Design and implement requirements driven, standards based, cost effective multi-protocol LANs, WANs, mainframes and mid-range data communication networks. Open Group Certified Master IT Specialist - 2007 - 2010.Certified IBM IT Specialist 2004 - 2010. CCDA - 2001-2004.I design complex networks for potential IBM customers RFP driven requirements. I perform due diligence to baseline the network requirements, develop a design and statement of work, create the physical and logical network topology drawings and prepare a cost case to include all required hardware, software, labor and services for delivery to the end customer.Provide pre-sales technical support for the ATT sales lead, and upon contact win notification provide post-sales technical consultation to the transition and delivery teams for the life of the contract.My network designs have enabled several IBM acquisitions to fully integrate into the IBM internal network, providing authorized personnel access to mission critical data residing in the IBM internal network in order to achieve IBM’s strategic goals.Reseach network offerings of approved suppliers of network hardware, software and vendor service offerings for their applicability, and potential inclusion in my designs to deliver competitive solutions to my customers.

Design and implement complex enterprise multi-protocol LAN/WAN/ networks for the IBM internal account and their commercial customers. Certified IBM IT Specialist. CCDA - 2001-2004Developed network designs for more than sixty of IBM’s strategic outsourcing customers, resulting in numerous wins with an estimated total contract value of fifteen billion dollars and approximately one billion dollars of revenue for the IBM Global Network Services organization. Designed global networks for IBM’s Application Management Services and Managed Business Processing Services lines of business to enable application developers, help desk/contact center agents & resources access to the customer enterprise network and selected hosting to deliver contracted services for E-HR, CRM, Finance and Accounting and Procurement application support. My network designs were utilized by numerous IBM internal lines of business, resulting in significant cost savings and efficiencies, and/or were leveraged by these lines of business for inter- connection to their customers to deliver the contracted services and increase revenue or reduce cost. My network designs were leveraged by numerous IBM internal and commercial service networks to provide global support services. Responsible for insuring the successful migration of customer’s mainframe, midrange and hosting infrastructures into the designated IBM designated Service Delivery Centers. My responsibilities included the implementation of all LAN/WAN/MAN connectivity and security policy between the Service Delivery Center and the customer’s enterprise network. I also provided the LAN/WAN connectivity and security policy to the various IBM service network offerings to allow services and support resources access to the customers LAN/WAN/MAN infrastructure to deliver and manage the contracted services.

Responsible for the design, implementation, support and maintenance of all Ryder networks worldwide, to include WAN, LAN, network mainframe program products and mid - range networks.Designed, implemented and supported the Ryder Transportation Services Division Shared Service Center in Alpharetta and Royal Palm Development Center. Designed, implemented and supported Ryder Integrated Logistics Division customer networks to include Saturn, Whirlpool, Apple, General Motors, Proctor and Gamble, Office Depot, Xerox and Agway.Lead technician responsible for the implementation of Ryder headquarters token ring LAN and the frame relay WAN network, providing any to any connectivity between the headquarter IBM mainframes and AIX/RISC 6000’s and the 100+ Ryder district, branch and area claims offices AS/400’s, Novell and NT servers. This network won the 1995 Network World Designer Choice award. Developed, documented and administered the Ryder TCP/IP variable subnet address structure of two registered class B networks routed across a public frame relay network.

Responsible for all upgrades, enhancements, implementations and maintenance for mainframe network subsystems to include VTAM/NCP, Netview, Netspy and TRACS communication software and network hardware to include the IBM 3745 front end processor and leased/dialup modems.

Designed and implemented numerous SNA network solutions to meet business requirements of various Ryder divisions, to include:Designing a dial up communication system known as Ryder First, providing communication between Ryder District/Branch AS/400’s and the 5,000 Ryder Dealer PC’s used for credit card authorization, vehicle reservation and fleet management inventory. This design was published in the January 1994 issue of PC Week/ Network World.Designed and implemented a leased line network to migrate the Ryder eighty node branch office AS 400’s from a bi-sync dial-up to a SNA-APPN/APPC based network. Implemented the AS/400 based network between Ryder Dedicated Logistics and the Saturn automobile manufacturing facility in Spring Hill Tennessee, supporting the Ryder Integrated Logistic Division Just-In-Time (JIT) in-bound delivery of automotive components, and the Ryder Automotive Carriers Division pickup and delivery of the assembled vehicles.

Responsible for all VTAM/ NCP software in an IBM 3033 mainframe and IBM 3704/ 3705 front end processor network supporting numerous manufacturing facilities throughout the United States.

Responsible for implementation and support of all data communication hardware to include the IBM 3704/ 3705 Front End Processor network, IBM 3274/ 3270 terminal network in support of a CICS based manufacturing environment.

Managed computer operations team for Zenith's IBM mainframe production systems

ran the production job streams