Andy Halstead Email & Phone Number

Jackson Ms.

Jackson, Mississippi Area

InLine Communications is now Uniti Fiber a Service provider in southeast United States. The IP Engineering team assists in the delivery of Ethernet and Internet services, along with managed services to a growing customer base. Working with:Cisco ASR/ASA/ME routers and switches Juniper MX /EX routers and switches VMWare Vcenter and network applications using sflow, netflow, and SNMP.

Alabama / Florida

covering the Southeast and several of Dasher’s enterprise and service provider accounts. focused primarily in end-to-end data communications within the enterprise and the service provider extending into the data center with a focus on business continuity.

Southest Usa

Consulting Sales Engineer and Design Architect Logista Professional Services TeamLogista Data Center Architect Logista Voice Services Team Leadcustomer facing engineer for business opportunities:• Cisco Systems hardware and software: o Determine how technology can meet business objectives o Proposal development and presentations o Demonstration on Hardware and Software o Hardware, Software Project services pricing o Operations and Project Management lesion o Scope of work development o Post sales installation and services o Perform Site Survey and assemble data for customers o Customer relationship manager o Develop training and hand-off material • Data Center: o Logista Data Center Services Principal Design Architect o Generate proposals and presentations o Deliver and engineer Live demonstrations o Design and Manage WAN LAN and Internet connectivity for customers o Work with CLEC and LEC for delivery of communications o Product development and Business Process o Disaster Recovery consultant o Present private and public Cloud based solutions to customers o Develop short term and long term cost models and determine product profitability o Assist in sales process, forecasting and lead generation for sales personnel Product skills: Cisco Routers and Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Operations Manager, Cisco Unified Call Manager and Voice Products version 10.x, Single-wire, VMWare, Cisco UCS, Nexus, Visio, Netformx,

Ridgeland Ms

6 months - Voice Contractor for Cellular South CSPIRE• Lead Administrator for Cisco Call Manager Ver 7.x • Assisted in upgrade from version 6.x to 7.x • Managed all WAN connections for retail stores • Implemented changed during maintenance windows with zero tolerance for failure• Engineered and designed Call Flow for new retail stores• Implement 802.1x for switching to work with Juniper NAC solution

Manassas Va

2008 – 2009 Contractor for IBM at Amtrak data center. • Project Lead for switching and Security during a PCI compliance pre-audit. • Installed and configured over a hundred Cisco 3750 and 4500 series switches • Installed and configured PIX525 and Checkpoint firewalls • Installed and configured Blue Coat Proxy and DNS • Installed and configured F5 load balancers • Tight maintenance windows with zero tolerance for failure. • Labeled and re-cabled all connections for switches that we installed

•Technical sales consulting - Analyzed the customer’s networking needs and advised on network and communications equipment strategy to meet short and long term goals. •Technical installations - Deployed Cisco voice and data networks, including but not limited to Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco ISR routers, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Unified CallManager, Cisco SRST and CCME voice solutions and 3rd party integrations like Berbee.• 1.Installed equipment all over the United States.• 2.Managed project timeline and budget requirements• 3.Created hand off documents giving details on installation.

•Technical sales consulting - Analyzed the customer’s networking needs and advised on network and communications equipment strategy to meet short and long term goals. •Built key technical relationships within an account. •Engineered designs and configurations for Cisco and Nortel Data and Voice solutions for BellSouth’s Large Business, State and local government accounts, K-12 schools and Universities for entire state of Mississippi.•Made technical sales presentations to customer decision makers.•Worked with vendor AM’s, SE’s and Channel support to develop technical account strategies.

Greater New Orleans Area

Regional Engineering Manager for 6 states directly responsible for 15 Sales EngineersCovad/Bluestar was CLEC Business Class DSL/T1 start-up company helping customers use Business lower cost business class services to enable communications between locations. Alcatel and Cisco

Greater New Orleans Area

Sun Solaris Unix Systems AdministratorNetwork Engineer PC support Technician Oracle and Sybase Systems Administrator Nortel Phone systems

Biloxi, Mississippi Area

USAF Logistics Transportation and Asst. Network Administrator for Logistics Squadron started my telecommunications foundation with the following:Novell, Foxpro, Windows 3.11, Lantastic, Dial up Modems, bulletin Boards, Ethernet, Hub and also had a Haz Mat Commercial Drivers License.