Manager, AWS Network Engineering

• Manager of the Network Design Engineering team that focused on design, standards, and support of LAN, WLAN, WAN, and Traffic optimization services for both enterprise and manufacturing environments.• Led team on several major projects including: three private cloud data centers, design of Coca-Cola’s Next Generation Office, development of cloud connectivity standards, and design of The Coca-Cola Next Generation network.• Worked with the team guiding development and maintenance of all global network standards.• Active contributor to Architecture team in relation to “Software Defined Perimeter” standardization for the Cloud Security Alliance as it applies to architectural application in The Coca-Cola Company.• Led team on DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IP Management) lifecycle management program migrating from Lucent Vital QiP to Bluecat and Amazon Route 53.• Managed global network simplification initiative for 700+ sites and 4 data center environments.• Responsible for capital project budgets, proposal, negotiations, and project planning related to large-scale network initiatives. • Responsible for communications around project status, funding, strategic initiatives, and network enhancement proposals.

• Technical Training lead and Tier 4 escalation lead for engineering and operations teams in areas pertaining to LAN, WAN, QoS in multi-vendor environments.• Responsible for the development of network standards relating to WAN, LAN, and Traffic Engineering for The Coca-Cola Company.• Designed and guided implementation teams building three data centers inclusive of perimeter security, Load Balancing, network virtualization, and Traffic optimization/engineering. • Designed and led migration of global network connectivity to a large scale diversity model providing national redundancy.• Designed and implemented a large VPLS network for key Coca-Cola region to provide high-speed connectivity between in-country facilities in support of storage replication and growing video demand.• Migrated many international remote locations from traditional MPLS to a VPN architecture reducing costs and increasing performance.• Created and implemented several traffic engineering/ intelligent WAN opportunities focused on significantly enhancing organic growth with no additional cost to the network bottom line.• Performed vendor selection, created design, and assisted in implementation of traffic optimization services.• Responsible for the initial design and implementation a large services network providing Coca-Cola Products.• Technical advisor for RFP proposals related to telecommunications and network optimization.

Designed and build small MPLS network of 30+ locations including 2 data center environments within less than 3 months. Provided all network support for entire company and responsible for day-to-day operations along with all designs. Created high-availiblity internet hosting infrastructure.

Senior Network Architect for CSC assigned to assist in the design for Aon's corporate network design and strategy.

Assisted in the design and implementation of Aon’s core internet infrastructure environments servicing 30,000 users within the United States, over 300 Websites, and 100 extranet connections.

Performed complete LAN and WAN re-design for small insurance related company comprised of 8 sites and approximately 200 Users. Migrated existing logical network infrastructure to Active Directory and Exchange 2000 with Raptor Firewall.

Designed and implemented a Wide Area Network Rollout that served 2000+ Users. Designed and implemented VPN Solutions. Engineered Web infrastructure for client portal websites. Responsible for network security design and support.

Consultant for LAN/WAN Design, SNA gateway Design, Network Conversions, Data Center NOC Engineer for some clients.

Assisted in integrating mutiple banks’ network and mainframe systems with access to the US Federal Reserve wire transfer system via 3270 application emulation and LU6.2 through a MS SNA Server Gateway.

Was a member of the team that created the monitoring and helpdesk solution for Bellsouth.net Responsible for second level support of routing backbone related issues.

Network engineer and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) specialist.