v      Seasoned technical professional with 10 years of progressive experience in the development of technical strategies and solutions, network engineering/architecture, telecommunications and project management.  Comprehensive background in problem-solving and solution implementation for national/international 'Fortune 100' enterprises encompassing financial institutions, health care facilities, insurance companies, and NFL sports clubs.

v      Expertise in LAN/WAN environments, network architecture design/support, IP telephony, telecom networking, voice/video/data convergence, hardware/software configuration, troubleshooting, and technical support.  Design functionality validation.  Adept with diverse and specialized equipment including 3Comm switches, Bay routers, CISCO routers/switches, network/telecommunications products, and voice/data systems.

v      Highly experienced in analyzing information business technology needs, evaluating client requirements, and custom designing data management infrastructure.  Skilled in planning and implementation, resource allocation, and project management.  Able to interact with all levels of the organization.  Motivated team player/builder.

v      Quick study with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration, easily assimilate job requirements and aggressively employ new ideas, concepts, methods and technologies.  Proven ability to build and maintain critical relationships involving clear communication, persuasion and diplomacy.

Freelance Network Consulting San Francisco, CA      2002 – present              Consultant

• Design and implement technology solutions for small business clients.  Resolve various pre-existing technology issues. Disaster recovery planning. Security Assessments. Network design.

Eastman Kodak Fremont, CA                                       2003 – 2004                   Sr. Health Imaging Service Engineer

• Provide third level support for Health Imaging Archiving Systems of Picture Archiving Communication Systems (PACS) including Solaris, EMC RAID, Windows 2000 Server, and proprietary software. Liaison between all other levels of service, research and development, and customer. Define requirements for new features and bug fixes. Manage critical escalations.

 Sprint E|Solutions St Louis, MO                                  2000 – 2002                  Technology Solution Consultant

• Designed and implemented technology solutions for a client base which includes small, mid and enterprise businesses. Responsibilities include pre-sales, proposal and statement of work creation, detailed documentation, presentations, site assessments, policy and standards development, develop Practice based solution templates and marketing tools. Managed resources nationally.

Technologies include in varying combinations:

• Networking: Design complex infrastructure solutions for Metropolitan Area Networks, Wide Area Networking (WAN) Local Area Networking (LAN), Frame-relay, Point-to-Point leased lines, HDLC, ATM, OC-3, OC-12, DS-1, DS-3, Layer-3 Switching, Routing, multicast, OSPF, RIPV1, RIPV2, BGP, ISDN, Gigabit Technologies, Fast Ethernet, Ethernet, VLANs, VTP, ISL, Newbridge and Cisco gear including Catalyst 6500s with MSFCs, 7000 series routers, 12000 GSRs, 2600 series routers, 2900 and 3500XL series switches. National Cisco site roll-outs, High Availability multi-homed switching/routing, and security/e-commerce solutions, Autonomous Systems and BGP core including troubleshooting pre-existing issues,  Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, 3620 with MICA modems for Dial-up Access
• Security: Security Policies and Standard Development, PIX Firewalls, Raptor DNS, Windows 2000 IAS, and Cisco ACS 3.0. Virtual Private Networking (VPN): Dynamic, Static, Router, PIX Firewall, Windows Server, Altiga & Cisco 3005 Concentrators.
• Server: Windows NT and 2000, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, Exchange E-Mail Servers, and various Proxy servers.
• Voice: Design Cisco AVVID solution for 27site enterprise including wireless IP telephone service, and multi-site VoIP solution utilizing E&M tie lines with multi-vendor PBXs.

Recipient of Two Excellence Awards and leader of the “Best In Class” national steering committee.

Sarcom/Frontway Cleveland, OH                                1999 - 2000                   Consultant – Systems Engineer

• Technical Lead for Campus Core Redesign. Design Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Core upgrade. Staging of Cisco 8540 ATM and Cisco 6500 Gigabit core devices for migration. Document SONET, FDDI Core, Distribution, and Edge devices.
• Assist in configuration of national multi-point Voice over Frame integration.
• Implement remote access deploying Cisco 3640 router utilizing PRI conjunction with Cisco Secure authentication software.
• Resolved connectivity issue between Cisco Catalyst 2948 Switch and Novell client.
• Implementation of remote access service utilizing of 3com Access Server and radius authentication. Cisco 1601 Access Router access-list amendment allowing telnet access for internally secured hosts. Resolve gateway routing issue.
• Configure, test and deploy 140 Cisco 2601 router's, Visual CSU/DSU's and 3Com hubs for national Frame-Relay rollout.
• Design and implement migration from static IP mappings to dynamic IP allocation including DHCP, WINS and DNS in Enterprise environment. Design and deployment of Outlook 98, Office 97, IE 4.01, Windows 95, and Norton Anti-virus.

Recipient of Three Excellence Awards

Stratos Internet Group/CoreCom Cleveland, OH           1997 - 1998                   Network Administrator-L3 Support

• Configure Cisco Routers and provide Corporate Leased Line Support. Administrator DNS, Email Administrator for Netscape and IPSwitch mail servers, UNIX Web administrator and NT 4.0, UNIX, WAN, LAN and Database Administrator.
• Support remote network administrators in developing and implementing TCP/IP internetworking.
• Support 20,000 dial-up and 800 web-hosting clients; HTML, Email, FTP on UNIX and NT3.51, 4.0 Web Hosting Servers.

Paramour Pictures Cleveland, OH        1993 - 1996       Manager, Network Administrator, Computer Graphic Layout

• Built initial digital imaging peer-to-peer network consisting of Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and NT 3.51 servers.
• Digitally imaged graphic book layout using various tools including Adobe Photoshop, and Quark Xpress.
• Managed Digital imaging Department and layout department responsibilities included training of all personnel.
• Supported and Administered all PCs and servers in the division.
• Prepared all compiled book to print ready state including writing DOS batch file programming to compress books.

Lake Community College – Cleveland, OH                                                                                                                                       

Associate Degree  ·  Emphasis: Computer Science, Graphic Arts, Humanities and Accounting

Cleveland State University – Cleveland, OH

Programming Logic · Intro to Computers / Information Systems, Programming

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