Ryan Alt Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Management responsibility for a diverse team of high-performing consultants and technical architects. Our team is focused on solutions go-to-market, business development, and leadership of transformative client engagements in the areas of networking, network security, and automation.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Management, resourcing, technical leadership, and financial responsibility for a department of over 50 individual consultants, leads and line managers.• Led development of new services offerings, go-to-market strategies and recruitment of technical leaders/subject matter experts. • Technical lead on dozens of complex cross-functional client engagements involving enterprise, data center, public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), and automation.• Subject matter expert for strategic consulting engagements, including automation framework development, multi-year migration strategies and public cloud adoption. • Practice focused on bringing advanced and customized solutions to a wide variety of industries and organizations.• Specialties include public cloud, automation, and software-defined networking and security solutions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Management responsibility for a team of six networking and security consultants, providing technical leadership and skills development expertise• Assist with development of new professional services offerings, including those focused on software defined networking (SDN), technical assessment/gap analysis, and public cloud integration/migration• Technical lead and point of escalation on dozens of complex projects involving WAN, LAN and private cloud networking, automation using Python, network security, and integrations with cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure• Instrumental in professional services sales process by providing budget/scope oversight and technical subject matter expertise• Assist leadership team in evaluating and selecting new technology and service provider partners

Chicago, Il, Us

• Responsible for firm-wide security operations and incident response• Identified opportunities and led projects to improve security standards and practices• Used Python and several open source tools to automate security operations and audit network access• Data center and networking subject matter expert

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

• Client-facing technical leader responsible for developing and supervising a team of four junior engineers with varying experience levels• Architect and chief engineer for the design, implementation, and integration of two active/active data centers for a nation-wide media services organization. • Lead network and security engineer on a revenue-generating voice services cloud data center project for a new business unit within CDW• Over twenty in-depth network and security assessment engagements completed for a variety of health care, government, and private organizations• Implementation of over fifteen data center environments involving compute virtualization (VMware), software-defined networking (SDN), data center interconnect (DCI), and storage networking (SAN) aspects• Successful remediation of two large financial services networks in accordance with PCI DSS requirements• Lead engineer for over seventy-five diverse network and security client engagements involving firewalls and other security appliances, complex wide-area network (WAN) designs, and large-scale campus networking• Analysis and optimization of financial services and trading networks, including large-scale multicast architectures, resiliency improvements, and security matters• Developed over ten formal training programs and sessions as part of client engagements, with some spanning multiple days and involving non-technical audiences• Refinement of architectures and IT roadmaps for clients, including budgeting assistance and business development for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) organizations• Key contributor in the recruitment of engineers, project managers, and management personnel company-wide• Wrote over fifty customized design, reference, and assessment documents

Irving, Tx, Us

• Top-level operational support for 60,000+ user enterprise network• Implementation of Class-III data center environment• Extensive network design across multiple business units

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• Collaborated with end users to develop and deploy a trouble ticketing system using Microsoft.NET programming suite• Served as network operations contact for a company of over 100 users• Initiated and completed a network re-architecture for the flagship office using Cisco wireless,security and switching technology