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Fairfax Station, Virginia

IT professional with over 40 years of experience. Proven leadership capabilities in diverse environments involving standard IT services through complex technologies and services such as Cloud Computing, Unified Communications, Service Management, and Security. SME on Enterprise/Service Management and associated disciplines across on-prem, hybrid and cloud based solutions. Network, System and Applications expert knowledge (VMWare, Unix/Linux, Windows, Cisco/Juniper, Palo Alto, Ethernet/ATM/Sonet/SNA,etc, various applications and Databases with development knowledge and skills).!!!!!! Inventor of concept of using open source for and initial successful implementation of Conferencing system support 20K concurrent users, DCS (Defense Collaboration Service) at DISA (comprised of both voice/video conferencing and XMPP chat), successfully testing over 2000 concurrent users on DISA cloud. In addition we demonstrated over 100,000 concurrent secured XMPP chat sessions both standalone and federated with other XMPP servers. We accomplished this in spite of massive issues internal and external to the agency, including contracting and other areas. !!!!!!!Tremendous cross disciplinary skills in security, architecture, design, engineering and operations of networking, systems, applications, and development across the entire life cycle of capabilities. Implemented a number of successful world wide service management solutions for government and commercial entities.

East Coast Partner Engineer. Trained partners and worked with partner large customer engagements, worked R&D on various innovative customer solutions (Research In Motion (RIM), Lockheed Martin)

Burlington, Ma

Took over a failed HP implementation of Service Management and completely re-designed, implemented and integrated into operations a successful, follow-the-sun architecture for managing the world's 2nd largest VOIP wholesale provider with over 600 Points of Presence around the world. Coordinated U.S., England and Hong Kong network operations centers and troubleshooting efforts for the foundations business and all back end-services.

Burlington, Ma

Managed Enterprise Management Engineers for Northeast and Canada (Vital Suite (VitalNet, VitalApp), QIP, NavisCore, etc. . Worked with product development and R&D for large customer accounts.