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United States

Saxapahaw, Nc

A family-farm in the Saxapahaw, N.C area specializing in sustainable agriculture.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Leading ITs digital transformation to create the necessary tools needed to support the modernization of our API production and consumption. Thought the use of OpenAPI specifications, we are developing a robust catalog of existing API and assessing their compliance with standards and security. By establishing a core Maturity Model, we are promoting a governance model for the IT API ecosystem which supports business demands for information organize so that it’s widely accessible, usable and establishes trust across the organization and Cisco Partner ecosystem.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Lead Architect for Smart Software Licensing; working on evolving the next generation licensing solution. Focus will be the development of an architecture that can support flexible software consumption models, featuring 'call home' and 'standalone' deployment models; initially focusing on a Linux based solutions.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Manager and Lead Architect for team of 20 engineers created the Smart Software Licensing On-Prem server; worked on evolving the next generation licensing solution. Solution focused on the development of an linux (centos) based server which could support flexible software consumption models, using an "off line" or "standalone' deployment model. Delt largely with Security/Fed/Gov related requirements (SOC II, FIPS, erc)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Lead development engineer for software licensing creating the next generation architecture for Cisco Smart Software Licensing; a standardized licensing solution which improves customer experience, ease of deployment and manageability of Cisco software. My focus will be the development of an architecture that can support flexible software consumption models, featuring 'call home' and 'standalone' deployment models; initially focusing on a Linux based solutions.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

in 2012, I started in my new position as the Routing TME supporting SAF, Service Routing, EIGRP, OSPF, and ISIS. In my new role, I work directly with development and customers to identify feature and solutions which will maximize network availability and functionality. Looking forward to working directly with customers in this new role to deliver technologies, solutions and services needed to expertly manage customer networks!!

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led development for Service Routing and worked on next generation architecture that includes Forwarder support for XMPP and OSPF protocols.Delivered Service Advertisement Framework (SAF). SAF was delivered on schedule and its use in the Call Control Discovery has been received well in the market. Designed “Plugins” and the Parser Database, which allowed routing protocol such as EIGRP to reduce its resource requirements and provide simplified packaging.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Grew team to 7 development engineer members plus 3 Development Testers; Directly coded, or managed the coding of over 33 features, the adoption of low cost development platform (IOU), formal code review procedures and policies, setup automated testing, and third-party licensing. While working closely with the Test and Scaling organizations, the code quality improved, and team was able to increase scaling abilities of routing protocol. Features began to be shipped on a regular schedule.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Developed switching code and moved to IP Routing. Stabilized Cisco’s flagship code, EIGRP, and worked to reduce customer issues (2-3 CAP cases to none). This was accomplished by redesigning the EIGRP Query processing to prevent SIA conditions. Over the next 2 years, improved overall code quality and stability of EIGRP and began meeting with Cisco customers to determine enhancements needed to further EIGRP. From these customer meetings, I suggested and developed “EIGRP-Stub” which has allowed EIGRP to scale substantially better than other IGP protocols. Grew EIGRP team from 1 from 3 team members with active customer engagements to develop new enhancements and improve quality.

Mobile, Alabama, United States

Team Leader responsibilities for design and development of PC based software, micro-controller software and hardware. Development activities included establishment of personal scheduling, project schedules, project budgeting, resource management, and presentations for Program Management staff meetings.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Senior Systems Engineer the job included Team Leader responsibilities for design and development of PC based software, micro-controller software and hardware. Development activities included time management skills, project schedules, resource management, and presentations for Program Management.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Diagnosed and corrected software/hardware design problems by in-house and/or field-testing. Designed and implemented an automated call tracking system, later known as the Call Management System, which improved call tracking and monitoring for quality of service.