At AT&T, I led the development of the Air Force’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) service, designing and implementing a multi-site secure WAN architecture that protects classified information across untrusted networks. My role encompassed full technical responsibility, including system concept formulation, requirements development, IT architecture design, system analysis, hardware and software acquisition, and systems integration in both unclassified and classified environments. I supervised an engineering team to review and refine prototype designs for a Cross Domain Solution.Key Achievements:• Senior Technical Liaison: Primary technical point of contact, ensuring seamless communication among various engineering teams and stakeholders.• Developed Secure Multi-Site WAN: Created secure network supporting voice, video, and priority data communications, safeguarding classified data over untrusted networks.• Led Engineering Team: Supervised a team to enhance secure communication across different security levels through refined prototype designs.• Collaborated with Government: Worked closely with Air Force to maintain and redesign complex network architectures.Technical Skills:• NSA’s CSfC Expertise: In-depth knowledge of CSfC capability packages and annexes, including Multi-Site and Key Management.• Routing and VPN Solutions: Proficient in TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and IPSec VPN solutions with PKI certificate-based authentication.• Security Compliance: Strong understanding of DISA STIG guidance to secure network devices.Professional Skills:• Regulatory Compliance: Ensured adherence to DISA STIGs and NIAP Product Compliance.• Effective Communication: Excelled in conveying technical information clearly to management at multiple levels. Maintained strict adherence to guidelines and processes, ensuring accurate records and documentation.• Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and within virtual team environments.

Active TS/SCI ClearanceThis role requires significant experience with all network layers, especially Layer 3 network technologies and protocols including design, development and support. Responsible for translating business needs into technical solutions, and defining solutions to problems through reasoned application of information technology. Key Roles and Responsibilities: Direct, design, develop, document and analyze overall architecture of systems, including hardware and software. Determines integrated hardware and software architecture solutions that meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability, and security needs. Coordinates design and integration of total system including subsystems. Researches and recommends technology to improve the current systems.

Provided the National Institute of Health, design, integration and implementation of a virtual private cloud. A combination of several AT&T commercial services (AVPN, NetBond) with custom virtual desktop hosting (VDI) integration using IBM Softlayer to seamlessly provide remote service to NIH LAN and WAN users.

Sr. Solution Architect - Lead Architecture and Engineering services supporting Naval Enterprise Networks Program Office (PMW-205) redesign and transition of carrier-grade high survivability architecture for all connected services to the core Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) using DISA JPE. Benefit of redesign removed 700 network devices reducing operational costs.Work involved lab development, reverse engineering legacy networks and produced engineering documentation for the transition of the services to MPLS-CsC with QoS, WAN acceleration and LISP.

A key member of the DISA Global Information Grid Services Management-Operations (GSM-O) CTO team - as technical innovator for DISA Network Services initiatives (Accelerated Network Convergence, Signature Based Alerting, and Automatic Traffic Flow Management). Involved since proposal, resulting in an AT&T win of $100M. Continual development of gap analysis, risk mitigation and contract growth opportunities and applying commercial best practices to the network.

A lead co-author to the DISN Overarching Technical Strategy (DOTS) and DISN Technical Evolution Plan (DTEP) for DISA Network Services covering all service portfolios and evolution initiatives on many technologies for the current, mid-term and far-term timeframe. Performed as lead, author for the Unified Communications sections and interdependencies to all services areas for both strategy documents. DTEP bridges the gap between requirements and implementation plans providing technical justification for funding.

Integration of AT&T AVPN MPLS-enabled services with FAA supporting the ADS-B program. Provided transport for radar, weather and other services.

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Birth of son.

Security Status: Active Secret Security Clearance Granted by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)Working closely with direct sales for large and complex accounts to educate prospective customers about the superiority of Nominum's products and services.Acting Project Manager and highest revenue generating sales engineer for new DNS Denial of Service (DoS) firewall product.Overseeing the technical aspects of the customer proposal process. Established depth and breadth of technical credibility with customers.Worked closely with Executive Management, Sales and Engineering to enhance product requirements, direction, strategy, scope customer requirements and drive sales to closure.Worked closely with Federal Sales Group and Defense Information Systems Agency to design, test and deploy the DNS firewall product in a large live network.Involved in the full life cycle of product development and the full sales cycle.

Nexabit acquired by Lucent. Participated as part of a 300-member Terabit router product-development group responsible for obtaining lab trials and conducting live test demos for leading global supplier of communications networking equipment. Implemented strong business acumen and technical abilities in providing strategic planning, marketing, and sales to large customer accounts. Facilitated as communicator between Executive Management, Marketing, Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance, Product Support, Customer Lab Trials, and Engineering. Maintained a proactive position during sales process by maintaining customer contact, participating in lab trials, and presenting at executive meetings. Tactically prioritized and managed customer feature requests and delivered new product presentations. Edited and reviewed product manuals, test plans, and product brochures. Represented company at industry trade conferences to include NANOG, IETF, SuperComm, and Asia Telecom.

Supported growing domestic Internet content service for international leader in the delivery of satellite broadband content. Developed PowerPoint sales and technical presentations. Rendered input in the review of marketing materials. Performed technical tasks to include tuning system performance, troubleshooting errors, and analyzing logged system metrics. Broadened knowledge in Internet cashing and related protocols. Key Achievements: - Developed sales and technical literature. - Engaged in technical sales calls and delivery of presentations to potential and existing clients.SkyCache name changed to Cidera

Consulting to major telecommunication carriers and government organizations embarking on architecting global scale IP commercial infrastructure networks. Provided services in architecture, engineering, and network operations/management. Utilized latest data transport and related protocol technologies in routed and switched networks in providing high availability IP backbone routing architecture solutions. Negotiated and managed BGP peers. Trained and mentored junior engineers.Key Achievements: - Served as pioneer IP Engineer on SprintLink, the first telecommunications company to offer commercial IP services. - Orchestrated a full-service turnkey IP network design and implementation for Bosnian PTT, a three-month full life-cycle project for technical services. Project included a comprehensive training program. - Recognized as catalyst and original contributor for Global-One IP network, internetMCI, ChinaNet, and Sprint International, DREN

GoodNet / Winstar - Started with Goodnet, then acquired by WinStar.Long term multi-year contract, requiring remote hands support, installations, troubleshooting, upgrades and maintenance at MAE-EAST Internet ExchangeNegotiated Internet Peering agreements with several other large Tier 1 ISP’s that were difficult to obtain Peering Arrangements.

Public Enterprise for PTT Transport Bosnia and Herzegovinawww.bih.net.baOrchestrated a full-service turnkey IP network design and implementation for Bosnian PTT, a three-month full life-cycle project for technical services. Project included a comprehensive training program.The Bosnian PTT wanted to with the locally established University IP services. A comprehensive training program was designed and prepared. The entire ISO 7 Layer model as related to TCP/IP was covered since the group was entirely new to the TCP/IP Protocols.The customer pre-selected multi-vendor equipment for integration from Cisco, Ascend, ACC, D-Link, SUN and Patton.Training consisted of three months of class covering, Internet History, Registry Services, Protocols (UDP, ICMP, TCP, BGP), Internet Organizations and Structure (RA, INTERNIC, APNIC, RIPE, NANOG, FARnet, IESG, IETF, IAB, ISOC)All Internet services: RIPE Registrations, DNS, Routing (BGP, OSPF), WWW, and accounting were operational and pre-staged before installation and operation overseas.

AT&T Government Systems - Contracted engineering services to provide inter-site IP and ATM digital data transmission services at bandwidths ranging from 10Mbs through 2.4Gbs to local area network technologies such as Ethernet, FDDI, and Synchronous Optical Network. The DISC Network incorporates the latest advances in IP and ATM technology.Designed IP routing over ATM using BGP/OSPF and NHRP.Worked with vendor in designing specifications for feature requests for new protocol.Negotiated and established peering with Tier 1 Internet Service Providers for all external connectivity on the DISC network.Designed and tested IP routing to prohibit accidental free-transit routing using BGP communities.Designed and provided a scalable classless IP Addressing plan for the entire network and hundreds of interconnected sites.The DREN Inter-site Services Contract serves three distinct scientific communities within the Department of Defense.

Global-One - Contracted to provide advanced training to ChinaNet www.bta.net.cn after a successful two years of initial deployments and commercial customers since 1995, ChinaNet needed to expand the initial installed dedicated and dialup network from Shanghi and Beijing to all other provences. Advanced training was also requested on Internet exchange Points (IXP) and Network Access Points (NAP) such as the Sprint NAP, on the business model, engineering and operations. This allows for China to keep their traffic in country (local) instead of transiting the United States to get to another province in China or Asian Pacific region.- Advanced discussions and training on BGP routing and OSPF.- Detailed history of Internet.- Extensive training on Transit and Peering relating to Domestic and International IP networks.- Provided Tour of MAE-EAST (NAP) to ChinaNet operations people for a future Asia Pacific Internet Exchange.

AT&T Government Systems - Provided technical review of a draft government proposal for the replacement of the DREN IP network in April 1996. Work directly led to AT&T being awarded the (DREN) Intersite Services Contract (DISC) in July 1996.

internetMCI - Worked in Strategic Marketing, proposal development, closing large deals, designing industry leading peering agreement models based on data analytics and research.

Whistle CommunicationsFoster City, CA 94404www.whistle.comaquired by IBM- Played an instrumental role in product design and business plan revisions for Whistle Communications, later acquired by IBM.- Provided key insights into target markets, which led to a redesign of the financial aspects of the business plan and new company.- Product design and specification of the InterJet- Feature and functionality specifications.- Training on ISP market and strategies and technology.- Demo and penetrate ISP market with preproduction demo units.

Sprint International - Provided initial international backbone design for Global SprintLink (AS4000-4005)

Electronic Data Systems Herndon, VA 22071www.ha.osd.milImplementing an FDDI network backbone consisting of AGS+ Cisco routers and Cabletron Hubs. This is an Office-Automation network for a DOD customer (Health Affairs).Established and implemented internal and external routing policies for the TCP/IP Autonomous System routing domain (AS1778), including AppleTalk, and Novell routing.Assist and advised administrators of AS1874, AS3164, and AS686, other TCP/IP autonomous routing domains that are external peers. Routers managed include Cisco AGS+, MGS, and IGS. Extended Tacacs Authentication Service provides the login accounting.Designed and Implemented dialup solution for remote network access using PPP and ARAP protocols on Xylogics and Xyplex terminal servers.Provided additional consulting services for Unix Administration on Data General Aviion System 5.4.2, Domain Name System (DNS) implementation, Sendmail, Internet Security, and the Network Management Team.

Technical Manager of Engineering and Operations for ICMNET and SprintLink Public Data Internets (PDI). Technical management of backbone and operations personnel. Performed as technical liaison with other backbone Internet service providers.Represented Sprint at Internet Engineering Task Force conferences conferences domestically and internationally.Deployment and management of SprintLink, a new Commercial Public IP network service providing IP routing. The backbone contained Cisco AGS+ routers.SprintLink and ICMNET are both national domestic and international networks peering with the NSFNET as well as other regional networks.Assist in management and growth of International Connections Manager (ICMNET), which is funded by a National Science Foundation cooperative agreement. International TCP/IP inter-network routing established between France (INRIA), Sweden (SwipNet), EBONE, Turkey, Ecuador, Malaysia and Japan Internet Exchange (JIX, RWCP, IIJ) with the BGP routing protocol.

National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, MD 20889-5066www-nmimc.med.navy.milPerformed worldwide medical office-automation and systems integration work for the U.S. Navy on the SMSCRC contract.Value-added systems integration, system administration and custom programming with AT&T UNIX System V 3.2.2.Network programming in C on a TCP/IP Ethernet for remote printing via Hughes, CMC and LanTronix terminal servers.Integration of 3270 bi-sync communications with UNIX Print Spooler.Worldwide network deployment consisting of multiple AT&T 3B2's, IBM PC clones and Apple Macintoshes, connected via DDN Internet and NavNet.Documenting installation procedures, programs developed and, trained government and Navy personnel on Basic UNIX System Administration.

AT&T Custom Programming Service Center (CPSC) - This position entailed custom software development working on team projects. Client-Server applications were designed and implemented on AT&T UNIX System V 3.2.2, Microsoft Windows 3.0 Operating System and some IBM 3270 IBM SNA communication integration. Other projects included application support and maintenance of INFORMIX Databases in ESQL/C.TCP/IP network programming including heterogeneous network implementations consisting of PC's and AT&T 3B2 on an Ethernet network. Source code version control provided with AT&T SCCS.Programming experience on UNIX in C, ksh, and Informix ESQL/CMicrosoft Windows 3.0 Dynamic Link Library development and application development using Gupta SQL Windows.Successfully ported FTP Software TCP/IP Protocol implementation to run in Windows 3.0 DLL.Perform System Administration responsibilities as a daily collateral duty included backups, maintenance, system tuning, networking and security on AT&T 3B2 minicomputers running UNIX System V 3.2.