10 year M&A journey. Delivered several acquisition integrations, large scale colo, hybrid and cloud migrations, divestiture and the transition to devops.

Well known and respected technical Consultancy ultimately purchased by Lucent/Alcatel for $3.7b. Performed on two sizeable customer engagements:1. Senior Engineer and Interim Shift Leader - Large Mid-West Insurance Company - Part of a large team of engineers secured into deploy an 18k node autonomous Cisco network. Moved to assist in the stand-up of their NOC once the customer recognised valuable experience in this area. Built standard operating procedures, escalation channels, hired staff and lead NOC until duties transferred to customer employees.2. Hands-on Senior Engineer and Lead - Managed several teams of engineers deploying several large scale carrier networks for multiple customers.SDH deployments - Taipei > Kaohsiung, TaiwanSONET deployments - New York, NY > Los Angeles, CA. Chicago, Il > St. Louis, MS.

NOC Engineer supporting a 20+% share of all worldwide CRS airline bookings plus many partner integrations. 24x7x365 shifts as part of a 16 man team. Moved to provide tier II/III support on the corporate network to deploy fully routed ethernet and backbone to support global sites.