Manage hundreds of sites across over 50 data center vendors in over 20 countries globally. Manage over 200 carrier vendors globally. Renegotiated some of the largest software contracts for the company and for customer contracts. Control high eight figures worth of expenses.Led network consolidation and migration project targetted to reduce overall expenditure by 20%

Responsible for the F5 SaaS platform (SDC/XC) network engineering, architecture, planning, implementation, capacity management. strategy

Headed up global peering efforts for the combined Lumen networkPerformance tuning for all IP based platforms/productsAssisted in IP/CDN network planningInvolved in large M&A projects

Started new Network and Systems Engineering departmentsManaged multiple network vendors, ingress/egress to the network and backbone (reduced Opex by 50% while increasing capacity in 2015/2016. On target to reduce Opex another 50% in 2017)Managed multiple hardware vendors, hardware code, hardware refreshes, purchasing and support contractsOversaw revamp and extension of vCloud Air Direct Connect product

Started new Interconnectivity Services product management departmentManaged $100m P&L across product portfolio covering former Terremark and Verizon datacentersDoubled target revenue growth across portfolio in 2014Reduced network OPEX by half while simultaneously doubling network capacity across a global network encompassing North & South America and EuropeStopped a 20% YOY revenue decline in one product lineCreated cost, pricing and discount models for all interconnectivity productsReviewed all product lines and marked non performing products for end of saleInstituted more comprehensive reporting for network utilization and costingStandardized pricing and processes across datacentersOversaw revamp of product documentation and training

Product Manager in charge of: Limelight Deploy (managed CDN) Network Expansion (new POPs) ArizonaIX (www.arizonaix.net) IPv6Negotiated new contract for Limelight ChinaChairman of Limelight's peering committee

In charge of global peering charge. Procured transit, colo and transport as well.Managed all egress capacity (installation and traffic engineering). Network egress increased 1500% to one of the ten largest network egress capacities in the world.Decreased network COGS by 9% and saved the company nearly $60M over the course of five years in Network Engineering in new peering alone.Successfully led network expansion efforts into 15 new countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, more than doubling network reach.

Doubled the number of bilateral peering arrangements in one year over the previous five years.Managed traffic commitments to upstream providers, decreasing billing variability by 40% and saving the company nearly $1M.Instituted carrier grade network routing policies.Board member of Any2 Internet Exchange (now Coresite).

Responsible for establishing, maintaining and securing peering relationships between Global Crossing and other networks, focusing on Europe and South America. Optimized traffic flow across the GBLX backbone by redesigning routing protocol implementations as well as testing and implementing new protocol features (BGP, MPLS, ISIS, RSVP).Evaluated and deployed traffic engineering tools.Authored and approved technical services documentation.

Shift Lead for the backbone operations team that maintained 99.999% network availability.Ran a myriad of hardware and software maintenances on both IP and ATM backbones.Proposed, wrote training materials for, and led a month long training program for satellite NOC in New York.Took escalations from the customer facing NOC (Tier 5 escalations).

Monitored dial-up user connectivity, tested leased modem banks and opened tickets with vendors to repair modem connectivity for the largest ISP in the world at the time, with over 30 million subscribers and nearly 2 million concurrent users.Team lead of operations group that field tested DSL and cable subscribers.