Rob S. Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The team is responsible for designing, building and operating our unified global datacenters; managing the demand planning and capacity utilization of our unified infrastructure• The Critical Environments Solutions Infrastructure group (CESI) is responsible for establishing global Critical Environment (CE) infrastructure requirements and standards, developing and delivering CE efficiency and optimization programs and projects, and supporting 24/7/365 mission-critical CE instrumentation infrastructure within Microsoft’s global datacenters.• Manages a team of network engineers to develop reliable, scalable, cost effective, high-performance, and simple large-scale Critical Environment (CE) networks• Oversees the development of design documents, implementation plans, Standard Operating Procedures, and Troubleshooting Guides.• Manage incidents to mitigate customer impact quickly and effectively through coordination between multiple service teams within and across organizations. • Drives standards, automation requirements, and priorities for sustained resolution of complex live site issues.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

•Leader of all Network Services, including Design, Engineering & Operations. •2021 Fifth Third Presidential Circle Award Winner•Adjusted Network Strategy to drive $3million yearly cost savings.•Developed and built new Architectural team to set standards and drive change.•Worked with leaders across the Infrastructure organization to develop SLAs & KPIs•Responsible for managing budget $26+ million yearly run rate

San Ramon, California, Us

• Leads and coordinates the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the WAN Core product portfolio or product line.• Analyzes, designs and develops a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.• Review and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements at domain level within product portfolio or team.• Participates in the EA domain governance model.• Contributes to the development of software, data and technology platforms that are service-oriented with reusable components that can be orchestrated together into different methods for different businesses.• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support actives.• Develops, motivates and directs staff to create a team environment.• Manages product line, major projects and/or large portfolio efforts• Manages direct reports that are technical leads and individual contributors • Leverages technical depth and broader business understanding to coach and develop the technical leaders that report to them.• Maintains budget management responsibilities and strategic inputs into S2 and other business activities.• Responsible for individual contributors in multiple geographies.• Develops peer, cross-functional and cross-business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness• Responsible for management activities including recruiting, development, performance management, compensation, organization and teaming

San Ramon, California, Us

• Designs network solutions to enable the 300,000+ GE employees across the globe. Serves as a highest-level technical expert, being responsible for acting as a thought leader, recommending strategy and developing innovative networking solutions for one of the largest commercial networks in the world.• Architects, designs and implements network concepts and technologies. Defines and executes proof of concept, pilot activities in support of rationalizing and vetting technologies that provide value to GE. Build upon the first phase of global network implementation to expand capability to meet critical requirements for Cloud, Edge, Core, third-party connectivity, Outbound Access, Acquisition and Divestitures activities, Mutli-Tenant Data Center Cores/LAN, etc.• Engages and collaborates across network deployment and operations teams to successfully implement solutions and transition to operations• Effectively communicates to all levels of the organization including SMEs, Peer Principal Technologist, Chief Architect, CTO, CIOs, etc.• Mentors others to develop their technical expertise

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for design and build solutions based on company network standards and strategic direction. Responsible for communicating network strategy and actions across all levels of the organization. A technical leader that mentors other team members to develop their technical expertise.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Participated on the GE network remediation project, which identified deficiencies and provided corrective action on the GE legacy network. Collaborated with Cisco on the design of GE’s Next Generation Network (NGN), which will allow convergence of Data & Voice & future Services. Supporting the GE Commercial Cloud Infrastructure, which consists of Cisco Nexus 5k/7k, UCS, Cisco ASA, F5 Load balancers & VMware systems

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Responsible for configuration and implementation of VPN based networking products. Worked with customers on initial Network Design and configuration issues for VPN and Managed Service Products. Assisted enterprise customers in designing and implementing their Internet routing strategies using various approaches such as BGP multi-homing, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP integration, load-balancing, IP address allocation issues, and traffic flow control policy. Partnered with Cisco in developing solutions with leading edge technologies.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Managed and provided day-to-day support of mission critical banking infrastructure. Provided 3rd level support for AIX, Solaris, and Novell 5 servers. Also, assisted with management of Cisco based switches for access layer. Provided consulting services to business units regarding usage of and expenditures for distributed computing and communications systems

Us

Interacted as lead associate, in which I provided technical and administrative direction. Provided 2nd tier support for Solaris, Win NT and Cisco routers in Data Center worldwide. Assisted in creating new process and procedures for HP OPENVIEW and Remedy ticketing sytems.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsible for administration of over 20 AS/400 midrange systems nationwide. Implemented TCP/IP within an SNA environment. Was responsible for connecting remote sites to the central manufacturing systems. Set-up communication between midrange systems and NT systems via TCP/IP over Token-Ring infrastructure.

Washington, Dc, Us

Semper Fi

Master'S Degree, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science