Mark Edwards Email & Phone Number

Pensacola, Fl, Us

Pensacola, Florida

Voice system administration and network/IT system engineering, Pensacola area Navy bases and NAS Base Communications Office (BCO)

Bossier City, Louisiana - Pensacola, Florida

– Support Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) network operations world wide– Designs and plans corporate network systems.– Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture.– Provides specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.– Conducts testing of network systems.– Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as Brocade, Juniper and Cisco routers, switchers, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA firewalls, SolarWinds Network Monitoring platform.– Evaluates and reports on new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.– Coordinate network resources for company wide migration project supporting the merger of CSC and SRA.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

– Responsible for building Network Services division of Com-Net Services to support structured cabling division of Com-Net Services, Triad Electric, Triad Control Systems, Newtron Group Engineering and external customers– Direct or coordinate supporting sales activities for medium to large customers including industrial, commercial and enterprise level accounts– Plan and direct all sales activities including planning and implementing forecasts, developing policies – Responsible for establishing and maintaining federal, state and local business licenses and certifications to allow Com-Net Services to provide network related resale and services – Established industry and internal training for mangers and technicians to support new technologies offered by Com-Net Services networking division– Responsible for staffing - managers, sales personnel and technicians to build network services division– Established partnerships with leading manufactures to provide server, switching, routing, network security, cloud-based storage and disaster recovery, unified communications, surveillance, access control services to small/medium sized businesses, enterprise, commercial and industrial customers– Established partnerships with industry leading distributors to allow Com-Net Services to provide goods and services to a wide variety of customers– Developed solutions for Com-Net customers to bridge the gap between industrial (plant floor) networks and their IT assets– Developed marketing brochures and web-based marketing solution to reach target customers and reinforce new Com-Net Services network and IP offering– Sensitive & adaptive to both stated and unstated customer needs

Lsu - Baton Rouge, La

LONI Network Responsibilities Responsible for the successful operation of the complex statewide LONI network, ensuring it is always available and performing well. Responsible for communicating system planning, design, development, installation and operations, as well as third-level on-call support for the NOC staff. Providing consultation to the participating institutions on data and telecommunications network services and systems, assist in defining processes and requirements, design and implement appropriate solutions, and identify and solve operational problems relating to networks and distributed communication systems.Responsibilities:Install, configure, operate, maintain and troubleshoot network components at geographically distributed locations across Louisiana and Mississippi. Identify network deficiencies and redesign the network to mitigate those deficiencies. Monitor environmental, performance, capacity, and availability of the network on an ongoing basis. Recommend improvements in technologies and practices to increase these metrics. Provide leadership in the area of documentation and data models best-practices in establishing a long-term, stable perspective to LONI’s operations.Collaborate with participants on their business and technical needs and determines how LONI can assist with those needs.Competencies Exemplary customer ServiceHands on experience with large, enterprise and ISP networksHands-on experience with IPv4 and IPv6 and associated routing protocolsHands-on experience with IP multicast Routing and MPLSHands-on experience with 802.1 VLANs and spanning-treeHands-on experience with Cisco 15454 Optical Platform, Cisco routers, Cisco Stitches, Juniper Routers, Juniper Switches, Ciena 6500 Optical Platforms Hands-on experience with Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Ciena's Service-Aware Operating System (SAOS)Hands-on experience using network management and analysis toolsHands-on experience with -48/-54VDC power systems

– Responsible for management, operations, and support of data networking equipment and systems for the LCTCS wide area network– -Manage IT portion of Act 391 projects - upgrading and replacement of multiple campuses – Provides administration of service and maintenance contracts with network equipment vendors and service providers– Provides technical support to internal, campus, and district personnel – Manage Metro-Ethernet project: design, install and manage the migration from Nortel frame-relay network to LONI (Louisiana Optical Network Initiative) Metro-Ethernet system for 52 LCTCS campuses

Jesup Ga

– Responsible for providing network services direction to sales staff and customers to analyze customer needs– Coordinate system audits on customer sites in order to determine trouble priorities and system evolution schedule – Manage Sylution Consulting employees, sub-contractors, and customer staff to complete contract requirements on time and on budget

– Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of international voice and data networks and network security to support 56 worldwide locations – Manage companywide IT projects, all complete on time and on budget