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Professional Resume of Steven C. Johnson
Charlotte, North Carolina 28277
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WORK EXPERIENCE
2007 -- Johnson Telecom, LLC Charlotte, NC
Title: President -- Owner/Consultant
Support cable television operators, equipment vendors, and associations on a variety of technical issues.
Represent Comcast on Technical Standards groups at ATSC TSG, CEA Video group, and SCTE DVS.
Chair SCTE DVS WG-3, Network Architecture and Management. Serve as chair of SCTE EAS
subcommittee; member and past chair of the SCTE Engineering Committee. Quarterly columnist on
regulatory issues for Broadband Library magazine. Represent the cable industry on Panel 16 of the
National Electrical Code on behalf of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Advisor
to and representative of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association to the Federal
Communications Commission on Emergency Alert Systems.
1984 - 2007 Time Warner Cable Charlotte, North Carolina and Denver, Colorado
2002 - 2007 Title: Senior Director Technical Standards, Advanced Technology Group
Supported Time Warner Cable in FCC Compliance and Technical Standards activities. Supervised
Signal Leakage and FCC licensing programs. Represented Time Warner Cable in Technical Standards
committees of SCTE, CEA, ATSC, and Cable Labs.
1997 - 2002 Title: Director, Engineering & Technology
Member of the FCC s Technical Advisory Committee on Emergency Alert Systems. Oversaw the
operation of Time Warner Cable s National Training Center (NTC). The NTC had a staff of 14 and
included 9 Regional Training Managers located throughout the country. Oversaw the patent program
with outside attorneys. Additionally, was responsible for the Senior Project Engineer duties listed
below.
1984 - 1997 Title: Senior Project Engineer
Technical resource for Time Warner Cable Divisions and Corporate. Acted as Time Warner Cable s
representative on technical standards in the areas of National Electrical Code, Emergency Alert Systems,
Signal Leakage, etc. Consulted with Time Warner Telecommunications and outside vendors on
interfacing PCS/wireless telephony to fiber nodes in Time Warner's Full Service Network in Orlando.
Organized and administered corporate signal leakage program. Worked with cable TV systems to
ensure compliance to FCC and FAA requirements. Department head of the Denver Engineering group
during 1989. Performed due diligence and evaluations on foreign (Bulgaria, Czech, Slovakia, and
Poland) and domestic acquisitions. Microwave consulting in Fukuoka, Japan. Represented TWC in
various Engineering industry committees including NCTA, SCTE-EAS, SCTE-Engineering. Member of
the Joint Engineering Committee between the National Cable Television Association and the Consumer
Electronics Association. Member of the joint committee between the National Cable Television
Association and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors reporting to the
Federal Communications Commission on proposed technical standards for cable television.
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1983 - 1984 Johnson Consulting - Elizabeth, Colorado and West Palm Beach, Florida
Title: Owner/Operator
Provided technical assistance to cable TV companies throughout the United States. Performed FCC
Proof-of-Performance testing and wrote technical franchise proposals. Testified at franchise hearings in
Puerto Rico.
1981 - 1983 Cotten and Associates, Inc. - Denver, Colorado
Title: Consulting Engineer
Completed microwave field engineering reports, coordinated cable TV construction projects, and
performed technical evaluations of CATV systems.
1977 -1981 United Cable Television Corporation - Denver, Colorado and Tulsa, Oklahoma
1979 - 1981 Title: Eastern Regional Plant Supervisor
Responsible for technical quality of 20 cable television systems in 6 states.
Oversaw upgrades and channel additions on previously 12 channel systems.
1977 - 1979 Title: Project Engineer
and Designed and constructed headends and earth stations for cable systems.
1974 - 1975 Served as a technical troubleshooter for company cable systems.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Science - Electronics Engineering Technology - Oklahoma State University
Broadband Communications Engineer and Broadband Premise Specialist Certifications- SCTE
Broadcast Engineer Certification / TV - SBE
FCC General Radiotelephone License
MEMBERSHIPS Consumer Electronics Association Video Standards, R4, R4.3, R4.8
Advanced Television Systems Committee Technical Standards Group
National Electrical Code Panel 16
Society of Cable Television Engineers - 15,000 members
Chairman of the Board 1997-1998
Eastern Vice Chairman 2006-2008
Region 2 Director representing AZ, NM, CO, UT, WY 1995 -1999
Region 10 Director representing NC, VA, WV, DC, KY 2004 - 2008
President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter 1987
President of the Piedmont Chapter 2005 2007
Engineering Committee member and past Chairman
Emergency Alert Systems subcommittee Chairman
Digital Video Standards subcommittee member and WG3 Chairman Network Architecture
and Management
Senior Member since 1984
TWC Representative on the NCTA Engineering Committee - 1991-2008
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ARTICLES Regular contributor to Broadband Library magazine
PUBLISHED
NEC Review and Preview Communications Technology October 2008
Powering:NEC Implications for Network Powered Broadband Communications Systems - 1996
NCTA Technical Papers - co-authored with Oleh Sniezko, TCI
Techno-Regulatory Confusion: Why Regulating Cable Systems With PTSN Rules Does Not
Make Sense - 1996 NCTA Technical Papers - co-authored with Jay Vaughan, Time Warner
Time Warner's PCS Experiment in Orlando" - Communications Technology December 1994
"Aural Carrier Center Frequency Measurement" - CED June 1994
"Locating Signal Leakage" - CED October 1989
"Monitoring & Locating Signal Leakage" - Communications Technology -August 1988
Various presentations including technical topics to non-technical audiences
HOBBIES Advanced Class Amateur Radio -- N0AYE
Bicycling
Travel
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