Fountain, Edwin Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

Direct staff of 8 Network Engineers, 7 Network Administrators for 24x7 Data Center· Managed LAN/WAN communication for 10 domestic locations and 4 international locations including two Global MPLS Networks with Verizon and AT&T· Oversight of technology areas include Cisco infrastructure, Security and Firewalls,VMware, AD, Servers, Exchange, Citrix, SAN and Storage infrastructure· Developed Central Repository for IT Documentation based on the ITIL model· Developed Change Management Process for Network and Application modifications· Performed technical reviews on major infrastructure projects to ensure all projects were properly estimated,architected, implemented, and operated without incident. Latest projects included Firm wide 8.5 Interwovenupgrade, Disaster recovery strategy and infrastructure refresh· Design, architected and implementation 8 Regional and 2 International Data Centers· Design, architected and implementation new 1500 square foot Data Center at hosted facility for consolidation ofdomestic Data Centers· Implemented enterprise level infrastructure technical standards, guidelines, architectures and processes· Technical Lead on Technology Recover Hot site implementation with real time replication of Exchange andDocument Management· Planned with Program Management office on project charter, scope, and deliverables formulation and managedproject/program life cycle.· Project Management of major network projects including, new Regional Data Centers , Technology Recovery,WAN upgrades, Exchange 2010 upgrade· Mentoring of Engineers on career advancement, performance improvement based upon PerformanceManagement principles· Interface with Management on critical business initiatives and successfully bridge gap between business andtechnology needs· Designed and Implemented Global AD infrastructure, successfully migrating 1600 users from NDS to AD· Migrated non-standard IP addressing model to compliant Class A IP Scheme

· Managed LAN/WAN communication for domestic and international facilities· Managed staff of eight Networking and Telecommunication resources· Analyzed telecommunication invoices and negotiated with public telephone vendors· Analyzed and projected IS budgets for network and telecommunications services· Developed and implemented IS strategy and policies for global network services· Developed Year 2000 testing methodology and remediation plan for network· Coordinated project through all cycles of planning, scheduling and tasks· Developed corporate security policy· Provided second level support to technical support team· Manage NetWare 4.11 servers, NT 4.0 Servers and Unix systems· Planned and migrated NetWare servers to new hardware

· Directed staff of six technical specialists· Directed administration of NetWare 3.12 servers· Administered NT 3.51 servers· Managed technical support of 10 store locations· Administered 10 PBX systems· Analyzed telecommunication invoices and negotiations with public telephone vendors· Engineered Voice and Data cabling infrastructure· Developed and implemented IS strategy and policies for network services· Coordinated training of network engineers including troubleshooting techniques and networking technologies, and hardware

Certified Vmware Professional, Vmware

Activities and Societies: VMware – Install, configure, and manage VMware- Troubleshooting

Ccie Candidate, Cisco Route/Switch Ccie

Activities and Societies: CCIE Written Boot Camp, CCIE candidate Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks Building Cisco Multilayer Switched.

Associates Degree, Computer Science

Education record

Activities and Societies: Certificate – Voice and Data network cabling Certificate – Essentials of Wide Area Networking