Ebe-kyi Kofi

 

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)

 

§    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, 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 ,

Core Expertise

 

§    3gpp Specs, 5G, 2G/3G/4G/LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi, HetNet, DAS, WiMax, Small Cell, Spectrum , 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.

 

§    RabbitMQ, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DB2, RDMS,

§    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,

 

§    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

 

§    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

 

 

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.

 

-           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                                                                                                                                                            

 

 

§    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.

Director of System Engineering                                                                    

 

§    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

 

§    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,