Since 1994, the New England Chapter of the SCTE has sponsored the Chapter Personal Achievement Award. In 2004 the Board voted to rename this award to the Bill Riley Personal Achievement Award in honor of Bill for his devotion to this Chapter. The recipients of this award are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments at the personal and professional levels.  Recipients have demonstrated their dedication and willingness to go above and beyond what is considered the norm. The award criteria touches on the areas of basic knowledge and skills of the industry, professionalism in the workplace, community and professional involvement that enhances the positive perception of the CATV industry and its engineering.

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Congratulations to Paul Babson on receiving the SCTE Personal Achievement Award for 2023!

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Over Paul’s career he has worked his way up the ranks, starting as an Installation tech in 1990.   He moved from Service tech, to Plant Operations and by 1996 he became a Network Engineer.   He became a Senior Network engineer and then transitioned to a leadership role in 2002 as a Senior Manager and then Director.   Paul now serves as Vice President of Comcast’s Northeast Division Network Engineering.   Some of Paul’s accomplishments are:  launched Highway 1, launched Video On Demand (VOD), created the Unified Engineering Network (UEN) and the first Converged Regional Area Network (CRAN), created the Cross-Divisional Capacity Database and sponsored the usage Modular WorkFlow across Comcast company-wide. 

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Paul has been a respected RF and IP Networking engineer and leader due to his ability to bring teams together to solve process and/or procedural issues.   Paul has driven various tools creations which have become Comcast enterprise-wide used tools.   He was also instrumental in the One Network organizational changes in 2019.

 

Paul oversees IP network architecture as well as software development for tools.   Paul worked his way up through the ranks and focuses on helping his team members attain their career growth goals as well as offering his mentorship to team members in other organizations.  

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Paul’s exemplary contributions to the industry and to others have made a commendable impact! Congratulations Paul!