage, identity management, and more; this convergence ensured collaborative planning on security strategies, identified and eliminated security gaps, combined security and corporate credentials, improved staff operational effectiveness, enhanced asset protection and personnel safety, reduced costs, and shared best practices and policies.

•Incorporated electronic security into the Open Security Exchange (OSE) model by installing Edge devices for access control (HID Edge, S2, I-STAR and ISONAS controllers/readers), alarm systems (IP input modules), video surveillance (IP cameras and video management systems like ONSSI, DVTel, AD, Axis, etc.), perimeter detection (motion/IR detectors and glass-break detectors), asset management and inventory control (Brady, Real Asset Management International (RAMI), etc.), and more systems to share existing IT and IP infrastructure.

•By implementing the OSE model, strategies were established to centralize security control, pursue cost synergies and integrate risk management, among other regulatory concerns. Converging electronic security, IT, HR and other corporate resource and personnel databases helped address real-time overall enterprise risk management needs. Initiated the configuration and deployment of Provisioning Systems to help meet some of the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), by using access control systems to authenticate user-entry through predetermined perimeter access points, and upon authentication affording authorization to HR, IT, security and other corporate systems; automatic account creation and revocation for other systems were initiated through HR tools.

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Product/Test Engineer/Manager

•Designed Probe and Final Test hardware and software solutions for single and multiple Power-Distribution Switches, controlled by logic-enable having compatibility with 3-V logic and 5-V logic, used for systems and applications where heavy capacitive loads and short circuits could more likely be encountered.

•Designed hardware and wrote test programs to test applications requiring power switches that prevent current from flowing from input to output and vice versa when configured as high- or low-side and disabled or enabled. Tests also validated the functionality of charge pumps that minimize current surges during switching by controlling the rise and fall times, and allowing operation from lower preset voltages.

•Tests also covered the validation of output loads exceeding a current-limit threshold or having a short present using current and thermal sense FETs, instead of conventional resistance, and making sure the output current is safe by switching into a constant-current mode by way of an overcurrent logic. The tests also validated other device specification limits such as the thermal protection circuit shutting off the switch to prevent damage when junction temperature rises due to continuous heavy overloads and short circuits increasing power dissipation in switch; the thermal sense with built-in Hysteresis turns the switch back on after the device cools down by a predetermined amount of degrees.

•Other responsibilities included IC characterization, test interface hardware design, test equipment programming, probe test & final test debug, schematic capture, statistical data analysis, qualification testing, IC bench testing and correlation to test equipment.

•Worked closely with wafer fabs and assembly plants on product and process tracking, as well as with applications, design, marketing, and quality assurance teams on project schedule, prioritization, product issues, performance enhancement, and product design change request to ensure project quality and on-time release-to-market.

Technical Curriculum Manager

•Worked with the Design/Quality/Systems/Process/Manufacturing/Product/Test Engineering community to coordinate requests from all engineering communities for equipment specific training, assess/research needs, define necessary training and set training objectives for tailored and custom training (non-equipment related topics). Provided vendor-management by reviewing new, current, and planned future offerings with suitable technical leaders and communities as appropriate; managing course content, student & supplier feedback based on class evaluations; and gauging training quality, evaluating and selecting new/alternate training.

DALLAS ISD May 1995 – Aug 1997 & Dec 2003 – Mar 2007

Mathematics Instructor

•Incorporated Montessori strategies (auditory, kinesthetic, tactile and visual learning styles) in curriculum and lesson development. Provided appropriate planned learning experiences using a variety of media and methods in order to motivate students and to best utilize available time for instruction.

•Participated in Dallas Tex Prep program at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching pre-engineering courses to students from several north Texas school districts, as well as sponsored Math Olympiad and other academic competitions.

•Supervised, mentored and coached SAT and Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) scorers. (Worked for NCS Pearson 2004 – 2006)

EXXON COMPANY, USA Oct 1991 – May 1995

IT/Telecommunications Engineer/Manager

•Implemented ISDN services within AT&T/Lucent switches for system-wide telephone caller-identification and the elimination of CO and DID voice lines and data-only leased and dedicated lines. Set up and managed VMX/Octel voice-mail systems, and LANs and WANs for Southwest Division, covering western United States from Texas to California.

•Designed and implemented documentation standards for voice systems, wireless and transmission systems, voice and data networks, premise wiring, cabling, and operations and maintenance processes. Created common platform, infrastructure and process for various applications and operation tools, and eliminated redundant work, resulting in several hundred thousand dollars per month in savings.

•Managed the design, installation, testing and maintenance of AT&T/Lucent, Nortel, Rolm, Panasonic and Toshiba telephone switches, and integrated the switches by setting up different routing tables/patterns and classes of restriction and service. Developed controls analysis processes and business continuity plans for all (wired and wireless) voice and data systems, as well as managed the integrity and standardized the quality and release control of all documentation content and user manuals for various technical documents.

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