Hands-on technical acumen, results-driven IT Consultant and Technical Lead equipped with thirty plus years computer-networking success. Demonstrated experience in project management and project engineering with the ability to bridge technology initiatives with business goals to provide innovative, efficient and economical state-of-the-art solutions. Background includes department management and enterprise architecture design of complex infrastructure networks for Fortune 500 companies, top performing public education school systems and the Department of the Air Force. A proven track record in managing personnel to achieve business initiatives, assessing staffing requirements, managing costs, and meeting project deadlines. Core Expertise includes:• Network Systems Architecture & Implementation/Integration• Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering • Solution Development Lifecycle• Team Building and Communication• Process and Performance Improvement

• Data Center Infrastructure Lifecycle Project – Team member participating in all engineering activities required to upgrade the enterprise infrastructure equipment from Cisco Nexus 7/5/2K switches to Nexus 9K switches operating in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. Built multi-pod fabric between two Data Centers, migrated end hosts from legacy environment to a network centric fabric with the goal of achieving application centric mode once the relevant application flows have been successfully mapped and provisioned in the fabric.• Engineered Client's multi data center Internet presence utilizing Cisco ASA firewalls establishing a streamlined security posture and policy.• Designed and implemented enterprise class remote services inclusive of site-to-site VPN for partner business continuity; AnyConnect VPN client and SSL/WebVPNs leveraging remote host posture assessment policies for dynamic pre-logon validation.• Integrated solution of highly available authentication servers to support the deployment of enterprise wireless and enterprise device management services.• Integrated enterprise WAAS & WAAS Express Infrastructure solution reducing the overall required WAN bandwidth footprint while simultaneously providing improved application performance.• Engineered an enterprise PKI solution for WAN DMVPN routers leveraging Cisco IOS certificate services. Developed certificate issue, renewal, retention, backup and revocation policies & procedures.• Designed and deloyed Overlay Transport Virtualization solution across data center interconnect circuits providing network redundancy and reliability for the customers L2/L3 networks between facilities.

ATOS Contractor resource assigned to network and security teams. Roles included enterprise firewall security policy management and integration of next generation Palo Alto firewalls into the company's global Data Centers while also supporting the core network infrastructure systems maintained in these next generation facilities.

• Managed enterprise solution integration and enablement of a 26-million-dollar Technology Bond package designed to upgrade and revamp technology services across the District. • Developed enterprise strategic plan for data center operation and capacity expansion including product lifecycle. • Architected a virtualized datacenter environment yielding long-term operational savings by reducing server footprint, management, electrical and cooling costs by 20%.• Designed and installed private fiber to all campuses and increased the overall bandwidth from 1GB to 10GB; this project will yield a saving of about $300,000 per year for the District.

• Infrastructure lead for Data Center migration project – managed the architecture, design and implementation for the two Data Centers providing 100% network availability during the project and for the lifecycle of the solution. Established redundant, fault-tolerant components and pathways with zero points of failure across the core and distribution backbones.• Architected a secured Data Center wireless solution providing network-based access control for corporate PC assets and dedicated access for data center wireless VoIP handsets. The solution leverages authentication methods WPA2 and digital certificates from an enterprise PKI infrastructure achieving the strongest levels of wireless security for enterprise wireless access.• Corporate Wide Area Network (WAN) migration project – designed and deployed cutting edge WAN access technologies while providing 99.9% network availability during the nationwide enterprise network conversion between Tier 1 Internet Service Providers – Southwestern Bell and AT&T.

Formerly known as PageMart, Inc.

Air Force Network Systems Control Journeymen (3C251)- Held TS SCI clearance during my tenure. Served in multiple theater locations within the continental US and abroad.