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Faron Hopper is listed as My goal is to keep IT relevant through a deep understanding of business operations; using a philosophy of implementing the best technology. By managing work and leading individuals I drive success through change. at Smithfield Foods, a company with 10 employees, based in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at smithfield.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Faron Hopper.
Faron Hopper previously worked as Network Engineering Manager at Smithfield Foods and Sr Network & Telecom Engineer at Smithfield Foods. Faron Hopper holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, It from Wgu Missouri.
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I strive to keep IT relevant to the business and I have a broad range of experiences that covers all aspects of infrastructure services. My experiences are from designing/specifying/building enterprise solutions (Desktop/Datacenters/Network/Server/Telephony/Videoconferencing/apps/services) to implementing Azure/AWS. Travelling overseas on 4 different occasions allowed me to interface with different business units, assist in analysis of infrastructure for procurement of new companies, and training. This continuing IT experience works in synergy to bring the best performance to my employer.SkillsStrong cross team interaction in written and verbal skills, used daily with the following teams:• Network team (geographically disperse) and all project related to the network team• Telecom team (geographically disperse) and all projects related to the telecom team• Change Management for both teams. • Process Review for both teams.• Working with purchasing and managing support contracts.Working manager continuing in design, installation, and support of network and telecom solutions and performing on-call responsibilities once every 4th week for the following:• Cisco routers, switches, access points, WAN optimization, and VoIP installations• Fortinet Firewalls and VPN clients• Azure networking/express routes• Daily use of these protocols: TACACS+, EIGRP, BGP, Netflow, STP, VTP• Shell Scripting, Python, Expect, Bash• DR planning/testing ProjectsManaging the Network & Telecom teams through these projects - 3/2018 – Present• Distribution center decommission• New call center build• 7 new Cisco phone system installs• New Sales office build• Datacenter Exit to Azure• 2 New distribution centers built• 4 new site builds• Azure subscription vnet/vWAN build out• Europe to Azure cross connectivityPlease contact me at faron.hopper@gmail.com
Listed skills include Cisco Routers, Cisco Ios, Riverbed, Cisco Security, and 27 others.
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Smithfield, Virginia, US
I have guided the network and telecom teams through a migration away from an outsource IT provider with extremely small impact; moved to a new WAN provider (> 80 WAN sites) with about 4 hrs of downtime/site; stood up 3 new distribution centers ($50-$150 Million each); integrated 5 new sites into our WAN and decommissioned 4 sites; installed 50 pairs of IoT.
Smithfield, Virginia, US
Daily responsibilities include managing over 80 WAN sites consisting of production plants, sales offices, corporate offices, and another 600 DSD sites that are connected to Smithfield via VPN tunnels. I lead the Network team in technical direction, rotated in/out of on-call, worked with vendors to purchase IT equipment, worked with VAR's to provide benefit.
Olathe, KS, US
Managing mutiple data centers, over 20,000 LAN ports, approximately 65 WAN sites (each site has 2 ISR G2 routers running BGP or EIGRP for dynamic failover, about 1/2 use MPLS and DMVPN, and the other half uses 2 DMVPN routers for WAN connectivity). This is the list of devices and technology I currently work on: Cisco - Nexus 7010's, 5596's, 248's, 2232's.
Manage over 8000 LAN ports, manage approximately 50 WAN sites, and manage 60 firewalls. The devices are Cisco and Brocade switches, Cisco routers, and Cisco and Checkpoint firewalls.
Managed up to 20 different customer networks using VRF, VPN, and private Telecom circuits.
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Alyssa Hall
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Matt Newsom
Colleague at Smithfield FoodsWilliamsburg, Virginia, United States, United States
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Weston Cotton
Colleague at Smithfield FoodsLake Forest, Illinois, United States, United States
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Crystal Jones
Colleague at Smithfield FoodsSmithfield, Virginia, United States, United States
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Colleague at Smithfield FoodsLa Puente, California, United States, United States
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Faron Hopper works for Smithfield Foods.
Faron Hopper is listed as My goal is to keep IT relevant through a deep understanding of business operations; using a philosophy of implementing the best technology. By managing work and leading individuals I drive success through change. at Smithfield Foods.
AeroLeads has found 2 work email signals at @smithfield.com for Faron Hopper at Smithfield Foods.
Faron Hopper is based in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States while working with Smithfield Foods.
Faron Hopper has worked for Smithfield Foods, Garmin International, Garmin, and Capgemeni.
Faron Hopper's colleagues at Smithfield Foods include Alyssa Hall, Raul Quinonez, Matt Newsom, Weston Cotton, and Crystal Jones.
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Faron Hopper holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, It from Wgu Missouri.
Faron Hopper is listed with skills including Cisco Routers, Cisco Ios, Riverbed, Cisco Security, Brocade, Routers, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and Cisco Switches.
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