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• Founder of startup company with the mission to assist companies with their journey through the digital transformation
• Successful solution designs for cloud native transitions as well as application hosting to reduce operational cost
• Strategic business planning and operational planning, providing superior execution in competitive landscapes
• Proven network architecture and solution designs with active deployments in large service providers
• End to end solution engineering utilizing automation a founding principle to reduce operational cost and TCO
• Entrepreneurial mindset, leading and developing work-place cultures of high motivation

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Lead an engineering department team of 50 architects and engineers, designing solutions and products for Spectrum Enterprise commercial and business services that have resulted in growing revenue for a $2 Bil business.
• Successfully product designed and production launched SD-WAN & Virtual Services platform for Spectrum Enterprise business services, projected to annually bring in 25% more revenue.
• Deployed the large scale/service provider deployment of a distributed cloud with edge compute based on ETSI standards model using the best of breed, multiple vendor deployment to accomplish a successful production.
• Successfully designed, implemented, and launched Spectrum Enterprise distributed cloud platform including MANO and NFVi, and hosting of virtual services for enterprise customers utilizing Openstack & common compute.
• Collaborated with 8 vendors on the integration of OpenShift platform as an integral part of the distributed cloud platform solution for Spectrum Enterprise.
• Successfully deployed of SDN orchestration platform, MANO, providing full automation for both the PNF and the VNF network service provisioning, greatly reducing the operational costs of the MACD process by 50%.

East Syracuse, New York, US

• Led a team of 20 network engineers and 5 architects in design and implementation of network solutions, as well as capital planning and project costing models for $150M budget, forecasting, and tracking of spending.
• Prepared new network technology strategies along with implementation and deployment guidelines based on various executive stakeholders from business, product, and marketing.
• Successfully deployed of SDN orchestration platform, providing full automation of the provisioning of business services and managed services, greatly reducing turn up time and reducing operational costs by 70%.
• Established a 30/60/90 technology roadmap and deployment process to ensure timely market deliveries,
• Successfully designed of mobile back-haul transport solution utilizing ethernet as circuit emulation technologies, increasing revenue by $5M annually.
• Implemented a $100M transformation of CO/Hub facilities and infrastructure support convergency of services as well as edge compute.

Stamford, CT, US

• Founded network operations center in Tampa, expanding team of 20 to over 200.
• Established hosting services and direct internet access service to service enterprise customers.
• Deployed large-scale converged IP/MPSL network transport for data, voice and video traffic and services on a common network transport and infrastructure, greatly reducing Opex and Capex.
• Designed and deployed Remedy event management & tracking system.
• Implemented asset management and document change control solution for $350M of assets.
• Architected optical access solution for high capacity commercial customers utilizing Ethernet tech.

Stamford, CT, US

• Directly responsible for leading 20 network engineers, system engineers, and application architects.
• Chief architect for IP Network services utilizing DWDM, SONET & ATM Transport for key revenue-generating services.
• Review and sign-off authority of all architectural designs for network, system, core services, and application frameworks for Digital TV, Video, and Network Transport for High Speed Online services.
• Successful deployed early launch of TWC Digital TV services in Tampa FL market.
• Architected and deployed the largest Video on Demand platform in the world serving Florida.
• Deployed new network technologies, management, and analytical tools to enhance network efficiencies.

Stamford, CT, US

• Led an agile team of 12 engineers to deploy and launch the TWC broadband service in the Florida market.
• Collaborated with TW Cable corporate office on new product development and strategic projects to expand the broadband business; establishing/generating KPI reports for executive management.
• Successful Deployment of CMTS platform over HFC to provide Broadband access via cable modems.
• Architect for DWDM &SONET transport network connecting 160 locations in 28 counties in Florida.
• Responsible for establishment of the ISP including Multi-ASN, IP addressing and ISP peering agreements.
• Designed and implemented the TW Cable Tampa POP for Road Runner broadband services.

San Jose, CA, US

• Managed design of network security products and application security product lines.
• Defined product specifications and wrote design requirement documents for secure computing products.
• Implemented RSA, DES, MD5, PGP and SaferK64 encryption technology for network security products.
• Delivered technical presentations to both client customers and internal company management for enterprise computing and networking systems.
• Managed company exhibits, presence, presentations and booth at ~6-8 industry tradeshows a year.
• Interfaced directly with customers / partners in defining requirements and establishing strategic alliances.

Oakland, California, US

• Managed HP 9000 UNIX servers with mission critical applications for 3,000+ users.
• Implemented, designed and maintained Sun UNIX servers with Sparc workstations for 100 users.
• Designed and installed company-wide Network system, improving Network performance by over 200%.
• Expanded and managed TCP/IP network and Banyan VINES network server systems, supporting 3000+ users.
• Directed operating system and application software upgrades on UNIX systems and PCs.
• Proposed highly cost-effective solutions for the implementation hardware and software systems.

Munich, DE

Directed product design, planning and product integration for factory floor automation applications.Designed and implemented an automated, multi-platform, source code management and network storage system for product development, based on TCP/IP network and VAX/VMS repository.Created an automated Software build process for AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, VMS, SCO.