SUMMARY

• I have 20+ years of hands - on experience in the management/ Information technology environment for various businesses, financial, insurance, and networking systems. These systems was connected internationally, Asia, Canada, Europe, and the United States by vary protocols, and WAN networks.
• Some of my duties include managing a Computer Operations Group. Project Management skills includes, designed and relocation of a Data Center, Network Operations Center (NOC), and Disaster Recovery Site.
• Planning and implementation of major hardware and software upgrades, workload relocation and load balancing, writing business plans and proposals are some of my other responsibilities. I am an independent consultant. I am dependable and I can work independently should the need arise. I can work remote from my home office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
• WordPerfect, Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/ XP, Windows Workgroups, Windows NT
• Word 6.0, WordStar 6.0, Lotus AmiPro 3.0, Procomm Plus 2.1, Netscape, Auto-Sketch
• Ventura Publisher, Grammatik5 for DOS, Supercal, Print Shop Deluxe, Microsoft Excel 5.0
• Microsoft PowerPoint 5.0, Microsoft Access 2.0, Microsoft Project cc:MAIL, Organizer
• Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.01, Smarterm 420, Netscape Internet Browser, Roscoe
• VTAM, APPLE, Novell NetWare 3.X, NetWare Total Control Manager, ATM (OC3)
• Token Ring, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN, FDDI, SMDS, Wollongong
• SMC8000, SNMP, TCP/IP, OS/VSI, MVS/SP/XA/ESA, REACT2001, Ticket Management System (TMS)
• Ascend NavisCore /Navis Xtend, Customer Order Entry (CORE), Facilities & Equipment (F&E)
• HTML, Multilayer Switching, Spanning-Tree Protocol, AutoCAD Lite, and SunGard PreCovery Disaster Recovery Software.
• Cisco switches include Catalyst 2800, 2900, 3500, 5500, and 6500. Synoptics Hubs include 810M, 2715, 2702, 2813, 2811
• DCB’s unit, Kentrox, Beall Ascend 500, and 900 switches. DSU/CSU includes AT&T Paradyne
• 3000, 3160, 3164, 3510, 3550, and 3810. Verilink DSU/CSU ConnecT1, Motorola V.3229, Power 28.8,
• FastalkII. US Robotics modems include V.34 analog and Digital, and he modem chassis configuration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Falkland, NC

Computer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Writing business and disaster recovery plans, and proposal for clients.
• Writing Statement of Work (SOW), and giving formal design review Presentations.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Contractor/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Point of contact, as the TPM for over 2500 sites in the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, for the United States Postal Service (USPS), which duties and responsibilities includes installation issues on LAN switches, 6509, 3500, 2900, and site surveys.
• Coordination Compaq resources, validation of technical solutions, project timelines and activities, project reporting, and providing information and guidance on potential solutions, by using MicroSoft Project.
• Establish a detailed project plan to track the project activities, and performance metrics, by using Microsoft Excel.
• Identify critical path and risk milestones as early in the process as possible and begin mitigation procedures when necessary.
• Establish reporting criteria to monitor performance levels for all partner assignments on the LAN assessment project to make certain milestone requirements are met.
• Provided professional and timely communication of all information pertaining to the status and timing of technical work elements of the data center project.
• Technical Project Manager Activities
• Define the project - Established the proper project scope for the success of the project. The number of locations involved, overall time schedule and the basic organizational units to be included. Project scope also identifies expected work deliverables.
• Organize - This step identifies all of the people that will participate in the project and to discuss the roles of each group.
• Determine tasks - Determined the tasks to be performed based on the definition of the project objectives, scope and deliverables.
• Develop reserves and contingency - Reserves are allowances for additional, unscheduled time that will be incurred during the installation effort. Determined the degree of detail for planning contingency alternatives. Even with the best estimates, unplanned overruns may occur.
• Define resource requirements - Helped the USPS management assesses the work plan submitted to identify the staffing (resource) requirement by skill level for each task on the work plan.
• Develop work program - Make certain that the tasks from the work plan with their associated budgets, start, and complete dates and assign specific resources the responsibility of completing each task.
• Create reports - Determine the depth of status reporting necessary for each group within the project team. Determine the depth of status reporting necessary for each group outside the project team. Describe documents to be used and standards for each type of reporting
• Assess risks - At the end of the project definition, I assessed the potential risks associated with the proposed. The objective of the risk assessment is to identify potential risks and develop and document ways that these risks will be minimized.
• Change control - I reviewed change control requests with the USPS management to evaluate the cost/benefit of the change.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Contractor, Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design data communication networks for the Mid-Atlantic region.
• Design Smart Card and E-Commerce network, and redesign infrastructure.
• Install and configured Cisco 2610 and 3640 routers and Catalyst 3500, 5509, and 6500 switches, with VLAN and multilayer routing.
• Create Build of Material (BOM) price list after designing the networks, and Cost Analysis.
• Writing Statement of Work (SOW), and giving formal design review presentations.

Confidential, Hawthorne, CA

Contractor/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design a SNA network for the relocation of IBM 3090’s mainframes to Dallas, Texas from Hawthorne, California, using Computer Network Technology (CNT) channel extenders, and Digital Signal 3 (DS3). After the network has moved, T1 was used to connect Hawthorne California, Palmdale, California, Sunnyvale, California, Baltimore, Maryland, and Bethpage, New York to Dallas, Texas data center.
• Design a network to transfer Data from Hawthorne, California to Dallas, Texas using CNT channel extenders, with DS3’s.
• Designed and reconfigured of LAN and WAN using CAT5/fiber transmission media, with Cisco routers and Catalyst 5500’s switches, with VLAN and multilayer routing architecture.
• Use Auto Cad Lite to draw network designs for formal network design review presentation.
• Create Build of Material (BOM) price list after designing the networks, and Cost analysis.
• Present oral presentation to potential customers, Such as Department of Justice (DOJ).
• Writing Statement of Work (SOW), and giving formal design review presentations.
• Plan, Organize, and test Disaster Recovery procedures with SunGard Services:

Confidential, Beach, CA

Contractor Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) design for connectivity between Pitt County Administrative Campus building, Pitt County Courthouse, Pitt County Health Department, Tax Assessor Office, Greenville Utilities Building, Tax Collector Office, Sheriff Office, Board of Elections, Development Services, Council On Aging, Pitt Training Building, Mental Health Department, Detention Center, Cooperative Extension Building, and the Building & Grounds Department, for the Management of Information Systems (MIS) Director, of Pitt County, North Carolina..
• The network was designed for future technology consideration such as, video and voice service using fiber.
• Gave formal Presentation.

Confidential, Lemoyne, PA

Contractor Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Cisco 1004 for ISDN, Cisco 2500 series routers for a Paging Nationwide Network.
• Designed, configured, and install new nationwide sites, including 810M hubs, DCB switches.
• Used HTML to create web pages for the network support group on the intranet.
• Gave formal Presentations.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

TAC Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide level II support to the Data Network Operations Center (DNOC) using REACT2001, Ticket Management System (TMS), Ascend NavisCore/Navis Xtend, Customer Order Entry (CORE), Facilities & Equipment (F&E), and HTML.
• Assist level III in designing and optimizing the performance of the digital network using Confidential ., Falkland, NC
• Computer Consultant
• Wrote business and disaster recovery plans, and proposal for clients.
• Bided on contracts from the state of North Carolina, and the federal government.
• Writing Statement of Work (SOW), and giving formal design review presentations.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Contractor/System Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, and implemented an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber optic Optical Carrier 3 (OC3) campus backbone for Token Ring, and Ethernet networks, in Greenville, North Carolina (Value $14 million).
• Configured and installed Hughes ATM LAN system and Wellfleet routers, IBM 8229, bridges, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• Installed over 900 network interface cards (NIC), in combinations with ISA, MCA and Macintosh (Apple) personal computers using SMC8000 and Wollongong software.
• Attached the computers and servers to the network with RJ-45 data and UTP cables.
• Patched hubs and dressed-out CAT5 and fiber optics cables.
• Test the system by pinging IP addresses.
• Recorded the MAC addresses, serial numbers, installed date, installed time, who installed the software, and the customer name.

Confidential, Falkland, NC

Computer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote business and disaster recovery plans, and proposal for clients.
• Bided on contracts from the state of North Carolina, and the federal government.
• Used Microsoft word 5.0. and AmiPro 3.0.
• Writing (SOW, and giving formal design review presentations.

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Director/Computer Operations Group/Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed Royal Maccabees’ Computer Operations Group designed a Data Center, and a Disaster Recovery site, with Comdisc, with tape and print conversion (8.5 million budgets yearly).
• Plan, Organize, and test Disaster Recovery procedures with Comdisco Services, and the company auditor, at a Hot site
• Plan, organize, and implemented interactive networks between Albany, New York, Austin, Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina, Southfield, Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts, and Toronto, Canada, with distributive management software.
• Prepared budgets, status report, performance appraisal, staff human resources, project leader, presented seminars and meeting, and trained staff. Scheduled hardware and software installation, along with schedules.
• Writing SOW, and giving formal design review presentations.
• Purchased mainframes computer systems IBM’s, 4381, 3090, ES9000, and 9221.
• Other hardware that was used during this time included IBM DASD 3380/90, IBM Cartridge 3480/90, IBM Laser 3835/27 printers, IBM 3705/25/26/45 frontend processors, and IBM 3174 and 327X controllers.
• MVS/SP/ESA was the mainframe operating systems.
• Netframe servers and Novell 3.1.2 was the operating system as well as Token Ring.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Manager/Data Center Operations/Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed data center operations and staff (2.2 million yearly budgets).
• Created a Disaster Recovery plan with confidential of Detroit. We had agreements between the sites for Disaster Recovery Backup.
• Prepared budgets, status report, performance appraisal, staff human resources, project leader, presented seminars and meeting, and trained staff. Scheduled hardware and software installation, along with schedules.
• Writing SOW, and giving formal design review presentations.
• Performed facility management services for several others financial organizations, located in Elkhart, Indiana, Atlanta, Georgia, and San Monica, California.