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Honeoye Falls, Ny, Us

Providing business consulting and direction to an NPO committed to environmental education through the study and dissemination of information on birds of prey.As the Treasurer I provide oversight to the financial expenditures, project funding, and other key business initiatives for the organization.Whether it is the annual hawk migration count, the seasonal banding activities, or our classroom programs, BBRR exposes the general public to the benefits of Rochester's Lake Ontario shoreline.Rochester's unique geography provides BBRR an amazing opportunity to study the seasonal migration habits of the top of the avian food chain. These studies provide insight into the impact of our constant change in the environment as changes that impact lower levels of the food chain manifest themselves at the top.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Leading a team of talented individuals in managing the portfolio of products within our Kinetic Business Unit. Whether it's SD-WAN and SASE, LAN and WiFi, Firewalls and Data Security, or UCaaS solutions, we make sure that the customers of Kinetic have what it takes to keep their businesses running without having to spend time on managing their networks.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Leading a team of talented individuals in managing the portfolio of products within our Kinetic Business Unit. Whether it's SD-WAN and SASE, LAN and WiFi, Firewalls and Data Security, or UCaaS solutions, we make sure that the customers of Kinetic have what it takes to keep their businesses running without having to spend time on managing their networks.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Leading the development of new, innovative products from conception to launch.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Engaging with back office teams and product managers to develop the next generation of Software Defined Networking products at Windstream.Our SDN is focused on automation of provisioning and modification of circuits and services via web based portals using open standards. Whether it's long haul transport or last mile Ethernet services our goal is to enable our customers to change their network needs on their schedule, not ours.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Managing services and products based data access networks. SD-WAN, MPLS, Internet. Leading these products into the next generation of network design and delivery reducing operating expense and improving outcome based network decisions. Overseeing the strategy for how SD-WAN will shape Windstream and our customers' futures.Whether it's HFC, DSL, NxT1, EoF, and EoC we offer solutions to help service providers, carriers, and resellers connect their end-users to each other and to the Internet. Point to point and via aggregation, we make connectivity happen.As the Product Manager the focus is on managing the P&L of the product through constant internal interaction with IT development initiatives, OSS improvements, pricing initiatives, sales initiatives and training, and customer discussion. The ability to connect with all facets of both EarthLink and our customers allows us to continually improve what we deliver and stay on top of the rapidly changing world of network connectivity.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Helping drive the business and technical needs of HMANA and through that assist migration sites collect and share their data for purposes of scientific research and an understanding of environmental changes on the raptor population.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Managing services and products based data access networks. MPLS, IP Services, SDWAN, and similar products. Leading these products into the next generation of highly efficient quote to cash and provisioning.Whether it's HFC, DSL, NxT1, EoF, and EoC we offer solutions to help service providers, carriers, and resellers connect their end-users to each other and to the Internet. Point to point and via aggregation, we make connectivity happen.As the Product Manager the focus is on managing the P&L of the product through constant internal interaction with IT development initiatives, OSS improvements, pricing initiatives, sales initiatives and training, and customer discussion. The ability to connect with all facets of both EarthLink and our customers allows us to continually improve what we deliver and stay on top of the rapidly changing world of network connectivity.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for our data protection products, colocation, and cloud hosting products within the IT Services division. Tasked with guiding product strategy, market analysis, PDLC, and profit and loss. This includes the development of product requirements, financial justification and analysis, competitive analysis, support requirements, and more.Interacting both internally and externally with customers to drive improvements through feedback and understanding customer need.Lead the development of new products as they fit with corporate vision and market need.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for assisting product managers in turning a requirements document into a tangible product. Work with the product manager to address technological hurdles and constraints. Gain consensus on the vision of the product and then begin R&D on how to best turn the product into reality.Engineering work consisted of developing our HIPAA compliance services, network security (firewall, SSLVPN), cloud hosting products, encryption services, and more.The product engineer must not only have the technical prowess to build solution but also the business sense to know how to meet the financial requirements. We drive collaboration across more focused engineering groups, support groups, and sales to develop the technical services documentation, support guidelines, and product specifications that make the product a reality.

Ny, Us

Nothnagle Realtors is the premier residential real estate services company in Western New York operating over 30 branches and 750 agents between the Finger Lakes and Rochester. Nothnagle's competitive advantage has always been to use forward thinking technological solutions to help agents find their clients the right homes. This thinking has manifested itself in a slate of web based tools that help brokers and agents manage their respective businesses while also providing consumer facing websites to help people in the community find their next home.Serving as VP of Technology I was directly responsible for leading that technology charge into the next generation of tools to help brokers and agents. In order to achieve these goals it was critical to bring increased structure to the technology environment through a series of architecture initiatives.These included:Implementing an EDW to provide all areas of the company process the volumes of information they need on a daily basis to perform their work. This included bringing a new focus on data governance through the instantiation of a new MDM.Building a tiered development structure that allowed for maximum flexibility for clients in configuring their content and SEO marketing requirements while allowing our development staff to quickly onboard new backend technology to drive front-end adoption.Migration from an aging co-location facility to a top of the line cloud based infrastructure to drive increased capability, flexibility, DR/HA/BC for Nothnagle and its clients.Established a new telecom model to provide agents greater availability to their clients. In real estate every missed call is a missed opportunity.Consulted managers, agents, brokers, on other technology solutions and engaged in analysis through BPM to devise ways to improve their daily function.Managed all financials aspects of projects, staff, etc. in conjunction with the role of VP of Technology.

Rochester, Ny, Us

URMC is one of the leading Academic Medical Centers in the United States. Serving in my role as Project Director for Imaging Informatics my purpose was to assist all departments within the medical center with projects related to their clinical imaging needs. The goal was to bring an enterprise wide view and structure to the solutions that were being implemented within various departments.During my time led URMC on an initiative to bring a tiered storage and delivery structure to clinical imaging. This allowed for greater economies of scale in the long term storage of medical images as well as increased distribution capabilities so that health care providers had access to patient images to help them drive better outcomes.URMC is an extremely diverse environment and in order to achieve these goals it required extensive relationship building, collaborative thinking, and interfacing with all levels of leadership to help people realize what solutions existed or could be built to help their specific department provide better patient care.As the driving force behind IT architecture I applied the same process thinking used in building Imaging Informatics solutions to bring structure to the project delivery process. Working with SME's, PM's and more we built a collaborative team to evaluate new projects and match them to existing solutions and/or diagram how we could adopt new technologies to meet the needs of the clients.This evolved into being an internal consultant on RFP's, new technology, and other initiatives that would see technology brought into URMC.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Support Exchange 2003 and related AD infrastructure, VMWare Infrastructure 3.5, EMC SAN technology, Backup Exec 12, Microsoft SMS 2003, Microsoft SC Operations Manager 2007, MS Office Sharepoint Server 2007, MS SQL Server 2005, Sophos AV and PureMessage for Exchange, Windows Server Update Services 3.0, data center operations for 26 servers, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure creation and more.

Sussex, Wi, Us

Supported all desktop systems, server systems, PBX, network infrastructure for remote location of Vertis in Rochester, NY. Supported roughly 185 users.Additionally worked as a web developer for smaller client driven web applications as needed.

Maintained service desk operations, maintained server, network, telecom operations. Provided some web design and development as needed.

Same as Impco.

Worked various contracted phone and on-site technical support positions for major telecommunications and print, film, and digital image clients. Trained other staff members in order to improve overall skill sets.Developed troubleshooting guidelines for products supported and handled network connectivity accesses at certain clients.

Masters In Business Administration, Business Consulting, Cis

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science