Overview
Summary
Skills
Work History
Education
Certification
Affiliations
Timeline
Accomplishments
David Nix

David Nix

Technology Leader
Baton Rouge,LA

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates

Summary

Resourceful and innovative technology leader focusing in developing next generation engineering teams. Strong passion for Network Engineering and DevOps to improve efficiency and reduce errors.

Skills

  • Technology and Solution Advocate
  • Process Development and Improvement
  • Strategic Planning
  • Tool Development
  • Forward Thinker

Work History

Manager, CB Operations Engineering

Southeast Field Operations & Engineering
Baton Rouge, LA
10.2015 - Current

Lead a team of 14 Engineers performing technical fulfillment, service assurance, obsolescence activities, and WiFi Engineering with over $1M in WiFi YTD revenue and a total of $235.6 Million for CB overall.

  • Dedicated People Leader. Developed and promoted 25 engineers the past 7 years.
  • Innovated tools and processes for Southeast Region to provide notifications for failures and improved overall responses for Nokia Fallouts, xPMR Circuit Fallouts, and faster outage notices.
  • Lead SER TSO (Technical Support Operations) to the lowest fallout reporting across the Enterprise.
  • Able to increase team productivity and collaboration via 100% remote/virtual environments.
  • Mentored two Engineers in Operations in the development of both NEON and RingHealth, which let them to the U.S. Patent No. 11,303,529.

CB Access Engineer II - III

SER Engineering
Baton Rouge, LA
05.2012 - 10.2015

Responsible for the design and implementation of all complex CB Services in the Southeast Region. Also accountable and shared on-call rotation for service assurances of all services. Additional stretch assignments given were:

  • The alignment of CB processes and roles for Role Adoption standards.
  • Implementation of Engineering workflows in OPTIX
  • Designed and implemented several large RFP wins for Cox Business in SER.

CB Product Engineer

SER Cox Business
Baton Rouge, LA
05.2007 - 05.2012

Responsible of complex commercial services installed over fiber and HFC. Accountable for the service assurance of the CB Metro Core and PON network at this time including customer services.

  • Implemented first merged service, Converged Access, for Commercial Services.
  • Deployed and maintained the first GPON platform in both Baton Rouge and Lafayette markets.

Field Service Rep I - III

Cox Communications
Baton Rouge, LA
03.2000 - 05.2007

Responsible of the installation of residential video, data, and voice services. Also accountable of service assurance of these residential services from the customer's residence up to the nearest line amp in the coaxial plant.

Education

BBA - Organizational Leadership

Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH
01.2019 - Current

Associate of Science - Network Engineering

Baton Rouge School of Computers, Baton Rouge, LA
01.2006 - 01.2008

Certification

Insight Manager Development

Affiliations

  • Cox Communications Technology Champions
  • Louisiana SCTE
  • BRCC CTEC Advisory Board
  • Alzheimer's Services Volunteering Team
  • Co-managing the FE&O Solutions and Automation team
  • Co-managing the Business Operations Process Standards and Automation team

Timeline

ITIL Foundation 4

11-2020

Calix E7 GPON Specialist

06-2019

Calix Ethernet Access Network Specialist

06-2019
Southern New Hampshire University - BBA, Organizational Leadership
01.2019 - Current

Insight Manager Development

06-2017
Manager, CB Operations Engineering - Southeast Field Operations & Engineering
10.2015 - Current
CB Access Engineer II - III - SER Engineering
05.2012 - 10.2015
CB Product Engineer - SER Cox Business
05.2007 - 05.2012
Baton Rouge School of Computers - Associate of Science, Network Engineering
01.2006 - 01.2008
Field Service Rep I - III - Cox Communications
03.2000 - 05.2007

Accomplishments

  • White House Communications Agency - Certificate of Appreciation
  • Outstanding Team Performance for East Baton Rouge Schools Metro-E Implementation
  • Cox's United States Veteran Recognition
  • New Holt STC Project
  • Hurricane IDA Storm Response
  • Created the first instance of NEON and RingHealth, which is now used Enterprise-wide today.
  • WATTS R2 Synergy Award
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