Sam Lee Email & Phone Number

Nationwide, Us

What an amazing organization & an absolute honor to have the privilege to be involved with a group that is so focused on getting Veterans employed.The system that Veterans Ascend has come up with is absolutely unique & a game changer for the industry.It helps organizations find top-notch candidates & helps candidates find amazing organizations. All without a resume.I am beyond excited to be a part of something that is going to make such a huge difference in the lives of so many Veterans.

Washington, Dc, District Of Columbia, Us

As the National Director of Military and Veteran Initiatives, I get to lead a team of dedicated individuals that is focused on helping transitioning servicemembers, veterans and spouses into rewarding careers in manufacturing.Coming into this role, I had the opportunity to learn about two very new industries that I have never worked in. The world of Nonprofits and also manufacturing.At the end of the day, it's all about helping others in the military community and if I helped even one person into a rewarding career, then mission accomplished. There are 2.9 million under-employed veterans, they make up 33% of all working veterans. And on top of that there are 384k unemployed veterans. To top it all, spouse un-employment is at 23% and that number has been stubbornly hovering in that range, with very little movement over the years.So being given the opportunity to help impact these numbers was a challenge that I was so excited to face. A challenge well worth facing.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Training is a personal passion of mine and I get to go teach something I love every day. Who says you can't get paid to do what you love?Not only do I get to teach new students all about networking and help them get prepared to join or move up within Information Technology; I also get to work with a team of amazing instructors to make the curriculum even better.Sitting with the team of amazing instructors here, we look to improve and help the students every day. How can we better engage the students? What else can we do to help them become successful? Leading an all Veteran team of instructors dedicated to bringing out the best in our students was one of the best experiences of my life. This team continued to excel year after year, with our instructors taking the top spot as instructors year after year.

Extremely exciting to be sitting on this board with some amazing people who are so focused on helping Veterans.The chamber is not only focused on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, it also focuses on the holistic whole person concept. Also, help is not limited to just veterans, we are looking to help dependents as well. As the Director of Technology for the Board, I help drive the technology for the organization and have helped develop and bring online our website. As the Chair for the Air Force Committee, we're looking to help local students interested in attending the United States Air Force Academy achieve their dreams by guiding and mentoring them.

I started out in February 2016 as a part time technical instructor teaching the CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ as well as the MCSA courses at night. I love teaching and taught on a regular schedule while working my regular job until December of 2016, when I decided I needed a break.In May of 2016, I came on board full-time as a Career Training Consultant where I had the opportunity to work with potential students one-on-one to figure out the best program for them. In September of that same year, I was promoted to Director. Since then, we've helped countless students get trained, certified and into a great career. While I no longer have the time to teach classes, I still work one-on-one with students in tutoring sessions to help them get ready for the exams. I work with an amazing team that works tirelessly to ensure the success of this campus and the students. We've done some amazing outreach work that has also shown our commitment to our community. I've been honored to lead teams of student volunteers to upgrade the IT infrastructure for multiple Non-Profit organizations as well as working hand in hand with our local USO to help raise money for that amazing organization. I regularly give speeches and lead workshops for Onward to Opportunity (O2O) and Blue Star Families. I also provide group technical study sessions for the O2O Technical students. For the 2017 ITProCamp, I was a speaker for two breakout sessions and was also an Executive Panel Member.

Recruiting is a very difficult job and not for everyone. I had the awesome opportunity to meet with some amazing people around Jacksonville. In the process, I helped people fix their resumes and helped get them ready for Interviews. And it helped that I understood a lot of the technical requirements as well, in some cases, it helped to find the right candidate.Dealing with the Human element is what made recruiting so difficult. People not making interviews or quitting out of the blue was mind boggling. For all the chaos though, it was all worth it when we got call the candidate that has been looking for MONTHS and tell them they got the job. To hear the shouting, the crying and the laughter at the other end never got old. It gave me a perspective on how hard it is to truly be a good recruiter and for that I'll always be grateful.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Key technical architect, subject matter expert and implementation lead for the AAA, F5 and DNS Platforms on the QChat and PII (Interoperability) platforms. Lead technical architect for a Data/VOIP(Voice over IP) roaming solution, this involved creating an end to end IP design and hardware platform architecture. Provided Tier IV support for the VOIP platform troubleshooting across multiple data centers and providing dedicated 24/7 on call support as the last line of support for operational teams. Created all operational documentation as well as provided necessary scripts and tools to help facilitate quick resolution of issues.Created a MOP (Method of Procedures), DFARF (Detailed Firewall Access Requirements), DRD (Design Requirements Document-Physical & Logical), NPL (Network Planning Letter) for both the lab and production networks. Production network spanned multiple data centers spread out across the nation. The lab network is composed of 4 separate carriers with each carrier having 4-6 data centers and represented a nationwide network individually.Responsible for day to day management of the QChat (Push to Talk System) NRT (Network Readiness Test) Lab which includes maintaining the latest OS version, maintenance patches, NEBS compliance, etc. Managed a team of 15 engineers and lab support vendors to ensure that all software updates or hardware upgrades were tested in the lab prior to being pushed to production. Developed test strategy, test plan and exit criteria for all testing performed in the lab. Testing included elements across the E2E network such as billing, provisioning, call processing, authentication, DNS and Inter-operability.Directly responsible for vendor management and resource management for Qualcomm, Ericsson, Global Logic, IBM and Nexius.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Sprint outsourced all of Operations to Ericsson Managed Services in September of 2009. We went home one day as Sprint Employees and came in the next day as Ericsson Employees. My job hadn't changed. But now I got my paycheck and benefits from Ericsson. Tada!!The biggest event during this time was taking a team of engineers to Noida, India to train a new Tier 1 NOCC that was getting stood up. For months I helped our existing Tier 1 Team formulate a plan while also helping our Tier 3 engineers come up with training material for the new team. Even with us landing right at the edge of Monsoon season, India was definitely an experience. I got to see the Taj Mahal among the many other amazing sights in the country. While in country I spoke about our Push to Talk platform. I also trained on BIND DNS, F5 LTM Load Balancers and Cisco AAA's. We talked about our current network architecture and the best practices needed to keep our network up for our customers. It was definitely a unique experience and one I was grateful for to have had the opportunity to experience.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Tier III engineer responsible for production environment in a 24/7/365 environment. Provided Tier III support for CDMA based High Performance Push to Talk (HPPTT) Platform Directly responsible for maintaining and managing F5 (BigIP), DNS (BIND) and AAA (Cisco AR) systems as the operations subject matter expert Identified a bug in a vendor’s DNS resolver implementation; designed workaround and worked with vendor to test the workaround. Additionally worked with vendor to ensure a proper permanent fix in their code base Designed a more redundant and scalable DNS server architecture for use with HPPTT Identified an issue with F5 processing of SIP packets and managed a platform wide upgrade Served as Project Lead for Enhanced Service Operations (ESO), coordinated training and logistics across multiple groups. Created in-depth alarm analysis for all organizations under ESO to include Voicemail, HPPTT, SPS/ASMS and LBS/E911 Created timeline and defined key deliverables to meet deadline requirements Created various Perl and Shell scripts to automate various functions and day-to-day tasks Supplemented SNMP monitoring and alarming system with additional scripts as needed Account management scripts to ensure compliance with Sprint’s security policy Creation of backup scripts to minimize loss of data in the event of failure Created database and log mining script to cull out customer usage numbers and users with incorrect settings Contributed to the development of a geographic redundancy solution for HPPTT using only on-hand equipment and no capital expenditure. This closed a gap that was missed during development and deployment Primary trainer for Tier 1 and Tier 2 personnel – this included curriculum development, classroom presentation and practical application for the students Experienced in maintaining MySQL, TimesTen and SQLite databases

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

This was for a project known as High Performance Push to Talk. This was Sprint's first attempt at putting the Push to Talk (PTT) onto the CDMA platform. The theory being we could then shut down Nextel's network. I was the first hire for this new NOCC and helped with the overall build-out. From the hiring, training and manning. I was part of it all. It was interesting getting all the MOPs/SOPs, SLA and SOWs in place. Trying to learn a new platform and at the same time, having to turn around and train a new team was definitely an interesting experience.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

This was my first "Official" job coming out of the military. I say I was a ticket monkey LOLSo this job was all about watching alarms and sending up tickets to engineers to fix the issue myself with the limited number of tools that we had. I worked the Nortel and Motorola Markets (Every region that had those types of equipment) and when a major storm hit a region, I jumped in and helped with those too.For someone with NO technical experience, this was a great first job and something I recommend to anyone trying to get into IT. Learn and grow by seeing the Engineers do their thing. Running conference calls during outages and taking notes on what's going on, you start picking up on the terminology and eventually, start seeing patterns in the outages as well.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

USAF Academy Comptroller Squadron (CPTS), Colorado Springs, CO305th CPTS, McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), NJ305th SFS, McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), NJ

18 years old and I managed one of the largest pool table stores in Bergen County. And out of 40 stores within the company, my store was ranked Number 2 in sales, who beat us? Corporate headquarters and they had the whole warehouse behind them. Did it help that we were at Garden State Plaza at the height of their expansion in the late 90's? Sure.How about the fact that we were DIRECTLY across from Victoria Secrets, or the fact that we would regularly play pool at the table right at the door so you could hear the pool balls all the way down the hall? Absolutely! Like they say, location, location, location. Getting folks to walk in was the easy part. Getting them to purchase pool tables that ranged from $1,500 to $30,000, a little bit harder. Best sale? The executive that decided he wanted us to do a complete renovation of his basement into a man cave, bar, pool table, poker table and chairs, dart boards, lamps, chairs, recliners, pin ball machines and arcade machines. THAT was a fun night!

Opening and closing the store.Almost management but not quite there. While the job was strictly retail, the best part of the job was playing with all of the cool toys that came out. Anyone remember this store? Think Brookstone (they were a direct competitor back then too and won), lots of foot traffic with folks wanting to look at and play with the new tech on our floors.I like to think the company went out of business because I left. I mean, I was the number sales guy in the store. Mind you there were hundreds of stores in every mall in the US and my sales were but a blip in the radar, but I'm still going to live with the delusion it was all because of me.

Asaf, Finance

Certificate Of Training, Nj Real Estate Licensure Course

High School

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