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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for delivering both broad stroke and customized solutions for the AARNET customer base of universities, research organizations, and scientific networks. Duties include defining design goals, overall architecture, and delivery of both network and security solutions -- including the scope of the challenge at hand, a fully detailed end-to-end solution, writing and scoring Vendor RFPs as necessary, performing Proof of Concept trials in our Labs, and ensuring the solution fits with our overall architecture of the entire AARNET Fiber, Transmission, DWDM, Ethernet, Routing, Peering, and Transit networks (AS7575) from both an operational and security viewpoint.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for implementing Vocus' next-generation infrastructure and product offerings on a new national programmable network platform, providing self care and automated provisioning and network orchestration for wholesale, retail, and government users. Execute on the Vocus "Future State" initiative started in 2018 to transform the entire network into a single end-to-end orchestrated and resilient network, combining all previous legacy network (iPrimus, M2, Amcom, Nextgen, and legacy Vocus networks) into a single new and scalable design, for all products and services offered by Vocus.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for the overall Network Architecture, Design, and Engineering of a full-service Tier-1 Voice and Data Telecommunications service provider (AS24516) with 20+ Core POPs across 5 countries in APAC with 36,000km of network coverage; using the lowest latency paths possible. Brought Virtutel ON-NET to all 121 Australian NBN Network POIs for direct last-mile access anywhere in the country.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for implementing a next-generation SDN/OpenFlow based National carrier network with full automated provisioning, CLOS data centre fabrics, Virtualized Routing, and VNF/NFV tenanting and lifecycle management. Company (Brocade) purchased by Broadcom and SDN/NFV business spun-out to Lumina Networks.

Sydney, Australia

Juniper JNCI Certified Instructor. Delivered courses on MPLS VPNs, Traffic Engineering, Security, Carrier-Class Switching, NG-MVPN, Hierarchal QoS (HQoS), BGP/OSPF/RSVP/LDP, Advanced routing, etc.. to various Tier-1/Tier-2 Telcos and ISPs in Australia, New Zealand, and the greater Asia Pacific region.Performed Juniper Professional Services work for Various Network Providers (Primary engagement was Vocus/iPrimus/M2/Dodo, but included Telstra, Vodafone, Macquarie Telecom, etc..) on various infrastructure contracts both short-term and long-term engagements.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Service Provider Sales Engineer to Tier-2 Telcos and ISPs in Canada, including AT&T Canada, Peer-1, NorthwestTel, EnMax Envision, Shaw Cable/Business Solutions/BigPipe, Distributel, and various smaller and regional providers in Canada.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for overall Data Network transformation from a reseller/rebiller-based model to a full-service facilities-based Telecommunications service provider.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managed day-to-day operations, provisioning, trouble escalation, and turn-ups for a true facilities-based dark fibre TDM/SONET/ATM and Gigabit Ethernet Metro-Area network in Toronto, Canada. Clients included TSX top 100 companies, Financial institutions, Stock Exchanges, as well as providing last-mile access circuits to National and Global services Telecommunications companies.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Layer 2 Transport (SONET, Frame, ATM) Network Operations specialist. Responsible for day-to-day management and trouble resolutions for 80,000+ circuits and facilities across Canada as part of an excellent team of really smart guys and gals I had the pleasure of working with.