Mergers + acquisitions
Ensuring smooth integration of multiple company networks, provisioning systems and customer billing systems. Smaller mergers consisted of around 50,000 customers while larger merger customer bases were in the tens of millions.
AOL / Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable / Bright House Networks
Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Adelphia
Charter / CableVision
Charter / Time Warner Cable / Bright House Networks
Expansions
Expanding physical footprint of subscriber bases across the United States. Supporting new construction of networks in previously undeveloped land including commercial and residential developments. Scaling network capacity of retail internet providers to meet growing needs of what customers expect from their Internet connection. Increasing capacity on existing networks to support higher speed internet tiers.
TWC Division responsibility for 30+ cities across 19 states
Charter corporate responsibility for expansion oversight in 41 different states
“From NY + LA to Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky + everywhere in between” – Ray
Evolving technology
An original “Internet of Things” guru, keeping current with market trends to watch where the world is going has been a priority and habit for years. We’re those weirdos who enjoy learning about and experimenting with emerging technology, which means we’ve been a reliable, trusted source of techie information for decades.
Bonus points received for combining this knowledge and Macguyver skillset:
Creativity and Innovation award for restoring first communications to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Lab migration
Planning + physical move of a pre-production lab to larger locations.
Several hundred devices are included in such moves including; routers, switches, firewalls, servers, traffic generators and protocol analysers
Data center builds
Collaborated on many installations of new construction and leased space data centers to provide secure, physical locations for servers to live their happily ever after lives.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Design and installation of redundant data centers and other such facilities as a part of disaster recovery planning solutions. Leased or owned and active/active or active/standby solutions depending on the business needs.
Voice
VoIP, IVR, PBX solutions for call centres housing up to 500 employees. Integration of internal phone systems connecting business divisions across all 50 states and international locations.
Video
Oversight of video over IP distribution and multicast video distribution roll outs. We’ve been here since video on demand was the newest and most exciting thing out, and continue to watch the evolution of streaming services to end users.
Data
Hauling packets securely from one place to another via the boxes with the blinky lights is Ray’s forte. In a nutshell, he speaks binary. If your devices are having issues speaking to each other from across the room, building or planet, give him a call. He’s experienced in fixing that.
