Professional Biography:

Brady Volpe

Brady Volpe is currently the Director of Process and Technology Engineering for JDS Uniphase joined in September of 2008. Previously, Mr. Volpe was Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Sunrise Telecom where he managed all facets of the company’s global intellectual property, R&D, product development and procurement processes. With more than 16 years of broadband cable industry experience, Mr. Volpe is a principal authority on DOCSIS®, PacketCable™, RF, and fiber optic transport. He joined Sunrise Telecom in 2005 as vice president advanced technology solutions where he guided strategic product development and product roadmap initiatives, and was promoted to the VP Engineering and Technology role in 2007.

Prior to Sunrise Telecom, Mr. Volpe worked with Filtronic Sigtek, Inc. as Director Technical Marketing & Sales, where he developed and drove the industry debut of a DOCSIS protocol analyzer. The first portable DOCSIS analyzer for the broadband industry capable of analyzing both the upstream and downstream DOCSIS signal. Previously he was Director of Engineering State College, PA and Santa Clara, CA and Site Executive of Santa Clara, CA with C‐COR Incorporated (now Arris) where he led engineering and telecommunications equipment development for all of the company’s facilities. He began his Broadband career with C-COR as a Product Engineer and earned successful promotions to Manager Technology Center transforming it into a leading edge research department and then Director Test Engineering where he increased test throughput by 400% enabling C‐COR to experience the highest manufacturing output in its history through automation of RF and fiber optic test stations in its Pennsylvania and Mexico manufacturing plants. Upon successfully developing this group he was then promoted into the Director of Engineering position and subsequently given added responsibilities for the Santa Clara Facility as site executive.

A highly respected speaker, Mr. Volpe is a frequent presenter at industry trade shows, conferences and regional seminars. He has published numerous articles in world wide trade journals and authored several white papers on DOCSIS protocol and VoIP test and analysis. Mr. Volpe lends his expertise to industry associations and protocol bodies and is often sought out as an authority on DOCSIS, PacketCable, and VoIP.

Mr. Volpe earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering, graduating with Honors (4.0) from John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 2004. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Throughout his studies, Mr. Volpe focused on advanced telecommunications.