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Lead Project Consultant on regional and global scale projects introducing new technologies.

AAP’s Retail Network consists of 5,000+ locations throughout the U.S, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Assumed role to help facilitate and manage the company’s SD-WAN retail network leading a network engineering team who were tasked with the design/technical/engineering aspects of enhancing the network along side carrier resources.

Program Manager for the Network Services team within AAP’s Infrastructure Architecture organization leading highly visible and critical infrastructure projects encompassing AAP’s three data centers, Supply Chain and Retail networks, and the initial build out the company’s cloud infrastructure. Served on the IT organization’s Change Advisory Board.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Held PM responsibilities on several enterprise projects, most notably a Data Center Lifecycle project where the scope is to upgrade/replace all core switching, routing and security systems infrastructure for data centers in Roanoke, Virginia and Denver, Colorado utilizing Cisco’s ACI SDN fabric; and a $25 million Next Generation Store Network project.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Managed tactical, scheduling and execution responsibilities on an enterprise project partnered with Verizon upgrading all voice/data services and infrastructure across the company’s 5,000+ locations utilizing methods and best practices as defined by PMBoK and the company’s PMO.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Led the implementation of a national Real-Time Location System (RTLS) at the Salem, Virginia VA Medical Center as part of a multi-site, multi-year effort to bring wireless and RFID locating technologies together into a seamless ‘digital hospital,’ enabling efficient tracking of mobile assets, consumable assets, and sterile product processing while also.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Managed a project which conducted technical feasibility studies for market penetration into Roanoke and Salem, Virginia. Provided valuable insights regarding business expansion into this new territory based on wireless feasibility survey results. Launched marketing programs based on potential opportunities for capturing market share.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Virginia based HVAC/R distributor established in 1947 by my uncle with 10 locations and 100 employees. During the 38 years my father served as President the company eventually transitioned to an ESOP and became 100% employee owned. I spent a majority of my professional career here fulfilling responsibilities in a variety of areas such as project/product.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Marketed, advised on, and sold voice, Internet, Frame Relay, MPLS, VoIP, SIP trunking, integrated services, managed services, and web hosting offerings in a Central/Southwest Virginia territory.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Promoted and sold a variety of technologies, including voice, ATM, Frame Relay, IP, web hosting/co-location, CPE, conferencing, wireless (PCS/MMDS), SONET, and Sprint’s Integrated On-Demand Network (ION) communications platform.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Formerly MCI/WorldCom. Performed sales of ATM, Frame Relay, IP, DSL, wireless, and voice services. Worked with high-bandwidth and facilities-based accounts, such as CLECs, ASPs, and ISPs.

Richmond, Virginia Area

While my hiring at MCI was put on hold during the WorldCom merger, I went to work with a couple friends at FGHE. Here I developed ideas, such as creating direct mailer campaigns, conducting market research, building relationships with contractors, realtors and other non-conforming and conforming lenders, in order to produce loan opportunities. It was an.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Provided leadership and executed a variety of roles in IT management, project management, continuous improvement, sales, purchasing, inventory control, operations and marketing.