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• Primary responsibility includes creating and delivering content for advanced Arista topics both to internal Sales Engineers and to customers.
• Public Speaking engagements to promote the business and product features
• Technology Evangelist promoting the "wow" factor surrounding Arista switches and especially EOS

• 2010-2012: Networking Consultant for Freudenburg IT doing data center network design---
• 2006: Worked as a contractor for Verizon Wireless doing backbone network design---
• 2005-2006: Audited Audible.com’s existing site for scalability, redundancy, best practice and security.
• Lead Architect for the complete network infrastructure redesign of Audible.com’s global website.
• Responsible for all networking aspects of the five million dollar website redesign project
• Team lead for a group of third party consultants brought in by Audible.com

• Lead architect for IP Telephony discovery, vendor selection and deployment. This project involved 240 remote locations, two headquarters sites, 2500 employees and 2800 endpoints. Designed the initial requirements.
• Resolved multiple long term WAN issues using traffic shaping and Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing
• Lead architect for migration from frame-relay to carrier-based MPLS for the 242-node WAN
• Lead architect for migration from a single large EIGRP autonomous system to multiple BGP autonomous systems with carrier-based MPLS in the WAN and separate EIGRP ASNs in each headquarters location

• Redesigned the Customer Voice over IP network to standardize, simplify and stabilize the PoPs
• Designed new IP and routing schemes for the Voice over IP network to compliment new standards
• Lead engineer on Session Border Controller feasibility study
• Interviewed new candidates for IP and VoIP technical skills assessment
• Provided technical assistance for one-off customer VoIP networks
• Presented design proposals to both the engineering staff and upper management including the CIO

• Managed a staff of six including two Network/System Engineers, two Senior Network Engineers, one Senior ICM Engineer and one Senior ACD/ICM Engineer. Duties included: staff management, network design and planning.
• Played a key role in the design and implementation of the United Kingdom’s new deregulated retail information service 118-118 (The Number)
• Designed and implemented the re-design of the global corporate WAN consisting of nine US sites and three international sites. The redesign included the convergence of voice and data, QOS implementation, and the.

* Lead Architect for Design and implementation of Global LAN and WAN for Centre Solutions – A subsidiary of Zurich Financial. This project included: Creation and maintenance of project plan – complete redesign of global network architecture using Security, VPN, DS3, MPLS and Frame Relay – Design and implementation of layer three switching at major sites –.

* Managed a staff of six junior and senior engineers.* Enforced better design paradigms and proper implementation procedures.* Motivated employees through incentives, challenges and role modeling.* Created service offerings for security auditing, firewall installation, maintenance and network design.* Designed and installed Points of Presence for dial-up.