Responsible for the leadership, oversight and operational management of Network Engineering Team for financial software company. Primary responsibilities include refining business policies and procedures, budget preparation and justification, implementation of best practice ITIL principles, alignment of Corporate goals, insure security measures are followed, devising engineering & infrastructure improvements & streamlining overall operational efficiency.Accomplishments:Consolidated… Show more Responsible for the leadership, oversight and operational management of Network Engineering Team for financial software company. Primary responsibilities include refining business policies and procedures, budget preparation and justification, implementation of best practice ITIL principles, alignment of Corporate goals, insure security measures are followed, devising engineering & infrastructure improvements & streamlining overall operational efficiency.Accomplishments:Consolidated Datacenters for six independent US acquisitions of a global, Italian-based corporation and leveraging internal and off-shore resources to support, develop, and enhance 7 different credit monitoring and reporting and loan origination systems serving a combined customer base of over 600 US banks and credit unions in North America.Designed and built out new Core and DR datacenter(s) in Baton Rouge, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Las Vegas.Developed overall network architecture for the Disaster Recovery facilities including hardware selection and configurations with implementation of OTV and LISP.Designed and implemented multiple diverse carrier ISP, Wave, MPLS and SIP circuits.Managed design, piloting, testing & of implementation CUCM VoIP solution for regionally diverse Call Centers including Jabber and Spark Room Video Conferencing.Managed implementation of Configuration standards, Authentication, Netflow, Syslog and Alerting tools to monitor and analyze real time traffic utilizing Cisco LMS, ISE, StealthWatch, NFDump, Cacti, Logzilla and Xymon Show less

CRIF Lending Solutions acquired by MeridianLink, Inc. (see above)

Equifax Enabling Technologies acquired by CRIF Lending Solutions (see above)

Extensive Cable/MSO experience with all aspects of cable broadband service (DOCSIS) delivery and RF engineering including but not limited to: RF/HFC design & implementation of HFC plant for residential/commercial cable modem (CMTS) systems from Cisco (72xx-10K UBRs), Avaya, & COM21, DHCP, IP design & Management & design of monitoring systems for eight Louisiana and Mississippi markets. Designed and implemented OC-12/48 backbone interconnect circuits between regional HeadEnds utilizing DWDM.

(Contract) Served as Data Field Operator Contractor for Cingular Wireless E-911 field deployed Wireless Location System (WLS) utilizing TruePosition Technology. Daily responsibilities included supervising vehicle test drivers, Solaris administration and monitoring/reporting of Cell Tower digital signalizing issues & equipment failures.

Responsible for the design and implementation of residential/commercial dial-up, DSL, ISDN and T1 connectivity for CenturyLink (KMC) and Eatel ISP services.

(Contract) Served as a contractor for Cellular South upgrading Point of Sale (POS) systems in retail stores.

Charter Pipeline Cable Modem service installation; COM21 System

Served as the *nix (Slackware Linux, FreeBSD) technical expert administrator. Responsibilities included maintaining Livingston PortMasters, Cisco Equipment and DNS/EMail Servers.