Broadband, Interactive TV, and the Web
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- Owner / Consultant at Hartley Associates
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- Consultant / Manager Sales Engineering EMEA at Sigma Systems
- Senior Director at Time Warner Cable
- Consultant at CableLabs
- Director, Systems at Excite@Home
- Group Program Manager at WebTV
- Lead Systems Engineer at Americast
- Consultant at Teledyne
- Software Group Leader at Zenith Electronics
- Education
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- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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Harry Hartley’s Summary
Extensive experience defining, managing, designing, and developing large scale distributed systems for cable television and broadband provisioning. Background blends management, systems engineering, software engineering, and product management experience. Dedicated to delivering innovative and cost effective solutions that meet customers needs.
Harry Hartley’s Specialties:
Broadband Service Definition, Broadband Service Delivery, Interactive TV, Conditional Access and Security, Broadband Provisioning
Proud to mentor and teach up and coming talent
Harry Hartley’s Experience
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Consultant / Manager Sales Engineering EMEA
Sigma Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 2005 — June 2006 (9 months)
Sigma is a systems and service OSS platform for managing provisioning tasks and integrating billing systems with service provisioning platforms. As the sole technical representative in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), I was responsible for engaging European cable operators in a technical sales role.
- Customer Visits. Technical representation, sales support, preliminary analysis.
- Executive recommendations feedback regarding Sigma's systems and positioning.
- Initial IPTV kickoff proposal and justification
- EMEA tradeshows representation. Setup, Demos, and Customer Engagement. -
Senior Director
Time Warner Cable
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; twc; Telecommunications industry)
January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Senior Director of Software Systems. As a member of Advanced Engineering I was responsible for defining and deploying new interactive services and features. This included the definition of the overall system software architecture. Systems included: the BMS (Business Management System), AMS (Asset and Content Management Systems), VOD/Video Server, Client Application Server (including STB resident client applications), Conditional Access Systems (SA DNCS, and GI/Motorola DAC), Network Management and Operations Systems. Interfaces and protocols included: ISA, SSP, LSCP, CBI, MSA, ADI, and BOSS/BAS among others.
* Coordinated, authored, and drove vendor implementation of multiple versions of the specifications listed.
* Primary representation of Time Warner for next generation architecture at CableLabs and NGNA.
* Collaborated with Roadrunner staff regarding next gen DOCSIS provisioning and OSS architecture selection. -
Consultant
CableLabs
(Telecommunications industry)
June 2002 — December 2002 (7 months)
Working closely with major cable operators and vendors, CableLabs defines and promotes industry standards, and certifies compliance. Working with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, and other MSO’s, I was responsible for driving industry consensus in the development of a back office interfaces. The result of this effort was a consensus requirements document and prototype web services API.
- Performed initial feasibility analysis, including operator consensus and coordination.
- Drove requirements process resulting in an agreed to requirements specification.
- Designed and authored initial web-services API specification. -
Director, Systems
Excite@Home
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; athm; Telecommunications industry)
August 1999 — March 2002 (2 years 8 months)
ExciteAtHome was the worlds largest Broadband Internet Service Provider. The Systems Analysis team works closely with constituent users including MSO’s, vendors, and in-house customers, as well as the @Home development community defining features, capabilities, and architecture.
- Designed, and authored platform and interfaces for retailer integration.
- Designed and authored architecture and extensions to support set-top provisioning.
- Designed and authored Billing System interface to enable self-provisioning and set-top provisioning.
- Product definition of operational tools, including CSR tools and network diagnostics.
- Represented ExciteAtHome at CableLabs B2B initiative. -
Group Program Manager
WebTV
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; msft; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)
WebTV, a subsidiary of Microsoft, provides World Wide Web and email access to subscribers using television. In entering the Cable TV arena, integration, consolidation, and extension of services offered by WebTV with those of CATV platform providers was necessary to supply the subscriber a compelling service.
- Designed and specified COM based extensions to WebTV extensions for CATV.
- Made presentations to Multiple Systems Operators and potential partners. -
Lead Systems Engineer
Americast
(Partnership; Telecommunications industry)
December 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 2 months)
Americast was a partnership which included Walt Disney, Bell South, Ameritech, Southern Bell Corporation, and Southern New England Telephone Company delivering Near Video On Demand over MMDS and HFC broadband architectures. Responsibilities included developing a data model for Walt Disney’s unique program guide. Also responsible for vendor management in multi-platform multi-vendor target environment. Vendors included: Zenith, Nagra, Divicom, Lysis, Scientific Atlanta, IMake, CSG, CableData, and others.
- Designed and specified data model and systems for unique DVB compliant guide data.
- Authored billing and control interface for managing subscribers and services.
- Drove MSO's to an agreed upon requirements specification. -
Consultant
Teledyne
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
November 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 2 months)
Consulting to Teledyne/Zenith I developed several specifications for systems which were ultimately developed and deployed. Consulting to Teledyne I provided guidance for applying their secure scrambling technology in a consumer oriented market. I was primarily responsible for the design of their conditional access system.
- Wrote specifications and white papers for conditional access and control software.
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Software Group Leader
Zenith Electronics
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ze; Telecommunications industry)
1989 — 1995 (6 years)
From software engineer to group leader for diverse projects in cable television control systems and related technologies. Projects ranged from developing upstream and downstream transaction processing control systems modules to managing the software development of Zenith’s digital solutions.
- Zenith Representative to DAVIC and CEMA.
- Developed and deployed software for spooling guide application and data to set-tops.
- Developed upstream impulse purchase transaction processing software.
- Developed downstream control and conditional access transmission software.
- Three patents received.
Harry Hartley’s Education
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
BS, Computer Science, 1985 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Pheonix Cycling Racing Team, ACM, IEEE, Chess Club
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
AAS, Electronics Technology, 1982 — 1983
