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Fredrick Barnard Love                                                             Mobile: 972.922.3453

1885 N. Winnebago Ave. Apt. 2E                                         Home: 872.829.2345

Chicago, IL. 60647                                                                                   

Email:  fredricklove@hotmail.com

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

 

I have 20 of demonstrated and successful experience in the support, design, development and delivery of, DWDM/ROADM, GPON, Convergence Network(s), Packet Optical, GMPLS ASON CONTROL PLANE and Mobile Backhaul network solutions. I have the ability to interact and communicate with all levels of staff including senior level leadership positions and with both internal and external customers. I am well versed in frequent presentations and positioning of business plans, proof of concept(s), road maps, forecasting, project plans and schedules, financials, etc., to managers and executives. Experience in working with business partners to introduce and deliver on new and enhanced processes to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations and achieve business goals and objectives. Demonstrate an ability to transfer this knowledge into product/Network requirements. I have the proven experience of working cross-functionally with other departments while defining and/or resolving complex network and customer solution(s).

 

Professional Engineering,Optical Transport, Video/FTTP, Ethernet, and Military OAM&P Vendor Certification career Training Portfolio:

 

¨           Actelis ML600 and ML 130 Ethernet over Copper

¨           Adtran TA310 Repeater, TA3000 HDX DSLAM, TA1248, MX2820 TA5000 Aggregator

¨           Adva FSP 3000

¨           Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router, 1648 ADM and Wavestar OLS 400G

¨           Calix MSAP C-7

¨           Ciena 6500 Packet Optical Platform, 5410 Service Aggregation Switch,

¨           Cisco ME3400, 15454 MSTP

¨           Cyan -722 Packet-Optical Transport Platform

¨           Infineera – DTN/ DTN-X

¨           MSPP, 15310 CL and 15600 Optical DACS

¨           Ekinops - 360 Dynamic Multi-Reach DWDM

¨           Extreme - 15103 Summit X250-e

¨           Fujitsu FLM 150/600/2400HS/FLASH 192/4010/4500/7600/7420/

¨           Juniper ERX 1440 Router Configuration

¨           JDSU WaveReady, QT-6000 Gigabit Ethernet Testhead, MTS-8000, Optical budgeting

¨           Motorola TMX2010 Transcoder/Multiplexer, Integrated Receiver/Decoder(IRD), SmartSteam Encryptor/Modulator(SEM)

¨           MRV OptiSwitch 900

¨           Nortel (Legacy) OC3 Express, OC12 TBM, OC48/Connect DX/OPTEA 4100/5200

¨           Nvision 8246 SDI/ASI Router

¨           Optelian LightMux and OMS-519

¨           Siemens Surpass hiT 75xx 10Gb/s

¨           Telco Systems, t-mar 280 R400 and R4000 CWDM

¨           Tellabs 7100/N and OTS, 7300 Metro Ethernet, 6300 and 8000 INM

¨           U.S. Navy - Principles of RF communications, Microwave System Design, Wireless Comms, Broadcast Engineering and Data.

¨           Turin Traverse 2000 IP/TV Triple Play Service Transport

¨           SeaChange Transport Streams Video Insertion

¨           Verizon-Video Architecture & FTTP BPON Network Design

 

QUALIFICATIONS: Professional position(s) held:

 

¨           Optical Implementation Design Engineer:

¨           CLEC Transport Engineer                                         

¨           Packet Optical/7100 OTS ROADM/ ASON/MPLS Directionless Control Plane - OTN G.709 Technical Trainer             

¨           OTN Optical Proof Of Concept Engineer                                          

¨           Test & Validation Engineer (MPEG-4)             

¨           P.L.S. Product Launch Support Engineer

 

Direct Business to Customer International Engagement & Experience

 

¨           Time.Com - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Customer lead Technical Training and Proof of Concept. Pre-Production - Initial ASON/GMPLS Control Plane product rollout Phase 1 & 2.  3 month deployment.

¨           Claro - Santiago, Chile - Customer lead Technical Training ASON/MPLS Control Plane. 3 week deployment.

¨           VFI (VodaFone India) - India - Bangalore -Proof of Concept, Network Migration and Customer based training. 2 months deployment.

¨           Internal Tellabs Customers - High Wycombe, London and Helsinki Finland - 7100 provisioning and MPLS Control Plane training sessions. 3 week deployment.

¨           VFI (VodaFone South Africa) - Johannesburg, South Africa - Customer lead Technical Training and Proof of Concept. Pre- Production - Initial roll-out of Control PLane Phase 1 & 2.  1 month deployment.

¨           Vivo and Telefonica Brasil - Sao Paulo, Brazil-Product demonstration, Proof of concept and Customer lead Technical Training 2 month week.

 

                                                         Professional Career Experience

 

 

Oct. 16 2013 – Present

Charter Communication

Optical OTN Proof of Concept Engineer III

Greenwood Village, Co.

 

Within a lab environment I am currently accountable for the performance testing and measurements of multiple vendors DWDM/ROADM platforms, transponders and software regression testing, EDFAs, EXFO/JDSU optical measurement tools & modules, Passive Optical Filters, 100G CFP- IEEE 802.3ba, SFP optics testing and measuring those six entities against other vendors specs, Charter’s network requirement and most importantly Industry standards such as: Y.1564, G.671, GR-1209, Y.1564,G.709, EtherSAM, BERT and RFC2544.  With minimal supervision I perform substantially varied and complex task, develop and execute procedures, test plans, and equipment configurations as well as review architectural design requirements and develop test cases and test scripts for and gathering data related to test automation plans. Responsible for analyzing the test results and publishing the test results from a companywide prospective for adherence and compliance. I engage, challenge and negotiate with vendors as well as research their product specs. I install and configure networking equipment that simulates real-world networks and topologies. Report issues found and perform related trouble-shooting and working with strategic partners to identify and resolved. My input and recommendation is required and respected by Charters Principle Optical Engineer upper Management as to what product to proceed with placing in Charters network. From a cost functionality and network requirement prospective.

 

 

Feb. 2013 – July 2013

Windstream Communication

Implementation Transport Engineer – Northeast INX footprint

Evansville,In.

    Responsible for all network technologies including evaluations, testing, purchasing and implementation of new network platforms, software upgrades to existing network elements, and vendor relationships. I successfully upgraded 200 DWDM and Wireless Backhaul network elements to latest software releases without service impact. I saved Windstream over 542K in equipment procurement and contract laboring cost through grey market purchases and vendor negotiation. I assisted in engineering Windstream’s 1st 100G point to point initiative.

                                                              Nov. 2008 - Jan. 2013

                                                               Tellabs Global Services

                                        Sr. Professional Trainer II / Post Sales Engineer

                                     ASON/GMPLS DIRECTIONLESS CONTROL PLANE

                                                                      Naperville, IL.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Developed and Delivered technical and modular based courseware in compliance with TL 9000 standard in supports of Tellabs flagship 7100 OTS ROADM optical product line and associated technologies ( ASON GMPLS Directionless Control Plane, Resilient VLAN Tunneling, VDSL2 PTM BONDING,OTN and Packet Optical Transport).  Authored and published comprehensive marketing requirements, customer engineering test plans and configuration documentation including enhanced photonic layer Control Plane features such: Directionless, Colorless, Contentionless, and engineering test plans for Tellabs Internal and International customers. My key role was to support Product Launch Support in strategically positioning, introducing and rolling out the ASON/MPLS control Plane application. I also traveled extensively abroad (Internationally) to key market areas to support Pre and Post Sales (both in EMEA and APEC) efforts by addressing customer problem statements and providing cost effective solutions, creating BOMS, performing lab trails and customer demo all of which revolved around the ASON Control Plane (both layers 1 and 2). Conducted comprehensive training for Sales and Account development on technical concepts, features and capabilities of Control Plane. Conducted sales focused training to customer groups to drive technical product sets into new and existing offerings. Provided technical expertise to Marketing during rollout of new Control Plane enhancements (i.e. Traditional 1+1 10G transponder circuits with client-side Y-Cable protection, enhanced with directionless and dynamic optical re-route). I functioned in the capacity of a technical liaison between post implementation groups, engineering and sales.

 

March 2008 – Oct. 2008

Goodman Networks

(Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T venture)Mobile Backhaul

Sr. Integration Engineer

I specialized in implementing 10 GigE cell site backhaul for wireless carriers (i.e. SPRINT, Verizon Wireless and AT&T) to help support 2G (EVDO, HSPA) and 4G (WiMax, LTE) wireless deployments by migrating wireless provider onto new fiber build and/or point to point microwave.  Developed and commissioned initially configurations file, groomed, tagged and assigned VLAN policies and SLAs, migrated L2 VPN traffic and 1G services from MRV OptiSwitch 900 to point of aggregation (Extreme Summit X670). Performed INNI testing with wireless provider. Responsible for adding GigE, 10G optics channels to active DWDM systems. My duties also included stress testing, optical budgeting, fiber characterization, and all related ODU2 and OTU component level.

 

Dec. 11 2006 – Jan. 29, 2008

Windstream Communication

CLEC Transport Engineer – West Region Arkansas

Little Rock, Ark.

  I was responsible for maintaining the overall health and growth of the CLEC and ILEC markets. I provided network problems statement to vendors and vigorously negotiated total cost of ownership (driving down the overall cost of the proposed solution) before selecting the most cost effective solution. Secured 3rd party and contract labor provided detailed specifications, material and Visio drawings for all ADSL2+, MPLS, FTTP/GPON, OTN applications to accommodate Triple Play Services. I resolved network capacity and managed network growth and expansion projects. I coordinated daily with Network Planning and Sales engineers during initial implementations, conducted cost comparison vs. cost competitiveness during the vendor selection process. I submitted a capital budget in support of budget development along with forecasting capital expenditures for all accountable Transport/Optical projects.

 

Sept. 2005 – June 2006

Verizon Communication

Emerging Technologies Group

Dallas, TX.

My team coordinated and managed all aspects of the PEG (Public, Educational and Government) channel implementation to ensure project milestone and service commitment dates were aggressively reached. I also tracked, coordinated and drove PON to GPON migration, ONT/OLT deployments and active, current and correct Channel line-up to senior management.

 

Feb. 2005 – Sept.  2005

Ascent Media Group

Video Subject Matter Expert 

SHE-1 Bloomington, IL.

   Responsible for the continuous maintenance and operation of video services within Verizon’s SHE-1 facility which delivered video content to VHOs and VSO throughout the United States in concert with VZW FTTP/FIOS triple play service. Resolved video degradation and per channel video (MPEG-4) outages by troubleshooting from the satellite dish farm to VOD, IPG/EPG, DAC and CSG interfaces (i.e. TMX, analog digital encoding, PESA and OSCELOT soft switch) and Delivered technical and

07/02 -05/03

MCI/WORLDCOM LD Infrastructure.

Tier II Transmission support Engineer *SME

Cary, NC. (RTP)

I worked laterally with the LD planning engineering groups leveraging incoming RFP regarding OC-192, GigE and 10G routes, forecasting network scalability issues, planned capacity and configuration assignments for metro/LD DWDM routes. Responsible for providing remote technical support during critical outages and field trails, understanding and executing all phases of equipment installation, acceptance testing, software upgrades, circuit migrations and the growth and expansions, of multivendor DWDM applications and product line within MCI LD backbone. I engineered and designed, configured and resolved network outages on hundreds of UPSR, BLSR, Point to Point, Ploops, T-Mux, ADM optical networks. I also wrote design specifications, performed optical budgeting and developed extensive working knowledge in the areas of VLAN tagging, ATM, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, FastGigabit Ethernet and L2 & L3 Switching.

5/97-6/02

AT&T Local Services.

Field & Outside Plant Engineer II

Dallas, TX.

Managed and organized day to day operations of 11 field service engineers whose primary responsibility were to define, deploy & maintain the overall health of 23 4-FIBER UPSR/BLSR metro/enterprise networks in accordance with the structured SLA (99.99% service availability). My team of engineers performed System Turn-Up and Test SONET, DWDM, Ethernet, EF&I, fiber characterization, Dark fiber validation, and Ethernet Backhaul Testing (EBH).

 

2/92-04/97

United States NAVY

Crypto communications specialist RM2 (SW).

 

Served with honor as a Crypto Tech, with a SSBI Top Secret Clearance aboard the USS Russell (DDG-59) providing all aspects of OAM&P concerning maintaining NATO critical UHF/VHF ship to shore communication system uptime to the Atlantic Fleet. Selected for the prestigious Joint Service White House Communication assignment. I provided secure SIP to P-25 (GSM MAP) over multicast IP radio and Satellite networks voice channels to a deployed Air Force One. During my Naval military career, I received two NAMS (Navy Achievement Medals).   

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES

¨           Toastmasters

¨           National Society of Manufacturing Engineer

 

EDUCATION

¨           Currently pursing B.S.E.E. – University Texas Arlington

¨           Currently pursing CCNA/CCNP collectively

 

REFERENCES  

 

¨           Jimmy Tanner                                                     ♦   Alren Bernard Shaw

Regional Manager                                                     OSP Engineering & Development

       AT&T Local Services                                               Verizon Communication

       Phone: (214) 774.6055                                 Phone: (972) 717-2086

                       

¨           Tim Kim                                                                ♦   Randy Smiley

2^nd Level Engineer                                           Senior Network Engineer

MCI/WORLDCOM                                                    AT&T Local Services

Phone: (919) 306.7744                                 Phone: (214) 668.0340