Supporting 15K County employees in the 4th largest county and 7th largest municipality in the nation. Responsible for introducing Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access) by utilizing Cisco’s latest switch technology and their DNAC (DNA Center) offering, which is the first in the state of Arizona government sector. • Eliminated unnecessary vendor provided circuit configuration, thus saving over $480K over the lengths of the contracts.• Overseeing all aspects of a remote site refresh project for 19 sites under budget by 5% and 1 month ahead of schedule. Including creation of HLDs, LLDs, and as built documentation.• Developed multiple project task list for engineering to follow before, during and after implementation to ensure all tasks required for a successful completion, thus increasing success rate of 125%.• Designing a revamp to the current Internet Edge to include additional redundancy across three (3) major data centers. This will allow for the current availability of 99.87% to 99.99% and provide the ability to work on portions of the edge without interruption to end user experience.• Leading the efforts that began in October 2017 on an access switch replacement for 148 locations with Cisco latest 9300/9400 series switches. While utilizing existing staff accomplished the project 4% under budget, 100% customer satisfaction, and three (3) months ahead of schedule. Only experience a less than 1% failure rate at a 100% completion.• Designed new data center incorporating Cisco’s ACI technology with Nexus 9Ks.

Acted as an advisor to the Director and Sr. Manager in roles for best practice, networking platforms, and procedures. Responsible for the design, project management and implementation of complex VoIP networks. Extending best practices using standardized IT engineering life cycle methodology. Developed best practice for QoS deployment in support of VoIP and video across the County’s Enterprise Network. • Developed several SOPs and general day to day procedures that reduced the amount of errors by 90%.• Spearheaded, outside the original scope of duties, the migration and turn up of new MoE circuits of 60 sites. This included scheduling, configuration and implementation of new equipment at each site.• Participated as an augmentation to the NetOps team providing senior level support on Nexus, firewalls (Cisco and CheckPoints), f5 loadbalancers, VoIP, and wireless.

Responsible for the design, project management and implementation of complex networks. Extending best practices using standardized IT engineering life cycle methodology. Development of the network/security practices to add to the existing portfolio of data storage and compute offerings. • Meeting with clients to gather requirements for network/telephony/security/wireless projects. Developing the data gathered to cost effective solutions allowing for solving the initial requirement while employing future growth capabilities.• Designed a multi-site VoIP environment with over 4000 end users allowing for multiple redundant systems and networks producing available uptime of 99.999%.

Responsible for the management the network infrastructure team as well as the audio and video environments, directly reporting to the CIO. Supervised and managed eight (8) direct and six (6) non-direct reports in the daily activities of the Network, Systems, Database Administrators, Supervisor Digital Signage/Audio Visual, Digital Signage/Audio Visual Technicians, AS400 Administrator, and Senior Telecommunications Technicians. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.• Planning and development of the infrastructure, telecommunications, and AV budgets totally over $7M.• Establishment of departmental policies and supports the priorities of the business by completing projects assigned by the CIO.• Spearheaded a critical project to harden the security environment to comply with PCI and HIPAA regulations. Oversaw and managed:• Projects of technical networks and audio/video personnel.• Music/audio and visual/video needs along with page/messaging (PA system) for all areas of resort.• Meetings that interacts with executives, managers, and departments to facilitate Network & A/V goals.• Multiple complex projects and tasks using the standard engineering life cycle.

Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining all network functions, including CheckPoint firewalls, Cisco ASA, ASR, Nexus 7K,5K,2K and 1KVs, f5 BigIP LTM load balancers, InfoBlox IPAM, DNS, DHCP. Lead engineer for all Cisco VoIP/UCCX and Cisco VCS video conferencing.

Manager of a global data and telecommunications network team. Responsible for all data and telecommunications to include fixed circuits, mobile and cloud computing. Currently managing a staff of six a various locations around the world.

Principal engineer for Cisco IPT product development for the purpose of a Service Provider management and monitoring.Built complete Cisco networks and IPTenvironments in a lab environment to support the equipment involved in a product offering as well as evaluating and identifying the management capabilities of this equipment.

Managing all of North America Cisco VoIP and LAN/WAN environments, along with vendor negotiations especially Telcos for new circuits and services.

Managing and administrations of 30 Windows OS Dell servers, Cisco network (LAN and WAN), Nortel MCIS phone system and Dell desktops. A supervisor for a System Administrator and Desktop Technician in daily activities by prioritizing duties and managing capital projects.IT project management of infrastructure move to a new facility.Overhauled planned infrastructure design to maximize physical space, while streamlining equipment, while increasing functionality. Saving over $9000Coordinated telecom and network equipment vendors, facilities, and IT staff reducing downtime by 50 percent of initial projected downtime.

LAN Manager responsible for designing the company's LANs and WANs to support 4500 employees at 487 locations in 11 states. Managed and supervised five engineers spread out in several states in day-to-day operations with hands on approach and mentoring.

• Designed and installed the first mobile LAN for the 54th Combat Communication Squadron.• Procured, installed, and configured NT servers for classified messaging, transmitting vital messages for successful operations in remote areas with a 99.99% success rate of transmissions.• Configured Cabletron hubs and switches to all LAN communication between organizations deployed to remote locations. • Designed fiber optics connection for secure transmission of critical message traffic to and from the main communication center and the command post.