Scott Pledger Email & Phone Number

*Lead Corporate Systems, Virtualization, and Network Engineering Teams*Departmental Budgeting*Enterprise Wide Ownership of Systems and Network Operations *Vulnerability Management / Remediation *Manage and Maintain Corporate Datacenters*Systems and Network Architecture *Standards and Procedures*Equipment Lifecycle Refresh and Procurement *Project Management

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Greater Atlanta Area

• Infrastructure team lead for the company’s largest revenue related project to date.
• Serve as a departmental project coordinator, setting build schedules and delivery dates. Work closely with project management teams to align departmental and company projects.
• Responsible for network design, documentation, implementations, and ongoing maintenance across 2 Datacenters and 7 company locations and parks.
• Work closely with system admins, information security, and local property technical teams for proper system designs and deployments.

Birmingham, Alabama

• Creation of bill of materials, work breakdown structures, and detailed network proposal diagrams to assist in quoting of client projects.
• Creation of Detailed Design and Implementation Documents (DDID) that include overview of project, detailed physical and logical design network Visios, and configuration scripts.
• Responsible for implementing and or integrating network gear for Venture Technologies’ enterprise and government clients.
• Creation of Post Implementation Documentation (PID) that include overview of project, as-built detailed physical and logical design network Visios, and final device configurations and state information.
• Design and implementation of multiple enterprise clients’ WAN Edge; Network Core, Distribution and Access layers; Including layer 3 and layer 2 paths to DR locations.
• Lead Architect and Implementation Engineer responsible for the design, scheduling of internal and external resources, implementation, and cutover of global redundant/failover Internet Access Points (IAP) for a large.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Responsible for all CPE design and configuration standards for Earthlink’s Nationwide Network using but not limited to Cisco, Juniper, and Adtran devices.
• Engineering of “Individual Case Basis” complex designs. Responsible for the design, lab testing of solutions, providing detailed network drawings, supporting documentation, and implementation configuration scripts for.
• Provide Tier 3 support for Implementation Engineers, Provisioning, and NOC Technicians.
• Maintain and manage lab environments.
• Responsible for extensive code regression testing and roll out of new approved code.
• Work with equipment vendors on escalations, code bugs, and feature requests.

Birmingham, Alabama

• Designed, implemented and managed improvements to regional Service Provider Network supporting enterprise, government and educational customers in Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida panhandle. Provided remote.
• Lead Engineer for InLine’s Service Provider Network covering 2000 miles of fiber optic cable, consisting of 1 central data center, and 30 POP locations throughout Mississippi. Responsible for routing and switching.
• Tier 3 liaison to InLine's Help Desk, providing support and direction during mission critical outages and regional repair-and-recovery initiatives. Responsibilities included management of mission critical vendor teams.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Designed and implemented Point-To-Point Wireless Wide area Networks for school districts in Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Created topo maps, path studies, link calculations, tower/pole configuration visios, and network visios. Configuration of routers, switches, and microwave equipment.

Birmingham, Alabama Area