Jason Brown

Spectrum Re-Alignment

Enterprise-wide spectrum standardization initiative that transformed a decentralized collection of market-specific implementations into a more standardized enterprise operating model. Required coordinated execution across engineering, operations, planning, product, field organizations, vendors, and executive leadership.

Role: Central planning, governance, readiness, communication, and execution leader.

• Every Spectrum market markets
• ~20 Spectrum markets participating
• 100+ 6 MHz channels reorganized
• 18+ months program duration
• 3-6 execution windows per market

2 Gig Everywhere

One of Spectrum's most visible broadband modernization initiatives. Enabled a higher-speed (2 Gbps) service tier to compete against providers such as AT&T, Google, and Verizon, and enabled Spectrum to state that greater than 99% of its footprint had access. Delivered through enhancements to existing fiber-powered infrastructure rather than widespread neighborhood rebuild.

Role: Coordinated readiness, planning, tracking, stakeholder alignment, communication, and execution visibility across Field Operations, Access Engineering, CARE, Marketing, and executive leadership.

• >99% homes passed

Recognition: Executive Recognition - 2 Gig Everywhere

Upstream Network Segmentation (UNS)

Reliability and capacity program that segments the upstream network to reduce customer blast radius, improve troubleshooting, and increase upstream capacity. The accomplishment is designing and operating the prioritization, planning, scheduling, and governance model that determines how work executes (not merely executing the work). Now coupled with 32D (network-capacity expansion and infrastructure modernization initiative, coupled with UNS), which both require a system reboot, substantially increasing scheduling complexity.

Role: Designed and operates the authoritative scheduling and prioritization model across 11 priority dimensions, limited maintenance windows, boundary-partner coordination, geographic imbalance, and executive/engineering/field alignment.

• 48,000+ network nodes evaluated
• 20 Spectrum markets
• 15+ active stakeholder groups
• ~3,000 UNS/32D actions (H2 2025)
• 18,000+ UNS/32D actions (2026)
• ~200 -> ~850 actions/week weekly execution throughput
• 11 prioritization dimensions

Planning Automation and Scheduling Intelligence

Transformed planning from spreadsheet-driven analysis into data-driven decision support. Replaced manual reporting and slow analysis cycles with integrated datasets, automated analysis, prioritization support, scheduling optimization, capacity-planning support, and executive visibility.

Role: Built Python-based automation integrating 40,000+ records from 14+ data sources, with market prioritization based on hardware utilization and immediate resource/emergency needs.

• 40,000+ planning records integrated
• 14+ integrated data sources

Go All Digital

Enterprise service-modernization and customer-migration initiative requiring coordination across customer communications, hardware forecasting, procurement, deployment planning, cutovers, and operational readiness.

Role: Helped establish repeatable execution frameworks enabling consistent execution across multiple markets. First major enterprise transformation leadership experience at Spectrum.

5th Upstream Capacity Expansion

Capacity-expansion program responding to unprecedented COVID-era upstream utilization growth, coordinating planning and execution to increase upstream capacity while maintaining customer experience under extraordinary demand.

Role: Coordinated planning and execution activities.

Recognition: COVID Response Team Recognition

BWM Program Dashboard Suite (AI-Assisted Engineering)

A suite of live, always-on internal web dashboards -- governance, upstream capacity/grooming forecasting, an interactive scheduling engine, and a high-utilization watchlist -- that replaced a recurring manual weekly reporting cycle (collecting data, refreshing spreadsheets, updating PowerPoint slides) for the UNS/32D upgrade programs. Personally designed and built using AI-assisted engineering practices (Claude Code, VS Code) on Python/Linux, on a shared data foundation: a twice-daily network-data cache, a compiled governance-plan pipeline, and a common code library enforcing consistent business rules across every dashboard.

Role: Sole designer and builder. Owns the shared data/automation architecture (event-driven refresh so every dashboard updates hands-free after each twice-daily data pull), the governance and capacity-forecasting dashboards, the interactive scheduling engine's web UI (intentionally read-only/sort-only in production, gated behind an operator switch so no path can trigger a full schedule run from the site, with a documented known-issue-and-recovery path), and the utilization-monitoring system with its shared team-notes service.

• 45,000+ network nodes on the published upgrade schedule
• 2,900+ upstream line cards monitored for capacity forecasting
• 550+ nodes actively flagged for utilization risk
• 5+ integrated always-on internal web applications
• 1-2 days -> fully automated reporting cycle time

DevOps Transformation

Pure Integration's most significant cloud, Agile, DevOps, and IoT leadership chapter. Led Agile transformation, CI/CD improvements, automation initiatives, and cloud deployment modernization across a LoRaWAN to MachineQ to Azure SaaS to AWS event-processing pipeline.

Role: Agile Team Lead / Scrum Master with sprint planning, release ownership, CI/CD, GitHub automation, and Ansible deployment automation.

• ~1 day -> ~1 hour deployment/release effort
• multiple releases per week release frequency

Recognition: Transformation Leadership Recognition

Charter / Time Warner Cable / Comcast Merger Integration

Supported merger-related integration efforts involving Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast during a period of large-scale industry consolidation.

Role: Program/integration leader; led approximately 13 engineers.

• ~13 engineers led

Cloud DVR

National-scale platform deployment spanning approximately 95 markets. A customer-facing platform modernization (mobile DVR playback, in-home streaming, download-to-device, cross-device access, X1/Xfinity On Demand integration), not merely an internal readiness project. Greater Atlanta launch announced July 21, 2014 as the first Comcast Southern Region market.

Role: Supported deployment readiness, infrastructure planning, operational coordination, lifecycle management, and execution support. Involved distributed storage, recording deduplication, hierarchical caching, regional library architecture, and popularity-based content placement.

• ~95 national markets

Recognition: National Program Trust

Deployment Lifecycle Transformation

Improved national deployment lifecycle from 6-9 months to approximately 4 months through repeatable frameworks and coordination across engineering, operations, vendors, and deployment teams.

Role: Program governance, readiness coordination, and lifecycle standardization.

• 6-9 months -> ~4 months deployment lifecycle improvement

Comcast Project Cavalry (context)

Comcast's strategic digital-migration and bandwidth-reclamation initiative (~$1B; reclaim 40-50 analog channels; recover up to 300 MHz; enable DOCSIS 3.0 and expanded VOD). Provides scale context for Jason's early involvement in large-scale capacity-optimization and digital-migration programs.

Role: Early involvement in large-scale capacity-optimization/digital-migration context.

New York City VOD Stabilization

One of the busiest U.S. cable markets (Time Warner Cable NYC) experienced scale-driven failures, service lockups, and production instability following successful adoption of a newly deployed multi-vendor VOD ecosystem.

Role: Participated in high-visibility, multi-vendor troubleshooting across complex distributed systems, leading to identification and resolution of cross-system integration issues.

Recognition: Trusted Escalation Resource

Los Angeles Scalability Discovery

Identified a previously unknown scalability limitation in partner software (Pioneer Digital MOD Application Server) during pre-production validation for a large-scale deployment. The platform failed processing concurrent session setup requests.

Role: Investigation revealed critical software components operated single-threaded and could not scale under production conditions, preventing a significant production deployment risk.

Open Architecture Video-on-Demand

Pioneered open-architecture VOD systems at a time when the industry relied on proprietary, vertically integrated solutions. N2's software connected content providers, billing, entitlement, asset management, and streaming servers, and supported interoperability across VOD server vendors (SeaChange, Concurrent, nCube) via the Interactive Services Architecture (ISA) (open framework enabling multi-vendor VOD interoperability, reducing single-vendor dependence) framework.

Role: Systems/integration engineer building multi-vendor interoperability across a distributed VOD ecosystem for operators including Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Charter, and Cox.

• 100+ deployments
• 200+ production Solaris/Linux systems
• 5-15 engineers managed