Tony Ardueser Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

Western Region

As the Western Region Partner Solutions Architect for Managed Services, I am the subject matter expert and technical sales resource for the region.• Align with the sales organization to evangelize Cradlepoint solutions to our MSP Channel partners• Work closely with our Partners and their technical teams to develop proof of concepts around technical solutions that gain them a competitive edge in the marketplace• Provide expert-level support and training to our partner community• Drive sales opportunities to achieve quarterly sales quota goals

Eugene, Oregon Area

The primary Solution Architect for TIG in the Pacific Northwest, and the regional subject matter expert in wired and wireless networking, as well as unified communications, with a primary focus on providing presales engineering support for the northwest sales team. • Work as a trusted technical advisor to customer accounts. Meet with customer to determine key business drivers, and identify technology solutions to meet their requirements• Consult with customers on the development, and in some cases help write, their IT Strategic plans• Design and implement complex solutions based on each customer’s unique requirements• Perform assessments (network, wireless, unified communications and security) for customers, to determine overall health, capabilities, and compliance of their infrastructure• Develop proposals, statements of work, and bill of materials in response to customer RFPs• National subject matter expert for wireless networking for Aruba, Cisco, Meraki, Cradlepoint, Xirrus, and Cambium Networks• Highest presales to project conversion rate out of all TIG Solution Architects• Primary design and implementation engineer for the following key projects; o Citywide public Wi-Fi network covering twelve city blocks in the downtown corridor o Recently completed designs for six (6) additional city parks and facilities to expand deployment o High-density wireless redesign for the local convention center o Greenfield wireless network for the world's 3rd largest grass seed producer, to support a new inventory control system o High-density wireless network for State agency o Network redesign of public safety point to point wireless backhaul system

Eugene, Oregon Area

Lead a team of engineers in the design, deployment, and support of Cisco unified communications, converged networks, wireless data solutions and virtualized data centers for new and existing customers. In 2013 we achieved the West Coast Branch of the Year honors.• As the primary Architect for the Oregon branch of TIG, one of my key roles is to support the sales team in evaluating the customer needs and develop solutions to exceed the their expectations. • Work closely with each practice (converged networks, virtualization/server/storage, and security & wireless) to help our customers develop roadmaps, with a focus on software defined data centers.• Act as the branch project manager for all solutions sold requiring professional services. • Manage the service delivery team ensuring the team is at least 50% billable time, and continually exceed forecasted branch P&L targets.

Salem, Or

Work as a member of the Information Services Architect team, which was responsible for developing the organizations guiding principles and solution standards. Individually responsible for the design and implementation of the campus wired and wireless networks, supporting over 10,000 connected devices, the data center network, which spanned across an onsite data center and colocation facility, and creating a design and migration strategy from the legacy NEC PBX to a Cisco Unified Communication platform, with over 7500 wired and 900 wireless handsets.• Designed a Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) strategy and implementation plan• Analyze the current state of the wireless infrastructure and develop a strategy to create a seamless architecture to support the UCC and mobile computing solution• Establish wireless and wired networking system technology standards for the infrastructure and endpoints devices• Develop a ubiquitous wireless network strategy for all facilities, to include outdoor spaces, elevators, sky bridges, and stairwells, using Aruba Networks to support both VoFi and RTLS.• Developed a migration strategy for transition from Ascom to Cisco Voice over Wi-Fi handsets• Prepare whitepapers and technical documents used to educate and inform executives, business unit leaders, and technical staff• Develop and Implement new data center network security standards

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Oversee the operations of the clinic telephony, network, desktop computing, and server environments for over 750 employees and 90 care providers managing 13 direct reports. Managed the installation and migration from a paper records system to an Electronic Medical Records and simultaneously transitioned to a filmless radiology system. • Improved overall system performance by engineering a new data center compute environment with a NetApp SAN and HP Blade servers• Reduced the overall maintenance and operational costs by developing a virtual desktop strategy • Managed the design and implementation of a Cisco VoIP and Unified Communications environment• Achieved greater system utilization and reliability by virtualizing the server environment using VM Ware vSphere and Citrix XenServer over iSCSI and NFS• Re-engineered the utilization of the existing Citrix XenApp environment, resulting in enhanced thin client functionality, better system performance, and reduced long term replacement costs• Architected a new Wi-Fi environment that allowed for a clinical mobile workflow and a public access. • Increased security and HIPAA compliance by instituting the use of smart cards and single sign-on for all clinical staff • Successfully converted to using Computerized Radiology from film using DR Systems • Reviewed and created security policies for wireless, wired, and remote network access

Pacific Northwest

Promoted from Operations Manager to lead the start-up of the first 10 west coast markets (all markets launched ahead of their forecasted on-air dates) with 9 technicians, 150 sites, and 53,000 customers. Manage contractors during civil and tower construction phases. Manage and develop local technicians.• Hands-on development of site plans, hardware installation, and system validation of all new sites. • Re-designed microwave backhaul for multiple markets, resulting in reduced data transport costs, and increased throughput and performance.• Designed a tracking and analysis tool that reduced customer service visits by 52%• Created policies saving 30% on contract labor, and reducing site work time by 15%• Evaluate sales trends relative to network performance and to eliminate capacity issues• Act as a liaison between the sales and technical organizations • Evaluate coverage holes and capacity issues. Identified and recommend additional sites to resolve these issues• Work with General Managers in each market to develop market sales strategies and operational plans

Pacific Northwest

Promoted from Systems Engineer to lead a team of 20 engineers and technicians in the construction, testing, and evolution of wireless high-speed Internet. Heavily focused on managing timelines, capital, and quality.• Key member of a team that constructed one of the first bi-directional broadband wireless supercell systems in the 2.5-2.7GHz frequency spectrum in Seattle• Work with vendors in the development of next-generation wireless data products• Perform RF propagation study in San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA to understand RF behavior for the 2.5-2.7GHz spectrum• Developed a national preventive maintenance schedule to ensure proper operation of MMDS/ITFS video and data equipment• Reduced national site leases saving $500K annually• Develop and implement digital certification procedures to ensure transmission equipment meets FCC requirements• Design and install a microwave network consisting of 20 point-to-point radio links• Designed, coordinated, built, and maintained the second wireless high-speed internet system using Hybrid Networks in the NW• Eliminated broadband interference in a wireless analog video service by building a remote video programming facility

Rapidly expanded video services through out the west coast. Develop new products to meet consumer needs.Promoted to Assistant Engineer• Oversee installation and maintenance of microwave transport systems • Ensure top technical performance for 10 MMDS/ITFS transmission facilities• Interviewing and training of operations managers• Relocated 31 channel MMDS transmission facility into state of the art buildingPromoted to Operations Manager• Maintain a 31 channel MMDS/ITFS transmission facility• Ensure proper inventory levels to sustain 400 gross adds per month• Oversee and perform quality checks on all contract installers and in house techniciansHeadend/Lead Tech• Built and maintained all commercial and multiple dwelling units• Trained all new field technicians to install new wireless cable subscribers• Assisted operations manager with MMDS/ITFS transmission facility maintenance and upgrades

• Maintained 100% combat readiness for Squadron communications• Received 5 awards for outstanding field performance• Installed and maintained all AM/FM communication equipment

Bachelor'S, Information Technology, 4.0

Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Associate, Business Administration, 3.8

Diploma, Electronics Engineering Technology

Certificate, Radio Repair