Supporting and designing digital infrastructure for new ways of doing business! Today’s enterprise infrastructure is the cornerstone of progress. *Increase productivity by freeing IT teams from the need to manage network operations on a daily basis.*Improve reliability with professional services and a network supported by 24/7 monitoring*Ensure fast, scalable service to meet evolving business needs, from security based service and networking to remote working and VPN services*Reduce costs by offloading tasks to a a world class monitoring team*Future-proof network infrastructure when designing, implementing and upgrading systems.

• Responsible for building new business unit for this BI and analytics consulting group.• Developing new geography and bringing data Warehouse education to team• Executive presentations to C level groups/Meetups• Data warehouse, data integration

• My consulting for firms regarding data centers, cloud connectivity, cloud migration• Focus on Tier III data center comparison/pricing and cloud options• Carrier connectivity selections and route mapping (US only)• SWOT analysis of data centers, cloud providers and WAN providersHaving an decade of experience in this area allows me to speak intelligently and understand ways to assist clients. Spoke to a number of organizations on cloud projects, network management, telecommunications and migrations. Spoke at WSTA and Business Recovery Planners of WI

*As VP, I was a member of the leadership team on all matters from sales, training and budgets to HR decisions.*I was also an investor in the company and part of the board. Also ran a lot of the employee interface for the team.*Grew the company in sales, headcount and number of customers. - I was the initial contact for all clients. - Assisted in response to RFP's and handled client inquiries. - Also represented the company in Meetups and presentations. Doubled our customer base.*Also, continued technical education and paid for additional coursework, to keep up with the pace of change in this segment. -Coursework included Data Warehouse, Data Visualization and Project Management

• Help to direct operations and personnel• Developed new markets and new products• Developed statements of work for projects• Executive presentations to C-Level clients and presentations at technical Meetups

*Developed, launched and supported the managed services aspect of Farwell. *Also represented Project Management services for a variety of clients. I selected specific project managers, with specific talents, to fit the needs of a client project.

Started the Madison market for Level 3, and worked on fiber routes into Madison. • Started expansion market in WI• Sales engineering and sales meetings for fiber optic projects• Deep technical ability in infrastructure• Developed partner and channel businessWorked with, data centers, clients and other service providers. Worked on technical understanding of route and fiber design. *Our portfolio included managed solutions, fiber and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area Ethernet services, video and content distribution.

*Selected to sell and build the team for the PDS Cloud practice and to help with defining the service. *Also discovered and developed partnerships including an additional data center location, for a cloud extension site.*Took on the task of introducing PDS in new geographic markets• Developed (technical suggestions) and marketed Paragon Development cloud program • Client examples include one project for $500K• Storage Systems (EMC), VMWare, Help Desk Services, Data Center and Cloud*Successfully Introduced PDS to new customers (new logos).*Customers examples are: half million dollar storage sale(EMC/Dell) for one customer and profitable consulting service for another.Cloud ExpertiseStorage hardware experience/expertiseVMware expertiseVDI experience Help Desk Services- 24*7 Service Desk calls for customersTier III Data Centers and co-location

Sales Engineer and Project manager*Technical support and sales and business case development. One of the first initial members to start this new venture within TDS. *A support liaison between business sales teams, customers and and network service teams. Functions includes sales engineering, project management, business case studies, presentation to customers and presentation at various groups and organizations. *I developed training and training material for sales teams. Also wrote the Data Center tour script/information for all tours in data center*Responsible for all quotes and technical notes in relation to colocation at data centers, WAN connectivity and transport, *Cloud applications (both public and private cloud) and use cases of cloud implementation. Also developed carrier relations. *Negotiated partnership with CenturyLink to bring TeraPOP nodes into data centers. Engaged in all legal and contract review as well. *Responsible to develop customer visio designs of initial network engagement, worked with various engineering teams to implement solutions, *Work on WAN connectivity with carriers, developed data center material, responded to RFP's and track sales activities with sales teams around Midwest. Ongoing education includes attending VM World 2013 for additional training and presenting a Business Recovery Planners Association.

TDS is a leader nationwide in telecom, data services, data centers, transport and managed service.• Technical Support Person of the Year• All project management for nationwide program• Supported Carrier Wholesale and Sales Engineering division• Business revenue analysis*I provided Technical support (and rec'd my CCDA certifcate) and project management.*Also was daily involved in revenue cost models and worked on justifications with engineering teams*Provided engineering design work and presentations to customers. *Worked directly with all other carriers on everything from backhaul scenarios to cell towers and data centers to project implementation of the designs. *Our team was the largest single revenue generating point in the company. *I was the interface to all other engineering teams. Included project management, and business revenue studies. Attended semi-annual CompTel events to meet with carriers at various locations around the country.

• Responsible for developing new service offering and team• Technical sales for managed service offerings• Developed first ever data center and collocation program for TDS-Technical manager for new product line within TDS. -Was instrumental in development of data center/colocation program within TDS. -Assisted in plans for development in next data center in all aspects including site and engineering information, sales and marketing. Next data center was filled in 2 years.

I was as a Data Specialist for Enterprise accounts. *Sold large global networks and large internet connections. *Several of my accounts billed $80,000 per month or more. *Sold all data related products and professional services, MPLS, frame relay and managed services. *Clients also had international installations that I helped coordinate from France and the Netherlands to Singapore.Received ATT Networking Certificate and attended several weeks of AT&T technical training

Computer network sales on LAN and WAN equipment to variety of businesses and schools. Also sold fiber installation engagements and minor engineering engagements

Sales of software to higher education accounts, throughout the US. Travelled to customer sites and did customer events and software demos. Worked on their business initiatives with them to develop new markets. Travel to nearly every major airport location in the United States from NYC to San Fran and Houston to Boston. Represented Adobe, Symantec and others. My accounts included universities from Cornell and Harvard to national resellers in New York City, Seattle and Dallas

Business Development for the service arm of Ohmeda. I developed new services and markets for Ohmeda such as engineering analysis and professional services within hospitals. Developed tracking program and wrote the program (code writing/software development) and developed all marketing for the business. We did test markets at various hospitals and did focus initiatives with the Dallas market