1. JOHN A TRIMMER
Los Alamitos, CA 90720 562-338-6651 Cell
basicview@gmail.com LinkedIn(johnatrimmer)
ENGINEERING / IT ORGANIZATION
Senior System Engineer looking for good working environment and flexible technology savvy
employer. I enjoy technical challenges and interface well at group level as well as being technical
lead in developing/integrating complex systems and building test systems. My current employer is
CISCO system at SPVSS which is their international Satellite/Cable integration and customization
services division. I've worked at big technology companies both directly or through joint venture
contracts, I've also worked at a startup which eventually was acquired by larger companies. My
unique strength includes:
• Hardware and Software architect • Customization
• HW/SW Testing and Integration • Technical lead
• Product development • Software SDLC
SEE ADDENDUM TECHNICAL EXPERTISE*
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CISCO / NDS, Costa Mesa, CA 2011 to present
Advance Video Lab
Lead Integration Engineer
Provide test and automation solutions for variety of cisco’s device platforms and head end
systems.
• Integrated QA tools and automate tests suites for developer API’s.
• Maintained the automation video lab and server systems to handle advance black box
testing of mobile devices and STB’s for variety of cable and satellite customers.
• Provided customer support for both internal and external cisco customers and
demonstrate the usefulness of LABs resources and applications both built by lab and 3rd
parties.
• Integrated NDS/CISCO/MS automation products for delivery to customer remote and local
web base reporting and test QA STB system.
• Interfaced with all level of management and user’s base to assure status and execution of
labs directives are fulfilled.
• Applied virtualization of application where possible and maintain and upgrade database
systems and support resources as needed.
• Implement an optimize workflow products to complement existing agile reporting system
for cross communications for current customer’s databases and scaling Web client
accesses. Automate most administrative function to support or 24x7 for international
client base.

2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Continued
NDS, Costa Mesa, CA 2006 - 2011
Test Automation and Product integration
Lead System Engineer
Develop digital video test automation systems for both Direct TV and cable systems to ensure
product delivery passes all standard and performance tests for CPE usage.
• Integrate broadcast digital Head end ATE into NDS LAB and customer sites for daily use
and sell off of CPE.
• Have working knowledge of current STB types and functionalities and know how to handle
testing different model types.
• Tie together various information systems and GUI into web and form based front ends for
use by all NDS test and integration groups to create coherent automation collection and
dissemination.
• Managed VM server based back ends for data collection and web hosting of different
projects.
• Developed framework tools included IIS, VS2005-2013 (asp.net/XML), TFS,
win2003/2008R2 and MS-SQL, My-SQL an Oracle.
• Managed a team of software developers and provide technical direction, set coding
standards and methods, configure development environments and architect and
implement the automation reporting statistics systems.
NDS, Costa Mesa, CA 2005 - 2006
Data Delivery System for First responders (2005-2006)
Architecture and Integration Engineer
Develop a comprehensive web based Analyst system with external data sources such as
databases, xml, SMS, broadcast/interactive video.
• Applied asp net and 3rd party API's to host all integration into Drupal framework which
hosted the web based client command and control system to direct and alert first
responders.
• Product was demonstrated at NAB in Las Vegas for use with first responders in broadcast
industry and government agencies.
• Product was sold to government and external customers.
NDS, Costa Mesa, CA 1998 – 2005
Conditional Access (CA) Engineer
Field Support Engineer
Verifying proper Conditional Access (CA) for Direct TV (DTV) broadcast data streams by
implementing test systems to certify NDS-DTV smart cards with live up-link/receiver system.
ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
TRW, System Engineer
HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY, System TEST Engineer
Provide HW/SW integration, development and support for a wide variety of government and
commercial related projects. Project efforts included networking and information systems, 3rd
party vendor integration and demonstration and fielding of finial sell off to customers.

3. EDUCATION / TRAINING
Graduate Studies for MSEE (not awarded)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
University of California, Los Angeles
Under Graduate BSEE
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD BSEE
Professional Development courses or certifications
Cisco Technical Courses
- AWS for
windows
- IPv6 overview - Cisco Switch
Products
- Agile training
- Intro to Scala
Programming
- NVidia Cuda
Development
- HTML5 for
mobile apps
- Packet Analysis
with Wireshark
Memberships and Conferences
ACM, CES, NAB and Interop

4. JOHN A TRIMMER
ADDENDUM
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE*
• Standards
VB.net C# C/C++
SQL-MS SQL-ORACLE MYSQL
• Internet
HTML 4/5 – CSS JavaScript
XML/XPATH/XSD/XSLT ASP.net client/server
WSDL/SOAP AWS for VS windows
IIS 5.5-7.5 Apache/Tomcat
Info System Web App Video Client/Server apps
• Projects (mix of Design/Architected/Integrated)
Info System Apps Video Imaging Apps
Database build outs Complex GUI apps
Tools for User groups Web GUI and DB’s
• OS
Windows Server Unix Server
2003-2012 Real/VM HPUX,BSD, Linux
• Networking
Protocols Applications Used
TCP/IP Variety of NMS apps
FTP Wireshark
SNMP Net DB apps
Sockets SNMP analyzers
SMTP
DNS