RAY SIZEMORE

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Phone: 678-***-****

Email: adxnun@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATIONS

I am offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with over 30 years of progressive experiences that include Test Engineering, Customer Support Engineer, Lead Project Engineer, System, and Field Engineering of IPTV equipment, Design and Development of Telecommunication product lines. Experience includes Senior Design Engineer with hardware/firmware design of telecom products and desktop application software. I have been the technical lead interfacing with customers to provide technical information and video solutions. I have supported sales efforts and field trials of IPTV and telecom equipment and provided professional service support.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Experience with Averna’s DOCSIS 3.1 Jupiter 310 Design and Verification Test System

Experienced with DOCSIS 3.0, and 3.1 Cable Modems and Routers

Experienced with Access Network Equipment (1GigE, 10GigE fiber network transport, Active Eth, GPON-and BLC)

Experienced with FTTx, VoIP, VDSL, ADSL and T1 transports.

Experience includes support of Linux OS on all blade designs.

Experienced with the hardware and software design and development for video and telecommunications devices.

Microsoft Windows/Linux server experience. Knowledge of IP networking and troubleshooting procedures.

Experienced with the digital transport of video including broadcast, multicast, video on demand applications.

I understand digital video concepts, worked with Wireshark, Tsreader, Ineoquest, VLC

Experienced with video transport stream formats, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 high definition.

Experienced with equipment such as Digital Storage Oscilloscopes, Spectrum and Logic Analyzers.

I am proficient in Windows Microsoft Office Suite of products (Word, Excel, Visio, etc.)

Experienced with Windows Application Software design using Borland C/C++ and Java applications.

Experienced with embedded software development, coding, debugging, scripts.

EDUCATION

SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology

Option in Digital System Design

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

CommScope (ARRIS INC.) = Suwanee, GA (Nov 2010 – Present)

Principal Hardware Engineer

Principal Hardware Engineer for the verification of modems and video gateway product lines.

Duties include lab testing of the hardware designs.

Ability to utilize a strong working knowledge for testing and evaluating of DOCSIS Modems. Cable Gateway, and CMTS.

Strong working knowledge of standards for Product Integrity testing including ESD, Surge and Temperature related issues.

Experience with DOCSIS 3.0, 3.1 Cable Modems, Cable Gateway and C4, E6000 CMTS hardware.

Experience with Keytek ECAT and the Thermo Fisher Scientific EMC Pro Surge Equipment.

Duties have included reproducing customer field problems, and ability to provide beneficial feedback to resolve product problems, including an ability to perform review of test standards and support of test and product development.

Background include RF power measurement, traffic generator setups, Spectrum and Network analyzers.

Organized individual in providing documented test results and technical reports including setup, conditions hardware details.

OCCAM NETWORKS - Santa Barbara, CA (Dec 2009 – Nov 2010)

Customer Support Engineer II

Customer Support Engineer for Occam’s Networks transport product lines. Duties include customer support, including lab testing of customer technical issue and managing priority care customers. Supporting of BLC (Broadband Loop Carrier) systems (ADSL, VDSL, CES T1, POTS, VoIP), and FTTx systems (10GigE, 1GigE transport, Active Eth, and GPON). Provide Tier 2 technical support for each Service Provider. Travel was approx. 50%

Detailed list of duties as a Customer Support Engineer with Occam.

Provide technical assistance to all service providers in North America and Europe

Support all aspects of IP network transport of broadband data.

Provide technical support for the Linux OS to the blade level

Provide technical support for Video transport of transfer streams

Provide technical support for DHCP servers to provide IP ranges throughout the IP network.

Provide technical support for all GPON ONTs

Provide technical support for all Active Ethernet ONTs

Provide technical support of all BLC blades

Provide technical support for Occam’s EMS (Element Management System)

CONKLIN-INTRACOM - Duluth, Georgia (Dec 1987 – Apr 2009)

Lead Project Engineer / System / Field Engineer (2002 to 2009)

Senior Design Engineer (1999 to 2002)

Design Engineer (1987 to 1999)

Lead Project Engineer / System Engineer Duties… 2002 to Apr 2009

Lead Project Engineer / System / Field Engineer for IPTV systems throughout the United States and Canada. Duties included managing the projects from beginning to end. Creating the design specifications and coordinating the design efforts of the team members. Provided technical direction to each company involved. Installing and customizing each system to include features and functionality that each Service Provider required. Providing technical support and training for each Service Provider. Worked to integrate cutting edge Interactive Programming Features into the application software to display images and advertisement.

Detailed list of duties:

Meet with Customers to support sales efforts and provide technical assistance.

Lead in defining the requirements for each project assigned.

Created design specification for each system.

Coordinated the design efforts of each team member to ensure that the integrated system meets the overall requirements.

Provided technical direction to designers, engineers and 3rd party equipment manufactures.

Performed site surveys to determine the customer’s needs, capacity, network services, and transport technologies.

Created Project Plans and timelines that would fit the customer’s needs.

Purchase servers, switches, and backup equipment based upon the customer requirements

Design the system specifications

oThis would include the Network addresses

oDefine the type, hardware configuration, and OS of each server

oDefine the features to support the customer’s needs.

Configure the server hardware (DHCP, DNS, RAID configurations, and Databases) and install the Application Software for each one, test the configured system in a laboratory environment. Develop and document integration/deployment plans for the pre-launch and post-launch phase.

The systems would consist of Windows 2003, 2008, and Linux Red Hat Servers.

Dell 1950, 2950 and Sunfire X4100 hardware was used.

Manage the customer installation of the system.

oEnsure that the customer is ready for the install.

oProvide testing/training/integration of features to get the required signatures for system (initial and final) acceptance.

oDocument the customer’s system including the data transport into and out of the systems.

oConfigure the Linux Server’s DHCP file to handle the customers ranges.

oAdd necessary routes to the Windows and Linux servers, layer 2 switches and routers to provide multicast routing of digital video data.

oIntegrate 3rd party features – Configure all pieces of equipment to provide the features which was needed.

oProvide design specifications of 3rd party requirements to design engineers and integrate necessary components.

oSetup emergency broadcast system configuration.

oSetup Integrated Voice Server configuration for VoIP access.

oSetup the customers 200+ channels and integrate all features of the system out to the STBs such as Conditional Access (CAS), MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 Video, Caller ID, Weather access feature, email notification, Emergency Broadcast notifications, DVR, Billing System access and VoD.

Provide telephone, remote access and onsite support for each Service Provider post-launch.

Senior Hardware Design and Development Engineering Duties… 1987 to 2002

Meet with Marketing and define Product parameters

Create Product files

Create Product Specifications

Work with Mechanical Engineers to define space requirements

Design circuitry and supporting components

Layout PC Boards

Define BOMs

Build Prototypes

Functional Test of Prototypes

Outside lab testing of Prototypes

Create Product Test Documentation

Define Production Test Requirements

Release new Products to Production

Senior Design and Development Projects include:

Developed a hardened Span Powered Remote DSLAM product line (Fastmux Model 2004).

The development timeline was critical. I had the product ready for deployment in a matter of months.

The span powered system was designed to transport ATM data from incoming quad T1s to 24 port ADSL interfaces.

Designed the Flex Access ADSL/POTS product line. Managed a team of engineers, which consisted of three hardware and two firmware engineers. We were responsible for the development of five products as part of the overall system. The system was designed to extend ADSL and POTS services from a Central Office to rural areas of the country using G.shdsl technology.

Developed the Hytas ADSL product line. This product line was designed and manufactured / OEM to Kommunikation-Elektronik for deployment into Deutsche Telekom and other European countries.

Project management duties include developing schedules, meeting with customers, managing the engineers and working to resolve problems.

Senior Design Engineer duties - Product Specifications, PCB layout, functionality and qualification testing.

Worked in a team environment to develop the company’s FASTmux Mini-DSLAM. Responsibilities included the ADSL Hardware Design and implementing the IMA functionality of the FASTmux Mini-DSLAM. Also was responsible for assuring that the products meet ANSI and ETSI specifications.

Developed automated Artificial Line Test capabilities, which incorporated a HP Broadband Series Test Set, ATM Switch, and the Artificial Line Simulator. The software design utilized a Windows based Interface developed in Borland Builder C++ to integrate all the existing equipment.

Designed Craft Interface Application Software using C/C++ to allow the installer to interface with, setup and maintain the equipment.

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