Douglas K. Email & Phone Number

Annapolis, MD, US

United States

• Develop and adapt new and existing Nokia solutions into competitive, unique solutions for US Federal customers.
• Research and develop new VAR/System Integrator partners with focus on new and existing Nokia product offerings that benefit the US Federal market including Power Utilities (ex: WAPA), Service Providers (ex: DISA), Base.
• Partner with business development leads to qualify new opportunities, leverage existing Nokia Federal- branded… Show more * Develop and adapt new and existing Nokia solutions into competitive, unique solutions for US.
• Partner with business development leads to qualify new opportunities, leverage existing Nokia Federal- branded solutions while evaluating development of new solutions.
• Assist Nokia Federal marketing for white paper development, conferences, strategic focus, and market outreach (ex: 5G Summit, TDM to IP Successes)
• Performed all outreach, planning, and logistics for US Federal CIO Mobility conference at Nokia in Dallas.

• Provide pre-sales and post-sales support to DISA with focus on Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies including NetConf, Yang, MPLS TE and VPN provisioning with focus on Cisco IOS-XR, ASR 9000, Nexus 7000, Network.
• Support DISA’s new technology initiatives/legacy technology transition programs including: o Circuit emulation/transition through use of ATM pseudowireso Type-1 Crypto augmentation by leveraging… Show more
• Support DISA’s new technology initiatives/legacy technology transition programs including: o Circuit emulation/transition through use of ATM pseudowireso Type-1 Crypto augmentation by leveraging the CSfC (Commercial.

Annapolis Junction, MD

• Evaluate and design requirements for Next Generation security architecture at IC agency boundaries.
• Member of internal IPv6 working group to evaluate agency readiness and capabilities for IPv6. service provider techniques, industry best practices, and network vendor neutrality to create solutions that improve.
• In customer lab, recreate… Show more
• In customer lab, recreate production WAN network (9k, MX) utilizing Spirent in order to test, evaluate, architect, and integrate MPLS Traffic Engineering architecture into existing network.
• Test and evaluate MPLS Traffic Engineering, Modeling (WANDL, Cariden, Oracle), and Provisioning suites.
• Educate IC customer on MPLS benefits and gather use cases in order to develop and promote corporate MPLS Use Policy.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Evaluate and design requirements for worldwide secure wireless network to support the Navy’s Advanced Metering Initiative (AMI).
• Define requirements for Navy-wide CNIC secure-wireless network.
• Design, document and implement OOB (out of band) and COOP (continuity of operations) network to provide additional redundancy and troubleshooting capabilities for existing worldwide network.
• Mentor junior engineers in MPLS Service Provider best practices.
• Evaluate, test, recommend… Show more
• Evaluate, test, recommend, document, and implement MPLS over GRE (over MPLS) network design to extend existing capabilities.

Columbia, Maryland

• Lead Systems Engineer assigned to XO Communications account team, specializing in Routing and Switching.
• Worked closely with sales partner to increase account revenue from approximately $4M to $50M in FY08 through strategic wins of key franchises including core and edge routing (CRS-1/IOS-XR).
• Worked with relevant business unit and end customer to evaluate, test, and close key optical transition from legacy ONS 15454 to new Cisco Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) product which… Show more
• Worked with relevant business unit and end customer to evaluate, test, and close key optical transition from legacy ONS 15454 to new Cisco Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) product which transports Ethernet and Sonet/SDH.
• Built relationship with key stakeholders in Business Units, Competitive Team, TMEs, CSEs, and DSEs within Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Technical lead on multiyear, multimillion dollar RFPs and RFIs, including initial selection criteria, testing phase, product negotiation, and procurement/deployment phases.

Annapolis Junction, MD

• Technical focused SE providing pre-sales and post-sales support on Juniper Routing and Security product lines.
• Attends DoD technology trade shows to represent Juniper.
• Educates customers on the merits on MPLS, Traffic Engineering, and VPNs
• Worked with DISA on Phase II of Internet Screening Router (ISR) solution.
• Developed solution to scale Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) products beyond 1Gbps.
• Designed and configured IPv6 connectivity hosting for IPv6… Show more

Annapolis, MD

• Manages group of 10 direct and indirect reports in network, security and systems engineering on multiple projects, including network design, new corporate products,security vulnerability and risk assessment and.
• Completed installation and turn-up of two geographically dispersed datacenters from the ground-up with network, security, and all supporting systems within 30 days to meet corporate deadline for service provider class….
• Completed installation and turn-up of two geographically dispersed datacenters from the ground-up with network, security, and all supporting systems within 30 days to meet corporate deadline for service provider class.
• Researched, evaluated and negotiated with CLEC to install physically diverse fiber route into datacenter to eliminate dependence on a single ILEC. This allowed company to provide a world class 99.999% availability for.
• Successfully petitioned ARIN (American Registry of Internet Numbers) to award Evergreen provider independent CIDR blocks and multiple AS numbers (ASNs) to provide the necessary network design scalability and.
• Designed fast and efficient BGP routing policy on multihomed network to provide best route to customers while considering fixed and burstable bandwidth costs and renegotiating bandwidth contracts as needed.

Laurel, MD

• Performed BGP policy analysis and tuning
• Developed MPLS 2547 VPN design to create secure, shared private network for multiplecustomers while eliminating costs by utilizing existing equipment.
• Proposed Sonet APS working/protect circuit design for OC-12s for increased availability.
• Authored several white papers on new technology and how it can benefit Digex and itscustomers.

Annapolis, MD

• Implemented, maintained, planned, and upgraded highly redundant, global, diverse and scalable network offering to suit USi’s customer needs.
• Designed best practice firewall procedures for integration into USi network.
• Approved network changes submitted to the Change Control Board that would potentially affect client Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and spearheaded the current in-house training program for mid and senior level.
• Evaluated and developed architecture for… Show more
• Evaluated and developed architecture for rollout of Layer 4-7 load balancing solutions to suit customers needs.
• Provide onsite and remote consulting services for potential client wins and to existing USi clients for customer retention.

Morristown, NJ

• Responsible for all local and remote network and server issues on 2600 node campus area network (CAN).
• Responsible for migrating from multi-topology network (Token Ring, Ethernet, FDDI) to Switched Fast-Etherchannel multiprotocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX) VLAN network utilizing Cisco Catalyst equipment.
• Managed site IP address space and Unix-based DNS servers.
• Performed network traffic analysis, segmentation, and troubleshooting to isolatenetwork faults to improve network… Show more
• Performed network traffic analysis, segmentation, and troubleshooting to isolatenetwork faults to improve network performance.
• Evaluated, tested, and implemented network monitoring and management tools toensure reliability and identify potential network problems.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsibility for supervising six engineers in a 700-user heterogeneous network environment.
• Designed and developed prototype NDS and volume migration plan to help fulfill future demand.
• Monitored Help Desk activities to help ensure customer satisfaction.
• Installed, maintained, and upgraded existing network, servers, and infrastructure to meetongoing demand.

Towson, MD

• Responsible for day to day network operations and help desk support for in a 1200-user manufacturing site environment.
• Developed and implemented controlled PC desktop image for use in manufacturing operations.
• Supporting role in recommending and implementing network upgrades based on current and future user demands.