Principal consultant at Five 9 Labs offering consultation services for IT based enterprise infrastructures with an emphases on media rich networks. Technology including Networking, WAN/LAN/MAN, Storage, Server/Visualization, broadcast video, automation, OT/IT and security.Auditing, preemptive, and by exception monitoring 24/7 AS A SERVICE.Structured Cabling installation, proofing, and testing with leading industry tools. Contracts Include:Lead Architect for IP Remediation of corporate wide IP Networks. Facilitating parent company open routing initiatives.Toronto MAN Network architecture audit and build of redundant Ethernet and SONET services. Customer Lead in design and project planning of forklift DWDM ROADM project.Enterprise 24/7 Live Video Multi-format Compression contribution network upgrade/replacements across multiple properties.Design and Implementation of passive fully redundant DWDM network in the Greater Montreal area, supporting 10G and 40G Data networks as well as Live video transport for distribution and acquisition services. Diverse Internet Perimeter and WAN/LAN core IP Networks including deployment Automation and SDN.Virtual compute environment build, commission, and migration. Greenfield design and build of monitoring, alerting and reporting engines contributing to the operational savings of the customer.Wireless Survey, deployments, and operational management for medium size multi-site enterprise customers.Network Diagnosis and rapid recovery on per instance basis as well as continuous retainer.Fiber testing and troubleshooting - OTDR and fault locators.

Leadership and technical expertise in infrastructure related designs,troubleshooting and solutions.Ensuring security, high availability, and daily operations of public facing mission critical IT/OT services supporting industrial automation, SCADA monitoring and networking environment in the ICS Water/wastewater industry. Maintaining standards and procedures, ensuring legislative and regulatory compliance, mitigating risk, improving internal and public services, reducing costs through the efficient management of infrastructure and its operation.Managing Vendor and consultant/contractor relations and performance in overall solution delivery.Operational support of city wide Wireless Water Meter Program Network AMRMulti Site Enterprise Data Center IT and OT architecture and operational network support.RFR, RFQ, RFR development.

Manage a team of Application Specialist and Engineers to design and support the IP product line as well as provide feature and regression testing.Developing closely with the engineering teams, SDN (Software Defined Networking) network programmability over Ethernet and video centric network services and functions. Converting liner workflows and network services to Virtualized components of the cloud.Working closely with clients, Interrogating existing and designing new network architecture for green field or existing infrastructures, accommodating workflows and optimizing overall networks.Spoke/Present publicly to various levels of clients in multiple settings presenting IP centric portfolio products.

Lead, developed, and mentored a team of network architects and media technology specialists to blueprint, construct and support infrastructures both unique and well utilized in the industry. Responsible for all Project planning, management, technical design, capitol, operational budget impact (ROI), and procurement.Planned and evaluated IT architecture solutions for all aspects of the high-speed WAN/LAN/MAN/WLAN corporate and broadcasting networks and services creating and soliciting RFPs for the bidding process.Designed, and implemented “Next Generation” contribution national WAN network supporting all aspects of data and video traffic related to the business reaching > 99.999% uptime and while reducing call volume and operational expense by over 70%. Integral player in the building and deployment of the Digital terrestrial OTA signals for CTV television across Canada mandated by the CRTC.Responsible for 7 high-speed Internet infrastructures supporting geo-diverse connectivity, web Content filtering, Contribution video assets, advanced persistent threat, intrusion prevention/detection, corporate mail, remote access, and Web hosting services and applications. Deployed and Supported Multi-sourced IPTV In-house system reaching all sites globally to replace aging and green field RF systems.Produced Baseline testing and metric reporting for all Video and data wireline services to VP level management targeting weekly and month end periods.

Directly responsible for the planning, budgeting, design and implementation of the intercontinental Video Transport, Data and VoIP Networks across 3 sites including London, UK, Toronto, Canada, Montreal Canada and multiple event and broadcast venues while providing full redundancy across all services and platforms.Conducted multiplatform design, configuration, implementation, and testing of native video and carrier grade transport equipment. Full Design and implementation of broadcast video Encoding/Decoding, Multicast services, including multisite sourced IPTV, and integration of Olympic specific services into the national data network in support of the London 2012 Olympic Games

Design, Implemented, and managed all Data and Video circuits for host broadcaster CTV and Consortium members Rogers, ATN, APTN, V, and RDS. Including 14 event venues, 5 Satellite Uplink redundancy feeds, over 55 Video feeds over Ethernet, VOIP, and IPTV technologies.

Video and media Content networking and distribution. Administration of Ethernet data for Lan and Wan topologies. Design, integration and Administration of Windows iX86 and Linux systems in an enterprise environment.Design and implementation of Video over IP strategies for Broadcasting environmentIPTV technologies within an enterprise environment.

Supervised a team of IT staff specializing in broadcast operations.Specialized in broadcast busniness software NEWSTAR.Administration of Windows iX86 systems in an enterprise enviroment.MSCE Cert.