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Verizon / OnCue · Jun 2014 – Mar 2016

Infrastructure architecture supporting 1,000+ edge locations, 40+ POPs, and 20+ content data centers with 15+ Pbps throughput for go90 and FiOS IPTV, yielding $80M in cost savings.

Overview

Led the infrastructure architecture and design of a nationwide OTT and IPTV video streaming service supporting the go90 by Verizon and FiOS IPTV products. Designed high-level application architecture changes that more efficiently ingested, encoded, and delivered video, leading to enormous savings in both capital and operational costs. Managed a team of systems administrators across 75+ data centers and drove adoption of Dell/Force10 Open Networking for significant cost savings and architectural simplification.

Key Highlights

• Infrastructure architecture supporting 1,000+ edge locations, 40+ POPs, 20+ content ingest/encoding data centers with 15+ Pbps throughput
• Designed application architecture changes for more efficient video ingest, encoding, and delivery
• Server, storage, and network hardware evaluation resulting in $80M cost savings
• Drove adoption of Dell/Force10 Open Networking for simplified architecture and increased flexibility
• Planning and tracking of $200M+ CAPEX budget for server and storage hardware
• Ansible automation of ceph cluster deployment and Linux login authentication via AD/LDAP
• Managed team across 75+ data centers
• Proactive research of high-density servers, low-power chipsets, and high-density video encoding solutions

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