Responsible for helping Visionary Technologies build its mission critical networks and position itself for growth. Focused on refining and developing Visionary’s Cloud Exchange product.Key Duties include:• Business development• Strategic Technology development• Vendor relations• Customer relations• Customer portal requirements• Product Development• Product and service definitions• Product and Service Catalog creation• Requirements documentation• Technical specifications documents• CONOPs documentation

5G Americas Board of Governors work cooperatively to advocate for and foster the advancement and full capabilities of LTE wireless technology and its evolution beyond to 5G, throughout the ecosystem’s networks, services, applications and wirelessly connected devices in the Americas.Key Accomplishments:Led and co-authored several 5G America’s whitepapers on 5G security:• Lead editor on a “Security Considerations for the 5G Era” (July 2020).• Lead editor for 5G America’s whitepaper “Transport Networks for 5G” (Aug 2023).• Co-authored “5G Edge Automation & Intelligence” (Oct 2021).• Co-authored “Security for 5G” (Dec 2021).• Co-authored “Evolving 5G Security for the Cloud” (Sept 2022).

Senior member of the CTO team qualifying new network technologies and architectures, Artificial Intelligence technologies and Cybersecurity.Key Accomplishments:Artificial Intelligence Experience• Represented the CTO team in Ciena’s internal AI Leadership Forum.• Presented a holistic view of AI within Ciena: AI for enterprise productivity, AI for product enhancements (e.g., network planning tools) and AI for infrastructure market trends (e.g., effect on data center architectures).Cybersecurity Experience• Led and co-authored several 5G America’s whitepapers on 5G security• Wrote several whitepapers for a Ciena federal government customer on 5G.• Prepared detailed strategy presentation on Quantum Communications that included an explanation of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a proposal for Quantum Repeaters, and a summary of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).• Co-invented several patents on network securityNetwork Technology Experience• Researched and analyzed new networking technologies to help Ciena progress its packet product portfolio.• Co-Chair of the IEEE CQR 2024 Workshop (Communications Quality, Reliability and Security.)Attained a deep understanding of the metaverse, immersive technologies and Web3 technologies. Created internal presentations, public corporate blogs and gave the keynote presentation at the Metaverse and 5G Conference (Canada 2022).

Network Architecture and Design for large scale government, global, IP/MPLS backbones.Keep Accomplishments:• Designed and implemented a $100M+ global service provider style IP/MPLS network, that is an IC-wide backbone to interconnect programs and networks at the TS level, using the latest Quality of Service (QoS) technology as part of the ASI network division team.• Led the Capacity Planning team responsible for ensuring future customer requirements could be accommodated properly, and the modeling and analysis of the failure modes of the network.• Worked with Intelligence Community partners to architect peering and network interconnectivity based on industry best practices.

Ascending roles from Network Engineer to Director in both Network Architecture and Customer Operations.Key Accomplishments:• Global IP Services including IP Product Creation and Product Strategy for Level 3’s $150M IP product line.• Focused on various areas including Global Data Architecture and Design, Network Operations and managing a 24x7 operations center overseeing Level 3’s $100M+ and million+ DSL subscriber network