• Technical Experience: 13 years of broadband cable expertise primarily within data and networking sector including 4 years working for MSOs (MediaOne and AT&T Broadband) in a regional and corporate engineering and operations capacity – general hands-on understanding of other cable business lines including analog and digital video, PacketCable voice, and addressable advertising. Ten issued patents and several pending applications in area of data communication systems and management, video phone, seamless mobility, and business methods.
• Management Experience: Six years experience managing small groups within product management, standards compliance, and software engineering for vendors of the cable industry, ISP, military (US Navy), and enterprise businesses.
• Author/Speaker: Author of numerous white papers and over 70 feature articles for CED, CT, and Broadband Properties – experience speaking internationally on broadband cable technologies including OSS, online gaming, network management, telemedicine, and technology round tables. Author of several market research reports including: Online Gaming, enterprise DHCP, VoIP, and OSS.
• Product Management and Technical Marketing Experience: Four years experience guiding technical marketing aspects of both fledgling and mature products and two years experience in product management over OSS, messaging, and CPE automation software. Experience establishing software development life cycle (SDLC) as well as guiding products from conception to sale or end of life (EOL).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Vice President of Data Technologies Sedna, Philadelphia, PA, 2005-Present
A joint venture among three leading cable operators formed to manage a growing portfolio, research and acquire relevant intellectual property (patents), harvest ideas worthy of patenting.

• Oversee the development of in-house analytics software that gathers and links all internally produced research in order to build collective knowledge base on respective disciplines and speed follow on sector searches.

• Regularly present research and or analysis to the board as well as other executives of the member companies.

• Research data service areas through extensive contacts within the cable industry, maintain information on associated companies, and analyze the collective patent thicket to evaluate threat potential.

• Patent domain expert over broadband data and networking technologies available as an expert witness.

• Regularly review portfolio applicability to current and future events relevant to data sector.

• Spearhead research projects with intellectual property emphasis on nascent technologies to determine viability of strategic acquisition and map out the universe of resulting matters to expose coverage and potential green field applications.

• Research potential intellectual property portfolio acquisitions for relevancy, quality, coverage, score and rank results and then write reports or slide presentations covering results and summarizing recommendations.

• Patent agent exam preparations.

Vice President of Engineering/CTO Fine Point Technologies, New York, NY, 2004-2005
Software development company serving Internet service providers and enterprises with call center operations automation tools 

• Manage team of 10 including: developers, QA testers, and product managers covering company’s 18 products built upon Delphi, .NET, C++, and Java code base.

• Instituted license management, source code control, nightly builds, and formal software development life cycle (SDLC) across engineering organization.

• Technical spokesperson to the outside world shared with CEO/chief architect.

• Responsible for the quality and on-time delivery of the company's 18 software products, writing all requirements for products, and overseeing software development life cycle for all products.

• Guide, challenge, and provide training to developers, QA employees, and product managers to ensure their growth and success, also established company’s patent harvesting program.

• Research and analyze competitive products and companies as well as industry trends to evolve product roadmap and potential market opportunities.

• Product manager and system architect of OGSA/OGSI grid-based OSS software development effort using GGF’s GT3 grid toolkit and GWSDL and WSFL from conception through prototype.

• Product manager over RSS-based messaging and software update product and self-repair technician product from redesign through product sale to Navy and Tier 1 operator.

Principal Systems Engineer Deployment Technologies, White Bear Lake, MN, 2003-2004
Engineering consulting company specializing in cable related deployment of new technologies 

• Designed and developed script-ware that sanity checked and validated DHCP network and policy configurations during a critical system wide migration from CNR to FastFlow for Adelphia’s high speed Internet service.
• Designed and developed a completely database driven VoIP call feature testing software solution for Comcast through working closely with its ongoing PacketCable testing and deployment initiative

Managing Director Birds-Eye.Net, LLC, 2000-2006
A broadband focused company offering documentation, research, reference, and expert consulting 

• Built and mange eCommerce research, reference, and consulting company from ground up including website design, payment, and secure electronic document distribution from inception through hand off to large media firm.

• Other major projects include: Authoring OSS Market Research report for Kinetic Strategies, writing DSL line tester technical user manual for Fine Point Technologies, data over cable patent research due diligence reporting to expert witness in the case, researching global use of in-home protocols for Intel, development and distribution of network management system for small cable operators, and developing carrier class DHCP stress testing suite.

Director, Technical Market Development Alopa Networks, White Bear Lake, MN, 2000-2002
A broadband Operational Support System (OSS) software company serving network service providers needs for service creation, management, integration, and monitoring.

• Oversee visiting and contributing engineers and strategic presence at CableLabs, tComLabs, and participate in standards groups, NDA meetings, and partner events.

• Technical spokesperson in charge of customer presentations, conference presentations, white paper authoring, analyst discussions, pre-sales technical support, market requirements document (MRD) authoring on nascent area, and competitive analysis.

• Assist Business Development in technology diligence, patent applications, and recommend future product functional areas as well as individual requirements where possible.

• Extensive hands-experience with DOCSIS RF and Device MIB, CMTS MIBs, and remote status and performance monitoring of CMTS, cable modems, and LANCity legacy systems

• Feature requirement definitions for DHCP, MD5 files, OTF-TFTP, troubleshooting, and diagnostics

Senior Systems Engineer MediaOne Corporate, Roseville, MN, 1996-2000
Cable multiple system operator (MSO) offering cable modem Internet, HFC voice, advanced analog video, and digital video services to mainly residential subscribers 

• Lead MediaOne’s Minnesota region launch of high speed data services over cable – fastest deployment to reach 2,000 subscribers which earned the region top honors.

• Lead corporate installation automation project which increased installation efficiency across all regions by 20% and presented these findings to other company interests including TeleWest.

• Independently designed and lead company’s first self-service installation project and than packaged it and rolled the resulting program out in two other regions.

• Held many positions within my tenure including HSI Installer, Installation Supervisor, Technology and Development Manager, Senior Systems Engineer, and Staff Engineer

• Soup-to-nuts understanding and operational experience with Microsoft, Join, and Cisco (CNR) DHCP servers

• Extensive testing, prototyping, operations, and automation scripting experience with c/borne shell, Tcl, and Perl

• Hands on experience using TCP/IP and building and configuring Sun Solaris servers, installing patches, etc.

• Hands-on experience and formal training in designing, installing, and testing large Cisco-based router network over multiple T1s using channelized DS3, redundancy, trunking, and several Catalysts switches including a 5500

• Database experience with Sleepycat Software, N/S/GDBM, flat file and file locking, ODBC, iPlanet/Netscape LDAP, DBI, SQL, MySQL, and MS Access

• Extensive SNMP experience using CMU and Perl SNMP toolkits, SNMPC, MIB browsers and compilers, performance and bandwidth monitoring, capacity planning and modeling, LoS and QoS services.

• Development level experience using MD5, VarBind, ASN.1, filter stuffing, diagnostics and troubleshooting tools

• Designed and built NTP stratum 2 clock sync source for GI STBs, network, and VMS-based conditional access.

Software Engineer Intermetrics, Cambridge, MA, 1995-1996
Military contractor specializing in software development, compilers, and systems development 

• Developed X-Windows/C application used to demonstrate flat panel display technology to the US NAVY
• Ported multi-headed applications across open systems (Sun SPARC workstation 20 and DEC Alpha 400) running under various forms of UNIX (DEC UNIX, Solaris, Sun OS)
• DEC Alpha system administration building and installing workstations and writing custom UNIX shell scripts
• Hands-on experience and training with GUI building tools (InterMAPhics and Builder Xcessory)

Telemedicine Engineer Iowa Health System (IHS), Des Moines, IA, 1994-1995
Largest private hospital chain in Iowa operating the nation’s first broadband telemedicine trial 

• Project management over estimating, technical bidding, vendor selection, installation, testing of cabling.

• Responsible for managing and maintaining multiple remote site compatibility, standardization, and operation.

• Proactively sought, organized, managed, and supported new telemedicine applications

• Significant experience working with doctors, surgeons, nurse managers, and clinical staff in gaining their confidence and trust as well as acceptance of new technology (telemedicine hardware and applications).

• Hands-on experience engineering and interfacing with sensitive medical multi-media data communications.

• Thorough knowledge of hospital operations, patient confidentiality, rules, and most regulations.

Mathematics Tutor Sylvan Learning Center, Des Moines, IA, Woburn, MA, 1994-1995, 1998
Independently run franchise company specializing in offering personalized educational services including study skills, tutoring, and testing 

• Taught upper level math (Trigonometry, AP Calculus, and Algebra) and study skills to small groups of students ranging in age from 6th grade to college

Intelligence Analyst Iowa ARMY National Guard, Boone, IA, March 1989 to March 1995
Headquarters company of 34th Infantry Division of the Iowa ARMY National Guard

• Held top secret security clearance (TS/SBI).
• Supervised four technicians in the completion of research projects involving the graphical display of enemy maneuvers, analysis of tactics, and the recommendation of countermeasures.

Computer Network Specialist Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE/ISU), Ames, IA
Computer Lab Consultant College of Education Computer Center (ISU), Ames, IA, 1993-1994
Iowa State University (ISU)
RISE oversaw the University's statewide Distance Learning grant as well as a number of other research grants in the field of educational technology and research.

• Supported faculty and staff by managing college of education’s computer network, ordering, inventorying, installing, and troubleshooting Mac and PC hardware and software.

• Promoted and taught faculty and staff how to effectively use the computer resources available through the College of Education, Iowa State Network, and the Internet. Support students in the lab with educational software.

• First graduate student to teach staff on effective use of NCSA browser, FTP, and building websites.

PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES, PATENTS, & ARTICLES WRITTEN:

• January 2000 to December 2001 – Contributing author for Communications Technology Magazine. Published more than 22 articles.
• September 1998 - Present – Submitted 10 applications for patent in the areas of DHCP, TFTP, Identity management (IdM), Internet electronic commerce, Interactive program guides, web-based tools, and self service.
• 1995 to Present - submitted over 70 articles for publication and have written more than 2 dozen full length white papers.
• Presenter at numerous organizations and conferences including: Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), California ISP Association, CableLabs, Enterprise China, Internet World, Iowa Distance Learning Association (IDLA), ISP Consortium, NCTA, Wireless Communications Association (WCA).

EDUCATION:

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
M.S., Curriculum and Instructional Technology (Pending completion of thesis)
Emphasis: Computer implementation strategies, educational multimedia, distance education.
G.P.A. 3.53

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
B.S., Computer Engineering, May 1992
Emphasis: Systems design, digital design, programming, and networking.
Languages: 68000 Assembler, BASIC, C, FORTRAN, MacABLE , Pascal, UNIX shell programming.

North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC), Mason City, Iowa
A.S., Science & Pre-Engineering, May 1989
Emphasis: Math, science, and computer programming
Languages: Pascal, FORTRAN

DeVRY Institute of Technology, Kansas City, Missouri
A.S., Applied Electronic Science, October 1986.
Emphasis: Hands-on troubleshooting, data communications, and Z80 machine code programming.
G.P.A. 3.41