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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa/Gatineau, Canada

Product management for CN fiber, optical, MPLS core, telecom tools, time and sync.2023 CITO Award - Best Cost Optimization Program idea by connecting the dots to other projects outside of IT and my products to save CN over $1,000,000 in CAPEX and over $200,000 in yearly OPEX.

Montreal, Canada

Manage multiple Engineering and Operations teams for CN's Facilities, Fiber, Tower and Radio assets (OSP/ISP). This includes transport teams for optical, DSL and microwave systems.2020 CITO Award - Cost Optimization Program (OPEX savings of 600K/year optimizing telco contracts and circuits).

Montreal, Canada Area

Work with Operations, Design and Architecture teams for strategy and technology roadmaps to improve customer experience and reduce costs.2019 CITO Award - Transport Network Upgrade Project (IP/MPLS Core and Data Centre)

Montreal, Canada Area

Two year mandate to build a new Operations Team for IP/MPLS and Transport networks. As a team, we consistently had some of the highest Pulse Engagement scores at CN.Nokia 5620 SAM and 7705/7750, Cisco Nexus, IE-3010 and ASR1K, Juniper SRX, Optelian xWDM, Actelis DSL, Spectracom GPS/NTP.

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsible for creating a training program covering all aspects of the CN network. Created course material, knowledge checks, taught and mentored CN Operations and Engineering staff.Nokia 5620 SAM and 7705/7750, Cisco switches and IP/MPLS routers , Juniper SRX, Optelian CWDM, Spectracom GPS/NTP.

Montreal, Canada Area

Successful certification of MX960 for MPLS Edge. Worked on-site at the Bell Advanced Technologies Lab as a champion for my customer for support issues and escalations. RFC research and interoperability between Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent 7750 (MPLS RSVP and LDP, OSPF and QoS).

Montreal, Canada Area

Documentation of standards for MPLS services (CPipe, EPipe, VPLS, VPRN using RSVP-TE transport). Deployment of MPLS 7705 and 7750 and migration from legacy Newbridge.

Ottawa, Canada

Successful design and deployments of IP/MPLS, QoS, BGP Route Reflectors and Data Centres. Presentations to Executives, RFP creation and analysis to get funding for major projects.Cisco Nexus, ASR 1K, CRS-x, Cat 6KJuniper MX240

Whitehorse, Yukon

Lead the technical audit of a large multi-vendor network (Cisco and Juniper) having Voice over IP issues. Successful in finding root cause, documenting issues and remediation (QoS).

Ottawa, Canada Area

Alcatel-Lucent Quality Excellence Global Award 2008 - Service Routing Certification Program (SRC)Classroom instruction, creation of course content and professional services for ALU customers around the world. 'Teach the Teacher' and proctor program at the Alcatel University.

Managed our Network Operations Centre. Provided pre-sales support. Part of executive meetings for budgets and board presentations. Helped TOL qualify for government connectivity contracts. Traveled to Mount Everest as part of an "Extreme Technical Support Team" providing video updates to Ottawa news stations and schools that were connected to the TOL network.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Interop testing between Tropic (IP, MPLS and WDM) and other vendors such as Cisco and Juniper.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Preside IP VPN Spot Award - Successful Cable and Wireless Beta Trial 2000Provided testing, training and demo's to Nortel customers around the world on our IP VPN provisioning tool for Cisco and Nortel products (MPLS VPRN).

Hull, Quebec

Y2K testing and certification to replace aging Cisco 5000 Catalyst and Cisco 2500 series routers.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Started as a technician working in the Network Operations Centre. Promoted to L2 support outside of NOC providing escalation and direct support to Bell government customers.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Customer support for residential dial-up users for modem and PC issues. Promoted as a Technical Support Rep providing support to iStar corporate customers (IPAM/DNS). Promoted into the NOC providing connectivity support to customers on our Cisco network (IP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP).

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