SUMMARY:

• Experienced Leader of Network Engineering Talent with 19 years of experience.
• Experience managing teams between 10 and 50 engineers, project managers, and non - IT staff.
• Consulted for over 3000 unique organizations, across 12 industry verticals.
• Senior Cisco Network Architect with 12 years of Solution Design Experience
• Cisco CSCO10155977, CCNA, AWLANFE, CQS-FSPS
• Network Design, Implementation, Troubleshooting, Management, and Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Network Manager

• Managing a team of network engineers and architects.
• Implement processes that direct work to produce the most desired outcome for the department.
• Deliver network infrastructure projects, using project management best practices.
• Currently designing network solutions for Cisco Nexus, Catalyst, ASR, ISR, ASA, and UCS products
• I develop the budget for the network infrastructure for corporate and around 130 locations.
• I lead the tier 3 support and project team for network engineering.

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Senior Technology Consultant

• Performed role of Network Architect, Network Manager, Team Manager, Program Manager, Network Engineer, and General Manager for contract roles in medium to large corporations.
• Managed $12million in combined project based and steady state revenue.
• Manage technical resources, screen technical candidates, architect network solutions, analyze contracts, and respond to requests for information, proposals, and quotes.
• Implemented Juniper EX series switches for a LAN refresh across the hospital.
• Supported Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX firewalls as needed

Confidential - Addison, TX

Senior Technical Manager for Network Services

• Provide technical oversight for network solutions for Experis clients across all industry verticals.
• Manage technical resources, screen technical candidates, architect network solutions, analyze contracts, and respond to requests for information, proposals, and quotes.
• Developing market focused service offerings as well as developing my line of business.
• Implemented Cisco NEXUS 6000 series switches and designed solutions across all Cisco product lines.
• I led more than 60 projects across 5 project managers and more than 100 engineers.
• Managed $7million in annual revenue a sales pipeline of more than $60million.

Confidential - Rogers, AR

Design Architect

• Delivered technical sales support for Cisco Networking (voice, route, switch, wireless, security) and Unified Communication solutions for Medium and Small Businesses.
• Consult with customers about communications solutions to address their specific business needs as they relate to Cisco and AOS branded solutions.
• Provide support for and influence strategy for customer infrastructure design and direction by being seen as a "trusted advisor”.
• Present to C-levels, as well as technical staff members.
• Translate technical capabilities into business values to the customer.
• Develop and deliver solution designs, bills of material and statements of work associated with customer opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, product roadmaps, vendor programs and campaigns.
• Conduct knowledge transfers to sales organization and customers, as appropriate. Work collaboratively with third party vendors and outside consultants.
• Maintain customer, partner, and vendor relationships.
• Solutions included MPLS networking, Cisco Unified Communications 9.x (Voice), Cisco 3600.2600.1600, LWAPP wireless networks, ASA security and NEXUS switching, VPN, and many other Cisco and AT&T branded solutions. Completed 2012 at 114% of my personal quota for my market.

Confidential - Richmond, VA

Senior Technical Solutions Architect

• Contracted by TekSystems to design network architecture for a large corporation to include voice, video, data, security, wireless, and network transport designs.
• Designed, priced, and delivered over 200 custom project design, supporting more than $10 million in revenue.
• Solutions designed included MPLS WAN, MPLS LAN, MPLS-VRF, Cisco Unified Communications 7.1 (Voice), Cisco 1252 and WiSM based LWAPP wireless networks, ASA-5580, 6500 and NEXUS switching, VPN, and many other Cisco and AT&T branded solutions.
• Designed a large Cisco Unified Communications, voice solution for over 8,000 users. This solution required transitioning from 4.x to 8.6 for all Cisco voice devices.
• In 3 years I developed the annual account revenue from $9million annually to approximately $30million annually on a five year contract that I helped to develop and close.

Confidential - Tahlequah, OK

Cisco Program Manager

• I developed a working Cisco Professional Services Practice, trained team of 8, and developed solutions for Federal and local commercial markets.
• I also implemented solutions for MPLS, Frame-Relay, VPN, and ATM WAN connections to include SIP and PRI voice circuits.
• In this role I developed a $15million sales pipeline in a year to put Cherokees to work.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Wireless Solutions Manager

• Responsible for pre-sales support for Cisco wireless solutions, Confidential wireless solutions, Vocera wireless voice solutions and Aero Scout Active RFID solutions to more than 25 sales teams and partners in the US and Canada.
• Provided liaison between marketing, product management, sales, operations, and training to ensure understanding, sales, and delivery of my product lines to Confidential customers and Confidential partner customers.
• My co-manager and I developed a $50million pipeline in less than 8 months.

Confidential

General Manager / Consultant

• Provide business process analysis, network infrastructure, project management, account management, and general consulting services to a mid-sized wholesale oil customer.
• Most of my time in this organization was focused on implementing a mini-ERP system for my client. In this role I was solely responsible for the network.
• Supported Cisco routers, VPN 3000 concentrators, VPN hardware clients, remote VPN users, and Cisco PIX firewalls.
• Specifically worked with TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, MPLS, PPTP, IPSec, and SIP.
• Managed a team of engineers on a retail store roll out of 3400 stores on a new Symbol (Motorola) wireless network and implemented 4000 Dell workstations for a major poultry company.
• In this role I have been solely responsible for recruiting talent, securing finances, balancing the budget, business development, technology project management, consulting, and building an exciting, customer focused organization.
• Consulting has been focused on healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics.
• In this role I handled everything in my technical skill box.
• Consulted over 300 small to medium business clients supporting routing, switching, frame-relay, VPN (PPTP and IPSec), firewalls from several vendors, local area networks, wide area networks, wireless networks, UNIX, LINUX, Windows 2000/2003 servers, desktop integration, network design, network planning, network implementation, and network support.
• Focused on small business clients and 3 large business clients and I developed the business to $2.5million in gross revenue.

Confidential - Rogers, AR/Little Rock, AR

Network Engineering Manager / Presales Engineering

• Responsible for timely delivery of network solutions to Confidential ’s customer base, including project management, costing, proposals, budgeting, training, personnel management, ensuring customer satisfaction with a large customer base, business development and customer relationship management.
• Spent considerable time supporting manufacturing and distribution organizations. I also spent significant time working with healthcare organizations to support their unique needs and educate about HIPPA.
• Responsible for vendor relationships with networking vendors to proactively provide Confidential customers with up to date information on industry changes, technology advances, and security regulations. I was the primary, responsible for line of business and sales efforts. In this role, I developed a $3million pipeline in about a year.

Confidential - AR/NJ/MD

Senior Network Services Specialist

• At the corporate level, I built and lead a 10-person network engineering team focused on delivering exceptional customer service, moving Alpharma from operating as five separate business units to integrating the entire organization.
• I supported network services for 130 sites, I was responsible for all network project management and network design, including windows 2000/NT architecture, a $380mil JD Edwards rollout, 4 datacenters and managed up to 58 major projects simultaneously.
• I was the primary manager responsible for building the datacenters and network for our JD Edwards implementation.
• Overall I managed an annual budget of $12.5mil for network and voice services.
• Outside my normal budget I was able to build two datacenters valued at around $20mil.
• I built a virtual information technology organization, covering 24/7 support in over 30 countries and managed $30million in annual budgets.

Confidential - Bentonville, AR

Hardware Support Technician

• Worked with NCR’s network engineers to maintain Wal-Mart’s retail effectiveness, supported point of sale and back office equipment at Wal-Mart sites, supported NT 4.0 and NCR UNIX (3.02) server platforms, and supported Telxon / Aironet radio Frequency networks. I also assisted in rolling out 2500+ Cisco 3620 routers to Wal-Mart sites.