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Chicago, Illinois, US

Develop, implement and monitor the strategic plan for the global network architecture, including technology, security, and operations.Responsible for the management of a $12M annual capital budget and cost-effectiveness. Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.Lead.

Chicago, IL, US

• Develop, implement and oversee a strategic, comprehensive global network architecture to maximize investments in support of stated business requirements and objectives.
• Lead and assist with major project initiatives that span departments within and outside Network & Telecom Services.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with IT vendors to influence product direction in support of the company strategic direction.
• Contributes to company’s overall business results by making recommendations that significantly improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• lead and motivate distributed global cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals.
• Develop and manage network budgets, monitor them for variances and initiate corrective action where needed.

Vernon Hills, IL, US

• Manage the planning, configuration, installation, management, and coordination of enterprise LANs/MANs/WANs and Voice networks.
• Plan and executes proactive analysis and regular maintenance activities including network upgrades, network monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, reporting and change control.
• Identify and investigate risks to the organization using a variety of applications and processes.
• Participate in and facilitates audits, both internal and external. Ensure a cost-effective and efficient infrastructure that will provide the processing power essential to business unit and departmental operations.
• Develops operational plans that align to the IT strategy. Define service level and other key IT performance metrics.
• Participate in budget planning for ongoing operations and new projects (OpEx/CapEx).

Paris, Ile De France, FR

• Lead the Network Infrastructure team that was geographically distributed across the United States for 24/7 network operations, Data center expansions, Network Architecture and building next-generation Data centers..
• Designed, architected, supported and orchestrated the deployment and management of LAN & WAN projects including the North American MPLS rollout, a national Cisco-based router and switch refresh, an upgrade of all.
• Drove the development and implementation of global network service projects, including carrier decisions, methods of connectivity, network topology, and equipment selection.
• Performed cost analysis of vendors, telecommunication companies and any other service providers.
• Determined an operating budget for labor and capital expenditures.
• Managed and maintained successful working relationships with technical vendors.

London, GB

• Manage a WAN and Internet support group that is responsible for installing, deploying and maintaining WAN and Firewall services throughout the company.
• Managerial responsibilities include producing a yearly budget, setting employee goals and priorities, resolving daily support related issues and managing outside vendors.
• Implements wide area network solutions to connect distributed systems.
• Managed WAN Services, including setup, configuration, and deployment of Cisco routers, switches and Cisco PIX firewalls, as well as different Networking devices.
• Insure proper implementation of all policies and procedures related to LAN & WAN.
• Ensure up to date and accurate monitoring on WAN & LAN systems.

London, GB

• Design, implement and test various types of LAN & WAN Architectures.
• Setup, Configure and Troubleshoot Cisco Routers, Circuits and WAN problems.
• Evaluates and creates engineering design documents for WAN/LAN.
• Analyzes the daily network operations to ensure the highest availability of the network.
• Design, develop and maintain configuration standards for network equipment.
• Evaluate and Recommend effective Hardware & Software solutions for WAN network.

• Manage and distribute the work on daily bases for the Network team.
• Monitor System’s performance to ensure the availability of the network all the times.
• Plan for the efficient use of the IBM 3725 & 3745 Front End Processors.
• Supervise the installation of the IBM Controllers, Terminals and Printers.
• Configure IBM 3174 & 3274 Controllers and Modify the NCP on the IBM 3725 F.E.P.
• Install and troubleshoot the Data Communication Equipment.

M.S, Computer Telecommunications

B.S, Computer Science