ENGINEER

JOHN H. HOBSON, Ph.D.

** ****** *****

Medford Lakes, NJ 08055-1122

Phone: 609-***-****

Cell: 609-***-****

abo4bc@r.postjobfree.com

SYSTEMS ENGINEER, PH.D. IT & TELEPHONY COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE CUSTOMER APPLICATIONS ANALYSIS PROBLEM SOLVING

Position Statement – A senior systems engineer in the Telecom and IT Communications industry. Known for the ability to solve or innovate customer solutions. Works best in a multiple project environment that includes communication across disciplines.

Script Programming: TCL/TK, IncrTCL/IncrTK, TCLBlend, TDOM, COMBAT and PERL

Testing Applications: Quick Test Pro and Quality Center

General Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, and HTML

Lab Instrument Control: HP-VEE, Labview, and GPIB

OS/Environments: Solaris, Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/XP and Server 2003, and HP-UX

Application Programming: C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, and Assembly

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Authored a set of documents and operation procedures for deploying and maintaining Linux and Widows servers. Prior to this the information needed was either fragmented or non-existent.

Staged, tested, and deployed a new Linux High Availability Database Server architecture using the DRBD, Heartbeat, and MONIT services. Availability of the database to other non-co-located systems was greatly increased.

Developed and implemented procedures to automate testing for TL1 and SNMP that reduced testing time of telecom equipment 50% and directly reported test result to a centralized database.

Increased by 10-fold, the usability of a TCL/TK-based Common Object Request Broker Architecture test environment by designing and implementing a graphical users interface.

Developed and implemented procedures to automate CPE testing; reducing testing time 40%.

Edited Technical References for AT&T private line SONET Services OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 allowing AT&T to offer these services in a timely manner.

Authored the high level system requirements for SONET provisioning and maintenance systems for AT&T Local Service, a major component of AT&T’s reentry into local service.

Increased dense optical traffic signals by at least 20-fold, which produced a positive publicity event for AT&T.

WORK HISTORY

Live Cargo, Inc. New Jersey 2008-2009

Lead Engineer, System Quality Assurance and Technical Support

Sycamore Networks, Inc. New Jersey 2005-2007

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

AT&T, New Jersey

Senior Technical Specialist 1996-2004

Senior Technical Staff Member 1986-1996

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

B.S., Engineering, Widener College, Chester, PA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Communication Society and Computer/Software Society

Toastmasters International

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