Professional Objective

Permanent position in technical/engineering management, senior technical consulting, or senior network architecture as part of a bright, dedicated team in Cincinnati or Indianapolis regions

Profile

· Established self-starting networking industry veteran with natural leadership ability, strategic insight, and outstanding ability to rapidly learn and apply new technologies as well as operate autonomously leading large-scale projects.

· Over twelve years in large scale, high performance enterprise network design for growth and Fortune 500 companies

· Nine-plus years in Service Provider technical consulting and Internet backbone architecture and design

· Two years in high-tech startup leadership, four years in engineering management.

· Eighteen years expert system administration proficiency with BSD, Mac OS X, and Linux.

· Results-oriented commitment to quality, professional workmanship and customer experience

· Extensive technical depth as well as breadth across a wide range of products, technologies, and environments. Exhaustive details of technical experience available online or in Complete Resume.

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Employment Highlights

·       Nov 15-Present – Senior Network Consultant, TEKsystems/DXC/P&G – Technical leadership for major P&G network initiatives, data center network architecture and design, extensive technical documentation, creation and presentation of low and high level technical project information to diverse technical and executive audiences.

·       Jan 11-Oct 11: Senior Documentation Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc/TEKsystems Inc. – Short term contract providing comprehensive creation and management of lifecycle documentation for GE Aerospace network remediation project

·       Dec 08-Dec 10: Senior Trading Network Engineer, PEAK6 Investments, L.P. - Responsible for design of next-generation low latency trading network to support high frequency algorithmic trading systems.

·       Mar 07-Nov 08: Network Engineering Manager, Enhanced Telcommunications Corp. - Led engineering staff to deliver state-of-the-art high speed business and residential Internet services in southeastern Indiana.

·       Mar 00-Aug02: Founder and CTO, NetDestiny, Inc. - Inventor of NetDestiny’s semantic web software. Provided technical leadership, market vision, and direction for software engineering group.

·       Jul 95-Feb 00: Senior Internet Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. - Architectural leadership for major customer design initiatives and product and technology solutions for Tier 1 Service Providers in the domestic U.S.

·       Nov 93 -May 95: Senior Network Consultant, General Magic Inc. – Provided industry leading innovation in design and deployment of next generation multiprovider network supporting ground-breaking cloud services technology

·       Jul 90-June 93: Senior Network Architect, Apple Computer, Inc. – Designed and deployed one of the first global multiprotocol Cisco intranets

Expert in remediation of difficult and complex network engineering challenges, especially with demanding timeframes and high visibility.

Networking Experience

·       Large scale/HPC routing and switching expert

·       Expert routing protocols BGP/OSPF/ISIS/EIGRP

·       Expert Cisco routing and switching (CCIE #1829)

·       High frequency trading network design and ops

·       Low latency network architecture and ops

·       Metro Ethernet/DWDM/CWDM

·       Voice/Video transport including QOS.

·       Internet backbone architecture

·       Multicast network design and troubleshooting

·       Network security; firewall/IPS/IDS; Cisco, Juniper, PaloAlto, Fortinet

·       Data center and facilities engineering

·       Project management; planning, RFPs, contracts

·       Analog telephony and PBX architecture

·       VoIP/VoFR/VoATM transport engineering.

·       WAN design, installation and troubleshooting; WDM/SONET/FR/POS/ATM/DS3/DS1

·       Cisco, Aruba wireless (802.11a/b/g/n/ac)

Other

·       Senior Unix/Linux/BSD systems administration

·       RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, rPath, BSD, MacOS X.

·       DNS/BIND administration

·       Sendmail MTA architecture and ops

·       LAMP administration and scripting

·       Fluency in C, Perl, PHP, Python.

·       Outstanding communication, presentation, and technical documentation skills

·       Executive presentation of technical information

Education and Certification

·       Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert #1829 (currently Inactive)

·       BSCS/BSPhil, Ball State University, 1987.

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