SCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Delivering the DAA Difference

Speakers:

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan covers the cable, fiber, broadband, and IP video markets for Heavy Reading. In particular, he tracks new cable, broadband, and video technologies and standards, such as DOCSIS 4.0, FTTP, DAA, XGS-PON, 10G EPON, streaming video, network virtualization, business services, Wi-Fi 6, and ATSC 3.0.

With a strong background in both business journalism and technology research, Alan has covered the cable, telecom, broadband, media, and consumer electronics markets as an editor and analyst for more than 30 years, including the past 17 years for Light and Heavy Reading. A New York City native, Alan is now based in Ontario, Canada.

Dennis Brown, Director of Engineering Training, SCTE

Dennis Brown started telecommunications by joining a contractor firm working with Cox communications in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1995. Dennis has held several roles in the field operations from the installer, service tech, and maintenance. A few years after starting his cable career in Virginia, he moved back to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, to install prime star satellite. A few years after that, Dennis helped join an emerging team at BellSouth in their attempt to deliver wireless cable to the Alanna Metro area. In 1998, Dennis decided to get back into the wire tie the cable. The door opened up a Cablevision Duluth allowed Dennis to be installer again. A year later, Cablevision became Charter. Dennis stayed at Charter for 16 years, moving up the ranks from installer, service, and maintenance. In 2005 while at Charter, Dennis took the role of technical trainer, which fostered his passion for giving back to the industry by sharing his experiences in the field and tying it to industry theory. In 2013 Dennis and his family relocated to Dallas, Texas, and he left Charter to join Time Warner Cable as their business-class training. In this role, Dennis was able to train on IP and fiber optics. In 2015 Dennis took the opportunity to help Ericsson build a fiber construction department. In this role, Dennis helped set up training needed for crews to build fiber backbones, fiber to the curb, and fiber to the home. Dennis has served on 2 SCTE chapter boards, the Chattahoochee chapter and the north-central Texas chapter. Dennis is always excited about sharing his knowledge and experiences with anyone in the telecommunications space. When Dennis is not at work, he enjoys helping to coach his son’s baseball team and fishing.

Rob Wilmoth, Senior Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Rob Wilmoth is a Senior Principal Solution Architect on the Red Hat Americas Service Provider team. He works closely with customers and partners assisting with challenges ranging from regulatory compliance and general IT, to changing their perspectives and approaches towards business problems in the network and content delivery spaces. He has excelled in solution architecture roles supporting a range of industry participants including AT&T, WarnerMedia, Charter Communications, Comcast, TIAA Bank and the utility industry.

Israel Madiedo, Director, Innovation & Technology, izzi (Televisa Group)
With more than 31 years in the Telecommunications Industry, Mr. Madiedo has participated in a wide number of international projects, both in fixed and wireless networks, covering an array of positions in Engineering, Operations, and Technical Support organizations, to mention some. 

He currently leads the efforts for evaluating and introducing new Technologies in izzi, pursuing the delivery of best of class services to the customers as well as opening new market opportunities. 

Architecture design, homologation, local development, adaptation & transformation, are among the tasks covered by his team.

Israel was part of AT&T Network Services and Lucent Technologies, working in the CALA Region and being a part of the extended EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Asia) Transmission group, which took him to spend time in the whole LATAM Region as well as in Europe.  He later became part of Cablevision México and was part of the team in charge of moving the Cable Industry in the Country towards a new phase of consolidation and higher competitive levels in the Telecom arena.

Among his tasks, he leads the team that represents izzi in several International Standards Organizations and keeps close contact with other colleagues and Operators worldwide. He is also a speaker and panel moderator in several Telecommunication events.

He combines his current position in izzi with Academic endeavors as Professor in several programs (including master’s degree and Executive level “hacks”) in fields such as Telecom, Digital Transformation, ML & AI, and others.

Israel holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, and a Masters in Telecommunications and Business Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.