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Sierra Vista, Az, Us

United States

Global

Provide senior technical leadership and pre-sales engineering support to cover all opportunities across the Federal marketplace for KEMP Technologies. Assist current and future KEMP customers to recognize the exceptional value of KEMP's full range of hardware/virtual/bare metal/cloud based load balancing products and services. Improve KEMP name recognition as the premier value and technology leader in the areas of load balancing, FIPS certified SSL proxies, Federal PIV/CAC integrated services and web applications firewalls. Personally worked with program management and developers to ensure all Federal and DoD requirements were incorporated into our products. Successfully took KEMP products thru initial DoD JITC Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL) testing and approval. Instrumental in growing KEMP 2016 Federal sales 3 x our previous year. Completed recertification under DoD UC APL with a perfect Information Assurance scorecard, resulting in 3 year approval extension for KEMP LoadMaster advanced application load balancer.

United States

Building happy customers and increasing Kemp sales thru technical enablement.

Global

Provided senior technical and business development support to all DoD sales and engineering teams within Riverbed. Opened new opportunities for sales teams with potential value in the $40-50M range. Provided sales enablement for over $40M in CY13 sales. Obtained access to Senior DoD officials such as Army Deputy CIO/G6, DISA Chief Technology Officer, USAFCYBER Commanding General and many more. During my 36+ years of federal service, I developed many senior leader contacts throughout the DoD IT community both within the Government as well as across the System Integrator community. Provided extensive knowledge transfer to sales/engineering teams related to DoD IT initiatives and architectures. Prepared RFI and RFP responses. Developed complex architectural solutions to meet DoD security, performance and costs constraints while ensuring maximum profitability to Riverbed. Internal restructuring across Riverbed resulted in corporate downsizing and my position was abolished.

Us Army Worldwide

An innovative leader with a focus on making people, projects and organizations successful at all levels. Over 35 years of experience in planning, designing, engineering, implementing, and overseeing highly complex projects for large organizations. Forward-thinking Information Technology (IT) and Cyber senior leader with experience at all levels to include delivering email services to Army and DoD customers, defining standards for all Army and later all DoD (Army/Joint Technical Architecture), building Army's defense-in-depth capability (TLAs and beyond), building the Army's first enterprise data centers, and building IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based enterprise Network Operations (NetOps) facilities. Provided strategic planning, engineering, program management and consulting services to DISA, DEA, MEDCOM, USAR, ARNG, Combatant Commanders, universities, research labs, and other federal/DoD organizations. Army's Senior Engineer providing consulting, planning and execution of the DoD Joint Information Environment (JIE)

Fort Huachuca, Az

Supervised, managed and led a highly professional workforce of planners, project managers, civilians, military and defense contractors. Mission scope included all Army strategic information systems world-wide. Major efforts included Global Network Enterprise Construct (GNEC), Army Area Processing Centers (APC), Common User Information Technology services, enterprise IT management systems, Army perimeter defense services (TLA), service catalog management, and reconstruction of Iraq information services. Efforts included leading the architecture, engineering design, program management, acquisition, implementation and life cycle support for major Army global efforts such as APC, TLA, GNEC, NetOps capabilities, Enterprise Email, Army Golden Master (AGM), Active Directory, PKI, and OEF/OIF IT reconstruction. Provided consulting services to DISA, DEA, MEDCOM, USAR, ARNG,NSA, SecArmy, Combatant Commanders (CENTCOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, PACOM, AFRICOM, UCOM), universities, research labs and other federal/DoD organizations.

Fort Huachuca, Az

Supervised, managed and led a diverse technical workforce consisting of 99 government engineers, information management specialists, and defense contractors including personnel permanently stationed in Kuwait. Provided senior level engineering support to NETCOM, Army Combatant Commanders, and the Army CIO/G6. Engineering efforts include Digital European Backbone Systems Engineer, Defense Messaging System, Operation Enduring Freedom commercialization of communications (LAN, WAN, satellite, transmissions, technical control, cable systems, inside cabling, VTC, telephone, and Red Switch), Top Level Architecture – Redesign (Army Information Assurance upgrades), Army Network Operations and Security Center, SWA Theater Network Operations and Security Center (TNOSC) design and implementation and Army Enterprise Active Directory implementation.

Fort Huachuca, Az

Supervised, managed and led approximately 80 engineers and scientists, including a field office at FORSCOM and a newly established field office in Kuwait. Responsible for all aspects of direct support engineering for Army Signal Command assigned systems. Efforts include OCONUS transmissions systems, OCONUS networks (both local and wide area), FORSCOM installation networks, Army Network and Systems Operations Center, OCONUS Theater Network Operations Centers, Army level technical advisory boards (Joint Technical Architecture, Defense Messaging System, and Common User Installation Transport Network), support to Force XXI, and various advanced technology demonstrations.

Fort Huachuca, Az

Major, US Army. – U.S. Army Reserves, U.S. Army Information Systems Command, Ft Huachuca, AZ. Signal Officer assigned numerous projects including facilitation of Warrior Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) force modernization working group. Provided staff engineering and leadership for various efforts within Army MACOM headquarters. Developed emergency radio network design for Oahu, HI. Supported bunker upgrades on Oahu, HI.

Fort Huachuca, Az

Responsible for technical management of approximately 50 senior Army engineers, scientists, and technicians. Primary Army beta engineer for Microsoft corporate operating and messaging system. Developed talent of assigned engineers through mentoring and aggressive training programs. Improved overall capabilities through engineering tools research and integration. Implemented email across all Army locations. Implemented Windows NT LAN operating system across all Army locations. Developed first LAN Design Guide for use across all Army locations.

Fort Huachuca, Az

Senior Engineer and Engineering Manager for Transmissions Systems Engineering Branch, and Networks Systems Engineering Branch, U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, Ft. Huachuca, AZ. Senior engineer for various projects including microwave, technical control, fiber optics, messaging systems, Defense Messaging System, Army Local Area Networks, Army DISN Router Program, router network management systems, telephony systems, and airport radar systems. Developed and promulgated detailed engineering guidance for all projects. System Engineer for Digital European Backbone. Developed all standard engineering products for aligned projects. Lead engineer responsible for building the first Computer Aided Engineering and Design system for Systems Engineering Directorate.

Various

Signal Officer, Signal Platoon Leader, Detachment Commander Landstuhl Satellite Terminal, and Army Defense Communications System (DCS) Engineer. Lead soldiers, delivered communications to artillery battalion and division headquarters, led/managed satellite earth terminals and led/managed efforts to evaluate enterprise level IT systems globally