Professional career spanning 20+ years in network engineering and software development covering finance/real-time trading, MSO/Cable and Telecommunications industries. Participation in IETF RFC development and working group activities . Cablelabs specifications authorship (RFI/OSSI) and Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) code development. Member of the CableLabs test executive for DOCSIS 1.1. Recipient of several company awards (Employee of the Year, Team of the Year). Descartes Fellow. Authored industry papers on OSS architecture and frameworks. Presenter at global industry conferences such as USENIX, SCTE Cable Tech Expo and Tele-Management Forum Americas. Developed a mechanism for optimizing TCP RTO retransmit calculations via Genetic Algorithm (GA) methods using stochastic loss / RTT probability distribution as inputs - method and results published in an industry and professional refereed journal (ACM Computer Communications Review). Developed a capacity augmentation model for cable industry leveraging monte carlo statistical methods: used by MSO`s as a best practice method for deploying services in a DOCSIS environment. Refereed IEEE Communications papers on networking technology, OSS management architectures and network/transport protocols. Participated as a speaker in industry panels on next generation OSS challenges. Specialties:DOCSIS (RFI/CMCI/OSSI/BPI 1.0 - 3.0), PacketCable (1.0 - 1.5), IETF IPCDN Working group, CableLabs BMWG, TMF NGOSS Suite (eTOM, TAM, SID, TNA [mTOP, MTOSI, SOA]),, ITU-TM.3400/FCAPS, XML-RPC, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1, UDDI 3.0, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology, Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology, BPEL / BPMN process development. UML (2.x) modeling, EA, Argo and VP UML modeling tools, SoapUI, Ant/Maven, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle OSB, Oracle RAC, Oracle JDeveloper, Java EE Oracle WebLogic
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