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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

Champaign, Illinois, US

In 1994, we connected an off-campus residence in Champaign, Illinois — providing students with network access in their apartments for the first time. Since then, our scope has expanded to link multi-dwelling unit (MDU) properties, businesses, homes and cities in 44 states and Canada with high-speed fiber-optic Internet networks. Our expert team designs.

Schaumburg, IL, US

• Provided solutions for Auditing, Governance, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Cloud Solutions, & Cybersecurity Training.
• Senior Leader responsible for revenue goals across US/Canada operations.
• Served as virtual CISO for multiple organizations building a Cybersecurity practice from scratch.
• Managed Pre-Sales Engineering, Professional Services & Security Engineering, with 18+ engineers.o Created a complete lab environment to allow engineers to train on each product & familiarize themselves with each.
• CompTIA – Adjunct Instructor | Aug 2020 – Aug 2023
• TigerGraph – Cybersecurity Solutions Architect Practice Leader | Mar 2021 – Aug 2022

Portland, OR, US

• Provides companies with a better way to capture, store, and monitor their communications
• Held bottom-line accountability for the development and growth of pre-sales activity in the US and Canada ($5M)
• Created and built an entire lab testing environment for validation of more than sixty (60) different communications products
• Spearheaded efforts to develop a training program for Sales Executives that shortened onboarding times by more than 25%, leading to a significantly shorter time to make a positive top-line sales impact
• Provided expert leadership and overlay support for all Enterprise Prospect POCs and Solutions Reviews presented to each customer executives
• Led deployments in AWS and Azure SaaS environments for more than twenty customer engagements migrating monitoring activities to the cloud.

New York, New York, US

• 2nd SE in the US provided guidance and leadership to all new Sales Engineers (SE's)
• Exceeded sales quota by more than 150% each quarter, serving over more than twenty (20) different customer accounts
• Coordinated activity with development and post-services teams for all major deals in the US and Canada
• Assisted in the buildout and development of Pre-Sales Engineering teams in the US for Enterprise level customer engagements

New York, NY, US

• First Sales Engineer and team in the Midwest - Responsible for building the first regional sales territory in the Midwest – grew to include over nine different states with more than two hundred customers across the.
• Continually exceeded growth targets by building long-term, lucrative relationships with new & existing clients
• Directly hired, supervised and trained nine (9) Pre-Sales Engineers & assisted with eleven (11) Sales Reps across nine states

• Served as a member of the senior leadership team for all US Operations
• Managed all Pre and Post Sales Engineering teams in the US and Europe
• Lead Pre/Post Sales teams in US and UK while handling product design sessions with developers and product management teams in India
• Managed development teams based in Oxfordshire UK and both Bangalore and Chennai India.
• Guided efforts to reduce development costs by 25% and lower go-to-market time for developed features by improving processes and time required for delivery by more than 50%.
• Increased online business inquires for services and products by 200% by enhancing web presence.

• Managed team of 6 direct reports in Corporate IT Operations & Infrastructure
• Responsible for establishing connectivity between Vibes and all major cellular companies and providers to enhance customer experience and solutions capability
• Produced and built the entire enterprise infrastructure environment to support the corporate environment needed to handle the venue and customer environments while allowing for detailed development, testing, staging.
• Managed the purchase and implementation of a new Telecommunications platform for all of Vibes Media
• Created stronger security posture and system controls to ensure proper access while ensuring successful protection of all IT systems for Vibes and its customers.

US

• Managed team of 3 direct reports and provided hands-on technical support
• IT leader responsible for management of Helpdesk, Desktop Support, Network, Telecom, Messaging, Security, Unix System Administration, Windows Systems
• Provided application support for a leading Pre-Paid Wireless Cell Phone Company with more than 100,000 subscribers and 100 employees.

New Delhi, Delhi, IN

• MCSE, COMPTIA A+, NETWORK+, SECURITY+, CYSA+ and PENTEST+ course instructor

Atlanta, GA, US

• Managed team of 19 direct reports globally in Corporate Distributed Systems department
• Responsible for the global support of IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Windows, Helpdesk & Desktop Support Systems for a leading Fortune 50 CPG Company
• Managed an annual budget in excess of 4.5 million dollars

New York, NY, US

• Managed team of 75 direct reports nationally in Corporate Technical Services department
• Supported 45 Business Unit offices, 2 Corporate Offices and over 300 jobsites nationwide
• Created Support procedures and policies for support of distributed office locations, two data centers and jobsites nationwide.

Bellmawr, NJ, US

• Managed team of 36 direct reports across US and Canada
• Rebuilt and led 9 person Field Network Support Services team providing in-house and consulting support for our customers across the US and Canada
• Ran large 30+ million dollar consolidation facility services project for School district in Canada that consolidated nine school districts into one
• Provided large school district in Florida with complete rebuild of the IP Infrastructure based on issues identified with implementation of network monitoring and analyzers identifying bottlenecks

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Role was globally stationed at Ft Jackson South Carolina, Ft. Gordon Georgia, Frankfurt Germany, Ft. Sill Oklahoma, Taegu South Korea, Ft Polk Louisiana, Berlin Germany, Ogden Army Depot Utah, Ft Leavenworth Kansas
• Led Computer Operations Teams in support of the Gulf War
• Taught computer classes in US Army posts where stationed for University of Maryland and Central Texas College while on Active Duty as an adjunct professor
• Contributed to a significant increase in college graduates at the US Army Field Station, Berlin
• Graduate of the Military Leadership Courses (PLDC and BNCOC) Primary Leadership Development Course and the Basic Non-Commissioned Officers Course for leadership
• Selected for the BNCOC course (typically recommended and provided to E-5/E-6 Non-Commissioned Officers first) as a Specialist - E-4 by Division Command Sergeant Major before attending PLDC course

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

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