SUMMARY:

As a Telecommunications specialist/consultant I have over twenty - five years of experience in the telecommunications field. Through direct involvement in the day-to-day operation of major private data networks, I have gained skills in project management, data network design/engineering, planning, implementation, troubleshooting, operations and network management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• More than 15 years network infrastructure architecture expertise in global scale environments.
• More than 15 years project technical implementation lead expertise with $ 1M or larger projects.
• More than 15 years in technical project management roles
• More than 15 years presenting oral and written presentation to VP and C-Level executives.
• More than 15 years providing technical team lead and mentoring to junior team members.
• More than 15 years network optimization experience in global scale environments.
• More than 10 years IP routing protocols (BGP and OSPF) expertise and hands on experience
• More than 10 years with service provider transport (VRF Routing, MPLS & MPLS VPN V4).
• More than 15 years Quality of Service "QoS" experience.
• More than 10 years data center high-availability experience in multi-vendor environments including Cisco, Nortel, Juniper, Tellabs, and ALU.
• More than 10 years IP telephony, VoIP.

SKILLS:

• Management Skills
• Project Management
• Delivery and Implementation
• Strategic Planning
• Personnel Supervision
• Budget Planning
• Capacity Planning/Engineering
• Engineering Skills
• Architecture and Design
• Routing and Switching
• MPLS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
• ATM Packet Switching
• Firewall Administration
• Network Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working in the project management group, I managed projects for 8 different markets simultaneously, relating to cell site integration, optimization and launch
• Managed the nationwide interference isolation and reporting service.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

• Worked in the MPC (Mobility Provisioning Center). Daily hands on involvement with equipment supplying voice and data services to AT&T wireless customers (Cisco, Tellabs and ALU). This required extensive understanding, implementation, and troubleshooting of ATM, OSPF, MPLS, and BGP in a diverse equipment and protocol environment.
• Migrated entire Central region voice and data transport from Nortel Passport ATM network to the MSN (Multi-Service Node) ATM/IP OSPF network, ahead of schedule and below budget. Required extensive planning, script building, coordination, and teamwork.
• Provided Cisco and ALU 7750 configuration and troubleshooting support as a lead member of team performing LTE trials and roll out.
• SME team liaison, responsible for integrating new services and equipment into the AT&T network.
• Provided mentorship and training for junior and senior engineers on new equipment, services, policies and procedures.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer/Architect, Project Manager

• Performed Network Engineering audit on existing network and data center.
• Developed proposal for new network design based on audit results for the rebuild of the Confidential IT network.
• Provided new network design based on Metro Ethernet to reduce OPEX by over 50%.
• Produced reports on the status and capacities of the existing network, data center, and network operations center.
• Direct involvement in developing the working budget ($6.5 million) for rolling out the new infrastructure and dual data centers.
• Developed Capacity Engineering concept and subsequent plan for the Government, which included KPI development. The resulting documentation was used during the development and justification of the proposed budget.
• Performed Network Operations Center audit and design for new “iNOC”.
• Marketing presentation development to “reintroduce the IT network to its customers”.
• Produced Standards and Policies documentation based on ITIL standards.
• Project managed the acquisition, by the Confidential, of its’ own dedicated IP address space and BGP ASN through ARIN.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer/Architect, Project Manager

• Lead architect for the design and deployment of a nationwide backbone ATM network for voice signaling (SS7), mobile data traffic and corporate data traffic.
• Key member of the engineering team tasked with merging AT&T and Cingular Wireless networks. Required extensive knowledge of ATM, IP, OSPF, MPLS, and BGP.
• Evaluation team member responsible for trialing and selecting the next generation MSN (Multi-Service Node) equipment (Tellabs, ALU)
• Provided the design for backbone network portion of a new Data Center built in Atlanta area
• Developed Capacity Engineering plan, including defining KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), and produced daily/weekly/monthly reports. Lead to budget assignment of $10m annually for 3 consecutive years.
• Training for NOC teams, both nationally and regionally.
• Developed procedure and standards documents.
• Provided mentorship and training for junior and senior engineers on new equipment, services, policies and procedures.

Confidential

Nortel Sales Engineer

• Performed equipment evaluation trials of Nortel Passport
• Perform scalability and performance testing
• Wrote scripts to ease test procedures
• Provide training to Confidential Engineering staff.

Confidential

Nortel Sales Engineer-Onsite Implementation

• Nortel equipment trial resulted in Nortel winning contract.
• Role changed from SE to onsite implementation engineer
• ATM backbone and services engineering.
• Capacity Planning strategy and documentation
• Provide training for GST groups (Engineering, Product Marketing and entire Sales organization) from basic overview to network engineering.
• Worked with the Product Marketing team to bring ATM product to market, from product development through to sales.
• Leader of the Nortel/GST team that performed the live acceptance testing of Voice over ATM product. This product went on to become the Media Gateway.
• Produce documentation outlining provisioning and troubleshooting for all services offered by GST.

Confidential

Nortel Sales Engineer-Onsite Implementation

• Nortel equipment trial resulted in Nortel winning contract.
• Role changed from SE to onsite implementation engineer
• Backbone and services engineering
• Capacity Planning strategy and documentation
• Trained Confidential staff from basic overview to engineering level on operations and maintenance, traveled to remote customer sites to provide training.
• Provided planning and engineering support for implementation and migration of network.
• Set up lab environment for testing and validating new services, software releases, and hardware.
• Produced a troubleshooting document for all services implemented in Confidential ’ network.
• Produced training documentation to assist with future training and to be used as a reference.