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Ankeny, IA, US

Ankeny, Iowa, US

Casey's is the 3rd largest convenience store chain in the US, the 5th largest pizza chain and a Fortune 500 company with around 42,000 employees across 20 states.Originally the team I was hired to supervise included both Networking and Security. Over the first few years, in addition to rebuilding data center and access networks, I worked to mature the.

Hired onan 18-month contract, I was part of the team implementing the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) for the ICN. Hundreds of sites served by traditional TDM DS3s had to be re-engineered for high-capacity ethernet access over fiber-optics. This required a major update of much of the network. After a few months, the team lead left and I.

Solve was a company that provided turn-key video delivery services to content owners and licensors. Working with Solve, media could be distributed to a significant number of video platforms including Roku set-top-boxes and Apple iThings through a single relationship. Check out some of the 'channels' at FlickStream.com.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

Responsible for understanding customer systems, networks, business processes and needs and then creating high-value solutions to improve their performance or economics.

• Performing a wide variety of services including IT infrastructure projects, due diligence, project management and solution designAccomplishments:
• Perform technical due diligence on properties being examined for purchase
• Research and design for prospective start-ups
• Design and then implement significant email system changes
• Complete solution design and project responsibility for Transportation Management System

Des Moines, IA, US

• Responsible for technical aspects of pre-press operations as well as creation of target architecture for moving Meredith away from an “Ink on Paper” paradigm toward an “Any to Any” all-digital work-flow Accomplishments:
• Returned Digital Asset Management platform to maintenance upgrade schedule
• Performed adoption analysis of recently implemented work-flow management platform revealing significant opportunities for improvement
• Mapped master process flow for all production and adapted it for “Any to any” content acquisition, creation and management
• Began mapping processes to SOA enterprise architecture

• Responsible for design and implementation of all IT infrastructure and OSS applications. This also included many aspects of telephony and IP network service design. Reports:
• 3 *nix admin/engineers and 2 developers as well as outsourced resourcesAccomplishments:
• Complete design, development and implementation of co-located systems for day-to-day operation of pre-paid MVNO (cellular) customer service, billing, business intelligence and product management
• Creation of web-based service administration tools for customer service and provisioning
• Creation and implementation of basic IT services including e-mail, IM, intranet, VPN, security policy, etc.

• Responsible for design, implementation and management of ISP services at Iowa Telecom Reports:
• 3 *nix system engineers, 1 Sr. web developer, Support Services Manager Accomplishments:
• Built completely new ISP service infrastructure scalable to 250-thousand customers
• Successfully transferred over 50-thousand live customers from wholesaler’s infrastructure to new infrastructure
• Created, developed and deployed dozens of new products

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• Responsible for creation of business plan, product portfolio, costing and pricing of services, product creation (HW & SW) and implementation, sales engineering and service support. Reports:
• 2 *nix systems engineers, 1 network engineer, sales manager Accomplishments:
• Creation of a turn-key ISP services platform that was successfully implemented at about a half-dozen customer sites
• R&D on dozens of unique solutions; many successfully implemented
• Success of the business; cash-flow positive after seven months, sold to Iowa Telecom in 2003

• Responsible for IP design and implementation including new products and NOC escalation Accomplishments:
• Implemented an IP-based connectivity solution when an IXC was unable to deliver connectivity between network segments
• Selected protocols to assure secure AAA for users of partner ISPs
• Implementation of layer 2 (ATM/Frame Relay) & 3 (IP) facility-based service network, NOC and provisioning tools for over sixty tier 3 and 4 market cities across the US.

• Responsible for design, implementation and management of all IP access and backbone networks at netINS Reports:
• 3 network engineers, 5 NOC technicians, 2 network installers Accomplishments:
• Grew access infrastructure from 2,000 dial-up subscribers to over 50,000 dial-up, DSL and CMTS subscribers
• Grew IP access network from about 6 T1s to over 80 T1s and half a dozen T3s
• Grew backbone connectivity from 3 T1s to 3 OC-3s and 3 T3s plus peering connections to many regional ISPs
• Integral in designing and implementing dozens of new services

As the Promotions Director at KFMG, I had the good fortune to work with many Des Moines area organizations (Metro Arts, Central Iowa Blues Society, Hotel Fort Des Moines, People's, Hairy Mary's, etc.) as well as an incredible variety of artists and music industry organizations (Aimee Mann, del Amitri, Todd Snider, Blues Traveler, Collective Soul, Lyle.

Computer Programming And Mathematics

Communications - Theater Arts/Broadcasting