Ebe-kyi Kofi

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results- driving, experience in Technology Transformations, R&D Roadmaps, Trends, business leadership and Managerial experience acquired through roles in Solution Architecture Development, Delivering Solutions across Multi-Service Platform Architecture, Collaborations across teams, Micro Services Architecture, Strategic Marketing support. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Big Data as Service Architecture Solutions (BDaaS)

- Transformation to Hybrid Infrastructure, Cloud, Big Data, Mobility, Infrastructure, IoT, Industrial IoT, Security, 4G/5G, SD-WAN.

Network Design Innovations, Technology Strategy Definitions, BI & Analytics, Deployments, Integrations, Cost Reduction, Multi-Service Network Architecture, Context Aware Networking, Mission Critical Network. (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), ISO, ITIL and best practices.

Proficient in use of Micro-Service architecture, Agile/Scrum Methodologies, DevOps, GitHub, SLA, SOA, Technology Strategy Definitions, Product Developments and Delivery, Tactical marketing, Lead PoCs, Budget,Labs, QoS, Cost Analysis, R&D, Data Centers, Hardware/Software’s

Technology Trends and Predictions, Cloud Security, Cost Optimization, Enterprise Collaboration Solutions Deployments, Cloud, Hybrid, Cisco WebEx, Cisco Spark, OSS MDM, High Availability, Capacity planning, Oracle RDMS, MS SQL, Apache HDFS,

Experience in Architecture Automations, ETL, SDLC, Container based solutions orchestration with Docker SWARM, Kubernetes, Docker datacenter components, Unified Management Systems, Hyper Convergence,

Involved in business discussions leading to Technology Design, Vendor Relationship, deploying strategies, Strategic techniques & tools, Service Assurance engineering, Test management of enterprise systems and applications both in pre and post production scenarios Environment

C/C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Python, Unix,Ruby,BASH, XML, XSLT, XSD, HTML5, .NET Framework, Solr

Tableau Enterprise, SFDC WAVE, Jasper soft, MicroStrategy BI, QuickSight, Qlik, TIBCO Spotfire Analytics, Business Works.

Puppet Server, PuppetDB, MCollective, Authentication, OpenLDAP, Kickstart & Update- YUM, DNS, DHCP, TFTP

Hadoop, MongoDB, HBase, Spark, HIVE, PIG, MapReduce, ZooKeeper, Kafka, Lamda, SQL, NoSQL, Redshift, Node.js, CouchDB,

Spring boot, Cloud foundry, Docker, Apache Camel, Server OS, Microsoft Window Server, Linux Enterprise, SSL, TLS, Firewalls,

JBoss Middleware, Automation Scripting,

Core Expertise

3gpp Specs, 5G, 2G/3G/4G/LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi, HetNet, DAS, WiMax, Small Cell, Antennas, Amplifiers, Spectrum, 802.11, Access Control. DDoS, IDS/IPS, (HD) videos, Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications (uRLLC).

IoT, M2M, ADAS, OEMs, R&D, V2V, V2I, DSRC, SDK, V2X System design and implementation, PKI Security models, on-board vehicle units, Roadside Units, Back-end integration, Telemetry and Monitoring .

SDN/NFV, OpenStack, Pack-Stack, ODL, OpenSSL, Solr, Service Assurance, EMS, VNF, PNF, Orchestrator

OpenDaylight, YANG Tools, NETCONF, Open v-Switch Database (OVSDB) Integration, Open VirteX, Route Flow OSPF, BGP, RIP, PIM, IGMP, OLSR, SDN Data Center,

Hypervisors, VMware, KVM,, ESXi, QEMU, v-Sphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Citrix Xen Server, Linux Containers Infrastructure, GitHub, Docker, OVM Server for x86, XenApp, XenMobile, Thin Client (Citrix), connection broker

Configuration NETCONF, OpenFlow, BGP, SNMP, Overlay Tunnels, Neutron, AAA, OVSDB, PCEP, SXP, Service Abstraction Layer, VxLAN, TRILL, LIST, STT, NVO3, L2VPN, L3VPN, Resources Memory, Storage, CPU, Network, AngularJS.

Big Data, Data Warehousing, High Availability, Data Integration, Virtual Data Center Infrastructure, Hypervisor, VMware DSR, Consolidated Backups, ESX Server, VMFS, SMP, Fiber/ISCSI/NAS Storage Array, SAN FC, KVM, OVM, Xen, VMware; v-Realize, v-Center, v-Sphere, v- Switch, HA, VMware Motion, Oracle RDMS, MS SQL, Apache HDFS, MapReduce, VI API, Virtual Infrastructure and SDK.

Data Migration, Planning, RabbitMQ, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DB2, RDMS, Identity Management Architect – (IAM, OAM, OIM)

Cloud Computing, Private/Public, Azure, Hybrid Cloud solutions utilizing VMware, AWS, PCF, Cloud Solutions on AWS utilizing EC2, S3, IAM, ECS, RDS, System Integrity Management Platform, (SIMP)

Protocols and Standards, MPLS, IGMP, RTMP, HTTP,DMVPN, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, GMPLS, TCP/IP, IPSEC, HSRP, QoS, GRE, VRF-Lite, L2VPN, L3VPN, DSR, DSA, SD-WAN, Hybrid WAN, Sonet, SDH, DWDM, .

Cyber Security, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Cloud Azure, Big Data, Data warehouse design on Private/Public cloud Platform, Azure, AWS cloud platform, Data modeling, PolyBase SQL Server, Multi-Tenancy,

Systems OTT/IPTV, CDN, Web Content Management, Video streaming (H264, MP4, WEBM, HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming, Search engines (solr / lucene), SNS, CloudSearch, Elastic Transcoder, Appstream, WorkMail, MPEG-DASH, DRM, Play Ready, HTTP, RTMP, Elastic Transcoders, AWS Kinesis lambda, EC2, AWS Redshift

CDN, CMS, Metadata API, OTT/IPTV, DOCSIS, CMTS, Video domain (IPTV/OTT/Mobile TV/Digital Cable TV/Multi screen).

Pure Play Video, OTT, Micro services Architecture, Pay TV, TV Everywhere, LTE Broadcast, Live Content Enrichment, Ingest/Encode, Metadata Management, Supper Head End, VHO, Cable/MSO,DAC, DNCS, Home Network. DynamoDB, CloudSearch S3, Solr, Lamda,

Digital Video Broadcast specifications, transport of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, AVCHD, H.265, MP3, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Live Media Broadcast (LMB), Content on demand (CoD). AAC, Advertising, Games/Music, Linear, Time-shifted, STB, IP-STB

OSS/BSS, Service Assurance, EMS, SDN Controllers, IMS,VNF Management, Segment Routing, SGi-LAN architecture, Charging, EPC, End to End Orchestrators, Data Plan Forwarding, RESTful API, XMPP, SMTP Client, TCP/IP, FE,CE Manager, SIP

Policy Control and Charging (PCRF), Diameter Signaling (DSC), DSR, Evolved Packet Core (EPC), AWS, AZURE OTT implementation, AWS Cloud Front, Dynamic Content Delivery, Cache Behavior, Device Detection, TR069, Geo Targeting, http cookies, TLS, AWS S3, third party ecosystem solutions

SD-WAN, Storage Switches, Load Balancing, Clusters, Migrations, HA shared Storage, Backups, WAN Optimizations, Cloud Gateway, SSD Array, and Storage Caching, x 86 Platforms, SBC, and Application Servers.

Infrastructure, Orchestrator, REST API, SOAP, Compute, Storage, Network, Cloud Object Storage, Open Media Distribution, Virtual DCM, Bandwidth Optimization, Encoding, Packaging, V2P Media Distribution, Video Headend, Live, TV VOD,

SIMP Framework, Management- Puppet Server, PuppetDB, MCollective, Authentication, OpenLDAP, Kickstart & Update- YUM, DNS, DHCP, TFTP

SON, Diameter Signaling Control, DNS, Policy Control & Charging,, Security, Service Enabler Domains, APN, SIM Management, Ericsson Catalog Manager, SCM, Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services ec2, AWS, Lambda Professional Experience

Senior solution architect

Motorola Solutions SUNNYVALE CA 95085 September 2009 Present

- Involved in business discussions leading to Technology Design, Vendor Relationship, deploying strategies, Strategic techniques & tools, Service Assurance engineering, EMS, Business Intelligence System, Test measurement systems, Applications both in pre and post production scenarios

- Solution Architect, working on Customer IP & Transport domain, Digital Transformations, SDN/NFV, EPC Network virtualization, 3GPP RAN virtualization, Solution Development, Delivery, Hardware/Software and Services. Design High level Network architecture, Documentations, Defines, Clarifies Customer Requirements and scope of delivery in consultation with project stakeholders.

- Leads a technical team responsible for Customer Data migration, Enterprise Data to the cloud, Private/Public cloud, (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, )

- Build a converged Network Using IMS, SDN/NFV. Designing integrated multi-component solutions via SDKs, REST APIs, using cloud management portals Automation, OpenStack, AWS, Azure while slowly easing out Customer Circuit switch, Multi-Screen SDK, Portals.

- Lead a team of Software Engineers,tasked for Design Architecture, Implementation of Firmware running on embedded Platforms, (M2M, Smart home, Energy, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT, 5G, ) Enterprise Connect, Mobility, Management strategies, Unified Communication and Collaboration, Management and Security. SIP/SIP Trunk, Communication API, Video and Big Data Architecture.

- SME for Customer Video Architecture Design, Deploying, Integrating, Testing, and Supporting Customer CDN IPTV, VoIP projects, Network over 800 servers Utilizing JBOSS, Oracle Databases, Vanish HTTP Caching Active MQ messages, Adrenaline VOD streaming, Centralized VOD, Contour Second screen services, TV Connect IPad application, IVR.

- Providing Technical Guidance, Mentoring Architecting, New Product Development, Architecture, Analytics, Project Evaluations, Support Multiple Projects,E2E IPTV network architecture, video service flows across the network, IMS, EPC, Circuit switch, Handling over 800+ channel setup

(IPTV and OTT) VSAT and Networking.

- Web 2.0 multi-side business model architectures including API exposure to Mobile Apps, Testing of Streaming platform designed to delivery live paid sport events to wide Internet-based audience (adaptive bitrate, up to HD quality) IPAD, Cellphones, PCs, MP3 players, TVs, Gaming consoles Principal Technical Architect

AT&T Atlanta GA 30342 05/17/2003 - 05/09 2009

Part of a team consists of product development, architecture, and testing resources across AT&T on the mobility side.

Participated in New Product Designing, Research, End to End Testing, Integrating and Configuration of all new products into ATT national Network

Served as SME for Ericsson circuit and packet switch platforms (MSC, HLR, SGSN, BSC, BTS), SS7 signaling platforms (Eagle STP/GFlex EPAP)

Act as Subject Matter Expect for Network Equipment installations, Commissioning, troubleshooting, upgrading, Integration, Certifications

Participate in Wireless device requirements, Network platforms, Quality of Service – Network Performance Analysis (KPIs), Multi-vendor interoperability Test and Acceptance.

Served in various capacities, new product development, Product Trials, Platforms, Handset certifications, Infrastructure and Network operations

Supported an Advanced Troubleshooting., Vendor coordination, Network Planning, Next Generation Value added products, Voice and Data network - 2G/3G Network Migrations

Performed complex Engineering, Analytical, Support New Products, Implementing E911, Number portability, CALEA, MSC, BSC, HLR, SGSN, BTS, STP, Pre-paid, Voice mail platform.

Interfaced with equipment vendors for Interoperable UE Handover Test, Handover parameters, Engineering Documentations, MOPS

Designing, Installing, commissioning BSC, BTS, HSDPA/HSUPA/HSOPA, WCDMA, UMTS, Packet Core and Voice Core, UMTS, UTRAN, NODE-B, RNC, SGSN/FLEXI-ISN/GGSN.

Provides high level technical support for Nortel, Ericsson, Nokia and Lucent BSC, MSC, GMSC, SGSN, GGSN, Circuit, Packet switches, SGSN, CAMEL.

Designing, Provisioning, Implementation of ATM switching technologies, media gateway platforms, voice aggregation protocols (GR303, SIP, MGCP, H.248), VoATM, VoIP, and SS7.

RF ENGINEER AT&T

- Responsibilities include Radio Frequency Analysis, Design, Implementation, Network Optimization and Enhancement of the Wireless telecommunication Networks. Optimizing spectrum and network utilization at the antenna edge, traffic spikes, Site walks, Drive Test, Design Parameters, KPI and development of Design Plan. Oversee, Guided and provide training to Associate, Design Engineers, and Project Managers for day to day activities.

Director of System Engineering

NORTEL NETWORKS Research Triangle Park NC 27709 June 1993 - October 2003

Led System Design Team/ Labs, Analyze Designs, RFP/RFI processing, Strategic/Operations planning, Staffing, relationship building, Systems development life cycles, Project management and budget creation. Responsible for Risk assessments, Security, Software Innovations and Software Development.

Technical project lead for Customer Solution Architects, Software development, Network Integration, Hardware and Software Installations, Documentations, Site architecture management, Data Analysis, Network KPI, budget and Presentation of status to stake holders.

Senior member of the R&D Engineering Team – tasked for Network integration, Field support, new product introduction and presentation Tools

Object C (IOS), Linux, Java (Android SDK),Unix, Java scripts, Python, Ruby, JSON, Perl, HLS, XML, PHP, OOP, IOS Apps, Android, MacOS, GitHub

HTML5, CSS, VCS- GitHub. SQL Server, MS SQL, Database query languages, RDBMS, T-SQL, XMP, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, Angular, LAMP Stack,

CSS3, XML, Node.JS, System Kernel, PowerShell/Bash, ASP.NET MVC, Apache Camel

Cloud Management Portal, CMS – VM, Storage, (Drupal, AEM), Oracle, SAS, SAP, Tivoli, WebRTC, MySQL Database, JBOS, WebSphere, Web Servers, BEA Web- Logic, Oracle install and Architecture ASCP,

Apache Hadoop/Spark, NoSQL technologies, Big Data Hadoop, Active Directory, ISS, Streaming Media,

ITIL, E-TOM, NGOSS,TMF, Scrum, Analytics, SSRS, Tableau Scripting BASH, KSH, PowerShell, SKILLS

- Embedded Systems/Software,

Embedded Linux

- Microcontrollers, ZigBee, Bluetooth

- Firmware, Mobile Devices

- Hardware, REST, Testing

- System Architecture

- Software Design

- Test Driven Development

- IoT

- Technical Writing

- Open Source

- 6LoWPAN

- 802.15.4

- CoAP

- LWM2M

- MQTT

- Cloud Computing

- 4G, 5G, LTE, LTU-U

- Smart Home, Spectrum

EDUCATION

- MS. Information Systems, North Carolina state 2005

- MS Mathematics, KNUST University of Science and Technology 1983-1985

- BS Mathematics/ Electronic Engineering, KNUST University of Science and Technology 1980-1983 CERTIFICATIONS

- CCNA, CCNP, CCVP, CITRIX, iBwave Level III, DAS OEM, WLAN, People Soft, NetApp Certified Data Admin, NCDE

- Cloud Architect, Big Data, Security (EMC), Hadoop, Apache Spark, Elastic search, Scripting - Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, BASH Programming,

- LTE Architecture Design & Implementation. RF Engineering, RF Propagation, RF Safety, SGSN Pooling, GGSN, RNC –Iu, Advanced LTE, DOCSISv2.0/v3.0, VOD, STB’s, Content –Broadcastings, WiMAX, UMTS

- Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop, Oracle/ Tekelec Training – DSR, DRA, Eagle STP, PIC, LSMS, SS7, SGx,

- Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (Villanova University)

- Strategic Organizational Leadership - Villanova University

Information System Security, ITIL, TOGAF

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